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The union times., 1947-07-05
Profits Soar. Savings Slump,
 What A Life!
High Living Costs Compel Workers To Use Up
 Their Savings

WASHINGTON (LPA)-Indus- trial profits continue to. hit all-time record highs; workers wartime sav- ings have been depleted by more than 5O3o; unemployment is growing.
 That was the oninous picture of the state of the nations economy given by government and private economists last week.
 A survey of the consolidate net ir- come of 228 industrial manufacturers made by the N. Y. Times showed that for the first quarter of 1947 the net income rose 305% from $147 ,665, ,1O3 for the first three months of last year to $597, ,553,217.
 At the same time the U. s. Com merce Dept. announced that ''pub. licly reported cash dividend pay. ments by U. S. corporations amounted to record high of $l,- IF, ,5OO,OOO for the first quarter of l947. This is 2l% more than the $92O, 100000 paid in the first quarter of l946." The report ac- counted for only 6O9o of all cash dividends paid; corporations like Ford Motor Co. made no public an. nouncement of their dividends.
 Individual savings in liquid form dropped sharply during the first quar- ter of 1947, the Securities and Ex- change Commission discloses. Indiv- iduals saved $1.4 billion during the three months. "This rate of saving was less than half that in the last quarter of 1o46 and the lowest since l94O," said the SEC.. This verified the contentious of labor economists before Congressional committee
The union times., 1947-07-05
8Oth Congress Driving Nation
 Without Brakes
Rep. Douglas Analyzes Record, And Finds
 People The Losers

WASHINGTON = (FP) = The 80th Congress has utterly failed the American people and is riding along without brakes on the roller coaster of imitation, Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas CD, Cal told the 18th an- nual conference of the Natl. Assn. for the Advancement of Co1ored People last week.
 The California progressive as- sailed the COP-controIled Congress for its program of making the rich richer and the poor poorer, which she summarized as: 'sl, cut taxes for the rich, 2, break the back of labor, and 3, destroy the agencies of government set up to protect and promote the welfare of the people.
 Rising prices, housing, FEPC, health, education, development of nat ural resources, anti-poll tax law, anti lynch bill and civil liberties are not the concern of this Congress" she continued. But they are the concern of every family in America. They particularly affect the Negro family.
 ''An economic slump will come down on the Negro people like a ton of bricks for they are among the first to be discriminated against.''
 Mrs. Douglas attacked the hyster- lcal red-baiting in word and deed by the 8Oth Congress, saying: "This Congress, while creating a frenzy of fear over communism, shows in amendment after amendment, attached to legislation which it passes, that it has no real understanding of tota1i- tarian methods and rushes often with arms outstretched to embrace them in its frenzy"
The union times., 1947-07-05
) Conn. Lawyers In Washington For Conference
Labor Relations Expert Sees Unions Becoming Much
 More Militant
By Nathan Sherman


 A.F.L. unions in Connecticut moved swiftly this week to grap- pie with the many problems ere ated by the enactment of the Taft : Hartley anti labor law. Guided by policy statements is- sued in Washington by President William Green and Judge Jo- seph A. Padway, A.F.L. general counsel, the Connecticut State B ui 1 ding and Construction Trades Council was holding a special meeting in New Haven of all, building trades unions, at which the possible effects of the law were gone into in detail.
 There was a general belief throughout the state, and probably throughout the na- ton, that the law is written so loosely and vaguely in many instances that its real meaning will have to wait for court in- terpretatiOns. President Green has already announced that the A.F.L. plans court action at the earliest possible time, and Judge Padway has advised all A.F.L. unions not to sign any wage contract which con- tains a nO-strike clause.
 WELL REPRESENTED
 Connecticut was we'll represented amOpg the 100 A.F.L. lawyers who met in Washington last weekend. It was at the conclusion of this meeting that Judge Padway said that the A.F.L. lawyers would also advise their unions to affirmative Iy violate' the Taft-Hartley acts ban on union political expenditures SO as to bring about a test of the laws cOnstitutiOnality.
 Connecticut A.F.L. lawyers at the meeting were William S. Gordon, IT,, and Harold Strauch of Hart ford; Louis Feinmark of New Ha- ven; Vincent ScampOrinO of Mid- dletOwn; and Herbert Bundock of Bridgeport. The delegation was headed by Joseph M. Rourke, sec retary-treasurer of the Connecticut Federation of Labor.
 The lawyers went over the act sec ton by section, the discussion being lead by various attorneys. Gordon lead the discussion on penalties pre- scribed by the act.
 GAG" REJECTED
 Because labor is now beginning to make its plans for political action to defeat the members of Congress who voted on the Taft-Hartley act, there was considerable discussion at the Washington meeting of the provisions of the law which would "gag" union officials and the labor press in their attempts to influence the public to vote against the anti-1abor congress men.
 Judge Padway presented an ana1y- sis of this section which cited claims that the law goes beyond merely bar ring direct contributions for candi- dates, and also prohibits "any type Of expenditure whatsoever in connec- tion with any federal political cleo tlon or nomination. as, for in stance, expenditure of money by 2 labor newspaper setting forth a can didate's qualifications or lack of quail fcations, or the hiring of radio time or newspaper space for unions own use to urge the election or defeat of political candidate.
 Continued on Page Three)
The union times., 1947-07-05
Painters, No. 186, Complete Slate

The following are the results of the annual elections held by Local 186, New Haven Painters Union.
 President: Anthony Guarnery i; Vice tesident, Joseph Litwak; Re cording Secretary, William P. En- right; Business Agent and Financial Secretary, Saul Kreas; Treasurer, Carl Roth; Warden, Ellis Johnson ; Conductor, Yale Kuritch.
 Trustees are John Struzek, George Caudio, and Nathan Rosen. Delegates to the New Haven Building Trades Council: Kreas, Enright, Guarnery ; Delegates to New Haven Central La bor Council: Kreas, Enright, Will liam Zuckerman, Sam Shukowsky, Rosen, and Guarney. Delegates to State Conference of Painters, Kreas, Enright, and Guarnery.
The union times., 1947-07-05
.Rabbis Attack
 Slave Labor

MONTREAL (LPA) = Speaking for the spiritual leaders of Reformed Judaism, more than 400 delegates to the Central Conference of American Rabbis last week went on record as "regretting profoundly" the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act, after hear ing a report that Ion the industrial front the forces of reaction are deter mined to destroy the gains of labor thru oppressive legislation"
The union times., 1947-07-05
MANUFACTURER WARNS: Industry WILL Suffer, Too, If Unions Are Weakened Strong Labor Movement A Safeguard For Fair
 Employers, Says Clothing Firm Head

Last week The Union Times car ried a story on an extraordinary article written by Cyrus s. Eaton, Cleveland banker and industrialist, in which he warned his fellow capi- taIists that they are inviting disaster by warning on unions. If capitalism is to survive, he said, employers must deal more sanely with labor.
 This week. another prominent in dustria1ist in Eaton's home city came out with a similar warning. He is Alexander Printz, president of the Printz-Biederman Company of Cleve- land, one of the nations largest cloth ing manufacturers.
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The union times., 1947-07-05
Housing Bill
 Still Styrnied

WASHINGTON-(FP) = Some 700 delegates representing 35 national organizations 1obbied on Capitol Hill last week for passage of the Taft-E1- er-Wagner long-range housing bill, and heard Sen. Robert A. Taft (R, O. suggest the bill might have to be modified in order to clear the 80th Congress.
 Delegates from both AFL and CIO were among the hundreds buttonho1ing senators and representatives during the day, set aside as Fight For Hous- ing Day by the sponsoring groups, to seek passage of the bill. It was model ed on the measure which passed the Senate unanimously a year ago but was bottled up by the Housing bank committee in the dying days of the 79th Congress.
 Taft and Sen. Allen J. E1lender CD, La.) said builders and real estate groups had s1andered the bill with misleading propaganda"
The union times., 1947-07-05
State Unions GrappGng With New Law
Quick Picture Of
 Taft-Hartley Law
Almost Every Phase Of Management Relationship Changed = Read This In Conjunction With
 Leading Story On This Page

Here is quick picture of how the TaftHarey law nvades ganzed abors traditional rights and restricts its activities and
The union times., 1947-07-05

that soaring living costs have com pelled workers to exhaust their sav- ings.
The union times., 1947-07-05
Hennessey Heads Iron Workers

William F. Hennessey of New Ha- ven was elected president of Local 424, Iron Workers, at the annual cleo tions held Friday. Hennessey moved up from vice-president.
 The new vice-president is Raymond Ioyt, of West Haven, and the new recording secretary is James Kava- naugh of New Haven. All of the other officers remain the same.
The union times., 1947-07-05
For The Record!

Seven of the eight men who make up Connecticut's delega- ton in Congress voted to over ride President Truman's veto. Only Sen. Brien McMahon voted against the law, and voted to up- hold the Presidents veto.
 Those who voted against la- bor are: US. Senator Raymond E. Baldwin; and Reps. William J. Miller, Wethersfield (lst Dis trict); Horace Seely-Brown, Pomfret (2nd Dist.): Ellsworth B. Foote, North Branford (3rd Dist.); John D. Lodge, Westport (4th Dist.); James T. Patter- son, Naugatuck (5th Dist.) and Antoni N. Sadlak, Rockville (At Large).
The union times., 1947-07-05

OpcIdllOIlS
 ssFREE ENTERPRISE
 Bans the closed shop. Con- tracts in existence before June 23 providing for a closed shop con- tinue i'm force and may be renewed before the 60 days following June g but only for one year. (Etfec- tive Aug. 22.)
 2-Bans the union shop unless a majority of workers covered by the cOntract-nOt a majority Of those voting-v0te in favor Ot 1t. (Effectiye Aug. 22.)
 3-Bans the expulsion Of a member from a union except on the grounds of nOn-payment ot dues or fees. This is seen as an open invitation to company spies and restricts the unions right to discipline a member who prOvOkes trouble. Effective Aug. 22.)
 4EBans a dues checkOtf under threat of $1O,00O fine and year in jail against the employer unless he receives a written request by the em- ploye authorizing the deduction. (Ef- fective Aug. 22.)
 5tBans maintenance of member ship except on the same terms as the union shop. Effective Aug. 22.)
 6-Bans preferential hiring. This prohibition, however, will probably be open to court interpretation. (Effec- tive Aug. 22.)
 zBans collective bargaining by foremen. Effective Aug. 22.)
 INJUNCTIONS COMING
 8-Bans all forms of secondary boycotts and nullifes the Norris-La- Guardia Act which has been inter- preted to uphold the right of union to boycott where the intention is to compel collective bargaining, better wages, hours, etc. Effective Aug. 22.)
 9-Bans jurisdictional strikes and requires the NLRB to seek in- functions against jurisdictiOnal strikes, secondary bOycOtts, and strikes to obtain union recognition. An employer can more easily ob- tain an injunction when the NLRB, a federal agency, asks for it than if he applies for one himself. (Ef- fective Aug. 22.)
 IO-Bans union expenditures or contributions in connection with either Presidential or Congressional elections. This is the section which would prohibit a dues-supported union paper from supporting or opposing a particular candidate, political policy or platform. (Ef- fective now.)
 11-Permits the Attorney General to obtain 8O-day injunctions against so-called national emergency strikes which could endanger the national health and safety. Picketing and strike benefits would be banned during the injunction. If mediation is unsuccess- f,,l the workers would vote on the em- ployer's last offer. Effective now.)
 12-Bans strikes against the gov ernment under penalty of losing civil service status and become ineligible for federal employment for three years. Effective now.)
 ssMADE YORK;
 13-B ans "featherbedding" or made work" This section could be construed to prohibit a guaranteed work week, paid vacations or ever rest periods. It could permit an em- p1oyer to claim that the work done by 20 men could be done by IS and there by fire the "extra" five. Effective Aug. 22.)
 14-Bans strikes within 60 days ol contract expiration. This could invite employers to initiate the worst kinc of anti-union activities during the las 60 days because the union could no walk out in protest. Effective Aug
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The union times., 1947-07-05

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The union times., 1947-07-05
Central Labor
 Council Schedule

Acting in consultation with the ex- ecutive board, resident Vincent J. Mo Govern cancelled the meeting of the New Haven Central Labor Council scheduled for Thursday, July 3. For the rest of the summer, the Councils meeting schedule will be the first Thursday in July and August, and the third Thursday in September.
The union times., 1947-07-05

Class hatred is unAmerican, ex. cept when embodied in a law by Congress.
 Wall Street Journal reports the government is hopeful of persuad. ing the Creek regime to adopt a liberal labor relations policy. with
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The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-31
BY MAuREEN CARR

At IS, the Rev. Philip Yarrow
is still fighting sin, sex and COM
mercialized vice-with a youthful
vengeance.
A Chicago sin-scrapper for three
decades, Rev. Yarrow has been
confined to his bed and his wheel
chair since 1912 because of a leg
amputation. "But," says Yarrow,
my lower understanding may be
gone-but my upper understand
ing's fine"
I'm just simple minister"
the Reverend insists. pledged to
to break down every pagan. i'm
moral and obscene institution
with which our world society
is threatened"
THE Simple minister's" pledge
has led him to take part in hun
dreds of raids on gin dives, stag
parties, brothels and bawdy
shows. He has gone to Jail for
arresting then refusing to settle
with a bookseller who was peddl-
ing a pulp opus called ga Night
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-31
stor over Chicago
Man who came to sinner

graduation of society. but nobody
seemed TO care he intoned
sadly.
BY degradation of society"
Yarrow intended hot music, auto
mobiles, police officials, politi-
clans, fox trots, Ben Hecht and
Charlie Macarthur, night clubs,
the saxophone, naughty books,
saloons, professional escorts, jit-
terbugs, mayors, and-"The Out
law"
CHICAGO movie house oper-
ators skulked to the dog house of
their profession when Yarrow
condemned the movie, "The Out
law" as typifying ''the' trend to-
ward vulgarity and immortality
in our motion pictures" Yarrow
never saw the movie, but he said
he understood it was "frightfully
wicked"
The Rev. Yarrow was an espe-
cially busy man back in the days
when big Bill' Thompson ruled
the City Hall and Al Capone ruled
the city. In the early '20's a IA
miliar newspaper headline was:
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-31
IN a Moorish Harem."

in a Moorish Harem."
Yarrow. who lives at PlYm-
outh Place. an old folks home
in LAGRANGE. is still head of
the 3s-Year-old Illinois Vigil
ance Association. On April 8.
he rode in style TO the associa-
tion's annual meeting at the
LaSalle Street YMCA-in an
undertaker's -hearse. But there
was nothing symbolic in the
hearse. Yarrow is still very
much alive.
Last October, the hearse car
ried him to the Pilgrim May
flower Church, 44th pl. and
Princeton, where he denounced
the Flaming Forties" as decade
"far worse" than the Reading
Twenties."
THERE was never anything
SO vile in the decadent days of
Rome as there is along 63rd ST.,
N. Clark, w. Madison, and in the
country" Yarrow told the con-
gregation.
II witnessed the gradual de-
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-31
= Red Light Evil Turks Again.

Red Light Evil Turks Again,
Says Yarrow."
In these days Yarrow was
blasting jazz music. dancing and
men who led innocent girls
astraY. FROM the dance pal
aces in Chicago and from the
smaller halls in surrounding
cities and from local dance
rooms in country towns" he
said. come girls whose en-
trance into the life of moral
subnormalitY was accompanied
by the pathological. nerve-ir-
rifating. sex-exciting music of
a jazz orchestra"
STILL BLASTING away. Var
raw looks today at least Is years
younger than he is. His wife, once
trained nurse, tends to all his
wants.
Although he intends to carry
on his work, Yarrow thinks may
be this year someone else will
have to be appointed to head the
Vigilance Association.
Il can't get around the way
I'd like TO-" Yarrow says. and
there's so much sin..."
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-31
BY PETER WILLIAMS
BEN STOOLBERG

BEN STOOLBERG oops, STOLBERG . who found
profitable to write highly coored articles his old friends
tor the Saturday Evening Post has lined another highly
profitable line of spouting-f the sucker will bite
cited national trade association engage stool as
convention speaker the associations secretary asked
Much? for talk on Communsn-Bens Advertised subject
The wire from the bureaus president HAMILTON EAMES
stated: Usual fee $3.50 net"
Ben could spout 1000 hours year at $3.50 per hour
and didn't have to split with Eaes he would gross 100000
year.
BILL SHEEHAN Organizer passing leaflets
different type these days.
News announced the arrival of Az addonLara
early in fact the day shower
Meredith Both mother daughter doing fine . .
Peoples Songs Bernie Asbel big Mnneapolsay
last week They liked his "Song the
HEARD NIany an editorial writer irving
to tell unions not to ask for Ptarch
said about 1900 1T difficult
the belly which has =.
voers Democrats going reactionary
may be tempted to tell to try
to catch the first
note from Bob Travis dispatch should be
the Bob travelling rowing for Allied
Labor News
Incidentally the dramatic Flint sdown strike
against General Motors which Travis led
the DUPONT empire in 1887, Henry Many
Few is now being sold in specially priced edition
The story has il that Tucker 4s-he radically differ
emf car being produced the plant Cicero
Avewin be coming off in about three months
you're interested it'll in the neishborhood
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-31
10Th word PEA
meets June Bird

Acting to help build the Pro-
gressive Citizens of America in
every ward and precinct, the 39th
Ward Pea club this week an
nounced meeting of citizens at
1925 N. Rigeway Ave. for June 8
at $3.50 p. m.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-07-25
Another Step Toward War

The report that national policy going be the
rapid upbudng of the German industry the Ruh with hte
nmation that the present British policy to sociaze the
coal and steel industries there is delayed American private
capital would be willing to make necessary dollar loans to
revalize those INDUSTRIES This of course would that
big corporations who occupied subordinate positions the
cartel with the German ndusrasts before the
would be the big BOSSES And of course if the Amer
lean proposals upplant the British plans private profit
prise will be saved and its free unctonng be backed by the
blood of American youth.
Another omnous drift in national policies is the chang
attitude toward Chang Kai Shek indicated by the
sale to him of tremendous quantity Of small ammuni
on with which to kill the Chinese who daring challenge
the authority of his racketeerng fascitc regime The send
ing of General Wedemeyer to China special mission will
probably to be to find further
strengthen and support the Chinese fascists sup
porting the Greek and Turkish
Of Chang Kai Shek helping native fascsts
to nfame American public opinion against the Soviet Union
by insisting that is supplying the Chinese Commns troops
with supplies This is given the lie by responsible
who investigated the truth alsiy of Chiangs state
Among them Robert Martin of the New York Post
Christopher Rand the New York Herald Tribune and Waldo
Drake the Far East bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times
We expect that General Wedemeyer will get all of his
information from the corrupt and grating regime Of the Ma
tionast government in China
It's time for public opinion to express itself here
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-07-25
Mike Should Consider the Source

Cong. Mike Mansfield Tuesday the floor of the
House took strong exception to certain remarks by
also Ran Tom Dewey, slurrng the good name of
state.
1t all came up wisecrack that worthy made
to Acting Governor Eaton that New York would be glad
to help settle up some of the sparcelypopuated
lions of Montana-by sending $4,000 communists
On second thought, it might not be such bad idea
at tha- would at least give E. G. Toomey and BLACK
Jack Weir of the ACM press some basis of fact the
next time they and their sooges in the Montana Cit
zens Council begin running hther and yon the
countryside labelling every other person red.
Returning to Mikes reaction befoer the HOuse-he
really hit the jackpot in attacking Dewey and the COP
when he stated So. If the tular head of the Repub-
hcan party really wants to do something for Montana
he should Cd Tell Republicans to stop cutting money for
flood control public power and reclamation; (2)
the Republican party do something about high prices
initiation and low-cost housing CD advise the people
of Montana how to keep of the wealth they have
produced instead of having mansions and bouevards
built on Riverside drive New York city, while Mon
tanans walk in the mud
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-07-25
Had Enough?"

Summing the accomplishments of the present session
is about to picture that
discouraging from several viewpoints. Not only does
indicate abject servty the part the majority of its
membership the demands of the special privileged interests
practically complete ignoring the of the
of the people, but the obvious trend toward
patton of the democratic rights of the people, holds OmnOus
threat of drift toward fascistc state The avdiy with
which the the red scare propaganda
clearly red herring serving keep the attention of too
much the public focused from features
national life The utter lack of craftsmanship
members Of makes them unable the almost
inevitable pOrtent of their attitudes and policies
The first major action by the present congress the
elimination of price controls The result of this action has
been the png of outrageous profits by the industries
the expense of the general public Now the high price
ventos in the factories and stores pg and the
chasing of the people whole has decreased
industries to unload and will be in the long talked of re
cession" up necks.
Add to this Accomplishment" by the NAM dominated
majority in the the destruction of rent control and
the drastic reductions appropriations for the department OF
agriculture reducing services the nations food
growers; the legislation which weakens inspection
uaons and the failure to enact kind of national health
legaton the reductions in appropriations for all social
ices and the utter and brazen failure take action to relieve
the housing situation which is, put mildly shameful
feature of national life this great nation which boasts
of its efficiency.
Gaping the climax its activities, was, of course the
by of the BILL deliberately
designed destroy the country
by big business interests and be said to be the ceare
evidence of the fascsc trends in national life
The hopeful is the apparent recognition by the
people the country the present congress
and they still demand change Thus far at least the
democratic right of franchise has been seriously impaired
We hope that the people next year will demand change
that they have really chad enough.