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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-30
Purple Knights
To Meet ScoUiLLS

Naugatuck, Jan. 30 - Having
won its first game of this week,
54-47 last night at Terryville, where
400 fans took in the contest az
ranged for the Infantile Paralysis
Fund, the borough's Purple Knights
were awaiting the Scovin E. r. A.
club Of the Waterbury I. r. A.
league. Friday night when the
Knights and SERA boys viii meet
on the ~" court; Naugatuck
Zephyrs to meet the Middletown
Speedboys in a state league game
the same evening.
Last night, Korowotny, Swirski
and Furs scored l7-l3-12 points
against the strong Terryville st.
Casimir array; whose Krulich got
Is points, Chizinski and Dubarski
scoring IL each.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-30


nlctuXN4a9 EIonM0
New Anxleo 81 tfe tS1HE M
Vey Girls nIfeFk UIlI|HIIE0
fhn dramatic comic AN6
dance talents q ! 0tT.Ht
talent headed b. Judy Garland
Including John Kodak. ire
fooled Ray Bolsef. Angela
bury. Preston Foster, Nfl
O'Bfien, Kenny Baker, N4If
Main ana chm wills,
Miss Garland Is cast as Susan
Bradley, on her way 10 GaN0fetA
tough New Mexico pioneer town, 81
marry n 4. nartsey Chill WINS,
a cowboy 10 whom she has become
betrothed unseen as the result %
his sympathetic correspondence.
Discovering his letters were 4 hoax
perpetrated b. Ned Trent John
nodiakD, proprietor Of the AiiAna-
bra gambling han, Susan joins
forces with q group OF witnesses who
are helping 10 open new Harvey
restaurant.
The battle between Law and order
IN Sandrock, as represented By tie
Harveys and the santa re Railroad,
and gambling and crooked rale IS
represented BY the dance hall crowd
resolves itself into a personal feud
between Susan and En- angela
Iansbury), queen OF the Alhambras
over the love OF Trent, with susan
coming out triumphant IN the end,
even though she has 10 resort 70
brace OF six-shooters to win her
man.
Johnny Mercer and Harry War
rem have given the picture a rich
musical score replete with hit tunes
divided between the talents Of Miss
Garland, Miss 1ansbury. Miss
oBrien and Cyd Charlse. It AL
adds tup to outstanding entertain-
ment.
Selected short subjects and lates
movietone news complete the bill.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-30
Punch to Chest
Costs Decision

Salem. Mas, Jan. 3o-(UP)- Be
cause he is such a hard puncher
featherweight Teddy Swain OF Tor
onto had a loss added to his ring
record today.
Swain, rs, thres: q long hard
right 10 the chest of Tommy Greb
i2S. Of Boston at the North street
arena last night and then dropped
to the floor with a disclocated shoul-
der. Greb was declared the WHINE,
because Swain could not continue.
In preliminaries: Herb Colby. 100
Beverly stopped Eddie De Marco
1875. Fall River %: Al BarboSo, l55
Boston decisioned Al Pinel. l5s, New
Bedford 90; Colby Benson, 1888
Gloucester deciSioned Tommy Shell
don, 1876, Saugus "a; Benny Thomas
i6l. Boston knocked out Phil Moo
ney, i65, Nova Scotia 80.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-30
STRAND

The story Of the pretty mattresses
imported West by Fred Harvey and
his now famous eating houses" has
been made into a completely capti-
waiting musicals in M-G-Ms The
Harvey Girls" which opened today
on the Strand screen.
Filmed in Technicolor against the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-30
sUNsPOTs AND WAR

After comparing sunspot records
with the history OF the world. a
French astronomer came to the
conclusion that wars come when
81 pots are at their maximum
and that peace is most common
when they are at their minimum.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-30
'Y Games Tonight

The Young Mfns bhsktIDuH
League at the Central X. M. 9. A.
win play two games tonight start
ing at $50 with Globe TrOtters vs.
Central IA and $3.50. Delphi VS.
John Thomas. The Chi Omeerons
received q bye for the week.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-30

New York Park Arena)-(UP)
Warren Carrera. 1886 Puerto Rico
outpointed Eddie Murphy, i4i,
Fordham, N. Y, 80.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-30

Hartford, Conn.-Victor Flores
1871. Mexico, decisioned Dennis CPaD
Brady, 1870, Bronx. go; Frank Vig-
cant, l4l, Waterbury, outpointeo
Jimmy Green, las, New York, 90;
Don Fiantini, 100. New YORK.
stopped Henry Brieerre, ISL, Put
nam, 20; Ray Laurie. las. Hart
ford, decisioned Larry whitney
i4s, New York. 90; Joe Schultz
1856, New Britain. knocked out Tony
Mande, 1871, Worcester. Mass, % /;
and Ray Macarthur. i42. Hartford,
decisioned Phil Ireland, 1873. Middle
town. "a.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-30

Tampa, Fla.-(UP)-Tommy Co
mez. 1856. Tampa. stopped big Boy
Moroz. 202. Philadelphia, 90.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-30
Nv United Press

Jersey City, n. J.-tUPD-Danny
Martin, l56, Newark, N. j., outpoint-
ed Johnny Ryan, 1855 la, Detroit
(i0).
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-30

New York broadway ARENA
CUP) Phil Palmer, lat l-2. VAN
couyer, B. c., outpointed RUDY
Campo, l46, San Fernando Valley
Calf. 90.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-08
JAW Heads Accuse
Radio SfQfionS

DETROIT, Feb. 6-R. j. Tho
mas, President of the -CIO,
and Arnold Atwood, Regional
Director, today charged that
there appears to be a conspiracy
of Indiana radio stations to keep
the UAW-CIO's side of the Cen
eral Motors wage dispute of
the radio and requested an i'm
mediate investigation by the
Federal Communications Com
mission The charge was based
upon a letter of an Indiana Sta
ton manager to al ocal union
official in which the manager
stated THAT Indiana stations are
regarding the General Motors
strike as a controversial issue
and the procedure Is not to allot
free time on the air for contro-
versial issuees."
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-08
Higgins Vote
Hearing Set

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 4 A
Natl. Labor Board regional ex-
aminer scheduled hearings this
week to determine the validity
of SO votes which may decide
whether 2341 employees of the
Higgins Industries here will be
represented by the AFL or CIO.
With only 1411 voting the
AFL led in the first official tally
by a count of $50 TO $50 for the
CIO. However, 66 votes were
challenged, % ballots were cast
for neither and six were ruled
void. The AFL's II vote margin
may be increased or reversed by
the findings of the regional di-
rector who will hold the hear
ings with representatives of the
AFL crafts and the Industrial
Union of Marine e. Shipbuilding
Workers-CIO.
Despite the surprisingly low
number of ballots cast the two
union groups waged vigorous
campaigns.
In a CIO-owned launch pa
trolling the industrial canal ad-
jscent to the Higgins paint,
priest broadcast tnat the COM
pany "is highly organized and
you need to be organized to get
square deal. Workers who re-
fuse to join a union violate an
obligation of justice"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-08
FEPC Bottle
Drones On
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Ore) all have appealed for an
end to the filibuster
Signs that the filibusterers
may have carried their strategy
too far were seen in the resent
ment of their fellow legislators.
Bilbo has already announced
that he will use a filibuster to
prevent debate and vote on the
loan to Britain, proposing line
of credit of $3,750,000,000 to
stabilize the British economy.
Other reactionary southerners
have threatened to prevent dis
cussion of the Csc minimum
wage bill, soon to come before
the Senate, through another
filibuster.
States Bills Purpose
Meanwhile, for the first time
since the filibuster began, sup
porters of the Permanent FEPC
had an opportunity to state ex-
actly what the Permanent FEPC
bill, as reported favorably by
the Senate Education and Labor
Committee, provides. Sen. James
M. Mead Cd. N. ~ said: I'VE
have won complete military vic
tory. We are now beginning to
fight for maximum peace pro-
duction. To win it we must
promote the same national unity
we achieved In war and the
same extensive utilization of the
Nations manpoWer.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-08
Plan 20 Coop
Hospitals

NEW YORK, Feb. 4 (LPA)-
With five cooperative hospitals
in operation and at least 40 more
in various stages of planning,
the organization of hospitals,
owned by the people they serve,
is reaching its most intensive
period in years, the Cooperative
League of the USA announced
last week. The five already in
existence are in Oklahoma,
Texas, Kansas and Minnesota.
Most intensive drives, it is re-
ported, are underway in Texas
and the northwestern states of
Idaho, Oregon and Washington,
while other hospitals are being
organized in South Dakota and
Minnesota with community
groups in other states eriously
considering organization drives.
The new hospitals will prob
ably follow the pattern of the
pioneer cooperative hospital, the
Elk City Community Hospital in
Elk City, Okla, established in
1929.
The plan provides for pre-
payment of medical care, COM
sumner ownership of the hospital
and consumer direction of the
medical service with the teen
nical operation in the hands Of
we'll trained medical personnel.
Shares are usually $50 per fam
lily and medical care costs run as
low as $25 per year per family.
DR.. Michael Shadid, founder
and medical director of the Elk
City hospital, took leave of alb
sence several months ago to
work with the Pacific Supply
Cooperative on campaign to
organize cooperative hospitals
In the northwest. At Leola, S. D.,
where there Is no doctor and no
hospital, more than $4,000 has
been raised toward the erection
OF a 20-bed hospital.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-08
100000 Injured,
1900 Killed At
Jobs DurinQ Iq45

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (LPA-
Approximately 100000 work
ers were disabled during 1945 as
a result of work injuries, the La
Dor Dept. disclosed last week.
About 10000 deaths occurred
and total time lost during 1945
as the result of disabling in
juries amounted to more than
Al 100000 employe-days.
"If account is taken of the
time lost by so-called minor in
juries," said the Dept. another
100000 days must be added.
The total actual time loss, there
fore, comes to about 50,000,000
days, and the total economic
time loss to about 27,000,000
days"
In addition to the 10000
workers killed at their jobs, an
other $4,000 were permanently
impaired. There were about l.
900, 900 temporarily injured.
Notable Decrease Found
The most notable decrease
was found in the number of in
juries reported by the manufac-
turing group. With about 200,-
900 fewer injuries than in 1914,
the decrease amounted to 27%,
only partly due to the employ
ment decline of about 12%. But
even with this decrease, the
manufacturing group still out
ranked every other major indus
try group with a total of nearly
SIS, 900 disabling injuries.
At the same time, another
Labor Dept. statement declared
that the "a families of the men
killed in the recent Pineville,
KY, mine disaster offer a
powerful argument for compul-
sorry workmen's compensation.
mot one of these widows and
children will receive a cent of
workmen's compensation" said
Labor Secretary Schwellenbach,
because, und er Kentucky's
elective law, the Straight Greek
Coal Co. does not insure its
workers against job injury"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-08
Enlarged Security
Is Required
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care insurance. The nations bill
for health and medical services
totals about $4 billion a year, of
which about four-fifths comes
from family pocketbooks. Dis
tribution of the total burden of
the costs of medical care over
the whole group-well and sick
alike-through small regular in
surance payments is the goal of
the Boards proposals.
Board Proposes Program
Here are the proposals of the
Board on enlarging its present
program:
An increase in b bene I I
amounts under the old-age and
survivors insurance program,
particularly for low-paid work
ers.
That women workers become
eligible for retirement benefits
at so, instead of, 65 as the law
now reads.
Elderly workers would be
permitted TO earn up to $50 a
month without forfeiting their
old-age benefits.
The program would be extern
ed 10 cover farm, domestic and
public workers, employees of
nonprofit organizations and self
employed persons, including
farmers. The Board has also
asked Congress to see that serv-
lcemen receive credit towards
old-age and survivors Insurance
for their period of service in
the armed forces.
Seek Federal System
The Social Security Board be-
lieves that unemployment insur-
ance can best be administered
as part of an overall national
insurance system and not, as at
present, under 48 different State
laws.
Given the present Federal
State system, the Board would
impose stricter requirements on
State unemployment insurance
laws. These requirements would
include extending insurance to
cover as many outside groups as
possible. On the basis of past
workers would receive
a maximum of at least $25
week for 26 weeks, If they
be out of work that long.
No State would be able to
cancel or reduce a workers
benefits IL he left his job with
out good cause, or were dis
charged for misconduct, or IL he
refused 10 accept a suitable Job
while unemployed. The maxi
mum penalty recommended by
the Board would be a postpone
ment of his benefits for four
weeks. A worker would not be
disqualified from receiving un-
insurance benefits If
he quit or refused work for
good personal reasons.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-08
Government
Proves Pay Z
BUYS Less

CHICAGO, Jan. % (LPA)-
A government study of workers
in typical st. Paul war plant
shows that dollar for dollar"
the pay of an employed worker
bought considerably less in
March 1945 than in early 1941.
This confirmed the claim of
organized labor that substantial
wage increases are needed now
to keep the nation on a full
employment basis and Is con-
tained in a study made public
this week by the regional office
of the Bureau of Labor Statis-
tics, U. S. Department of Labor.
In addition, the study found
that weekly earnings of men
who were employed in 194l and
who have found new jobs since
leaving the aircraft parts plants
have receded to prewar levels.
These men averaged $47.46 for
workweek of SIS hours in 1941.
In wartime their earnings In
creased sharply to $81.47 for
54.4 hours per week in 1 he
spring of 1945. Since then there
has been sharp drop which re-
duced their earnings to SALTS
for asa hour week.
Suffer Wage Loss
While the earnings of this
group would appear to be almost
exactly the same now as before
the war, the Bureau pointed out,
actually these workers have suf-
fered a marked reduction in
purchasing power due to in
creased taxes and the sharp rise
in prices.
This is one of a series of such
studies being made, by the | On
partment of Labor. The inforp f
ton for the studies is obtaiIofai
directly from 5000 individuaJ
workers who are visited in thu
homes by government field rant
resentatives. The workers wefe
chosen as being typical of the
working force in typical war
plants.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-08
Settlement Seen
In Steel Strike
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on in the nation since last No
vember when General Motors
workers walked out following
refusal of the corporation to
bargain in good faith
Small strikes are still taking
place in various sections OF the
country and some are being
settled, Qualification of the
wage scale for the immediate
future will very likely clear up
the majority of labor disturb
ances and leave industry and
labor free to produce the thou
sands of articles for which the
country is waiting.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-08
chiId-Core Endangered

NEW YORK (LPA) - Three
main dangers to effective child
care should government aid be
withdrawn are reported by ma
tion-wide survey undertaken by
the Natl. Committee on Group
Care of Children. When the fed
eral funds disappear, as they
will March 1 unless citizens
voice their protest, families will
suffer from % lower standards
of child care; (2) too costly fees;
and CD omission of after-school
care for the children of work
ing mothers.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-08

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (LPA,
All hope for a strong full em.
ployment bill along the lines OF
the Senate-approved measure
which was demanded by Presi-
dent Truman disappeared last
week as Senate and House con-
ferees reached agreement on
compromise legislation.
Numerous concessions to the
emasculated House version,
which removed even the title
Full Employment" from the
bill, were made by the Senate,
but in several sections the new
legislation bore greater re-
semblance to the original Sen.
ate bill. House conferees who
led the attack on the Senate
version included two poll-taxers,
Reps. Carter Manasco Cd. Ala.)
who boasted of his success in
wrecking the legislation, and
William M. Wilmington ID.
Miss.)
The two week conference
failed to respond to the pleas
of bot. the president and organ
lied labor that a strong full en-
ployment bill was needed for the
nations economic health during
the reconversion an6 post-re-
conversion periods. The bills
watered-down language now
merely says that ut is the re-
sponsibility of the Federal Gov
ernment to promote economic
conditions to provide an oppor-
tunity for all citizens and will
ing to work"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-08
Piekefing Is LegaI

NEW YORK (LPA) - Make
1t clear that picketing Is legal"
was urged upon Navy Secretary
Forrestal by the Rev. Aron S.
Gilmartin of the Workers De-
fense League, asking that the
Third Naval District be required
to reSclnd its directive that the
shore patrol question all pickets
wearing navy uniforms. The is
sue arose when a veteran in uni
form was removed by shore
patrolmen from the picket line
at a plant of the Westinghouse
Electric Co. The WDL spokes-
man said there must be no
Navy Gestapo along the ma
tons picket lines"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-08
Workers Reject
lie Offer

CHICAGO NPA) - Thirty
thousand striking employees of
the Intl. Harvester Co. last week
flatly rejected a company offer
of a 17c-an-hour increase and
renewed its demands for a 19 1ac
raise in the 10 closed plants. The
demanded increase would bring
the average hourly wage from
$1.14 to $1.30, but the company
reiterated its refusal to 60 above
the tic.
A government fact finding
panel, which twice postponed
hearings, resumed consideration
Of several disputed issues in
cluding a union security clause.
The company's latest offer pro-
vided for a 15-day escape period
in which members could resign
from the union. After the Is
days, however, the company
would check off members dues,
initiation fees and assessments.
Another company offer reduced
the necessary work-year from
225 to 120 days in order to OBJ
tain vacation with pay.
In Peoria the United Farm
Equipment & Metal Workers
Go demanded 800 increase
for 1880 striking workers at
the Caterpillar Tractor Co.
plant. @
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-08
Seeks Vet Benefits

WASHINGTON .LPA)-Leg-
islation to- permit striking vet
eranS to receive unemployment
benefits will shortly be intro.
duced in Congress by Sen.
Myers Cd. Pa.) Congress did not
intend the G.. l. Bill of Rights,
which now disqualifies a vet.
eran from receiving an allow
ance If he is out of work because
of a labor dispute. to be used
as an instrument for depriving
the veteran of the rights which
other American citizens are en-
titled to-" Myers said.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-08
Case Bill Threat
TO Destroy Unions
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tour in to congressman asking
that they refuse to support the
bill after it goes to the Senate.
It is believed that the Senate
version of the legislation will be
much milder than that of the
House and that when the con-
ference bill comes up that the
worse phases of the act will be
modified.
Labor leaders are not count
ing on the conference bill, but
are pointing to the political
campaign of this fall with the
threat to defeat many of those
who voted to pass the legislation
last week. 1t is now believed
that Congressional reactionaries
deliberately threw down the
gauntlet to labor in an effort to
force it into a political fight and
determine its actual political
power.
Labor Is Aroused
From all sections of the coun-
try come reports of an aroused
labor movement which now re-
slizes that Congress could, by a
simple act of legislation put
them out of business and ham,
string them in such a manner
they would find 1t impossible to
operate effectively. :
Growing sentiment indicates
that the bill will have tough 60
ing In the Senate and that un-
less some radical changes are
made that 1t will not get past
President Truman. Meantime,
labor unions everywhere are
mobilizing their forces In an ef-
fort to defeat the measure in its
final form and to accept the
challenge which 1t now gives
them.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-08
Union Health Study
Called

WASHINGTON Feb. 4 (LPA)
Eighty AFL, CIO, Railroad
Brotherhood and Farmers Union
representatives from Wisconsin,
Minnesota, North and South
Dakota will meet in Minnea-
polls on Feb. 6 for a three day
conference called by the u. S.
Public Health Service.
The meeting, which will be
convened as the Workshop Con-
ference on the Presidents Health
Plan, will make a study of how
the administrations health pro-
gram would apply to the central
northwest states.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-08
ressive initiation.

ressive initiation.
Other points dealt with by
Bishop Alter included produc-
ton as the preventative of infla-
ton of government In its at
tempt to protect the public.
High production he said would
return the country to normal
economic law operating on an
ethical basis.
Saying 1t would be wholesome
sign IL labor would fight harder
to reduce price than to increase
wages, the Bishop expressed the
view that the difficulties of the
economic system are so deep
seated that the system itself
needs adjustment and gave as
his opinion that "a trend toward
collectivism will accentuate,
rather than relieve our difficult
ties.
Jerome Gross of the Toledo
Blade staff was the author OF
the article setting forth the
views OF Bishop Alter.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-08
USES Heads
For States

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (LPA)
The u. S. Employment Serv-
ice will become a political foot
ball and its 100 offices through
out the country a patronage
grab-bag if a reactionary coali-
tion of House Republicans and
southern Democrats has its way.
Ignoring the repeated de-
mands of President Truman and
organized labor, the House last
week, by a margin of 263-113,
succumbed to a powerful lobby,
of state governors and business
interests and voted to turn the
USES back to the states on
June 80.
Labor Secretary Schwellen-
bach Joined numerous other gov
ernment officials in warning
that reconversion would be re-
torded IL USES wasn't retained
under Federal control until June
1947, and Gen. Omar Bradley,
veterans administrator, declared
in a last minute letter that
transfer "in the midst of demo-
bilization would be highly detri-
mental to returning servicemen
seeking jobs"
Vetoed once by the President,
the bill, sponsored by Rep.
Everett Dirksen, Or. Ill), now
goes to the Senate where it will
probably meet tougher Shedding.
II it reaches Truman in its pres
ent form he Is expected to veto
it again, thus requiring a two
thirds vote to make 1t law.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-08

PITTSBURGH (LPA)-Work-
ers on strike use their spare time
to good purpose, according to re.
ports from libraries. 1t may sur
prise southern Congressman to
learn that the Carnegie Library
in Pittsburgh reports boom in
book-lending since the steel
strike started, and that In Sche-
nectady librarians say the strik-
ers have tripled their business
now that they have more time
to read and study.