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The union times., 1946-05-11
Save O.P.A.', Nation Tells Congress
Apprentice Action By Building Trades
Conn. Council Seeks To Protect Veterans From Being Used As Cheap Labor Joslyn, O'Kane
 Named To Act As State Committee

The executive board of the Con- necticut State Building and Con- structiOn Trades Council, at its regular monthly meeting Wednes- day in New Haven, devoted most of its three-hour session to con- sideration of the problem of pro- tecting veterans who are interested in becoming apprentices in the building construction industry.
 The building trades unions, it was pointed out, have themselves taken almost as many veteran ap- prentices as the rest of the state put together. With open shop and fly-by-night ''contractors" trying to obtain cheap labor by loading up with apprentices who will not be protected. the executive board decided to name a standing com mittee to deal with all apprentice training programs within the juris- diction of the building trades.
 This committee consists of Geo. SabO, Waterbury Electricians 1; George JosIyn, Meriden Sheet Metal Workers; and James O'Kane, New Haven Iron Workers, and sec- retary-treasurer of the Conn Build ing Trades Council. The committee has already held its first meeting.
 MAINTAINS STANDARDS
 The Board went further, and ut1- animously passed resolution which will be presented to the Connecticut State Apprenticeship Council. The purpose of the resolution is to pro- tect veterans by seeing to it that the high standards of the building trades unions and of union contractors are applied on all apprenticeship pro- grams. Following is the text of the resolution:
 WHEREAS, Labor and Man. agement acting jointly in the var ious areas comprising the State of Connecticut, have established Standards of Apprenticeship in the several trades which make up the Building and Construction Indus try, and
 WHEREAS, the standards es-
 
 tabIished in these areas have been approved by the State Apprentice ship Council and conform with the requirements of the said Council, and
 WHEREAS, the establishment of standards at variance with those all ready established and functioning in an area would trend to create chaotic conditions and be detrimental to the industry and proper training of ap- prentices
 ssBE IT RESOLVED,
 I. That all apprentices to be em- ployed in the~ConstructiOn indus try in areas where standards have been adopted and registered with the State Apprenticeship Council,
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The union times., 1946-05-11
Record Deluge Of Mail, Wires Swamp Capitol
Vets, Housewives, Organ ized Labor Clanor For
 Holding Line

WASHINGTON (LPA) = One of the greatest outpourings of public feeling in U. s. history reached its height on Capitol Hill this week, as the Senate came closer to hearing a report from its Banking & Currency Commit tee on extension of the Price Control Act.
 The Capitol Post office was deI- uged with mail, and the Western Union office was overwhelmed by the flood of messages, the vast ma- jOrity of which favored extension of OPA without the crippIing amendments lacked onto the bill by the House.
 Veterans of them from Wal ter Reed Hospital here-and house wives joined forces informally as they toured Congressional offices during the week, and the anti-infation action reached its peak on Saturday, when thousands of people attended a Save OPA" rally on the Washington Mon ument grounds, to hear representa- tives of the American Veterans Com mittee and of the New Council of American Business urge extension. of OPA intact. Both CIO and AFL gave their support to the veterans rally.
 Hearings Ending
 Meanwhile, the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, which has heard extensively from OPA critics-indus- try by industry-as well as from sup porters of price control, hopes to wind up hearings and begin executive ses- sions on the bill this week.
 Caroline F. Ware led off the weeks testimony, speaking for g national or ganizationS with more than 15,000,- 900 members, urging rejection of "a1l the crippling amendments by which the House wrecked the price control bill" She pointed out that the or ganizations backing up her testimony "are representative of the great mass of the American people millions of parents and teachers, urban families from settlement house neighborhoods, rural families and farm home econom- ic leaders, housewives and working women from all economic levels, from every type of community, from north and south, east and west, and from every racial and religious group, vet erans' wives, community leaders or oanized for S0cia1 action in fine inter ests of all the people.
The union times., 1946-05-11
Procedure Given For Selection Of Unit
Union Bargains For All Workers Under State,
 National Acts
By WILLIAM s. GORDON, JR.
 A. F. of L. Attorney

(ED1roR's NorE: This IS the fourth of series of fve articles on the Con- necticnt Labor Relations Act pre- pared at onr request by Attorney WilItGn s. Gordon, Jr., Of HGrtfcrd, Ne10 England Resident Counsel for Joseph 4. Pad90ay, General Counsel, American Federation of Labor.)
 One of the basic provisions of the State Labor Relations Act is that making it an unfair labor practice for an employer to refuse to bargain collectively with the re- presentatives of a majority of his employees in an appropriate unit.
 The Act provides that representa- tives of majority of the employees in a given unit shall be the exclusive representatives of all the workers in that unit for bargaining on wages, hours and working conditions. Thus, if we assume unit of 100 production and maintenance workers, a union which has been selected by 51 or more of such workers has the right to bar gain for the entire 100.
 Board Determines
 Where there is question as to the unions majority, or where two or more unions each claim to represent a majority, or where there is dis pute as to what is the appropriate unit = 1t is the Labor Relations Boards job to cause an investigation and to determine the matter. Any per son or labor organization may place such question before the Board by the filing of a petition An employer, however, may file petition only when two or more labor organizations are involved This prec1udes employ CTS from filing a petition at the be- ginning of an organization campaign, before the union is in position to make good showing.
 The Boards first task is to deter mine the unit appropriate for col lective bargaining. When a union
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The union times., 1946-05-11
AFL Backs OPA

WASHINGTON (LPA) = The full weight of the 100000 men and women who make up the American Federation of Labor, and their im- mediate families-representing almost one-ffth of the country's population has been thrown back of OPA ex- tension. AFL President William Green led off the weeks testimony on extension of the Price Control Act before the Senate Banking and Cur rency Committee.
 ''The AFL firmly supports the extension of the Price Control Act for one full year beyond June 30, without any weakening amend ments," Green asserted. ''This sup port is voiced not by a small group of people guided by any special or sectional interest. The membership of the AFL comprises 100000 working men and women. TOgeth- CT with their immediate families, they express the views of 25 mill lion, or almost One-fifth of this cOuntry's population. Their income is the result of their labor. Their postwar future hinges on the Con- gressiOnal action to extend price control.
 Some of the amendments the House adopted fly in the preponderant evil dence accumulated by its own Bank ing and Currency Committee and di- rectly contravene the findings of that Committee. All of the amendments adopted by the House are in opposi- ton to the view and will of the vast majority of Americans.
 ''I plead with the Senate to re- ject these amendments promptly and unhesitantly.
 The plain fact is that the pur- pose of every one of these amend ments is to do no more or less than to torpedo price control and to breach a wide and inviting gap to further imitation. It is as simple as all that.
 "The charge that OPA has been holding back production" which has been made by almost all industry op- ponents, is, Green said, simply not true" He cited the Federal Reserve Board index of industrial production which shows that industry is produc- ing half again as much as 1t did in the period just before the war.
The union times., 1946-05-11

telephone operators.
 Helped by C. L. C.
 These concessions by the Police Board come after long campaign by Local No. 53O, aided by the New Haven Central Labor Council. Help was given in the early stages of organizing the union, in the adoption of the ordinance which protects municipal workers in their right to organize, and in having the provisions of the ordinance put into practice.
 According to Chief of Police Henry P. Clark, the actions of the Board will be put into effect "as soon as it is possible and in keeping with de- partmental requirements.
 John J. Doyle, president of Police Local No. 530, made the following statement in commenting upon the Boards vote:
 eve are happy these changes in working conditions have been adopted by the Police Department. After negotiations between the Chief and the Labor Relations Committee and Mayor Celentano. Police Local 53O of the A.F.L. feels its work for improved working conditions has been carried out partly. We will continue our efforts to further improve conditions with. in the department.
 ''We feel these changes were brought by an enlightened labor re. lations policy and through cooper. ation of Mayor Celentano, Chief Clark and the Honorable Board of Police Commissioners and the re. suit of the negotiations carried on by Police Local 53O of the Ameri. can Federation of Labor"
The union times., 1946-05-11
Conn, Employees
 Retain Feirn1drk

Harold V. Feinmark, who represents a number of unions as business manager, including New Haven Firemen's Union No. BPS, has been appointed to represent Conn. Council No. 16, American Federation of State, County and Municipal En- plOyees at the special session of the General Assembly, now being held.
 A wage increase for state em- plOyees, long overdue, is on the agenda of the special session. Announcement of Feinmark's appointment was made by George w. Thorpe, president of Conn. Council 16.
The union times., 1946-05-11
Dr. Stephen Wise On Conn. Forum Of Air


 Rabbi Stephen M. Wise, one of this country's leading clergymen, will appear on the Connecticut Forum of the Air to be held Saturday, May Ii at PM. The subject to be, debated is Should Palestine Become a Jewish State" Speaking with Rabbi Wise will be Rabbi Myer s. Kripke of New London. Speaking against the Jewish state will be Lieut.. Col. John Russell ot Old Lyme, and John Hansea of Lakeville.
 The program, which is directed by Ralph Della Selva, will be heard on Stations WICC. Bridgeport; WONS, Hartford; WNLC, New London; and WNHC, New Haven.
The union times., 1946-05-11
House Cuts Funds
 For Trust Busting

WASHINGTON CPD = The House May } defeated 65-26 an ap- propriation bill amendment which would have restored the $200,000 cut in Justice Dept Anti Trust Division funds
 Rep. Jerry Voorhis CD, Cal.) urged the amendment, saying it would all low prosecution of monopolies deal ing with Japanese and German car tels before and during the war. Op- position to the Voorhis amendment was led by Rep. Louis Rabaut CD, Mich on economy grounds.
The union times., 1946-05-11
Labor Men Probe Cartels

NEW YORK OPA)-Two labor officials, Marion Hedges, research di- rector for the Int'1 Brotherhood of Electrical Workers-AFL, and J. Raymond Walsh, chairman of the New York Citizens Political Action Committee, were named last week to a special committee to supervise an investigation of carte1s in information al trade
The union times., 1946-05-11

SEC. OF COMMERCE Wallace has just been added to the list of subversives kept by the Wood-Ran- kin un-American committee. Very inefficient. They could have nab bed him when he was Vice-Presi- dent.
 LIVING costs are continuing to march upward. The Department of Labor this week reported that its consumers price index," which measures the rise in costs of many commodities, has risen to 3O.2 per cent above pre-war levels.
 However, the Department con- ceded the index doesn't reflect the full climb in costs, since such things as deterioration in quality of goods and disappearance of low cost merchandise from store shelves aren't adequately shown in the index. The latter factors would add another 3 to 4 per cent, mak- ing the total Officially-recorded ad- vance 35 per cent, the report ex- plained.
 Labor research experts contend that even the B per cent figure grossly understates the true hike in living costs. Their own studies, they said, show the rise has been close to 50 per cent. Many items which have skyrOcketed in costs
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The union times., 1946-05-11
Take-Home Pay Is Low Despite Hikes

Even though unions have won wide spread increases in wage rates recent ly, weekly earnings of workers in manufacturing as whole are still far less than year ago, the Depart ment of Labor revealed this week.
 Hourly rates in March, rose to an average of $103 in manufacturing, but weekly "take-home" pay was IA per cent below last year, largely because of drastic cuts in the work-week and downgrading of workers to 1ower-paid jobs.
 In durable goods industries those which concentrated during the war on munitions-the decline was greater. Weekly earnings in those industries averaged 191z per cent less than year ago.
The union times., 1946-05-11
Workers Pay Hike Benefits Farmers

CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. = Farmers have a vital stake in high wages for workers because the latter are the best customers" of agricul- ture. So declared President K. w. Hones of the Wisconsin Farmers Union in an address to a farm lly here. Homes warned farmers not to fall for the "multi-million-dollar" propaganda campaign of Big Business against labor.
The union times., 1946-05-11
N. HI. Police Union Wins Concessions
Commissioners Vote Two-Week Vacations And Sick Leave; 40 Hour Week For Women Telephone
 Operators rs-No. 53O Helped By Labor

Members of the New Haven Central Labor Council this week extending congratulations Police Local Mo- 53O the improvement in their conditions just obtained from the Board of Police Commissioners.
 The Board voted to grant the police vacation with and Is days sick leave year, with accumulated total of 90 days Permission for outside work of 20 hours was granted and the board also granted 4Ohour week for
The union times., 1946-05-11
Lithographers Out

WASHINGTON CPD . The Amalgamated Lithographers of Am erica have became a formal affiliate of the CIO as Sec. Treas. James B. Carey notified Pres. William ]. Riehl of the Photographers that his appli- cation for afiliation had been ap- proved.
The union times., 1946-05-11
CouncilEndorses Wage Increases
 ToState Workers
New Haven C.L.C. Also To Support Housing Aid
 For Veterans

The New Haven Central Labor Council, meeting Thursday, heard an appeal from Harold V. Fein- mark, business agent of Local 825, New Haven Firemen's Union, urg- ing all members of organized labor and the general public to get in touch with their state representa- lives and senators and request them to vote funds for a substan- tial increase for state employees. This matter is on the agenda of the special session of the Legisla- ture, which opened in Hartford Tuesday.
 Feinmark pointed out that there are now 2,30O state employees who are members of A.F.L. unions largely the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees.
 ''The state workers are entitled to decent raise, and should not be asked to take peanuts Fein- mark said. He pointed out that the various cities are watching to see what the General Assembly will do about raises, and will determine their policy about increases for municipal employees largely in the light of what the Legislature does. He asked that all delegates contact their state representative and sena- tors, and inform them of these facts.
 RELIGION AND LABOR
 A supper meeting called by the Re ligion and Labor Foundation to dis cuss joint action by progressive groups in the field of legislation was endorsed by the Council, which auth orized President Vincent J. McGov- ern to represent the Council, and voted $10 toward the general work of the Foundation.
 Full support of the recommends. tions of the Citizens Housing Com mission to build homes for New Haven veterans was voted by the delegates. President McCovern ap' pointed Bernard Cilbride, Electri. clans; John A. Johnson, Carpen. ters; Harold V. Feinmark, Hotel & Restaurant Employees; Saul Kreas Painters; and Nathan Sherman The Union Times, to represent the Council at the hearing held Wed. nesday night on emergency hous- ing for veterans. The action came after the general plan was pre- scented by Joseph M. Rourke, Flee tricians Union, who is chairman oi
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The union times., 1946-05-11
Very Much Alive

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (FP) = AFL embalmers, dismissed for join ing the union, are picketing funeral home here.
The union times., 1946-05-11
As We See It
 by THE STAFF

JIM BRONLOW, the secretary treasurer of the Metal Trades De- partment of the A.F.L., in case you don't know, is from our own town of Naugatuck. Jim is a plumber and steamftter, and has been a member of the War Labor Board and secretary-treasurer of the Col OradO Federation of Labor.
The union times., 1946-05-11

OUR warmest congratulations to New Haven Local 6, Bricklayers, MasOns, and Plasters Union, upon its splendid banquet and dance last Saturday night in honor of the Locals 30 men who served in the armed forces. The affair was one of the best of the kind we've at. tended.
The union times., 1946-05-11

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-26
pNA CARRIES B PASSENGERS ON
 WEEKEND TRIPS

On trips to and from this city, Pacific Northern Airlines this week end flew the following passengers
 From Anchorage, Edward Locker, Lucille Locker, Jean Lash and child Carole Lash, Jack Began, Thomas Began. Donald Chevey, AL bert Birch, John P Byrne, Eugene Rehfeld. George Hiddleston.
 To Cordova, William Trager, Katherine Trager to Anchorage, Margaret Churchill.
 From Anchorage, Oren Tolliver, G. H. Gissberg, H w. Startling, Ro- bert Saulness, Albert Hutchinson, Gerald M Olson, Basil Kerr, Will liam Price, Richard Hill, William Newcomb, and Bill Nelson.
 To Yakutat: Charles Johnson; to Anchorage, Margaret Baranovich, Gay c. Morrow; to Kodiak, Sister St. Michael, Mother St. Bernard.
 Flying the two sections were Captain Matty Springer. First Of- ficer Jack Dean, Stewardess Louise Leitner; Captain Robert Des Mar ias, First Officer Joe McCracken, Stewardess Beverly Murphy.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-26
ITS NEW IUpINO
 ih CURRENT FILM
 AT 2OTH CENTURY

It is a new Ida Lupino who cayorts across the silved screen in Warner Bros latest comedy TO- nance, Pillow To Post" currently at the 20th Century Theatre Co., starred with sydney Greenstreet and William Prince, the new Ida is just as welcome as the old but in an entirely different sort of way. Fer lovely Ida Lupino has turned from dramatic roles to light com edy. She is not at all in the mood of The Sea Wolf" "The Hard Way" or Tn Our Time" She is gay, fun-loving and plenty goofy-all in a wonderful lovable way.
 The film also marks a distinct de- parture in characterization for both William Prince, most recently seen in the dramatic role of It. Jacobs on Objective, Burma" and Sydney Grsensteet, widely acknowledged as an ace screen menace.
 Featuring Stuart Erwin, Ruth Donneily, Johnny Mitchell and Lcuis Armstrong and His Orchestra in supporting roles, Pillow To Post" is the hilarious story of a cute travelling saleswoman Ida Lu- pino) and of her eyebrow lifting but entirely innocent adventure in a soldier packed army town.
 Directed by Vincent Sherman and produced by Alex Gottlieb Follow To Post" was photograph cd by Thomas Job, AS.C. The film was scriptcd by Charle Hoff- man and was adapted for the screen from the successful stage play by Rose Simon Kohn.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-26
EX SUPREME COURT JUDGE
 DEAD AT 84
Justice MlReynoIds Passes Unexpectedly : Was
 New Deal Dissenter

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.-James Clark McReynolds, who topped all his Supreme Court colleagues in dissenting to New Deal laws, is dead.
 The 84year old retired Associate Justice died at Walter Reed Army Hospital Saturday night He had been ill a year
 The body will be taken to Elk ton, Ky, for funeral services on Thursday.
 MoReynolds stepped down from the court on Feb. l, l94l, after 2G years on the bench - the last eight of them marked by fiery denuncia- tions of legislation pushed through Congress by the Roosevelt admin istration.
 A Democrat himself he served as Attorney General under Wood row Wilson McReynolds never theless voted against every major New Deal measure and nearly all minor ones that reached the high court.
 His death leaves only two mem bers of the court which President Roosevelt said was made up of nine old men" living in horse and buggy days" They are Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts, beth retired.
 McReynolds' death came unex- pectedly. He entered the hospital August 2, but apparent improve ment in his condition led his brother. Dr. Robert P McReynolds to leave for his Los Angeles home Friday. That day, however, the retired Justice developed signs of pneumonia and a failing heart.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-26
ENGAGEMENT
 DISCLOSED BY
 POPULAR PAIR

The engagement or ,one of the Channels popular young couples, Miss Mary Margaret Vending and Glen J. Kirkham, was announced today by the parents of the bride elect, MT and Mrs. Herbert Wend- ling.
 Miss Vending graduated from the Juneau High school as mem Der of the class of 1946. Following her graduation she was employed by the Office of Indian Affairs but recently resigned in view of a forthcoming trip to the States with her parents.
 The son of MT. Glen A. Kirkham and the grandson of MT. and Mrs J. O. Kirkham, oldtime residents of Douglas, MT Kirkham graduated from Douglas High school in 1942 Following his graduation th c groom -to-be spent three years in the Army, serving part of the time in India. At present he is an em- ployee of the Yellow Cab Company in Juneau
 A wedding date in March is the present plan.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-26

federal authority in this fashion he considered a positive danger. He held that it was the forermner of centralization, that centralization meant power and power. in turn. meant restriction of the liberties of those over whom it was exercised.
 Own Personal Right Ignored
 In decision which he delivered June 4, 1923, in the case of Meyer vs. Nebraska, he upheld the right of parents to direct the education of their children under the fourteenth, or reconstruction" amendment of 1868, and he defined liberty as meaning not merely freedom from restraint, but also the right of the individual to contract, to engage in any of the common occupations Of life, to acquire useful knowledge, Ito marry, to establish home and bring up children. to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience, and generally to enjoy those privileges long recognized in common law as essentials to the or derly pursuit of happiness by free men.
 Of these fundamentals, the right ito marry. establish a home and bring up children" McReynolds did not choose to exercise for himself. He maintained a bachelor estab- lishment, well-manned with ser wants, in Washington apartment house. Golf, duck hunting and driving an automobile were his chief recreations. He liked to spend his vacations abroad.
 He was born at Elkton, Ky Feb ruary 3, 1862, the son of a physi- elan and the descendant of colon ial Scotch Irish forebears. He was graduated with a BS. degree from Vanderbilt University in 1882 and two years later completed the law course at the University of Virginia.
 After brief service as secre- tary to Howell E. Jackson, then senator from Tennessee and later a justice of the supreme court, Mo- Reynolds hung out his shingle at