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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-02-08
Brewery Workers Seek
Return To Federation

Miami.-Moves for reaffiliation of
the United Brewery and Soft Drink
Workers Union with the AFL are un-
der way here.
AFL President William Green an
nounced receipt of a telegram from
William j. Kromelbein, general secre-
tary- treasurer of the union, request
ing an opportunity for its top Of
ficials to come here to discuss with
the executive council the jurisdiction
dispute with the Teamsters Union
which led to the suspension of the
Brewery Workers. Mr.. Green promptly
replied that the council would be glad
to give the union officials a hearing
The Brewery Workers Union was
suspended in 1889 after it failed to
comply with a convention decision on
the jurisdiction dispute which involv-
ed beer truck drivers. 1t is one of the
oldest and most respected unions in
the nation and it's return to the AFL
would be welcome development.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-02-08

electrical appliance industries have
been ignoring the widespread evidence
that it is working, right now, through
out the nation. American Federation
of Labor unions have been and are
making collective bargaining work.
The evidence that collective bar
gaining works comes from unions who
are making substantial gains, without
striking, by bargaining in good faith
with employers. The progressive Up
holsterers' International Union is a
case in point. This union has report
ed gain after gain in wages and work
ing conditions, without even short
strike, in the overwhelming majority
Of cases. Many other AFL unions are
making the same report. One of the
latest are the millinery workers.
unions of the New York City area, at
filiated with the United Hatters, Cap
and Millinery Workers International
Union.
These unions, acting through their
joint board, have just signed new con-
tracts with employers providing a 20
percent wage increase, paid vacations
and health service. Nathaniel Spec
tor, manager of the joint board, tells
how they did it.
Spector said the peaceful settle
ment was achieved because "both sides
thoroughly understood each others
problems and were anxious at har-
monious conclusion"
If all employers and unions acted
on this basis, there would be few
strikes and yet the progress of labor
would steadily continue.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-02-08
FRIDAY, FEBRUARL 8, 1916
MAJOR STEPS TO SECURITY

In the first 10 years of the social
security program nationwide basis
has been laid for defenses against
most of the major causes of economic
insecurity. New governmental tech
niques and resources have been eff
fectively developed through the col
laboration of the federal government
and the states. Widespread public sup
port shows the extent to which the
program is generally meeting recog-
nized individual and social needs.
But, as President Truman pointed
out on the 10th anniversary of the
Social Security Act, "we still have a
long way to go before we can truth
fully say that our social security sys-
TEN furnishes the people of this coun-
try adequate protection"
The Social Security Board believes
that major steps toward that goal
are now both feasible and necessary.
Organized labor agrees with the board
and is supporting its recommendations
for extending the program to millions
of families still partly or wholly un-
protected, for covering the risks
against which little or no provision
has yet been made, for strengthening
present provisions, and for improving
and simplifying administration and
financing.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-02-08
N. Y. Millinery Workers
Win Higher Wages, Paid
Vacations, Health Plan

New York City (ILNS).-Eighteen
thousand millinery workers in the
New York area are given a 20 per-
cent wage increase, paid vacations and
health service under the terms of a
new agreement signed by representa-
tives of big associations of hat man.
ufacturers and the New York joint
board Of the United Hatters, Cap and
Millinery Workers n iona]
Union.
Union spokesmen predicted that
similar agreements would be reached
with 1875 Independent millinery manu-
facturers.
Nathaniel Spector, manager of the
joint board, hailed the agreement as
an example of the effectiveness of col
lective bargaining based on an under
standing by each side of the others
problems. He said the employers had
agreed to contribute a sum equal to
3 percent of payrolls to a new health
fund and 2 percent to vacation fund.
The contract will run for 3 years,
and the 20 percent wage increase will
apply both to piece workers and those
paid by the week. Members of the
union ratified the agreement at q
series of meetings held in various
parts of the city.
"'The peaceful settlement was
achieved as the result of collective bar
gaining between the union and the
employers" Spector said. Both sides
thoroughly understood each others
problems and were anxious to arrive
at a harmonious conclusion. The milli-
merry workers are earning fair wages
and the granting by the employers Of
health insurance and vacations with
pay will help to bring about greater
cooperation between labor and en-
ployers in our industry"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-02-08

Issued Weekly at s2s Market Street
Telephone 1895 Hamilton, Ohio
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-02-08

provement of the human race might
help to lift humanity to new heights
undreamed of at the present moment
of history.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-02-08
COMMENT on WORLD EVENTS

Also noteworthy is the work of the
Association for Planning and Regional
Reconstruction and the hundreds Of
small study groups that complement
the work of official agencies. There is
still considerable doubt, however,
whether the central government will
provide sufficient authority and finan-
cial assistance to translate the PLAN
ming into reality.
Planning in Russia is taking form
of fourth Five Year Plan which has
already been put into operation. The
aim of the new plan, which has many
political notifications in comparison
with previous plans, is "to overcome
all war ravages within 2 or 8 years
and to proceed to further development
and expansion so that by 1860 the
Soviet Union will be economically far
ahead of it's position in 1941."
France has set up Minister of Re-
construction and Urbanism in the
government. Two-thirds of Frances
$500 architects are now working on
local rebuilding plans which must be
approved by an advisory committee of
z men.
According to the report, the Philip
pine government has made remark
able progress in developing plans for
Manila and number of other cities
in the Islands.
National planning in China is call
ed "understandably confused" at the
moment, but number of American
trained Chinese are now in govern
ment services where they are outlining
large-scale development of their coun-
try's vast human and material re-
sources.
Among other countries doing out
standing national planning are
Canada, Puerto Rico, Mexico and
Chile
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-02-08
WHAT NEXT?

Cabins of one airliner are being
lined with downlike glass fiber blan.
kets to protect passengers from both
noise and cold. The glass fibers are
so fine that an interlaced mass pro.
vides an enormous surface area with
millions of air cells in which air is
trapped and by which sound waves are
absorbed. The air spaces are such poor
conductors that they insulate against
heat.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-02-08
CONTROL
MUST STAY

Miami-The American Federation
of Labor's Executive Council called
upon Congress to extend and continue
price and rent CONTROLS for another
year to prevent the disastrous effects
of initiation. Text of the councils de-
claration follows:
America is already afflicted with a
high spending fever-the unmistak-
able first symtom of initiation. The
flush of false prosperity can be de-
tected not only in Wall Street but in
every grocery store in the nation.
Prompt action is required to check
the infection.
Past experience has taught us that
economic upheavals travel in the wake
of wars. The uncontrolled boom which
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-02-08
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-02-08
GOVERNMENT SHOULD LEAD
WAY

Labor is giving it's wholehearted
support to the drive for higher pay
for government workers. Hundreds of
thousands of these men and women
are disgracefully underpaid. There is
no excuse for exploitation of any wage
earner-least of all for the exploita-
ton of those whose employer, the gov
ernment, recognizes that prosperity
depends upon plenty of purchasing
power in the hands of the average cit
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-02-08

Shortage of decent housing, on
which the American Federation of La
Dor has recently spoken so forcibly,
is worldwide problem. This is en-
phasized by review of planning in
1916 made by the American Society
of Planning Officials, which says that
many United Nations, in addition to
the United States, have been planning
accelerated reconstruction and de-
velopment programs since the war
ended
The housing situation in this coun-
try, in the words of the AFL, is one
of the nations "prime headaches" It
is even more of headache" in coun-
tries directly affected by wars de-
struction, as in Great Britain. When
the war ended, Britain had 100000
dwelling units which had been made
uninhabitable, or which had been COM
pletely erased by enemy action. There
is need for 100000 new homes
there. Other nations are even worse
off. In France there are 1926, 900
damaged houses, 100000 of them be-
yond conceivable repair. Today, in
Russia, 25,O0O,OO0 people live in caves,
dugouts, or shacks put together from
abandoned war material.
No one knows the total lack of even
rudimentary shelter in Spain, Italy,
Yugoslavia, Germany, the Balkans,
the Philippines, China and Japan.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-02-08

For actual excellence Of plans, ac-
cording to the planning officials re-
port, high rank must go to England
where the people have been highly
articulate in stating the kinds of new
cities they want, and the planners ex-
traordinarily competent in their solu-
tion. Among the outstanding plans for
rehabilitating cities are those for
Greater London, Manchester, and Ply
mouth.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-02-08
Sheet Metal Workers
Win Wage Increases

Chicago Substantial wage in
creases, plus other improvements in
working conditions, have been won
for nearly 900 employees Of various
sheet metal plants here by Local lib
Of the Sheet Metal Workers' Interna-
tional Association.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-02-08
NEWS AND VIEWS
BY ALEXANDER s. LIPSETT
Can ILNS Feature)

President Truman's action in urg-
ing Congress to make Hawaii the
49th state of the union constitutes an
important step toward attainment of
self-rule and an ever-increasing
measure of free and democratic gov
ernment in the Western Hemisphere.
1t follows the pattern laid down by
President Woodrow Wilson some 80
years ago and underscored by Mr..
Truman in these words: "This gov
ernment is committed to the demo-
cratic principle that it is for the de-
pendent peoples themselves to decide
what their status shall be-"
The forthcoming emancipation Of
the Philippine Islands to the status of
independence points in the same di-
rection. Fortunately, it does not mean
that the United States will wash it's
hands of the responsibility for these
lands ravaged by war and subjected
to economic and human suffering un-
der the temporary domination of the
japanese. In acknowledging the re-
sponsibility of the American people
for their Philippine brothers, the
President demanded in his annual
message legislative measures in aid
of the economic rehabilitation of the
islands and their people. And he
rightly concluded:
"This will be not only a just ac-
acknowledgement of the loyalty of the
people of the Philippines, but it will
help to avoid the economic chaos
which otherwise will be their heritage
from our common war. Perhaps, no
event in the long centuries of colon
ialism gives more hope for the pat
tern of the future than the independ-
ence of the Philippines"
The widening of our union, as ex-
emplified in these and other recon-
mendations of the natoin's chief ex-
ecutive, is also vividly depicted in the
rising figures of our population. Ac-
cording to official estimates, the ma
tional population has increased by
100000 since the 1880 census. Gov
ernment experts confidently expect
that the American population will
reach the 145 million mark by 1850.
Our present population is estimated
at approximately 141,O00,OO0, far in
excess Of what the census authorities
were led to expect just few years
ago.
1t is safe to conclude from this
climbing population rate-a process
uninterrupted since 1790-that it re-
fleets to certain degree the gener-
ally high economic status of the Am
erican people. Political sloganeers and
demagogues may not like it, but the
truth is that this upward climb is due
to the uncontrovertible fact that we
can feed, house and clothe our people
in manner unknown anywhere else in
the world. And it is another safe guess
that this population trend will be re-
versed only if unfavorable economic
factors force a decline in our high
standard of living.
Ever since the dawn of humanity,
war and its faithful followers, pesti-
lence and hunger, have reaped rich
rewards in the form Of untold mil
lions of human lives. Yet with all
that the population Of the world has
steadily climbed upward and onward.
Even the atomic age will not alter
that process. Bitter and costly as the
advances in the science Of war are,
the advance Of science dedicated to
peaceful ends and the general inn
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-02-08
WISDOM

Right is the eternal sun; the world
cannot delay it's coming.-Wendel
Phillips.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-02-08
MORE GAINS WITHOUT STRIKING

Enemies of collective bargaining
who have been attacking it on the
ground that it has failed to prevent
big-scale strikes in the auto, steel and
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-02-08

izen. Government should set a good
example for other employers; it's treat
ment of some government workers is
anything but that.
Evening star., 1946-09-09
Union 10 Act Tonioht
On Pittsburgh Power
.Company's Offer
BY the Assoeioted Press

PITTSBURGH. Sept. 9.-Leader.
of an independent union of Du.
quesne Light Co. employees agreee
to let 5o-man general policy com.
mittee decide tonight-four hour.
before an extensive strike is sched.
uled to start over an 817-square
mile area-on whether to accept 9
company offer to arbitrate theil
contract dispute.
Although top union officials pre-
viously rejected fatty the arbitra-
ton proposal and the union rank
and file voted to authorize the strike
the union yielded to pressure by
Mayor David L. Lawrence and
agreed to submit the issue to the
general committee at 7 pm
meeting.
At the same time, the union
officials refused a demand made by
Mayor Lawrence that the union
membership vote on arbitration.
Mayor Lawrence, grim and hag-
gard from his night and day labors
as volunteer mediator, said he was
advised by the union that the policy
Evening star., 1946-09-09

committee has the power to nullify
the strike vote.
Earlier, union and company
officials indicated that even if the
strike comes, there will be small
amount of power available for
emergency uses and some residences
The development came after the
Mayor warned in a radio broadcast
neither he nor the public would
accept the ''ultimatum" of strike
deadline. He called the company
"psychologically incompetent and
termed the union poorly led and i'll
advised"
Meanwhile, it was disclosed that
city officials were investigating the
possibility of court action to aver,
the strike and some quarters indi-
Gated an injunction would be sought
At the same time. Sheriff Walter C
Monaghan of Allegheny County
Evening star., 1946-09-09

urged the company to attempt tc
continue service in the event of q
strike and promised to protect en-
ployes who want to work.
Il want to talk to these people
face to face" the Mayor said as
he called policy committee in his
office at noon.
Slightly more than 1000 of the
utility's $500 employees voted last
Tuesday for a strike in support
OF union demands for 20 per cent
wage increases, a closed shop. q
master contract for affiliated com
panies, a profit-sharing plan anc
many other concessions. The util-
| ity contends the raise increases
would cost a prohibitive $22 500 00C
a year.
Evening star., 1946-09-09
Stevenson Gets COP Post

Edward Ford Stevenson, East
Norwalk, Conn, today was appoint
ed director of motion pictures in
the publicity section of the Repub-
lican National Committee. During
the war he served as lieutenant
colonel In the Army Pictorial Serv-
ice
Evening star., 1946-09-09
Dr.. Carey to Speak

DR.. T. Nelson Carey. associate
professor of medicine at the Uni
versity of Maryland Medical School,
Evening star., 1946-09-09

Soaring labor costs and high
prices have Frustrated business in
Shanghai, China.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-07-13

nize this. The United States will
be decisive factor in determin-
ing whether peace will be pre-
served"
Pepper was hailed by Leo Krzy-
cki, President of the Congr ess, IS
the national leader doing most to
carry on the program and princi-
Piles of Franklin Roosevelt. Other
speakers included Mrs. Dorothy
Bushnell Cole, of the Chicago
Committee to Win the Peace;
Professor J. J. Zmrhal, Midwest
Slav leader; and Corporation
Counsel Barnet Hodes. William
Abramchik, secretary of the Chi
cago branch of the Slav Con-
gress, acted as chairman.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-07-13
Vets Demand Govt Seizure

Four large manufacturing COM
panies who are sabotaging the
famine-relief and housing pro-
gram by refusing to negotiate
with their striking employees
should be seized by the federal
government, says the Chicago
Council of Labor Veterans.
In a resolution adopted at
recent meeting, the Council
named the Allis-C Chalmers Manu-
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-07-13
Atomic trust

DENVER = (FP) - The vana-
dunn industry, vital in the pro-
duction of atomic energy, is in
the economic stranglehold of two
corporations which have throttled
all competition by a price-fixing
monopoly, federal grand jury
charged here.
The Vanadium Corp. and I'm
ion Carbon & Carbide Corp, four
of their subsidiaries and five ex.
ecutives were indicted for VIOLA
ton of the Sherman antitrust
act.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-07-13

featuring Co., the Minneapolis
Moline Co. and the ]. I. Case Co.,
makers of farm machinery, as
holding up the United Nations
food program by their point
blank refusal to negotiate. The
U. S. Gypsum Company, says
the Council, is doing the same,
and thus impeding the entire
nations housing program.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-07-13

cidFeQ mere last SuIludy.
Addressing 5000 members of
the American Slav Congress in
Pilsen Park, Senator Pepper
charged that American imperial
lists are as dangerous to world
peace as the discredited isolation
lists.
Calling for a united front
against the enemies of peace,
Pepper derided the old anti-So-
Wet ISLANDERS of Communist in
filtration" in other countries.
COMMUNIST parties exist in
countries where there are people
who want them, not because Mos
cow tries to create them"
1.-The condition basic toza last
ing peace is the security of all
nations" said Pepper. "Our gov
eminent, and others, must recog-
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-07-13
[|1sMs|l

New disclosures Of profiteerng will leak out in
the coming months.
the May Erie Basin scandal is this is
considered in the small fry category by those who have
the inside track on war contracts sWindles.
Wall Street is avidly looking forward to lush profits
in the latter part Of this year.
The perspective is for increasing business activity
high rate Of industrial production the second
half Of 1916
Some believe the rise in wholesale commodity prices
could be high Is to 2 by the end Of this year.
However, Washington has cen made keenly of
the that the people and labor in the price
control fight. to a fini sh.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-07-13

Furnished Room for Rent for
married couple. $40 a week. Fred
Kurpneck, 1907 w. Ohio, list fl.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-07-13

How to start your own magazine
for $1.00 Sample copy, details 25c.
Brass, 1865 Madison, Chicago Z.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-07-13
Fight US. ilnperiulists,
Pepper tells SIov rally

John Foster Dulles Dewey's mouthpiece foreign af
fairs of the forces in this country helping to drum up
with the Soviet Union Senator Claude E. Pepper de-
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-07-13
WHAT'S ON

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Avenue.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-07-13

NICE DOUBLE ROOM for Rent.
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The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-07-13

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Hartford chronicle., 1946-12-21

Chronicle attended.
 The purpose of this meeting was to organize a Chapter of the A. N. c. in Hartford.
 The American Newspaper Guild is nationwide organiza- tion, union of news publica- ton employees. It was founded in 1883 by editorial employees who were tired of low wages, of capricious firings, of long hours and above all, of insecuri- ty. Among our Negro Weekly Newspapers that are members of the Guild is the Pittsburgh Courier-Afro-American and The Peoples Voice.
 The purpose of the A. N. G. is to advance the economic in terests of it's members:
 to gurantee, as far as 1t is able, constant honesty in the news;
 =. to raise the standards of Journalism and ethics in the industry;
 to foster friendly coop eration with all other workers j;
 to promote industrial unionism in the newspaper in- dustry.
 The Hartford Chronicle was represented by MT. John Stew art, Miss Doris Miller, MT. Ro- land Irving and Mrs. Algethea James.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-12-21
XMAS BABY
 SELECTION NEAR

Names are now coming Tn from various quarters of pos sible recipients of the Carpe Diem $25.OO bond, which will be given to the baby born on nearest Xmas Day
 The committee will visit the various Hospitals and hope to have a picture of both mother and baby for the next issue of the Chronicle.
 The Bond is given as sym bol of future security for the baby. It is hoped that this gift for educational purposes will prove an incentive toward pro- ducing a future leader. Ben iamin Tillman is chairman of the Committee.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-12-21

F. Jackson, Mrs. Antoinette O. Washington MT. Sidney M. Johnson, Rev. Fred D. Oats, MT. Arthur Johnson, MT. Frank Jacobs, Rev. A. P. Morris, pr. James Gladstone, Rev. D. $. Craig, Miss Gertrude James, MT. Walter Johnson, Mrs. Anna Weston, Dr. Howard Warning, MT. Robert B. Hart.
 A surprise birthday party was given in honor of Leroy Shepherd at the home of MT. and Mrs. Adolphus Green last Saturday. Some of the guests were Miss Melvia Green, Frank Green, Elizabeth Williams, AL berta Laive, Mrs. Carol King, MT. and Mrs. Spike" Howard, MT. Thomas Smith, Joe Tinsley, Charlie Berry and a host of other friends. An enjoyable evening was spent by all.