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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-05-03
GREEN SEES HOME
BUILDING KEY TO
full EMPLOYMENT

Lakeland, Fla.-Hailing the advent
of a period of postwar reconstruction,
AFL President William Green told the
25th general convention Of the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join
ers Of America at meeting here he
is confident the nation is embarked
on program to provide "new and bet
ter homes for the great mass of Amer
ican families"
This task, he told the delegates,
represents the most strategic and
most certain area of full employment
in the most realistic sense of that
term"
"Good, new homes for families of
all incomes mean real postwar recon-
struction for every American COM
munity," he said. "They mean sta
BILE and steady source of employment
opportunity for many years, not only
to the building and construction trades,
not only to the mechanics and labor
ers at the site, but also steady and
stable jobs in multitude of indus
tries and occupations which depend on
construction of new homes as source
of demand for building materials,
equipment, furniture and household
appliances, and as a source Of the
standard of living of the American
family.
"Rehousing America is a big job.
There is work in it for everyone.
Right now we have a unique and his
toric chance to launch that job and to
get it done, upon the initiative and
with full backing of the entire labor
movement"
Lashing out at critics who have
charged that "high labor costs are
a discouraging factor in home con-
struction, Mr.. Green pointed out that
in the sale price Of the average home
(based upon statistics of 1887 the
cost of building labor ranged between
"a and 20 per cent, depending on loca-
tion and other conditions. Comparing
this percentage with that Of other
industries, he stressed that there are
n major industrial groupings in which
labor costs are in excess of 80 per cent
of the value Of the product. In all OF
these, he said, a larger proportion Of
the consumers dollar goes to labor
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-05-03
GET TOGETHER
By Ruth Taylor

Everybody talks about the wealth
er, but nobody does anything about it."
Wasn't it Mark Twain who wrote
that? Well, | think we are getting
just as bad about the future. I've
listened to more depressing CONVEX
sation lately about what is going to
happen. I've heard more people have
more and more to say about how soon
bad times are coming. But so far |
haven't heard many constructive, COOP
erative, plans to counteract it-other
than government ones.
Oh, / know there are lots of people
working to be sure that what hits
won't hit them! But they do not seem
to realize that individualism means in
dividual effort, not individual indiffer-
ence to one another.
istence and fight each other for what
remains, or we can work together,
pooling our resources, to expand pro-
duction for all of us.
Collective prosperity is not divisi-
BILE. Without cooperation or collabor-
alton (I like that latter word best
because it is co-labor) we cannot get
anywhere. The best plans in the
world won't work unless labor and
management, small business and great
corporations, farmer and worker, con-
sumer and producer, government and
private nterprise-whether that pri-
vate enterprise be a business or Ia
Dor union-get together on the points
they have in common, shelving their
differences of method and developing
way of action that will bring pros
perity to all.
"When Crew and Captain UNDER
stand each other to the core, it takes
gale and more than gale to put
their Ship ashore, SO Kipling wrote.
We are faced with storm. A storm
in which false ideas, windstorms of
terrific intensity will be let loose. Only
if we have complete collaboration be-
tween all groups in this country can
we weather moral and spiritual values,
and from that basis work out our COM
mon destiny together.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-05-03
Big AL Campaign In South
Seeks Million New Members
Drive Will Be Directed By Leaders Of Twelve State
Labor FederatiOns

Washington, D. C.-Plans to launch
the most intensive organizing drive
ever undertaken in the South by the
trade union movement were announc-
ed by AFL President William Green.
The main goal of the campaign
is to enroll 100000 new members
in AFL unions in the next year, Mr..
Green said. The drive will be di-
rected entirely by the executive Of
ficers of the IL State Federations of
Labor in the South and George L.
Googe, AFL southern representative.
At weekend meeting in Atlanta,
AFL southern leaders completed plans
for the third biennial Southern Labor
Conference to be held May IL and IL
at Asheville, N. c.
The organizing drive will be launch
ed at this conference, which will be at
tended by delegates from $500 AFL
local unions now functioning in the
South, city and district councils and
state federations of labor.
Mr.. Green, Secretary Treasurer
George Meany, Vice President Will
liam L. Hutcheson, John L. Lewis and
other members Of the AFL Executive
Council, will address as conference
along with officers of the Railway
Employees Department, the Building
and Construction Trades Department,
the Metal Trades Department, the
Government Employees Council and the
Union Label Trades Department.
The Spring meeting of the AFL
Executive Council will be held here
Immediately following the conference
at Asheville and presumably will con-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-05-03

costs than in home construction.
Outlining the AFL postwar housing
program, the original draft of which
began to take form in 1910, Mr.. Green
told the convention:
"The major objective of our pro-
gram was to bring home ownership
within the financial reach of the great
mass of wage-earners, of families of
modest means who have not been able
to assume the financial burden of
buying new home in the past"
This program, Mr.. Green said, is
divided into three efforts:
First, to. reduce the cost of private
ly built homes by improving the FILA
system of mortgage insurance.
Second, goal of decent house
for every family, through extension
and improvement of the lok-rent, slum-
clearance program suspended during
the war.
Third, to protect the value of all
homes in the community and to safe
guard the health and welfare of every
family through large program of
long-term redevelopment of cities.
The major features of this profram,
Mr.. Green said, are embodied in the
pending Wagner Taft -Ellender bill.
He expressed hope that this measure
eventually will include requirement
that not less than prevailing wages
will be paid in construction of all
FHA-insured homes.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-05-03
Delivers Singing Rebuke At Critics OF Program Urges
Years Extension

Washington, D. C.-In singing
rebuke to the House for what he term
ed vote to strange price control"
at the expense of the American work
er, AFL President William Green ap-
pealed to the Senate to rescue this
legislation and approve an extension
Of controls for a full year.
American workers are deeply dis
appointed by the action of the House
of Representative in adopting amend
ments which would strangle price con-
troll" Mr.. Green said.
"The House bill, if left unchanged,
threatens to force the cost Of living
up to unprecedented heights and to
endanger our entire economy. 1t is
likely to usher in an era of unbridled
profiteering at the expense of the ma
tion's wage earners.
"The American Federation of La
Dor does not believe in the perpetua-
ton of government controls. We favor
the abolition of the OPA as soon as
such action can be taken safely. But
to undertake such a move now, when
production of many necessities of life
is still far below consumer demand,
is an open invitation to suicidal infla-
ton.
Therefore, the American Fedora
ton of Labor calls upon the Senate to
reject the House bill and to continue
OPA for another year without Grip
ping amendments"
Mr.. Green announced he will pre-
sent detailed testimony in favor of
extending the OPA act for another
year when he appears soon before the
Senate Banking and Currency Com
mittee.
Meanwhile there were indications
that President Truman will veto the
OPA extension measure if it goes
through the Senate in the form adopt
ed by the House, which, in strong re-
volt, virtually stripped the agency of
it's major controls.
The vote to send the bill to the Sen
ate was 355 to AZ.
OPA Administrator Paul Porter
warned Congress that the bill, in it's
present form, practically ends price
control, will add billions of dollars to
the cost of living and seriously jeopar-
die the nations stabilization pro-
gram.
The Gossett de-control amendment,
Porter said, Immediately would sweep
away price controls on meats, milk
and nearly all dairy products except
butter, on coal, shoes, wool and rayon
textiles. and women's and children's
garments made from wool and rayon.
The amendment also would require
the lifting of ceilings on most farm
products and on many basic industrial
products in such fields as metals, tex
tiles, leather, rubber, chemicals, coke,
stone and glass products.
Altogether, it would wipe out cell
ings on July I, or shortly thereafter,
on commodities making up at least
half Of the cost Of living.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-05-03
SAY, LISTEN!

Forthcoming radio programs in the
"Cross Section-AFL" series broad
cast each Saturday at 3:45 p. M,
Eastern Time, over the nationwide
Columbia Broadcasting System, are
listed below for the information Of
trade unionists everywhere so that
they can make advance plans to tune
in:
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-05-03

Joining Porter in vigorous con-
demnation Of the bill, Sterilization
Director Chester Bowles declared the
measure would doom price control un-
less revised by the Senate.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-05-03
Green Asks Senate to Restore
0PA Controls Killed By House

May 4-Printing Trades. John B.
Haggerty, president of the Interna-
tional Allied Printing Trades Asso-
citation; and Oscar Whitehouse, secre-
tary of the union employers of the
Printing Industry of America, will
talk from a printing plant in Wash
ington, D. c.
May II Truck Transportation
Members Of the Transfers Union will
be interviewed from an -the-road
lunchroom stop in the Chicago area.
You are Assured Prompt Service
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-24

Rutledge agreed with their con. tentlons that both deliberately vlo- lated the orders of draft OlEicials te exhaust their administrative rem. edies" % they could attack their draft classification As "Artbltrary and illegal"
 A lower court had ruled that Rodes could not contest the validity of his draft classification in the trial proceeding,
 The Ninth Circuit Court of Alp. peals affirmed 0ibsons conviction in the U, s. District Court for South Dakota. These courts also held that Gibson could not properly test the validity of his draft clAssia ticatlon by deserting from the camp.
 Remarks Cues for Retreat
 Gibson maintained that he re- ported to the camp merely Co ex. haust the administrative process
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-24
JehOUah's Witnesses Win NeIU Trials Gs 'COnchie'

Washington. Dec. aA (up)-The 6upEenAe Court yesterday unanl. mcusly ordered new trials for two Jehoyahs Witnesses who dellber. efAeely violated the HelecNlVe Serv. Ice Act Co test their contention that thev were entitled to deferment As ministers,
 William DodeR Wooster, O., was convicted for failure Co obey his draft boards order Co report for service @ . conscientious oblectoF
 TAne M olhson, El Dorado, Ark, was convicted for desertlng from Q conscientious ohiectors camp at Hlil City, g, D., i've days after he reported there.
 Contend Wrong Classification
 Justice Wiley D, Rutledge read the courts opinion.
 Both men contended they had been wrongly classified as ohiec~ tors by their local draft boards They said they were entitled Co deferments as ministers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-24
Former PatroIna0r Appointed Lanitor

Patrolman Frank Smith, appoint cd to the Police Department in io24, yesterday submitted his resignation to Police Superintendent William ]. Roach.
 Smith was named panitor ct poe lice headquarters to replace James Barrett who will retire from that post ct the first of the year after more than 90 years service.
 The appointment as janitor was made by Superintendent Roach.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-24
Boys Club Entert0inS 300 ot Special Party

Three hundred boys were enter- talned at a Christmas party at the Boys Club last night which was arranged by the Service Club. Christmas carols were sung by the group and gifts distributed.
 Among the entertainers were Joe Canale, accordionist; Frank petro, g,iitarist; Sal Lanteri, bass, and Willie Pascuccui, impersonatlons.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-24
Bobby SOxer, Hot Suing Music ReGdy to Retire

Chicago, Dec. M. (uP)--The Bobby soxer b going the way of the red hot mama and the fiapper. It won't be long before the screaming, Jitter-bugging teen- -agers will be just q memory, Q sociologlst said today.
 The prediction got support, too, from Q band leader who hes had his clothes torn to shreds by bobby soxers--and one of the bobby soxers herself.
 Wanted Attention
 Mrs. Evelyn Mills Duvall, execu- tive secretary nf the National Con. ference on Family Relations, said the girls who gave their hearts and vocal cords to Frank Sinatra dur
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-24

ing the war are beginning to RlvI them back to their teen.age boy friends,
 That variety of youngster defln. itely b on the wane," Mrs. Duval said. During the war, the bobby Soxers reflected the general unrest unrest of our society. Now that htings are settling back to normal they are efiecting that trend"
 Mrs Duval said bobby soxerl acted the way they did because they wanted attention. Their pas enS were concerned with the war; the boys were either in service q on the verge of it: and the girls were left out of the picture, she said.
 The girls finally got attention with their antics and they loved It, but now they are going to settle down, with the rest of us," she said. Gray Agrees
 Swing band leader Glen Gray agreed that bobby-soxers were gow- ing up.
 Maybe they are just losing their voices, but regadless of the reason, they are at last beginning to keep quiet" he said.
 Gray said screaming young girls had been bothering him for IS years, tearing buttons off his coats, grabbing his handkerchiefs and leaving him black -and-blue.
 He said now they probably are exhausted from their activities.
 Hot swing music is on its way to the dustiest shelf of the music cabinet" he said, land along with tt is going the bobby soxer."
 Chief Fan tO Retire
 Betsy Weer, i6, president of the National Association of Frank Fans Clubs and the na- tion's number one screamer, said
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-24
AnnRNrINR oARRA A.RlA

Washington. Dec, aa~(uPl- A,R,fA President william oreen announced today that Q special Alteration o2 A.FH. oehclah would Ro eo Argentina carly in January Co lnQWlrN Into labor economic and political eondls tons there. Green said the Alteration was Invited by the Areenllne Rovernment and the ArsenSlne Confederation W Labor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-24
P0pers WithdrauUn Tn $I5,OOO Suit

Withdrawal papers have been flied in Superior Court in the eiS,. 900 civil action of carroll ? .Madl. gan and hln wife, Gertrude, against Thomas Weary, as executor of the estate Of the late Katherine 6. Mooney, oil of Naugatuck. Tho plalntlffs sought recovery for serv- ices rendered Co Katherine Mooney and for Improvements made to pro- perty which she and her sister, Mrs. MAdlgan, owned jointly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-24
< IT'S THE SOUND.

unchng underfoot the light jingle bells the Silent Night and White Christmas and Santa Claus Coming MAu.n
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-24

preliminary Co cunleullng the neleos tive Service elAsslfcatlon,
 0ibsont case Waa considered hy the Supreme Court last year but Was reaFUued thm term when ehe tribunal failed Co agree,
 The hlgh court dld not rule lo. day on the validity Of the clasgliloas ton of the two men. 10 remanded the eases Co the district courts for new trials and said the men could lawlawfully raise that Issue as Q defense,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-24
< ITS THE TASTE...
< ITS THE ToUcH...
< IT'S THE SIGHT,.

of familiar faces small wagons with red wheels the Shimmer of the tree dreams and wonders coming tE eyes of children.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-24

co oalogles aAlly, lha Npogt UAld there are countries Ia which oalor. le4eln which many people lhla year aa lAee eAeAln less than 1000 cA. lorloa per peEeon pef day Ttaoee are paFoe of India, China and Nan. churlA, MAlayA, RemAnlA, Austria and Germany.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-24

slaeaonea wlaA lhs eAa AallllaEy po- llco Platoon al FUft sam MooAtoA, TNRAA Private Rose Was Q stodens aa kent oohool eelore entering Ne service two years age
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-24
PriOate Rose Going OVerse0s Shortly

Pfc, Roger Rose ls now on fur. loueh co the home of his parents
 Mir and Mrs. Roger Rose, % Grove Hll Road, Watertown, before 70. porting to Camp Stone, oAlc for overseas assignment, He was last
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-24
Millions  .Xmos Eve ' UN Food Group
 Describes DlsRaol
 World Picture

washington, Doc. aa--(up)--The United Nations Food and Agrlcul. ture Organization painted Q dismal Christmas picture today of suffer. ing and starvation In vast areas of the world while the United Statel basks in abundance.
 Tn Q report described as world food appraisal for iele-47," the TAO:
 i.-Warned that c major food
 crisis still confronts the world.
 2.--Predicted that the Europ.
 can food situation would "de-
 teriorAte sharply" ln the Spring.
 3 3--Reported that nutrition
 and health are little better than
 last year and "ln some coun-
 tries worse"
 4.--Appealed for "lmmedlate
 tightening of controls and food
 economy measures in all coun.
 tries" especially those like the
 United States which have Q sur-
 plus.
 War.Ravaged Areas Hardest FElt
 The TAO report was made pub lie as UNRlsA neared the end of It's work and after the United Nations Assembly meeting during which the United States--the major financial supporter of UNRRA--served noe tice it would no longer participate in international relief work but dole out It's assistance on Q unilAteral basis.
 The TAO reported that the areas suffering chiefly from lack of food were those most seriously damaged in the war-Europe, the Orient and the Soviet Union, that food pro- ductlon was beginning to recover, but only slowly in those countries: that food output in surplus produc- ing countries-especially North Am- erica--was higher than last years record.
 Throughout he report was an i'm. piled criticism of the United States and an indirect appeal to 1t to re- consider the quantities of food 1t feels able to ship abroad.
 U. s. Consumption Higher
 For example, after describing nal. nutrition, stringent food rationing, and low food production rates in many countries, the report said: Tn the United States per capita consumption is IS percent higher than prewar and higher than last year.
 While people in the United States to consume more than B.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-24

she was glad to be settling down after four frantic years of chasing Frankie.
 The activity was such Q strain on her, she said, that she had . nervous breakdown.
 We fans are reforming" Betsy said. we've decided not to be 90 rowdyiSm. Too much of Us must be boring.
 But it's really been a lot of fun. I sort of hate to see us go."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-08-16
LEGION LOOKS AHEAD

On August 4, 100 young high
school lads invaded our Nations
Capitol to gain for themselves a
knowledge of what makes our FEEDER
al government tick" These boys are
1916 governors and lieutenant gov
ernors of the American Legion S
Boys States which are held annually
throughout the nation for tie pur-
pose of educating the nations youth
in the mechanics of our state govern
ments. The Legion has now initiated
a program to enlighten our youth ana
future leaders in the functions OF
their federal government with Boys
Forum of National Government.
While in Washington the young
leaders were given an intensive D.
day course of instruction on the OPP
erations of our executive, judicial
and legislative government branches.
They actually took part in mock ses-
sions of Congress and the U. S. Su-
preme Court and thus learned by per-
sonal experience the democratic way
our populace of 140, 100000 citizens
is ruled and governed. The Legion S
guests also toured our federal build
ings and were instructed upon the ac-
tivities that go on within. By visits
to Mount Vernon, Arlington Nation
al cemetery and other national me-
MORALS they were reminded OF the
toll and sacrifice-sweat and blood
that has been expended to make our
nation the greatest in the world to-
day.
The American Legion SHOULD be
encouraged to make Boys Forum OF
National Government an annual
event on a large scale to insure the
future good government of our ma
ton.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-08-16
HOPE FOR CANNING RECORD

eve hope that housewives Will
break even their wartime records
for more canning and preservation oil
foods" says Paul G. Stark of the U.
S. Department of Agriculture, Direc-
tor of the Office of Emergency Food
Programs. when the jars and cans
are counted at the end of the season
we hope to have many more than ev-
en- the 31a billion quarts OF vege-
tables and fruits which were canned
at home during the war years.
eve already know of the success
of the Victory Garden program. This
is due in great degree to the coop
Grafton the Department has had from
State and local garden leaders, gar
den clubs, and individual gardeners
throughout the Nation.
Gardeners and housewives needed
lust one thing to make them realize
the special importance of all methods
of home food production and preser-
walton this year. That was to be told
that people all over the world are
starving, many dying of hunger, and
that by growing and preserving more
food here at home, we would be in
position to send more overseas to the
people who are in such urgent need
of food"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-08-16
REVERSIONS TO STATE
TREASURY

Cove nor Herbetr r. O'Conor has
been informed that savings of the
various Departments which had been
returned to the State Treasury dur
ing the past eight years now total
SO, 633,514.47.
These reversions were returned
from the annual appropriations made
to State Departments, Commissions
and Institutions. In every year since
Governor O'Conor assumed office,
savings have been effected. 1t has
been the policy of the Chief EXecu-
tive to make an official request to-
ward the close of each fiscal year to
each of his appointees urging that
they economic in the conduct of the
work of their departments.
The largest savings was accom-
plished in the fiscal year 1914 when
S2,149, 900 was recouped at the end
of the year and returned to the Trea-
sury. Under the Maryland law, these
reversiohs must be retained in the
State Treasury and cannot be ex-
pended except by subsequent legisla-
tive action.
Governor O'Conor has declared
that much credit for the financial
savings is due to department heads
who have observed his personal pleas
to avoid unnecessary spending. In
previous years, the State surplus
which has been partially created by
reversicns from unspent appropria-
lions has been used for tax reduction
On The first day of July, the rever-
sions for the present fiscal year ag-
gregating SS22,926.5S reverted to
the State Treasury.
The report just made to Governor
O'Conor by the Office of the State
Comptroller, j. Willard Tawes, gives
the State savings by years as follows:
1889, 1871, 2S0.66; 1910, $685.
072.5O; 1941, Successes; 1912,
81, O30,51S.95; O1943, GO MOI, ST.
475,O94.95; 1914, $2,149,19S.06;
1945, $1,S02,436.92; 1916, $S22,-
926.5S.