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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-03-15

Pine Rock Circle, Ladies Foresters
will meet at 8:l5 tonight at Mech
anics hall, East Main Street with
Miss Mary Franklin, presiding. All
members are urged to attend.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-03-15

Mrs. J. Wlnfred Beecher, Newton
Terrace, has been re-appointed
chairman OF the Fine Arts Series
concerts, season of 1946-47. spon-
Sored by the Mattatuck Musical Art
Society.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-03-15
Social Notes

: Former Governor Robert A. Hur-
ley and Mrs. Hurley Of West Hart
ford are at the Hotel Pierre, New
York City.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-03-15

The clumsy looking, waterloving
four-ton hippopotagnus can outrun
man on dry land,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-03-15

Mrs. Edward M. Flanagan OF
Montgomery Street, who has been
patient at the Waterbury hos
pltal for the past two weeks, has
returned home.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-03-15

Senator and Mrs. Edward Egan of
FiSke Street will attend the annual
College Of st, Elizabeth Glee Club
concert at Town Hall, New York
City, tomorrow night.
The union times., 1946-12-21
Superseniority Plan Of Legion Under Attack
Union Legionnaires Say Members Don't Know
 What They Voted For

Chicago (LPA) = The American Legions action in calling on Congress to enact "super-seniority" legislation and in demanding other legislation to restrict all quota immigration was de- nounced last week by group of the Legion's own members organized in the Natl Conference of Union Labor Legionnaires.
 These ''are not just harmless reso- lutions adopted at convention and then forgotten" said the NCULL's monthly Newsletter. ''They are au. thOrity to the LegiOn's full-time lob. byists in Washington to buttOnhOle a representative or senator and say 3, 3,5OO,OOO veterans want it this way!'" The NCULL then inquired !:
 Did the 5O0,OO0 members of organ ized labor who are Legionnaires know that legislation was demanded to re- instate 'superseniority?' Did the g. 100000 veterans of World War II who are Legionnaries know that leg islation or presidential action was de- manded to bar all quota immigration, including the homeless victims of con- centration camps that these same vet erans fought to saver"
The union times., 1946-12-21
LITTLE LUTHER

"There' something don't Iuher began I'm glad hear it," MT. Diworth useful to have the him Pretty pompous old penguin aren't you? what don't understand why your Dlvorths Dmity Diapers that before That's mpe It's the risk is ious" ' - ~ ~ "Tinid like a itmouse?"
 No cautious like banker Now, enterprise for fear might have offer profit If the money tempted into business the bigger the rk the bigger profit must be- Now the What jolly place to keep it! exclaimed Little Luther darnedest yeti" " - e's not be frivolous, Pm speaking diaper self good profit it. That all readily risk money"
 You good yourself said Little profits be bigger after the than before?"
 We Mr. Dworth sad
  these days to embroider a dinky diaper
 Reconveon You you don't
  least And aren't profits. know what think pop?"
 "What do think, son?"
 "I think you're trying pull the "SOn I'll pull britche of talk from you"
The union times., 1946-12-21
Not EUery Hen
 Is A Dumb Cluck

The coal strike produced its expected quota of zany reper- cussiOns. A South Carolina muni- cipal official nominated John L. Lewis as the man who had made the years outstanding cOntribu- ton to smoke elimination. A union in Buffalo, N. Y., pro- posed Lewis for President in l948 on a ''labor party'' ticket. In another place the miners went on strike against mine they owned themselves.
 But all this fades into insig- nificance in the light of a report from Cambria, Ill.,, where a miner announced that his l3 hens stopped laying on the day the strike started and didn't re- sume until the day the walkout ended. THAT is union solidarity with a vengeance. And proof, too, that all hens aren't dumb cIucks.
The union times., 1946-12-21
Bigotry Bogey Again Blasted By Pres. Green
AFL Will Fight For All, Regardless Of Race,
 Creed, Or Color"

Washington OPA) - flashing out against racial and religious dis crimination, AFL President William Green last week said that the AFL will continue to fight for the rights of all workers regardless of race, creed or color. 'sThe AFL," accord ing to Green, s'is concerned with humanitarian justice for all and our very existence as free men and women depends on unity and pre- servation of democracy"
 Green continued by pointing out that the bogey of bigotry pits worker against worker and serves to divide the unity of organized labor and to undermine the working standards of all. For example, he said, If one group of workers were to organize to better their working conditions to the exclusion of any racial or religious group, the lower standards of the ex- c1uded group would remain a constant drag and menace to the standards of the organized group"
 NEGRO AND JEW
 Symbolic of the unity of all workers, Green went on, is the fact that the AFL was formed and led for forty years by an immigrant Jew. Samuel COmpers, and that the Federation's name was proposed by MT. Grandson, a Negro delegate from Pittsburgh to the first conven- ton in 1881. Intolerance and bigOtry are the tools used to destroy democracy and impose totalitarian- ism, Green asserted.
 "To deny minority groups the free dom to organize into unions of their choosing along with all other workers in their trade, the AFL head said, is to refute the very principles of democ- racy necessary to the existence of free labor unions. Any limitations" em- phasized Green, Ito the freedom of one group plants the seed that may grow and ultimately destroy the freedom of all"
 ssOf course," concluded Green, ssthe record of American labor has not been without its blemishes. More than one strike has been lost and more than one union broken because the seed of intolerance was planted between workers. But with firmly implanted knowledge drawn from bitter experiences, American labor has gone forward, and today if stands as one of the nation s strongest forces opposed to bigotry and intolerance"
The union times., 1946-12-21
Govt Dominated By Big Business Whitney Charges
President Of R. R. Train men Not Happy About
 Truman

Cleveland (LPA) - Big business now dominates the government thru its representatives in Truman'S cabinet and in other government offices" Pres ident A. F. Whitney, of the Brother hood of Railroad Trainmen, charged here this week
 In a scathing attack on Com merce Secretary Averel Harriman's implied contention that the cOun- try must be protected against labor leaders because of the ''undue con- centration of power in the hands of any group" Whitney declared:
 No labor leader has any power or influence except when he gives voice to the accumulated misery and the just demands of the workers he represents. This human misery is the direct result of the paralyzing and monstrous abuse of the economic power for which MT. Hartman now fronts.
 ''Only in the last decade" said the BRIT leader, ''have working
 Continued on Page Three)
The union times., 1946-12-21
Commuters Give Smith A Scare

WASHINGTON - (FP)-Proof that a protest vote can work even in the polltax south came out of the Nov 5 election in the suburban Vir- ginia portion of Rep. Howard w. Smiths 9th district
 Although Smith won handily over Republican Lawrence Michael, he got a dandy scare in the Washington sub urbs, where he boiled 2,363 votes to 2,082 for his opponent. Smith lost the team of Annondale, Virginia High lands and Rosslyn, was only g votes ahead in East Falls Church and car ried Alexandria by less than 400.
The union times., 1946-12-21
Starvation Pay LeadingTeachers To Direct Action
Organized Groups Being Forced To Strike As A
 Last Resort

New York (LPA) - Organized teachers, rebelling at starvation sala- ries, struck schools in II more cities throughout the country last week.
 Wage increases were slow in conn., ing, however, even despite testi- mony such as was presented here by the N. Y. City Teachers Interest Committee that salaries are so pitt fully inadequate that teachers are working part time as bar-tenders, riveters, elevator operators, auto mechanics and even waitresses to supplement their earnings. About 7O9o of this city's male teachers are forced to take outside employ ment. it was disclosed.
 More than 600 of 1000 striking AFL teachers in St. Paul, Minn., voted to continue their strike for wage raises into its fourth week. In Pawtucket, R. l., 400 teachers returned to work after a two-day walkout pending new negotiations in which they are repre- sented by the American Federation of Teachers-AFL. Their demands in cluded new pay ScneduleS With an $500 minimum
 SPECIAL SESSION
 A desperate situation in Virginia compelled Gov. William Tuck to call a special session of the state 1egisla- ture for Jan. 6 to consider wage in creases. Average salary for all teach CTS in the state now is $1516 yearly.
 In Chicago the Public Adminis- tration Clearing House heard frightened reports on the growing wave of teachers strikes. President Arnold s. Zander, of the American Federation of State, County & Mu- nicipal Employes-AFL, told a press seminar that chief cause of municipal strikes has been refusal of city officials to recognize and bargain with unions of their em- plOyes.
The union times., 1946-12-21

In its 18th quarterly report, OPA observed that the wage-price policy of August, l945 was adopted with the idea of insuring a substantial market for consumer goods by cushioning the decline in weekly wages from the elimination of pre- mium (overtime) pay.
 The one check retained then was to require that wage increases generally not be made if price increases thereby would be necessary.
 But, OPA found, ''the extremely favorable profit record of most branches of industry demonstrated the feasibility of substantial wage increases on these terms.'
 Higher wage incomes become necessary in order to strengthen the consumer market since military de- mand was no longer a major factor. But despite wave of wage boosts, ''certain major industries insisted that wage increases were impossible unless price increases were grant ed.''
 As a result, a compromise was worked out, permitting price adjust ments and this was coupled with re- laxing of OPA pricing standards "in the interest of speeding reconversion.
 EARNINGS DROP
 This, OPA admits in its report, provided "basis for question whether, even under the wage increases given the green light by the new policy, wages would be restored to balance with prices"
 As matter of fact, OPA Ob- serves, average weekly earnings were dropping even before the price boosts that followed Pres. Truman's veto of the first OPA ex- tension bill. The decline in weekly earnings, OPA said, was 8.7H- from $47.5O to $43.35-from the wartime peak reached in January I945.
 Meantime, consumer prices had risen 4.o%o. Far from being sustained, the report goes on, average weekly earn ings, in real terms, had thus declined 1870 between January 1945 and June 1946. In the automobile industry, the extreme example, average earnings dropped from $5949 at their peak in February 1945 to $4945 in June 1946. The rise of prices further reduced the buying power of auto workers in comes, which in real terms suffered a total average cut of 22@6."
 4 OUT OF Is
 Spelling out its case, OPA said that @in industry after industry the rise of
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The union times., 1946-12-21
As We See It
 by THE STAFF

Better than any ''the-natiOn- stands-at-the-crossrOads' editorial was this headline last week on the financial page of the Washington Post:
 Outlook Hazy
 On Imitation
 Or Defation
 Our editor, Nathan Sherman, gave a series of two lectures at New Haven Teachers College this week on "Organized Labor in a Chang ing World" The lectures were given before classes in Contemporary Civilization"
 Pres. Vincent McCovern represent ed the New Haven Central Labor Council at the meeting at the Hotel Taft Monday night to set up local committee for a Conn. Fair Elm ployment Practices Act. He was ap- pointed to the steering committee. Rev. Joseph F. Donnelly presided
 The hearing on the New Haven Gas Co.'s petition to increase its rates, held the same night, was at- tended by Business Agents Bernard Chloride, Saul Kreas, and Stanley Creising. With many others, they opposed the petition.
 We know just how our big i'm dustrialists feel when they complain that unions have taken the romance out of big business, that no longer does the ragged newsboy rise to be- come publisher of newspaper or a barefoot puddler the chairman of the board of US. Steel. The Depart ment Store Employes last week ne- gOtiated 20% pay raise for l5O department store Santa Clauses in Detroit. Now they're pledged to bring nothing but unionmade goods down the chimney.
 The daily press was fascinated by report that picketing of San Pedro, Calif., bakery had gone into its sixth year. This was quickly for gotten, however, when it discovered a 93-year-Old coal mine strike at Nanaimo, British Columbia. It seems that Indian miners went on strike for higher pay in 1853 and never went back to work. The In- dians are demanding retroactive wages for 93 years with portal-tO- portal pay, and the mine owner reasonable as all mine owners are says he's quite willing to meet their terms if he can pay them off in wampum.
 Continued on Page Six)
The union times., 1946-12-21
Bosses, Bishops Don on'tDiscourage Union Chaplain
Attack On Webber Arouses Much Interest In Labor,
 Church World

Washington (LPA)-Why he be- came a Chaplain of Organized La bOr' after twenty years service as a Methodist minister and member of the faculty of Union Theological Seminary was related in an inter- view with LPA this week by Rev. Charles Webber. His appointment has been vigorously opposed by Methodist leaders in the south as an embarrassment to them and the re- cent meeting of the Methodist Council of Bishops set up a special committee to study the matter. The .ease has aroused widespread inter- est throughout labor and church circles.
 After pointing out that his appoint ment as chaplain to organized labor "Is grounded in the traditions and practices of the Roman Catholic, An glican, and Methodist Churches v Webber related that in 1914 he was appointed to the position of field sec retary of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and stationed at Knoxville, Tenn. His clerical rank was continued in 1945 by Bishop w. B. Oxnam and the union transferred him to Rich mond, Va, where he was given the primary responsibility for organizing the employees of the Crawford Manu featuring Co.
 In April, l946 he was elected director of the~Virginia PAC. An other run-in with church officials this year resulted in approval of Bishop Oxnam's action continuing Webber in an active ministerial re- lationship. Later Bishop Oxnam ap- pointed him as Chaplain to Or ganized Labor."
 DIXIE NO LIKE
 Continuing his story, Webber said, My aiding and protecting morgan ized Negro and white workers in the exercise of their rights to organize, together with my directing the PAC campaign against the reelection of Senator Harry F. Byrd who, during his 13 years in the Senate of the U.S., has voted against the major progres sive social welfare bills, caused Dr. George s. Reamey, editor of the Vir- ginia Methodist Advocate, to suggest to Bishop Oxnam that he take prompt and appropriate action because had devoted my chief attention to the work of a labor organizer, and that 1 either surrender my credentials as a Metho- dist minister or confine my work to the spiritual activities as labor chap lain and resign as PAC head in Vir- ginia."
 Bishop W. W. Peele, (Bishop of the Virginia and North Carolina white conference) also requested his removal because Webber's ac- tivities, according to Bishop Peele, were hurting the reputation of the Methodist Church.
The union times., 1946-12-21
NewH HavenLabor Calls Housing Meeting
Special Attention
 Teachers Union

CHICACO-(FP) - A novel dollar and cents reason for teaching people how to read was advanced by Pres. Charles Luck man and Lever Bros. Co.,, soap makers, in an address to profit hungry members of the Super market Institute here.
 ''The simple truth is," said Luckman, ''that advertising is completely ineffective unless our population can read, write and understand English, and thereby raise the level of their expectan- cies and desires. This would provide a powerful stimulus to the welfare and to the living standards of our nation and therefore to YOUR INCOME as the nations supermarket opera tOrs."
The union times., 1946-12-21
Attend Dinner For Blind

Joseph McDermott, Vice-President, and Stanley GrieSing, Business Agent, of the Plumbers and Steamhtters Lo- cal 349, and Bernard Gilbride, Business Agent of the Electrical Workers B-90, attended a turkey dinner given last week for the blind by the Lions Club of New Haven.
 The invitation was extended in ap- preciation for donation, recently given by the unions to further build ing program to house the blind. At the dinner, the unions pledged their full est support to this worthy cause.
 During the evening, several inter esting speeches and excellent enter tainment were presented by the blind.
 MT. Griesing estimated that approxi- mately 100 persons were present at the dinner which was donated and served by the Catholic Society of Women
The union times., 1946-12-21
Profits In 1946 To Reach RecordHigh
O.PA. Says Many Industries Used Wage Increases To Boost Prices Far Out Of Proportion To Rise
 Labor's Income Down

(FP)-Admson from the dying OPA this week that price increases generously awarded industry
 last spring had relation wage increases by American
The union times., 1946-12-21

Driue carefully-yOu may meet ! fool!
The union times., 1946-12-21
COP Hands Fate Of FEPC Foe
 Of FEPC Plans
Milliken Against Law To End Employment Dis
 elimination

Washington (LPA)-''It must be a typographical errOr,'' say the SUD- pOrters of fair employment prac- tices legislation of the report that Sen. Eugene Millikin (R., COlO.) has been named by the Republican Steering Committee to be in charge of FEPC legislation for the COP in the new Congress.
 Almost any other Republican would be easier to work with. Sen. Robert Taft (R., Ohio) who agreed with Millikin that any new FEPC should be a soft-spoken instrument of per suasion," managed to state his case without drawing the endorsement of po11-tax Democrats Millilin in the past has been i'll close alliance with the southern enemies of any FEPC 1egis- lation.
 '"FULL DRESS''
 Labor leaders recalled this week that on Feb. 9, 1946, just before the Senate voted AS to 36-but less than the needed two-thirds majority-to end the fi1ibuster against FEPC and pro ceed to a vote upon the Chavez bill for real FEPC with enforcement powers, it was Millikin who delivered the final full dress speech against the bill and against limitation of debate
 Sen. Ellender O., La.) yielded the floor to him. Sen. Russell O., Ca.), floor leader of the opposition to FEPC, obtained a quorum call in order to get the maximum audience for MiIlikin.
 Millikin's speech covers nine pages in the Congressional Record When he had finished, Russell praised it as one of the greatest utterances in American history and declared that it should be studied in our public schools.
 FRIGHT TO BICOTRY"
 Millilin ridiculed the possibility of fairness in employment He endorsed the stand of Sen Walter George (D., Ga.) in opposition to FEPC, saying People of any given faith, race or ancestral origin have a right in peace ful ways to dislike people of other faiths, races, and ancestry; have a right to give or withhold their per sonal business, and employment asso- citations"
 He said the Republican Party's l944 pledge for ''the establishment of permanent fair employment practice commission" meant a body that would rely upon persuasion" for enforcement.
The union times., 1946-12-21
Representative Yawn To
 Pull A Big One This Time

ATLANTA, Ga.-(FP-A A bill re- quiring incorporation of unions and outlawing the closed shop will be in troduced in the Georgia house of rep resentatives, Rep. Eugene Yawn of Dodge county announced here.
 Yawn, who was coauthor of the law requiring 30-day notice of strike intent in Georgia, said he would press es- pecially hard for legislation compelling unions to incorDorate.
The union times., 1946-12-21
Joint Labor Help Reflects Mayor

WINDSOR, Ont. = (FP) - Joint support by the AFL-CIO political ac- ton committee helped elect Mayor Arthur J. Reaume of Windsor to his fourth term last week.
 During the long and sometimes turbulent Ford of Canada strike the mayor constantly gave encouragement to the workers and curbed the police from helping Ford.
Evening star., 1946-11-30

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-26

up the picture in question shrewdly; he also put his finger squarely on the ailment that affects the ma jority of HollyWood's screen offer ings.
 Make a list of the really out standing pictures of the past few years-dramas and comedies and musicals-and you'll find that they were all alike in one particular; they offered something more solid and permanent than an hour or two of good entertainment. Con- slider Going My Way" '"The Lost Weekend" "Spellbound," CT h e Seventh Veil,' Gone With the Wind" and the dozens of other top flight hits, and I think you'll agree with me.
 The other pictures-the ones that offer nothing to take home = are largely attributable to mental lazi- ness on the part of their producers. They're the result of slavish adher- ence to routine, and carelessness in the choice of stories. They're ex- cusable only if there's truth in the