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The union times., 1946-01-12
NEW HAVEN, CONN, SATURDAY, JANUARY l2, 1946
Let YonrC CongresrmanKnoev

(Repeaed by Request) While and Senators home their holl the opportunity them and on activity in Washington When Con- gress the holidays, will be faced with critical decisions
 Will Congress work peoples program for jobs hous ing, and health security? busting campaign which only result in strife and dunty in the nation?
 Your Congressman will help decide this question. Every Union tell each Congress- man-outlning program-give him these facts:
 NO ACTION YET ON THESE BILLS: 1-JOBS FOR ALL
 GA Real Full Employment bills S8O) 2-INCREASE UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS
 (Kigore-Pepper bills 1274 and HR S89D 3-65CENT AMOUR WAGE MINIMUM
 (Pepper bills 1S49 and HR S9l4) 4-INCREASE SOCIAL SECURITY
 (WagnerMurray Dingen bill-S 1O5O and HR 3293) 5-LET ALI. AMERICANS VOTE
 (AntiPoI Tax bll-RH D 6-END DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT
 Permanent FEPC-S lOl and HR 2232) 7-HOUsINC (FOR HOMES AND JOBs)
 (WagnerEIender bll-S l592) 8ENFORCE PRICE AND RENT CONTROL
 Strengthen OPA)
 BUT THESE BILLS THREATEN: 1-DEFEAT BALLBURTONHATCH BILL
 (Bill which would cripple organized labor-S IT'D 2-DEFEAT ELLENDER-NORTON BILL
 (Sets antsike machinery requested by Pres. Tru man-HR 49O8) 3-MAY-ARENDS BILL
 (Outaws political action fails unionis for strikes "n 4HoBBs BILL
 (Prohibits activity strikes
 eting-HR 32)
The union times., 1946-01-12
Thinking It Through by BEN DOR
 LPA COLUMNIST
A FIGHTING TOWN

"A fighting town" this local union president called it-Detroit, the au- tomobile center of the world. Right now, it's the center, too, of one of the most important fights of our time, strike over wages and prices, a strike over how many workers may be sentenced to unemployment so that industry may make unlimited profits.
 A few weeks ago, it saw one of the nastiest political fights ever staged, Sight over whether a labor man could be mayor of this great industrial city. Labor lost the fight and unfortunately didn't even get out of it the satisfaction of know ing the fight had been well fought.
 During Christmas week labor got into another fight-a political and legal fight over street car fares. Again labor lost, and the 6c street car fares have now gone up to lOc.
 Labor in Detroit is used to fight ing and losing-but it has won some great victories, too Perhaps the greatest victory of all was organiz- ing the auto industry, but that fight isn't over. And this time, the union has landed a punch on the corpora tions' sorest spot-profits-and the corporations are screaming wildly.
 Profts-Whose Business?
 Our profits," says GM, "are none of the peoples damn business"
 That's not a new point of view. It's been expressed over and over again by capitalists since America began. ''The people-well, they just don't count;'' or, even more direct, 'The public be damned.'' That has been capitalism's answer time and time again, when it has been asked to accept the responsi. Utilities of power as well as its privileges.
 A CM striker in Detroit put il very we'll when I talked to him a short while ago. ''These capitalists are anarchists,'' he said.
 He was talking about GM's behav- for over the fact-hnding panel that Truman has set up to decide the facts in the auto workers strike. The unior has given the panel every bit of CO operation that it could. It has kept its GM strike committee in Washing ton for days, meeting with the fact finding panel doing everything pos
The union times., 1946-01-12
As We See It. by The Staff

OUT OF the mouths of big busi- ness representatives themselves this week came admission of what orr ganized labor has been contending for decades-that corporation re- ports to stockholders and the pulp lie are generally inadequate"
 A total of 123 professional judges of securities-security anal ysts of various types of investment institutions, officials of banks and insurance companies-replied to a survey made by M. K. Mellott & Co.,, the Journal of Commerce re- ported. The security analysts con- fessed that the corporation reports were so inadequate that they were forced to resort to digging up their own supplementary informa- tion," sometimes from SEC, com pany customers, banks and credit agencies. In only two cases were the analysts "full satisfied"
 BRITISH paratroOpers staged a short sitdown strike in Java re-
The union times., 1946-01-12
(By Baer)

gently to demonstrate their aver sion to fighting against the In- donesian independence movement according to a report from London Daily Herald correspondent John Steen, relayed by Allied Labor News. The men who fought in Nor mandy, told Steen: ''We don't mind fighting against a real ene- my but we object to being involved in this affair against defenseless IndOnesians."
 Other paratroopers, Steen dis closed, have been getting into fights with troops of the Dutch government, which is trying to re- store it's power over the islands with. British aid. Steen witnessed the burning of an Indohesian vil- lage by Dutch troops on Christmas Day in reprisal for the alleged shooting of a Dutch officer. One inhabitant told Steen that ''even the Japs never did anything like this."
The union times., 1946-01-12
Vets Offered
 Lou Pay Jobs

New York (LPA) = Youthful vets, seeking civilian employ ment at wage scales comparable to their wartime earnings, are learning the irony of it all.
 Some young pilots, for in- stance, army-trained and pro- noted until they had reached the $4OO a month pay level, are being offered jobs at $2O to $27 a week, partly because they lack pre-war experience, partly be- cause the field for which they have been trained has no open- ings.
 The greatest hardship, of course, is felt by fathers who must support their families, al- though a regional director of the USES last week did label as slightly exaggerated the rumors that former captains are work ing as dishwashers.
The union times., 1946-01-12

sible to help the government decide what the facts really are.
 But, just at the time when its CO., operation was most needed, the CM withdrew from the proceedings. The union wanted the company officials to stay. The panel wanted their help. The President himself had asked them to cooperate with the panel. But CM preferred to put half-truths before the people in expensive newspaper ads, rather than work with the government panel, which might end up giving the people GH of the truth about this corporations profits and its position on the wage issue. The workers cannot and would not strike against the government. The corporations don't hesitate to do it. If that IS capitalism, then the capi- talists are anarchists, said his GM striker. Or the corporations are great CT than the U. s. government and the people 1t is set up to represent.
 Firm Doesn't Suffer
 In Detroit, people know what this means. They know what 1t means for the strikers to have to defy a cor poration like GM under these condi- tions in the middle of winter. On every hand, I heard compliments for the spirit which the GM workers are showing. And a civic committee has been meeting to set up plans for helping the strikers with money and in any other way that is possible.
 Detroiters know, too, that the corporation and the auto dealers will lose very little by the strike. heard rumors that orders are being taken for Chevrolets at $500 each. All l could say when l heard the | rumOrs Was-wOW!!
 But, The People Do So, everybody seems to be protect ed except the people-the people who won't thumb their noses at the gov ernment as the corporation has done; who have no tax refunds and reserves to fall back on as the corporation has; who have nothing to sell at black market prices as the dealers seem to be able to do, and who can't afford to offer $500 for Chevrolet, as some Detroiters can.
 All that the strikers have is the knowledge that they're fighting for their own jobs and the prosperity of a nation. That plus the determ- ination to see the job through.
 That, as I view it, is the meaning of so many things I saw while I was in Detroit recently. That's the mean ing of the picket line I saw walking in the bitter cold of Detroit's wind swept streets. That's the meaning of the large pile of picket signs behind the Christmas tree in the office of the auto workers union.
 The boys are seeing this one through.
 Mention THE UNION TIMES when shopping, and help Labor's Own Paper grow.
The union times., 1946-01-12
Vet-Labor Meeting
 Set For February

WASHINGTON (LPA)-A vet eran-labor conference, under the aus pices of the Army & Navy Union, USA, will be held in Washington in February, it was announced this week by Fraser s. Gardner, national em- ployment director of the Union.
 Gardner declared that he is ask ing the AFL, CIO, Railroad Broth erhoods, United Mine Workers and other independent unions to ap- point representatives to meet with him and other employment officers for the purpose of establishing a permanent veteran-labor commit tee.
 "Such committee" said Gardner, Twill function as the direct authority for any veteran-labor matter on em- ployment and will serve as the CO., ordinating body on such interrelated questions as would affect veterans and workers, such as state and govern ment legislation and management policies"
The union times., 1946-01-12
Covering American Scene
Federated Press)

WASHINCTON-As the National War Labor Board expired with the old year, President Truman set up the Oman National Wage StabiI- ization Board to replace it. The new board opened for business with a backlog of 2,OOO cases, 800 of them being petitions for wage decreases.
 WASHINGTON-The Belva No. 1 mine of the Kentucky Straight Creek Coal Co.,, in which 30 mem bers of United Mine Workers were trapped by an explosion, was brand ed a hazardous work place in re- port by the Federal Bureau of Mines five months before the accident oc- cured, it was disclosed here.
 NEW YORK = WaIkOuts and strike threats involving close to two million workers in cOmmunica- tions, steel, auto, electrical, meat packing and other industries opened the new year as organized labor's campaign for higher wages headed into fresh resistance from big business.
 KANSAS CITY, Mo. - AFL street car operators entered 1946 with the prospect of a bitter dispute with the Kansas City Public Service Co. over signing of new contract.
 DENVER-First attempt to use the S-year-old restrictive labor peace act against a union brought state authorities into a legal col lision with Local 452, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, out come of which may determine con- stitutiOnality of the law.
 SAN FRANCISCO-The strike of the Intl Bakery & Confectionery Workers Union, which followed set clement of the strike and lockout of the Bakery Wagon Drivers, was set tied in one day.
 NEW YORK-New York long, shoremen won a 2O% wage in- crease in an arbitration award handed down here by William H. Davis, granting all but two of the major demands which led to the recent 18-day pOrtwide strike by rank-and-file members of the Inter- national LongshOremen's Associa- ton (AFL).
 CHARLESTON, s. C.-In face of severe housing shortage here, AFL officials are fighting a gang-up on homeless veterans and civilians by real estate interests palming off shod- dy homes at exorbitant prices.
 CHICACO-The Chicago Police Dept. has been informed that it is not to act as a strikebreaking agency, limit peaceful picketing or assign an unnecessary number of policemen to strike duty.
The union times., 1946-01-12
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Continued from Page One) New York several biting illustra- tions of what happens when the NAM gets its way and price ceilings are removed.
 ''Those of you who are in the candy business know that cocoa nut which OPA decontrolled some 30 days ago has quadrupled in price," Bowles said. ''Many grades of furs, from which price controls were removed during the fall, have more than doubled. Your wife will tell you that some grades of or anges, lemons and grape fruit moved up 5O9o to lOO% in the first few days following the action of OPA in removing the price re- strictions."
 That was the same speech in which Bowles informed his audi ence that the nation had saved $66 billion by not listening to NAM's demands for an end to price con- trOI.
The union times., 1946-01-12
Injuries Due To Franks
 Don't Get C Compensation

LANSING, Mich.-(FP) - Inju- ries on shop premises due to horse play are still being suffered, warns the Michigan department of labor and industry.
 It underlines the warning with the reminder that ''neither an em- ploye nor his dependents receive any benefits under the compensa- tion act if the disability or death is caused by horseplay.'
 The department of which George w. Dean, leading Michigan AFL member, is head, lists over dozen typical horseplay stunts which ended III injury to one or more participants.
The union times., 1946-01-12
Infant Deaths Cut
 61% By Better Care

Washington (LPA)-A cut in in fant mortality rates from GA to "A deaths per 10000 live births, a de- cline of 6l %, is reported over the past decade by the Childrens' Bureau of the Dept. of Labor.
 The eat.gains in infant and mater nal safety were attibuted by the Blu reau to the improved care given to mothers who can afford hospitaliza- tion, improvement in economic status of many families since the worst de- pression years, and extension of ma terna1 and child health services under the Social Security Act.
The union times., 1946-01-12
Starving War Victims
 Get US. UNRRA Help

Washington (LPA)-In time to relieve at least some of the suffer ing in Europe and Asia as an after math of the war, Congress last week finally passed and President Truman signed a bill authorizing appropriation of an additional $l 1850 million to the United Ma tions Relief and Rehabilitation Ad- ministration.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-22
Defendant Protests 

Counsel Cor Eaw1n 0raneF. North Nan Street landlord fled a noe ton ln Superaor Court today asking Judge Thomas E. TroaAna to set aStae taae ss.eoo Jury verdict re~ turned yesterday for Joseph Eele sone of WateEoory. on the ground that N was ~AgaanSt the law and evidence" and waS excessive.
 The veroica vas made ia the clvil action eased on fatal inlur1es s0s- taineo ng Mrs. Linda EalRone, prominent Italian organization leader. Aug. as, isa4 ln . stairway fan on the defendants property at ess North Main Street.
 The jury was the second Co try alae case. The first jury eo hear C returned a verdict oe Sq,Soo. but the Supreme Court found egT0r and re- turned the case for a new trial
 A hearing on the motion ts exc pected to he scheduled for the next ShWt calendar session, Dec G
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-22
We'll KnOlUn Merchant .LeaUes WiII

The late George Belury, proml. nent Baldwin Street merchant, left an estate valued at eae.eSi, accord. Ing to an appraisers inventory filed at the ofiice of Probate Judge Pat rick Healey. The estate was com- priped of ti2,27o in real estate, eiA,- 800 in cash, e2l, 1000 in stocks and el, ,6se m U. 8. Savings bonds.
 Mir. Belury who was proprietor of . well known meat and grocery business establishment at 5si Bald. win Street, left . trust fund for his widow equal to payments of si50 per month for life or until rernarriage as well as all real estate. On the death of the widow her share is to be divided among the five children. These are: Nicholas, Andrew, VII. liam and James Belury, and Mrs, Dorothy Belury Crane.
 Appraisers were James 0lasslnan and Jacob J. Elbln.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-22
Trade Circles Confused On Copper Rise

Trade circles today expected that all sellers of domestic copper would meet the 2 cents Q pound increase announced by the Phelps Dodge Corporation. There was still con. siderable confusion in the copper market.
 The increase announced by Phelps Dodge sent copper to l0 l-2 cents a pound, the highest figure since 1929. It is the second recent increase, the price having been raised from l4 3-e cents a pound to i7 Ia cents following the end of price controls. The first increase was followed by announcement of higher prices for manufactured brass goods, the Big 3" here rais- ing prices to meet the extra cost of raw materials.
 Anaconda Wire & Cable Company and the American Brass Company yesterday announced increases In cooper product prices. The former raised It's prices for copper wire to the la Ia cents basis. American Brass announced an increase Tor aIl rolled copped products. and raised prices of alloy products m proportion to the changed metal prices.
 Revere Brass & Copper Company has announced revised price eched- ules, on the basis of the copper price hoogt.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-22
Seovill's Votes
 Dividend Todoy

Directors of tle Scovlll MAnuine- turing Company today declared a dividend of 60 cents a share en the common stock. Payment win be made Jan. q, tots, Co stockholders of record Dec. lA
 Also voted by the Board of Dl. reetoEe was a dividend of ,olas cents a share on the Slea per cent eplss.es~ lAtive preferred stock. The dividend will oe paid March l, Co stockholds CTS of record Feb. lA
 Earlier this year, ScoVill voted two co cent dividends and one 60 cent dividend to holders og common stock. A year ago at this time a so cent dividend was voted.
 There are l,leo, ,ese shares of com mon stock outstanding. m the new preferred stock, thetre have been l00.000 shares issued.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-22
Terrell Faces Jail Sentence

A So-day jail sentence with execu- .tion suspended until two weeks from today was ordered by Superior Court Judge Thomas E. Trolard today for Gordon Terrell of Waterbury, who was found guilty of contempt. Ferrelfs wife. Mary, testified he was &60 in arrears on payments for support of their child. The court had ordered payment of ei0 weekly Oct. {. and Mrs. Terrell said nothing had been paid.
 Terrell claimed he was out of work because he was i'll, and had no money. On cross-exaanination he ad-
 nitted that he had spent several days in jail following his arrest re. gently on Q charge of theft. He said he was not i'll at that time.
 Judge Troland said he wished to see what efforts Terrell would make within the next two weeks to sup- port the child. Mrs. Terrell is suing for divorce.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-22
2,I66 Names On File For Jobs Locally
 Skilled TEodesnen
 ln Greet Demond
 Report lNdleotas

There were ah00 Job applications and pe4 lob openings at the Con. nectleut state Employment Service In Waterbury Oct si, according to the monthly report of Paul panons, nanager
 The active flle of applicants he'd been S.opl the month before, bhe report shows. openings had nun. bered sea more sept. 30.
 Mir. Parsons said that mAnuGac. turing employment ln the area showed no slsable gains from mid. September Co mid.o october, and Q first break in an upward employ. ment trend occurred.
 The employment official sald that the expansion demand of em. ployers, although below previous levels, remained substantial, but was not being met because of shortages of certain groups of workers, prl- marily heavy mill lAbofers and women workers tn the rubber Indus. try.
 1t was disclosed that over half of the demand for male workers is concentrated in the unskllled cate. gory, with most of the orders com. ing from mills and boundaries. The same situation was reported for women applicants, who are sought mostly for the rubber plants and as domestic workers.
 A sharp drop was reported in registrations of. World War II vet. erans. 1t was pointed out that dur ing the month ending Oct. ib about 100 veterans returned to the area as compared to 250 during the pre-. vious month. A total of ee0 veter. ans were reported registered last month.
 Mir. Parsons said there was a shortage of skilled construction workers chiefly carpenters and electricians. He predicted that with the advent of cold weather, the existing construction labor force would be reduced by at least 2s percent through layoffs.
 He said that most of them will be absorbed in all probability by the veterans emergency housing projects, and the supply will not ex- ceed the demand even during the Winter months.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-22
Wife Names Husbond In
 $15,OOO Suit

Mrs, jtila Coochi0la of Waters DUTY claimed eiB0O0 damages in . property suit filed fn Superior Court today against her husband, Baiva- tore Cooohloia, also Of this city, aisd asked for return Of t2d0o spent for support, ifl another suit entered on tlle Common pieas Court docket.
 The plaintiff claims ii the Super. tor Court papers that her husband threatened bodily harm and also t0 teii stories to ruin her reputation ,tiniess she conveyed her property at 5bf WatsFtown Avenue Co him. Mrs. CoCchioia, owner of flower btiss iness, claims the property vas bought in iol2 with her own sav. ings.
 According to the complaint, the plaintiff was threatened from May 1B, iolS 1intii last Nov. [, when she finally executed a quit claim deed on the property to her husband and received the sum of eiOO0 from him.
 ft is alleged that Q deputy sheriff at one time called ct her place of business And said he would attach her property, her business, would remove her safe, and would attach her brothers package store. She claims that no attempt was made by the sheriff to serve any papers and that no reason was given for the threatened attachments.
 The plaintiff claims she was af. fected to such an extent by the oc- ctfrences that she was unable to ex. ercise her own free viii and conse- quentiy signed the settlement" dee sired by her husband.
 The court Is asked to issue an injunction restraining the defend. ant from conveying the property, and also to set aside the quit claim deed.
 Tn the other suit, Mrs. Cocchlola states sine has spent e2AOo since May 1s, 1o46 for the support of her. self and their nd.a-haif-year old son. She asks for return of that sum by her husband.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-22
Grant NoIIes ToAecused Gamblers

Five men, arrested in . North Ind gambling raid cot. %, were granted nolles by Judge Charles H. @unfna when sthe eases were hrcught before him in clty Court today.
 Charged with operating c gam. bling house was Emanuel Diorio. 52, of 22 Seymour Street, The four others, ali charged with being fire. qlenters Of A gaimbllng house, were. Edward Greece, Jr., 90, Of U1i North Main Street; Patsy CapellA, 24, Of 90 West Farm Street: Joseph in. fAnte, Si, of ei7 North Main Street, and Carmen DeJoseph, Si, of TOO North Main Street.
 Prosecutor stephen Ilomlck rec. commended the noliee, and told the court the gambling" was only e friendly card game"
 A six.months' auspended sentence was fneted out to Allan watt, e, of % lea Scoviil Street, when he vas arraianed on charge of theft. Tn. spector Joseph D. Bendier said the man took a saxaphone and case from a parked car on Brook Street Wednesday night.
 Raymond oalll, %, of lS Union Street; Edward oiobbl, %, of q Putnam Street and Francis oiampi, 70, oe Be Wood Street, all charged with breach of the peace and de. stroying public property, were granted nolles on both charges Police said the. trio bnet a parking meter In Exchange Place after last weeks Wliby-C Crosby football game when a huge crowd gathered in rally.
 Other cases: Edward Washington, S6, of 10 Blakeslee Circle, breach of the peace, continued Co Dec. 20; William Costello. g, of See Bald win Street, ilonssipport, floiled: Robert Watson, %, of Meriden, vio. lation of the rules of the road, nolled for e; Frank Parkhurst, 2S, of Kingston, Pa, violation of the rules of the road, f1olled: Raymond Galipault, R of SIS Hamilton Ave. nue, passing . red light, e6 bond called, and Isadore Johnsky, 60, of 20 Pearl Street, non-support, nolled.