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The union times., 1946-05-04
Labor Dept Shows Pay Drop Of 25%

One-ffth of the workers en- gagged a year ago in producing small arms in three Connecticut factories were unemployed i'll January, l94o. Those who were working earned an average of 25 percent less per week than just before VE-Day, according to Wendell w. Macdonald, Region al Director of the Bureau of La Dor Statistics, U. s. Department of Labor, who today released a preliminary summary of the re. suits of recent survey of a repre-. sentative group of such workers.
 The workers surveyed earned all average of $48.53 a week in January 1946, as compared with $64.63 in April l945, when the Bureau first inter viewed them. Women took much sharper reductions in their earnings than men, crossing $32 week in January as compared to $53 year ago. The men averaged $5130 in January or SIS less per week than ir April, lo45.
 Shorter Hours
 Losses in weekly earnings are only partially explained by shorter hours of work, 1t was pointed out The men worked an average of only 2 hours less week than a year ago and the decrease in their weekly earnings has come about through acceptance o1 lower paid jobs or as result of a shift from incentive to flat hourly wage rates. Women were working 7 hours less per week in January oi this year as compared with April 1o45, but the decline in their weekly earnings also was due in large part to lower wage rates.
 The Bureau survey compared the experiences of several individ- uals included in the study: One worker was employed before the war as restaurant manager. He changed to a job in machine tool plant in l94O where he learned toolmaking, receiving about $500 for a A hour workweek. Early i'm 1941 MT. R. J. was hired as a tool maker by a small arms plant in which, at the end of the war, he was making $76.OO for a 48-hour week. At the present time this man is employed at a weekly wage of $5O.OO, or $26.OO less.
 A young man in his early thirties was normally employed as a job feeder in the printing industry. He was in ducted into the army in 1o41 and was discharged in 1o43, when he took a job as inspector in a small arms fac tory, earning $52O0 for a 48-hour week He is now back in the printing industry, apprenticed as a printer $ helper at $25.71 for 445zhour work week
The union times., 1946-05-04
NewPlan Speeds
 Settlement Of Wagelnequalties
Labor Dep'ts WAB Director Announces New Proce-
 dure For Filing

WASHINCTON-Appointed full time chairman of the Wage Adjust ment Board, Arthur D. Hill, Jr., former Assistant Solicitor of the U. s. Department of Labor, an- nounced a new procedure for filing applications for wage adjustments in the building industry which will permit faster processing and elim- mate temporary wage inequities. Under the new program labor unions and contractors will en- deavor to submit to the Board simultaneously or within a reason able interval of time all applica- tions pertaining to each craft and labor classification for which ad- justments are considered warranted in single area.
 Since many contractors submit ap-
The union times., 1946-05-04

ice, just as though they were work ing in covered employment, with the Government paying the cost.
 CD Veterans Social Security status would be frozen for the period they were in the service. They would neither lose nor gain credits during this period.
The union times., 1946-05-04
Time In Service. May Be Applied
 For SS Benefits
House Considers Plan To Allow Veterans Full Credit
 For Years In Uniform

WASHINGTON - The House Ways and Means Committee has opened hearings on the proposed expansion of the social security program. The Committees report agrees that servicemen should re- ceive credits for old age and sur- vivOrs insurance for the period spent in the armed forces.
 As the Social Security law now stands the veteran is penalized for the time he spent in the service of his country. While he was in service there were no payments made to So- cial Security and as result there is a break in his ratings, or, where credits were small, they have been lost entirely.
 Two proposals are being considered to remedy this unfair situation:
 CD Veterans would accumulate credits for time spent in the serv-
The union times., 1946-05-04
Green Says AFL Supports Health Insurance Bill
Tells Senate Body 7,OOO,- 900 Members Favor
 Passage Of Act

WASHINGTON (FP) Speak ing for 7 million AFL members President William Green has told the Senate labor committee that the AFL was firmly on record for the passage of the National Health Act. He stated that the New Or leans convention in 1914 had unanimously approved the health program set up in the Wagner Murray-Dingell bill, S.l6O6.
 "The working people of America are not satisfied with present levels of health in this country" Green said. They know the highly unsatis- factory conditions prevailing in the poorer agricultural states, in the ru- ral sections of the wealthiest states and in the low income areas of our great metropolitan centers."
 He answered the charge that a com pulsory system of health insurance would not be democratic, voiced in a question by Sen. Forrest Donnell (R, Mol, by saying that voluntary sys- tems, such as the Blue Cross groups, do not benefit the people that need them most. Sen. Claude Pepper CD, Fla.) said that only B per cent of the people received the full coverage under voluntary systems of health in- surance as would be received under s. 1906.
 Especially during the past sev- eral years," said Green, ''many of our unions have developed medical care programs for their members. Our people naturally want to know whether the adoption of national health program would permit the continuance of these cooperative endeavors." Green added he was convinced existing union services could be maintained if the bill were passed.
The union times., 1946-05-04
Western Teamsters
 Headed By Short

SEATTLE-(FP)-New executive director of the Western Conference of Teamsters (AFL) is William M Short, former mine leader and head of the Washington State Federation of Labor. He comes to his new post from his position as labor relations counsellor of the Laundry & Dry Cleaning Association.
 Addressing the 300 delegates to the week-long teamsterS conference here Short warned: We must never, never again be lulled to sleep by the old Warren c. Harding slogan, Back tc normalcy.'
The union times., 1946-05-04
AFL Hits Backing
 Anti-UniOn Charity

LOS ANGELES (FP)-The Los Angeles Central Labor Council passed a resolution calling for with drawal of AFL support from charita- ble agencies such as the Community Chest if they continue to donate funds to hospitals like the Cedars of Le- banon, which refuses to recognize union chosen by a majority of the nurses.
 Possible of establishing an in- dependent labor charity chest to re- ceive over a million dollars collected annually from AFL members and pre- vent subsidizing nonunion institutions was also raised by the resolution"
The union times., 1946-05-04
Wages Sl1nb 2Oq6 Of Jobs Vanish In Conn., Arms PntS

plications jointly with number of different unions Ill an area" MT. Hill declared, coordination of the appli- cations i'll the matter of submission to the Board is believed to be i'll no way burdensome or difficult of achievement. The local building trades councils and contracting associations, which are frequently active in fostering all of the applications which come from a single area are particularly urged to coop crate i'll securing compliance with the new procedure. It is not the Board intent to urge employers and labor to change their traditional collective bar gaining relations but it is our hope that the Boards decisions may be more equitable by concurrent consid- eration of several cases in the same area"
 Duration Specified
 The new program is the result of action by the entire Board, public, in dustry and labor members. "The Board also feels,' MT. Hill added that the parties should specify def- mite period during which agreement, if approved, will be in effect, and strongly urges that such agreements shall be of at least one years dura- tion"
 The new Chairman of the Wage Adjustment Board was formerly Assistant Solicitor of Labor in charge of the Wage Determination and Wage Adjustment Branch of the Solicitor $ Office. In October, 1o43, he was named Co-chairman of the Board and now becomes its fu1l-time chairman.
The union times., 1946-05-04
AFL Textile Workers
 To Meet In Washington

WASHINGTON (FP) = The ninth biennial convention of the Unit ed Textile Workers (AFL) will oper here April g at the Hotel Roosevelt with 300 delegates expected
 Among speakers to address the con vention are: AFL Pres. William Green, Labor Sec. Lewis Schwellen- bach, former Labor Sec. Frances Per kins and George Googe, AFL south ern director.
The union times., 1946-05-04

In agreement with German I. c. Far ben, Japanese Mitsui and British and French trusts, the defendants con- trolled over o09o of the worlds dye stuff business. The suit had been de layed during the war on the dyernan's claim it would interfere with war pro- duction.
Evening star., 1946-05-27
Capital Will Have Hot Summer
|Student of Weather Predicts

1t will be hot summer in Wash
ington.
j. B. Kincer, former division
chief with the Weather Bureau, to-
day offered the American Geophys-
ical Union figures giving little rea-
son to hope for less than the quota
of sweltering days endured here in
recent years.
In paper entitled Our Chang
ing Climate" prepared for delivery
at the unions annual meeting today
in the George Washington Univer-
sity School of Government Building
Mr.. Kincer brought up to date a
survey made under his supervision
in 1888. 1t showed that the world
had been experiencing increasingly
warm weather in both summer and
winter.
Mr.. Kincer found the trend con-
tinued up to 1910, at which time
hints of a possible reversal ap-
peared. With the customary cau-
tiousness of an appraiser of trends,
he said recent figures suggest that
the upward trend has probably
reached its maximum with the pros
pect of return to colder winters
and cooler summers in future years,
but 1t is too early as yet to predict
with confidence that such is the
case"
These temperature trends are of
long duration" Mr.. Kincer ex-
planned, land the transition pc
RODS from one extreme to the other
cover a number of years. Additional
records will be required to deter
mine whether the more recent indi-
cations are significant of a general
trend reversal or merely incidental" +"
The man in the street" here con-
siders temperatures in the COS hot,
MI. Klncer decided. On that basis,
the Capital has been experiencing
Evening star., 1946-05-27

an average of nearly twice as many
hot days in summer during the
last 20 years as in a similar period
about 40 years ago, he reported.
Now retired, Mr.. Kincer is con-
tinuing his interest in climatic
trends which developed the survey
Evening star., 1946-05-27

made while he headed the Weather
Bureau Division of Climate and
Crop Weather.
His current opinion is that this
summer in Washington will be as
hot as last, or, possibly, slightly
cooler-if it is not hotter.
Evening star., 1946-05-27

Pinch it once and pinch it twice
and pinch it once again-and then
put that spare dollar into U. S. Saw
ings Bonds. In 10 years you get S4
for every three-and that's not a
long, long time.
Evening star., 1946-05-27

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square neck and pretty bow 'front.' Sizes II to
W6sL-Misses' Dresses, Third Floor
Open crown frostng-whte rutfIed simulated
strow with black royon full bows $3.50
Perky high crown white soilor with ruffed edge
and black royon bows
W&L-Mllinery Third Floor
For cool evenings, driving, or over your evening
gown, 1000 wool short white Jacket, lined
with white royon---- --Sl3e
W&L-Coats and Suits Third Floor
Smart knee length cuIotte and bottle Jacket,
designed by De De johnson of California.
White flonneI-weove royon. Sizes II to Is
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The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1946-09-05
TRUCK GARDENERS
/ TO HAVE EXHIBITS

Truck gardeners in Union county
will find a variety of classes in
which they may enter their vege-
tables for showing at the Union
County Fair. Premiums of 81 and
so cents on each variety of vege-
tables have been arranged by the
Board.
All articles n the vegetable show
will show at 10 am. Wednesday
and exhibitors are to be present
at time of classification. Vege-
! tables to be shown will include
sweet corn, marrowfat beans, kid
ney beans, lima beans, golden wax
beans, garden peas, beets, CARROTS,
satisfy, Kohl Rabi, turnips, rad
ishes, tomatoes. cabbage, cauli-
flower, peppers, cucumbers, on
ions, pumpkins, squash, and wat
ermelon.
Potatoes are in a separate class,
and include several varieties with
one of sweet potatoes. Premiums
on potatoes will be 81 and so cents
and exhibitors must show a quart
er-buShel in each variety. There
will also be one class for the best
display of Irish potatoes, one peck
each, correctly named and labeled.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1946-09-05
SWINE EXHIBITS
ARE WELL FILLED

Every Union county farm has a
few "porkers" in the hog lot, and
many Union countians today are
placing emphasis on pure-bred
swine. Consequently, the swine de-
partment at the Union county Fair
is generally well-filled and this
year will be no exception
more than $3.50, there should be
With premiums amounting to
plenty of incentive to exhibit an
imals this year. Will Hall, of Pc
oria is attending member of the
Board in charge of this depart
ment.
Entries will close at 10 pm.
Sept. Z, with the entry fee being
10 percent of the first premium.
Prize money will be awarded for
the first three places in most class
| es premiums being SIS, SO, and 81.
There will be competition for
Poland China, O. 1. c., Chester
Whites, Duroc and Jersey Reds.
Spotted Poland Chinas, Hamp-
shires and Berkshires. All breeds
will show at 10 am. Wednesday.
Herd shows will consist of one
male and three females, with a
junior herd considered to be under
f.! one year of age, and senior herd,
, one year and over.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1946-09-05
LEGION TO GIVE
POLICE PROTECTION

Police protection at this years
Union County Fair win again be
in charge of Union Post No. 70, of
the American Legion.
This very important detail, as
well as handling of all gate duties,
has been turned over by the Board
of Directors to Union post.
The Legionnaires are already
working out a program which calls
for approximately 25 men on duty
at the gates and on the grounds
during the daytime. and at least
five men patroling the grounds all
night long.
A regular Army-style duty rost-
er win be set up to provide COM
plete protection for the Fair and
to distribute the work as evenly
as possible among the Legion
membership
The money which the Fair will
pay for police protection, incident
/ ly, will not go to the individuals
but will go into the Legion build
ing and park fund so that the gen
eral public will eventually benefit
/ therefrom.
A special Fair Patrol headquart.
ers will be set up for the Legior
underneath the grandstand, which
will also serve as the Fair infor.
nation booth.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1946-09-05
ALL PREMIUMS ALWAYS
PAID IN FULL AT FAIR

All premiums at the Union
County Fair will be paid" in full,
providing the receipts are suffic-
lent to do so after deducting the
necessary expenses, and in case
receipts are not sufficient, the So
ciety reserves the right to pay the
premiums pro-rate, the bylaws
provide.
This is an old, long-standing by
law fthe Fair, but it has been a
long, long time since it has been
resorted to. The Union County
Fair has long been a paying prop
osition, and premiums are always
paid in full.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1946-09-05
PREMIUMS ARE PROVIDED
FOR SPECIAL EXHIBITS

Articles shown at the Union
County Fair, for which no prem
iums have been provided bu t
which, in the estimation of the
awarding committee of judges is
thought worthy of special recogni-
ton. shall be reported through the
Secretary of the Board of Direct
ors for such action as they may
deem proper.
No premium, however, snail be
awarded for anything exhi5ited
but not mentioned by premium
lists, unless authorized by major
ity of the members of the Board.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-10
CITY'S REVENUE
SHOWS INCREASE
Income During Past Month
Exceeds Estimates By
$23,454

The city's revenues Tor n
month of November we're $12O, 904,
4 figure $23, 454 higher than mad
been estimated, D. B. Padgett, City
accountant, reported yesterday.
aPadgett's report showed that the
city's receipts so far this year are
S71o. 631, some $50, 900 short Of est
mates.
Chief cause of the shortage has
been the lag in Alcoholic Beverage
Control board receipts so far this
year. Last month, in process OF
liquidating heavy inventories, the
ABC turned $50, 600 over to the
city.
November receipts from taxes
amounted to $50, $40.
The report showed that the city
still has $783, 028 to collect OF its
estimated ST., 493, $50 in receipts on
the 1946-47 budget.
Revenue of the water and sewer
department during November was
k23, 300, a decrease from the esti-
mated $25, 889. So far this fiscal
year it has amounted to $144,5 sos
against an anticipated $148,3 77.
The estimate for the year is $685.
Gel and the balance u~ncollected.
S215 005
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-10
METHODIST MEET
PLANNED TODAY
DR.. Dow Bancroft OF
Chicago Addresses Lay
men At Session

DR.. Dow Bancroft of Chicago
will address the Wilmington Dis
trict Methodist Set-Up meeting to-
day at 10. a. m. in the Trinity
Methodist church, it was announc-
ed last night.
Yesterday DR.. Bancroft, one of
the secretaries of the Board of Lay
mems Activities of the Methodist
church, delivered the main speech
at a luncheon meeting of Metho-
dist laymen in st. Johns tavern.
Attending the meeting were rep
resentatives of all Methodist
churches in the city.
He called attention to the lay
mans place in church activities
and encouraged members to join
their church's organizations.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-10
Heavy Loss

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 - Up -
John L. Lewis soft coal miners
may have lost as much as $212,-
$50, 900 in their two strikes this
year.
This estimate is based on the as
sumption that 400, 900 miners were
idled by the walkouts and that
they would have drawn average
pay if they had stayed on the job
and had worked.
On this basis, the miners lost a
total of $531.45 apiece in last
springs shutdown and in the 17-day
strike Just ended.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-10
FOREIGN EXCHANGE

NEW YORK, Dec. .9-PeClos-
ing foreign exchange rates follow
Great Britain in dollars, others
in cents:
Canadian dollar in New York
open market 4 percent discount
or $500 U. S. cents, up 3 1-16th OF
a cent.
Europe: Great Britain $4.02 7-8,
up 1-16 of a cent; France (Franc)
"a IA, up 1-8 of a cent; Sweden
(Krona) 27.85, unchanged; Switzer-
land Franc) (Com'l 23.40, I'M
changed.
Latin America: Argentina Free
a. so, unchanged; Brazil Free 5.45,
unchanged; Mexico 20.63, unchang-
ed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-10
CH1CoGo PRODUCE

CHICAGO, Dec. 9-U.D-Produce
Poultry: 3 trucks, slow; hens ~
-: leghorn hens %; fryers ana
boilers 1888; old ROSTERS ~;
geese 27; heavy ducks 26; small
ducks q; ducklings Is; tom turk
Y 2429; young hen turkeys 81;
old guinea hens Is; pigeons l'zo'
young guinea As.
Cheese: twins 43 1-2-45; single
daisies As 1-2-47; swiss 1915.
Butter: 1886, 855 lbs; unsettled;
% score Sc 10; 20 score IS IL;
80 score SO IL; SO score 80.
Eggs: 1851 cases; steady; ex-
tras / and 2: 1885,. 3 and 4 42-44;
standards 1 and 2; 40; 3 and 4;
49,; current receipts 1888; dirtles
% - 20 IL; checks % % IL.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-10
THE WILMINGTON MORNING STAR, WILMINGTON, n. G.
MARITIME GROUP
LISTS PROFITS
North Carolina Shipbuild-
ing Included In Report
To Representatives

The North Carolina Shlpbulld-
ing company's profits during World
War II totaled $27, 645, 092 on an es-
timated investment of 3d. 900, 900,
the United States Maritime COM
mission has reported to the Mer-
chant Marine committee of the
House of Representatives.
The Maritime commissions re-
port asserted that 10 ship construc-
ton firms had crossed $35, COG, 612
in profits on an overall invest
ment of $22, 979, 275 in capital.
The st. Johns Shipbuilding Corp,
a Florida firm, was reported to
have made a profit Of over 50 mil
lion or an estimated capital invest
ment of $500.
The commission pointed out that
its schedule Of profits does not re-
fleet income after taxes and con-
tract negotiations, but declared
that its figures are substantially
actual'' and ''the amounts of disal-
lowance are relatively small com
pared with earned profits"
Among the companies on the
commission list was the Perman-
ente Metals Corp, a Henry Kaiser
firm, which repeatedly made a
profit of $58, $40, 1856 on a $3.50, 900
capital investment.
Following are figures reported by
the commission in other cases
where private operators built
ships in yards financed at least
in part by the government.
Barrett and Hip shipyard, cap
ital investment. $3,611, 1854, estimat-
ed profit, 1914, 636.
Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyards,
Inc, capital investment 500, 900,
900 estimated profit, $50, 9O6, $50.
California Shipbuilding Corp,
capital investment, $500, 600, esti-
mated profit, $44, 428, Ola.
Consolidated Steel Corp, Ltd,
capital investment, Sc, 1896, oil, esti-
mated profit, SIG, AS, 1851.
Delta Shipbuilding Co., Inc, CAPT.
tai investment, $750, 900, estimated
profit, SIP, III, 81.
East Coast Shipyards, Inc, CAPT.
tai investment, $143, 800, estimated
profit, $500, 900.
J. A. Jones Construction Co.,
Inc, capital investment, $4,000, 900,
estimated profit, S 9,026, 1888.
Kaiser Co., Inc, capital invest
ment 81, 600, 900, estimated profit,
S43, CAT, 026.
Kaiser Cargo, Inc, capital invest
ment, $500, 900, estimated profit,
81, 345, 900.
McCloskey and Co., capital in
vestment, $3.50, 900, estimated prof
it, $1,036, 1868.
Marinship Corp, capital invest
ment, $500, 600, estimated profit,
s11, os7, 112.
New England Shipbuilding Corp,
capital investment, $1,02S, 900, esti-
mated profit, ST., 097, 112.
Oregon Shipbuilding Corp, CAPT.
tai investment, $3.50, 900, estimated
profit, $40, $50, 564.
Southeastern Shipbuilding Corp,
capital Investment, $500, 900, esti-
mated profit, So, 135,0 900.
Todd-Houston Shipbuilding Corp,
capital investment, $1Se 200, esti-
mated profit, $685. 1903.
Walsh-Kaiser Co., Inc, capital
investment, $500, 600, estimated
profit, $1,000, 7s5.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-10
IF BACK ACHES
DUE TO KIDNEYS
EII,eh Than nu.f This nncfnr's Wav

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your back ache so you groan 50 you
get up 3 or 4 times a night to pass water,
now be of good cheer.
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noticed that hundreds Of his patients had
This backache. He developed a medicine
made of exactly the right amount of IL
herbs, roots, vegetables, balsams-truly
Natures own way to relief.
Now millions have used it. The medi-
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stAntly you take it, it starts to work
flushing out those excess acids that may
be causing your backache increasing
the flow of urine to help ease that burning
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nights. Caution: take as directed. You'll
say it's really marvellous.
For free trial supply, send to Dept. w.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-10
T

The Parent Teachers As
ISOLATION of Bradley's Creek
school will hold its monthly
meeting at 2:3O p. m. Thurs
day in the school auditorium.
An executives meeting IS
scheduled at 1880 o'clock the
same day. A Christmas pro-
gram is planned and Girl
Scouts will keep small children
Of parents who desire to At
tend.