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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-11-18

CAN'T YOU SEE YOURSELF IN THIS PIcTURE7
Stretched out for lazy hours beside the
inviting outdoor pool : enjoying the COM
partnership of stimulating new friends.
All these delights and more will be yours
to enjoy by next spring or summer when
the famous Cuba Mail and Porto Rico
Lines cruises are resumed.
The union times., 1946-11-23
Tax Cuts For Low Incom es Asked By AFL.
Recommends Relief For Workers With Incomes
 Less Than $3,OOO

WASHINGTON (LPA)-Tax re- lief for workers with incomes less than $3,000 should be emphasized in any tax program considered by the new Congress, the AFL Committee on Taxation said last week. The com mittee asked for adoption of exemp- tions of $1,500 for single persons, $2,5O0 for married couples and $500 for each dependent
 Elimination of wartime controls of prices and wages reemphasizes," de clared Chairman Matthew Woll, "the need for tax relief for the many thousands of Americans who are pay ing heavy taxes out of below-subsis- tence incomes" The committee em- phasized the need for eliminating war created agencies, bureaus and unneces- sary personnel in all government de partments as an immediate and neces- Sary economy measure.
 It pointed out, however, that while all unnecessary expenditures should be curtailed, 1t was essential that revenue to support all legitimate gov ernmental activities and necessary federal assistance. for federal health, welfare and educational programs should be provided.
The union times., 1946-11-23
Housing Agency
 Calls Session On Homes For Vets
Meet In New Haven Nov. 26-Building Trades Lo-
 calls To Attend

The Veterans Emergency Hous- ing program will be the subject of a statewide meeting to be held at the Hotel Carde, New Haven on Tuesday, Nov. 26, beginning at 9:3O A. M. The meeting has been called by New England Regional Office of the National Housing Agency, and all who have a direct interest in this emergency building program are invited. Plans for the meeting were made public today by George A. Joslyn, Assistant Labor Specialist, National usin g Agency.
 John Dobbs, Regional Expediter of the National Housing Agency, and his staff will attend the meeting. Govern ment. agencies concerned with the Veterans Emergency Housing Pro- gram will describe the program and problems as they exist today.
 All representatives of building trades unions and councils, mayors emergency housing committees, as well as their labor representatives ; contractors, area specialists, locality expediters, and apprentice training services, are invited.
 In letter sent out by Harry A. Russell, Regional Labor Specialist, it is pointed out that there will be ample discussion time
 ''During the war;" Russell says, Gin the state of Connecticut, the contractors, builders trades me- chanics, and the government agen- cies worked as a team in building the necessary plants and equipment and in the shortest time possible.
 We are now confronted with a near parallel situation, the Veterans Emergency Housing Program, mak- ing 1t necessary for us to meet again and put this program over the top"
 President Michael J. Barry and Secretary James O'Kane of the Connecticut State Building and Construction Trades Council today urged all building trades unions and councils to be represented at Tuesdays meeting.
The union times., 1946-11-23
Key To Boycott Of Franco Held By U.S., Britain
Organized Labor Move ments Of Both Countries
 Want Relations Severed

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y-(ALN) If the American and British dele gations to the United Nations take the same strong position against Franco Spain as do their labor movements, diplomatic and economic boycott of the Spanish government by the 51-nation general assembly meeting would be assured.
 Francois regime is already on the blacklist of IF of the United Ma tions, including five members of the powerful security council = Australia, China, Mexico, Poland and Russia. With France also com- mitted to break with the Spanish dictator, the support of the U. s. and Britain is all that is needed to whip up a LIN agreement out laying the last fascist stronghold in Europe.
 Until now, both the U. s. and Brit ish governments, while officially de- ploring Francois rule, have baked at any LIN action to overthrow him and British exports to Spain have doubled since the end of the war. However, the Labor party has been under in tense fire from the British Trades Union Congress for its coddling of the Spanish regime
 The British TUG, which provides the bulk of the Labor governments strength, angri1y brushed aside per sonal plea from Prime Minister Gle ment Attlee at its recent convention and voted 4 to 1 for an immediate rupture with Spain. If the British delegation still hedges on Franco dur ing the LIN assembly debate, the al ready critical attitude of British labor toward the governments foreign pol icy may lead to major blodup.
 In the U. S., the AFL has called for the overthrow of the Franco regime and contributed funds to help the underground Spanish unions in their fight for freedom.
 Should the LIN vote to boycott Francois government, competent ob- servers feel that he could not remain in power longer than six months and that his replacement by the exiled Spanish republican government headed by Premier Jose Giral would be as- sured.
The union times., 1946-11-23
City Workers Have Right To Negotiate

NEW YORK (FP)-There is no law in New York State to bar pub lie workers from their constitutional right to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choos- ing" according to a study made pub lie by the New York City chapter of the National Lawyers Guild.
 The Guilds findings throw new light on 'the disputes between cities and unions.
 Government units in New York State not only have the authority but the positive duty" to bargain collec- lively with workers representatives, the Guild investigators concluded from their survey.
 The right of public workers to or ganize and bargain collectively is not contained in state labor laws, they said, but derives directly from the state constitution.
The union times., 1946-11-23
Electrical Workers Win Two Elections
 At Manning Bowman

Meriden-Forced to cast a second vote, when the ManningBowman CO. protested a Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 6 vote victory in bargain ing election, employees of the company widened the margin of union victory by voting 178 to 166 in favor of the Brotherhood.
 The company's protest was made despite the fact that representatives of the State Labor Relations Board, the company and the union agreed on closed balloting
 Connecticut Federation of Labor Organizer Theodore DePao1o, and International Representative Richard N. Rogers of the IBEW, led the suc- cessful campaign at this plant which manufactures household and electrical appliances.
The union times., 1946-11-23
AFLHails Return
 eEcOnOmy Advises Caution
Hopes Prices Will Be Re duced To A More
 Reasonable Level

WASHINGTON (LPA) = The AFL welcomes ''return to a free economy Secretary Treasurer George Meany told the country in a nationwide radio broadcast this week.
 For more than a year our national economy has been propped up on crutches, making slow and painful headWay with rather uncertain asSiS- tance of government controls" he said.
 Crutches Gone
 "NoW the crutcheS have been thrown away, controls on wages and most prices have been removed, and our economy will have to learn to stand on its own feet.
 ''To some people this is a fright ening prospect Not so to the AFL. We welcome the return to a free economy. Our great fear was that government controls might be- come permanent. We have the ut- most confidence in our ability to stand on our own feet and make progress under our own pOwer.''
 Meany declared, however, that "it isn't going to be easy to learn how to walk all over again, especially at the beginning" but he predicted that the economy would soon Unit its stride"
 Meany rapped those corporations which slapped on price increases as soon as controls went off, but said most business showed re- straint."
 He warned, however, that If prices begin to break bounds all over the
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The union times., 1946-11-23
Unions To Shape Europe's Future
 Says AFLL Leader
Will Help In Reorganiza ton Of Countries Along
 Democratic Principles

WASHINGTON (LAP) - The key to Europe's future rests with its organized labor movement, Irving Brown, head of the AFL European office reported here last week after II months on the war stricken continent.
 He emphasized that the extent to which the trade union and po- litical labor movement is reorgan- ized and advances on democratic lines will determine in large meas ure which way Europe will go in the current battle between democ- racy and a new wave o1 tOtaIitarian- ism.
 Brown declared that nowhere can this great conflict between democracy and tota1itarianism be seen more readily and clearly than in the post war revived labor movement, which Communism still attempts to capture as the first and major prerequisite for eventual political and economic power in Europe"
The union times., 1946-11-23
As We See It
 by THE STAFF

THE night staff of the Miami (Fla.) Herald still is wondering what they should have told mid- night telephone caller who said: ''Hello! News room? Say, I ah, I have been drunk for the last three days. Is there anything of importance that has been going on l should know abOut?'
 IN our old Mother Goose days there used to be a rhymed riddle about smoke: "A house full, hole full, you can't catch a bowl full" These days it sounds more like description of campaign prom ises.
 THANKSGIVING THOUGHT: At least we have this to be grateful for we have our unions left to fight the enemy.
 Ask Barney Cilbride, B.A. of Lo- cal B-9O, New Haven Electricians, how he likes bears. Barney and group of friends, all members of Carpenters, No. 79, have just come back from hunting trip in Maine. The expedition was highly success ful-they got four bucks and three does-but-they had tough luck with the bucks. Bears got to them (the bucks, not the expedition) while they were hanging from a tree, and pulled out the choicest cuts s-tenderloins, etc. Smart bears they have in Maine, Barney says. Andy Sacco, Ray and Rocco Sasso, Tony Barrill, and John TessidOre were among those who made the trip.
 SOMEONE, no doubt, was wool gathering when copy for a Sears ad in the Baton Rouge (La.) State Times was prepared:
 Extra Long Length
 Part Wool Blanket
 IOO% Wool $lO.5O
 Among labor representatives who took part in the Conn. Conference of Social Work in Bridgeport last week were Larry O'ToOle, Leo Dunn, Joe Cleary and Frank Reg nery of Bridgeport; and Dick Buckley and Nate Sherman of New Haven.
 It's time for tenants to raise the roof before the landlords raise the ceiling-PM.
 A promise to support activities against racial discrimination was made by Labor Secretary Lewis Schwellenbach in a talk given be- fore the eleventh annual convention of the National Council of Negro Women last week. Referring to the abolition of discriminatory prac- tices in the District of Columbia offices of the United States Elm
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The union times., 1946-11-23
She Who Has
 The Last Laugh

There's a lesson for labor in the award of half the Nobel peace prize for l946 to Emily Greene Balch of Wellesley, 79, honorary president of the Wom- ems International League for Peace and Freedom.
 She took part in the early bat ties of the AFL and was one of the founders of the Women's Trade Union League. The late Jane Addams of Chicago was her close friend in settlement house work. Long a friend to political refugees she is a pacifist who, early. in the 3O's perceived that fascism was ''an evil force abroad that had to be met by force.''
 And just to show that congress sional probes don't change much, the Nobel peace prize award to Miss Balch turned the last laugh on a Senate commit tee which in 1919 had listed her among 62 men and women named by the Military Intelli- gence Bureau as holding ''radi- cal and pacifist views"
The union times., 1946-11-23
District 50 Faces
 AFL Southern Drive

Atlanta (LPA) = The AFL's southern drive has intensified its or ganizing work and is rolling up vic tories in more than 30 different fields of work and occupations, Drive Direc- tor George L. Googe disclosed this week.
 District 50 of the United Mine Workers recorded its greatest south ern drive victory last week when it defeated the CIO and an independent union at the big DuPont deNemours plant at Belle, w. Va. This unit com prises about 3700 employees.
 Savannah now has five organi-a- tions of municipal employees with POGO members. They include a police and fremen's union, two locals of Public Works Dept employees, and q school employees union. All except the fire men, who are chartered by the IntI Fire Fighters, are affiliated with the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees.
The union times., 1946-11-23
COP WorkersVote
 To Join Federation

NEW YORK (FP) - Kitchen workers at the exclusive National Re publican Club here, who had been forced to sign yellow dog contracts, voted 2 to 1 for Local 6, Hotel & Restaurant Employees International Alliance (AFL), in state labor re- lations board election Noy 15
 The vote followed disclosure that the COP hangout had forced a ma jority of its 65 employees to sign pledges not to join the union.
 A complaint by Local 6 that this was a violation of the state labor re- lations act and adverse publicity forced the club to abandon the yellow dog contracts. The club made amends by posting notice affirming the legal right of its employees to join the union of their choice and to bargain col1ec- lively with the employer. Another notice was posted stating that the club has discontinued and will dis continue" its former practice of re- quiring employees to sign the anti union pledge The collective bargain ing election victory followed.
The union times., 1946-11-23
Machinists Beat
 CLIO. In Chicago

CHICAGO.-By a landslide major ity of 100 to l2, the Machinists this week defeated the United Equipment Workers, C. I. O., in National La bor Relations Board election at the Oliver Corporation, South Bend Ind.
 Victories at four other midwest plants were announced by I. A. M. officials here. At the A. o. Smith Corporation, Milwaukee, the union won by a 726 to 69 in the machinists unit; at Sanitary Sales Company Bel videre, H., by 59 to 20, and at the Seng Company, Chicago, by IS to ?, among tool room employees and the machinists swamped a C. I. O.. union at the Seng plant.
The union times., 1946-11-23
Wages Limited By Arbitrator

Many union contracts contain a reopening clause as to wages effective usually after change in the cost of living index. An arbitrator has just held (Par- Metal Products) that the union with such clause in its con tract can get an increase equal only to the increase in the cost of living.
 The weakness of the arbitrator $ position under present conditions is that since the cost of living is con- tinually rising, parties will be con tinuous1y negotiating.
The union times., 1946-11-23

Vincent J. McGovern, President, New Haven Central Labor Council 139 Goffe Street
 New Haven, Connecticut
 Dear Sir:
 Permit me to congratulate you and your fellow officials of the local labor Councils for your outspoken criticism of the "phony" organization known as the National Home and Property Owners Foundation. The writer at tended the meeting but left after hear ing about two hours worth of the propaganda. I figure that with such a top-heavy title, the organization would topple over of its own weight
 This sO-caIled Foundation" is merely another off-shOOt of the National Association of Real Estate Boards =, s'Realtors'' = and is for the sole purpose of pressuring Congress to lift the Rent Controls, and nothing else. The ''Realtors" have many sub-agencies under the title of Associated Brokers, etc., but they will undoubtedly enroll mill lion suckers under the N. H. & P. o. F., which at ''not less than $2.OO each'' would give them a potent ''Lobby'' or ''slush'' fund to obtain their desires.
 ''Eorgotten Man"
 It is rather ironic that these self advertised guardians of the owners rights and incomes should forget the welfare of tho 30 million tenants and potential customers for new homes, but are SO engrossed in the battle to throw those same 30 million rent-pay- CTS to the ''wolves" just to appease their hungry desire for more Real Es- tate sales from increased revenues due to the abolishment of Rent Control Every possible group is represented today at Washington but the fellow who pays the rent, and that is the real forgotten man" if there ever was one.
 Protect Rent-Payers
 Organizations like yours can do a lot to protect the rent-payers until such time that there no longer ex- ists a shortage of homes, and don't forget that 5O9o of the present owners of property at least would take full advantage of the end of Rent Con- tro1,-and how. There would be apt to be riots even, and perhaps that is what the pious fnaglers want
 Don't forget that under the pre- sent Rent Control every landlord or owner of residential property has the right to increase the rent by showing and proving that his pre- sent income is creating a hardship upon him. The owners of commer- cial property, which constitutes a large majority of the Real Estate wealth of the Nation, have no re- strictions, ceilings, or regulations outside of their own consciences, SO they need no N. H. & P. O. F. to keep the witches from under their beds. Keep up the good fight.
 Yours very truly,
 CONN. REAL ESTATE LEAGUE
 By:-Harry W. Cyphers. 83l Chapel St.
 New Haven, Conn.
The union times., 1946-11-23
LABOR CAN HELP

LABOR CAN HELP
 As has been the case in the last few years, organized labor was rep- resented at the Conference. and took an active part in these discussions. In the main. the labor representatives we&o concerned with helping social work broaden its base, so that the man in the street would be able to feel that the agencies belong to all the peo- pie. Several representatives point ed out that a large section of the population believes that the chief function of the private agencies is to hand out dOllar-and-cents char ity, and is unaware of the many services the agencies offer.
 This point was considered in some detail at the sessions on public re- lations, industrial forces and social progress, and personnel policies and practices. At these sessions, there was general agreement that in social work, the public, as whole, has the inn preSsion that a small number of people at the top make decisions for a large number of people at the bottom, and that the chief role of the average citi- zen is to give. To this attitude was aScribed, in part at least, the difficult ties that some Community Chests have in completing their campaign quotas.
 Suggestions
 Several suggestions were made at the various sessOns to help cor rect this attitude. Some recom- mended that boards of directors of Community Chests and their mem Der agencies should be made rep resentative of all sections of the community. They would represent not only organized labor and man. agement, but also consumer CO., operatives, councils of social agen- cies, nationality groups, religious bodies, Negro organizations, and other representative groups.
 The belief was also expressed that social work could broaden its base by joining the community in its attempts to remove the causes of economic mal- adjustment. It was felt that social work has not been able to make its maximum contribution because the public believes its policies are estab- lished by boards made up of men and women in the upper economic brack- cts, many of whom have opposed, or have taken no active part in, the public's campaign for social security laws, minimum wages, loW-cost public housing, health insurance, and more adequate old age assistance legislation.
 Responsibility of All
 All speakers and discussants paid tribute to the contributions made by social work, and agreed that the of these contributions, the casewOrk services, beyond those in the lowest ecOnOm- ic brackets was a community re- spOnsibility, and not the respOnsi- bility of any one group.
 The labor representatives recog- nized that progress was being made in this difficult field. They expressed the hope that social workers, having expert knowledge of the effects of economic and emotional maladjust- ment, would join other citizens in their attempts to reduce the causes of insecurity. It was suggested that all boards of directors pass formal vote notifying their staff members that they are free to engage in any type of community activity in which other American citizens participate.
 Many Problems
 The sessions on public relations,
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The union times., 1946-11-23
Longest Strike

SAN FRANCISCO LPA)-The longest strike in California's history last week entered its 18th week. The Redwood District Council of the AFL Carpenters, with 5000 members, went on strike in January for a $1.20 an hour minimum wage and a union shop.
The union times., 1946-11-23
Labor Praises It's Fine Contributions
Conn., Conference Tacking Many Immediate Problems Hears Proposals To Further Democratize Boards And Practices Of Community Chests And Member Agencies Asked To FamiIiarize
 Itself With Community Services

Basic problems related making possible for social agencies to make their maximum contribution to the health and welfare of her communities were among the subjects discussed the 36 annual meeting of the Connecticut Conference of Social Work held last Thursday and Friday in Bridgeport
The union times., 1946-11-23
Social Work Urged To Broaden Its Bas
Praises Expose Of. "Home Owners"
Reader Says Home And Property Owners Foundation Organized For Sole Purpose Of Pressuring Con-
 gress To Lift Rent Controls" Praises Labor

The following letter. based statement issued last week by Vincent Mcovern president of the New Haven Central Labor Council Saul Krea president of the New Haven Building Trades Council and James OKane secretary of the Connc State Building and Construction Trades Council sfexpan
The union times., 1946-11-23

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The union times., 1946-11-23

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The union times., 1946-11-23

''These are exciting and dangerous times. If the months ahead usher in period of inactiOn or reaction, if we again put profits above people, we will leopard ize the very structure of our free society. If we write a social contract which viO- lates the moral code or endangers the economic balance, we shall invite disaster r.''-President Harry s. Truman.
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-04-12
Section (.
DISTRICTS

(a) For the purpose OF this ordi-
nance. the Town OF Coolidge IL
hereby divided into:
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-04-12
Ina Reed Hostess
For Party On 11th
Birthday Monday

Ina Reed was honored on her
eleventh By her parents. Mr. and
Mrs Charles Reed. with a party at
Coolidge Womans Club Monday
afternoon from 30 TO s O'Clock.
Guests included Ina's fifth grade
classmates. Fifth Grade Girl Scouts
and several fellow students from
her class last year. approximately
40 boys and girls were present
The children were organized into
five groups for a scayenger hunt
The teams were captained by
Penny Dawson. Ray Thompson. Ro-
bert Cullins. Bill Truman and
Richard Trip. The teams. cap
tanned BY Bin. Richard. and Penny.
tied by fulfilling an equal number
OF achievements on their lists. and
had 10 draw for first prize. which
was won by Richards team.
Favors were pop guns. musical
sQuawkers. and paper hats. Mrs.
W C. Truman OF Florence and
Mrs. Norman Freeman assiste
Mrs. Reed with the serving.