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The union times., 1947-10-25
Bridgeport Ponders Chest Pay Deductions

An employees Community Serv' ices Plan calling for pay roll de- ductiOns to cover the Community Chest annual gift as we'll as gifts of plant employees to other nOn-prO. fit health and welfare agencies which conduct campaigns in the Bridgeport area, is being presented by the Campaign Planning Com mittee for the Greater Community Chest Campaign in Bridgeport and Stratford where the drive for $8O7, ,. 187 will open October 27, accord ing to Leo J. Dunn, Labor Relations Secretary of the Community Chest and Council of Bridgeport and StratfOrd.
 Presented to the Campaign Plan ming Committee by J. William Hope Chairman of the Community Services Plan Committee, composed of 9 citi- zens 5 each from management, labor and the public, this new proposal car ries the backing of the A. F. of L. Central Labor Union and was de- ve1oped by Cooperating Committee of A. F. of L. and C.I:O. leaders in the Bridgeport area to intelligently solve the problem of numerous drives in business and industrial firms throughout the whole year, according to Dunn.
 Members of the Committee which contributed to the develop ment of the Plan to participate to the fullest in this type of cOmmun- ity activity are as follows: Peter Benard, Andrew Fialko, J. Law renee O'Toole, Cummings s. Kins- man, Leo Dunn, Andy Daniels, Leonard Bright, Jack Davis, Joseph P. Cleary, Frank Womack and James Simonelli.
 In addition to Dunn, who is a mem Der of the Campaign Planning Com mittee, organized labor is represented in the Campaign leadership by Peter Benard, President of the Bridgeport Central Labor Union, and Irving Abt who heads the C.IO. Council.
 More than 5000 volunteers will par ticipate in the Campaign this year tc raise the $8O7, ,l87 for the reorganizec Community Chest in Bridgeport ac- cording to Dunn.
 With a goal 36.2 per cent higher than the amount raised last year Campaign leadership for the Bridge port drive is enthusiastic this year and expects to reach or surpass tht established goal. Randall B. Hamrick Director of the Community Advisory Service Center, h Chairman of th' drive.
The union times., 1947-10-25
Labor Wins In Supreme Court
 Overtime Rule

Washington (LPA)-The Supreme Court, in its first important decision of this term affecting labor, refused this week to permit individual states to set one-year limit on the period in which suits for overtime pay may be filed under the U. s. Wage-Hour law.
 Millions of dollars in workers claims in at least Is states were in- volved in the Supreme Courts re- fusal to review a New Orleans Cir cult Court ruling appealed by the Alabama Dry Dock X Shipbuilding Co.,, of Mobile. The Circuit Court had thrown out a l943 Alabama statute requiring workers to file their court claims for overtime within l2 months.
 The Supreme Court also deferred action on an appeal involving the Taft Hartley laws ban on collective bar gaining by foremen. The action was taken to permit both the union and the company to file additional briefs.
The union times., 1947-10-25
Strike Figures In Sharp Drop

Washington (LPA) n Strikes in August fell to the lowest point of any month since March, the Bureau oi Labor Statistics announced last week About 10000 workers were involved in strikes beginning in August.
 Of the 500 strikes in effect during the month, involving altogether about 250,OOO, the largest was the east coast Shipyard strike with nearly 5O0OO out The ,325 new strikes in August com pared with 300 which started in July and 560 in August last year. The figures for January to August inc1u- sive showed 2,8O0 new strikes for this year and 3,458 for the same period last year. A total of 2,1800O0 workers were involved in strikes during the first eight months of 1947 as compared with 3,42O000 for the similar months in 1046
The union times., 1947-10-25
AFL Convention
 Comes Out For Highest Wages

SAN FRANCISCO - CPD m A pledge to 'keep our wage standards al the highest possible level' and to dis regard the price index figures of the Labor Dept. was unanimously ap- proved by the AFL in its Goth con- vention here
 Big business" the AFL declared ''has prompted the slogan that wage increases mean price increases, anc does not take into consideration the increase in productivity"
 The convention warned unions against using the bureau of labor statistics cost-of-living index as a guide to wage demands because they ''dO not reflect the true cost of living.''
 A resolution demanding government price control was referred to the ex- ecutive committee for such action as il deemed appropriate. AFL leaders had indicated previously, however. that they opposed such action.
 The 700 delegates also hit at the US. policy of granting loans to for ,eign governments to finance shipbui1d- ing programs which compete with American shipyard workers. and also attacked the sending of steel and other non-ferrous metals to foreign coun- tries when there are not sufficient sup plies available for US. use.
 Other resolutions adopted by the convention in its closing hours de- manded:
 A fair and equitable system of taxation.
 A JUN survey of the use of slave labor in all LIN member nations.
 Admission of 100000 displaced persons into the US. over a period of four years.
 Passage of the Wagner-Murray. Dingen health insurance bill.
 An end to the indiscriminate fir ing of government employees.
The union times., 1947-10-25

In reply to questions as to whether it might not be a violation of the Taft-Hartley law to pay special assessments voted by the Federation's convention, Haggerty declared that it was the opinion of the legal departments of both the Federation and the national AFL that the Taft-Hartley restriction on ''the political contributions of labor unions is unconstitutional"
 Haggerty pointed out that "since it is labor's intent to challenge the constitutionality of the Act, both na tionally and locally, and since it is absolutely mandatory for labor to work for the repeal of this Act, the Federation urges all of them to CO., operate fully by paying the assess ments voted by the Federation's con- vention."
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The union times., 1947-10-25
Merchant Arrested For Cutting Prices


 ST. PAUL-The iniquity of so- called flair trade" laws was brought into the limelight here by an extraor dinary incident.
 Maurice Helperin, grocery-meat market proprietor, has been arrested for selling a shortening which cost him 90 cents for 95 cents. The state charged he violated the law in not de- manding 98 cents, or the closest fig ure to an 8 per cent markup the stat ute requires.
 Helperin said he "hgpres I'm better off to sell 100 items and make a nickel apiece-thats $5-than to sell 10 items at a dime apiece and make only $1. Besides, didn't President Truman ask everybody to cut prices?
The union times., 1947-10-25
LABOR NOMINEES WIN

DETROIT-(FP)-Five endorsees for city council supported by the CIO were nominated at the Detroit primary Oct. 7. All but one of the AFL in- dorsees made the grade. State Sen. Stanley Nowak, Democratic leader in the upper house, boiled around 40OOO votes and placed 10th among the IS nominees. Council Pres. George Ed wards, who holds membership card in JAW Local 174, topped the poll with almost 10000 votes for renom- ination. Finals are Nov. 4.
 Mention The Union Times When Shopping.
The union times., 1947-10-25
Movie Dispute Is Referred To A.F.L. Council

SAN FRANCISCO-(FP) - The Hollywood jurisdictional dispute be- Etween the United Bro. of Carpenters and the Intl. Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes slipped quietly through the AFL convention here as the delegates voted without discussion to turn the matter back to the execu- tive council for Speedy adjustment." l"
 The convention ''tOok note" of the efforts of the executive council to settle the controversy whether the carpenters or the IATSE should have control of set erection on Hol- IywOOd stages, and recommended that it continue its efforts to bring about a solution of the situation which has become the major factor in a year old strike by the carpen- ter-Ied Conference of Studio Un- ions.
 The executive council during con vention sessions restated its decision that the contested work belongs to the carpenters but the IATSE contends the jobs belong to it under a previous ruling and refused to order its men to surrender the jobs. The lATSE won the early support of Hollywood pro ducers. but during recent efforts to settle the problem they agreed to ac- cept any decision reached by the AFL.
 Other actions taken by the con- vention included: Approval of the US. position in supporting the n1a- jOrity report of the LIN special com- mittee on Palestine, which called for admission of 5O,OOO Jews into Palestine in the next two years and separation of that country into Jewish and Arab states.
 Sending a message of support to Japanese trade unionists and inviting them to send fraterna1 delegates to the next AFL convention.
 Passage, of number of resolutions urging improvement of conditions in Puerto Rico and the Panama Canal Zone
The union times., 1947-10-25
Portal Case Appeal Urged By League

New York (LPA)-Attorneys of the Workers Defense League have been making a study of the anti-por- tal-to-portal-pay law, and are conf dent it will be declared unconstitu- tional if properly appealed to a higher court, the WDL announced last week
 The League urged an appeal of the Pittsburgh decision upholding the laws constitutionality and dismissing 43 portal suits involving $367, ,454,00
The union times., 1947-10-25
ILG Health Center
 To Expand Program

New York (LPA) - Construction and installation has begun on a $1 100000 expansion of the Union Health Center of the Int1 Ladies Gar ment Workers-AFL. In 1914 the gar ment industry agreed to turn over 31a% of the total payroll to ILGW for establishment of a health and wei fare fund and as a result the union is now enlarging its clinic from a floor and half to five floors.
The union times., 1947-10-25
Cal. AFL Pushes
 Drive For Funds
 For T-H Repeal

San Francisco (LPA) u Secretary J. C. Haggerty, of the California State Federation of Labor, last week wrote to all California unions impress ing upon them the urgent need to CO., operate in financing the fight to re- apportlon the state senate and to op- pose Congressmen who voted for the Taft-Hartley law.
The union times., 1947-10-25
FAIR PLAY IN BOWLING

Buffalo (LPA)-The JAW execu- tive board has given $12O00 to the unions recreation department in a move to combat discrimination in bowling. The money will be used to create a rival organization to the American Bowling Congress with a nucleus of 10000 JAW members now bowling in ABC leagues.
The union times., 1947-10-25
Second Death At A.F.L. Convention

San Francisco (LPA) = A second death occurred at the. AFL convention last week when Ed Thall, secretary of the Detroit Building Trades Council, died of heart attack. The week be- fore General, Counsel Joseph Padway had died of a cerebral hemorrhage
The union times., 1947-10-25
Over 1000 Attend
 Palestine Rally

Governor James L. McConaughy Thomas Dodd chief cuor at the Nuremberg trials and Joseph Schlossberg national chairman the American Trade Union Council for Labor Palestine the chief speakers rally arranged by the Bridge port Labor Committee Palestine headed by Joseph Ceary vicepresident of the Park City Central Labor Union
The union times., 1947-10-25

A signpOst of increased discrim- inatiOn: the proportion of Jewish students enrolled in professional courses in colleges fell from 8.89o in 1885 to 7@o in 1946.
The union times., 1947-10-25

Out of 9,2OO regular army conn missions authorized recently only 29 were awarded Negroes.
The union times., 1947-10-25

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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-02-27
Couldn't Please En-

Chicago-R. B. HELLER, s4-year-
old painter, got ticket for speed
ing at 4:35 P. M, and at 4:5O P.
NJ, he got ticket for the same
traffic violation. Four hours
later, the same policemen who
gave him the second ticket saw
car snailing along at about eight
miles an hour, impending traffic.
They stopped it and found Heb
Ter to be the driver. He got a
ticket for driving too slow.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-02-27
U. S. Savings

American people shave more
than $30O,O0O,OO0,Oc0 in banks,
investments and insurance, ac-
cording to the Research Council
for Economic Security, which sum
is nearly twice the national in
come, is $40,OOo,000,co0 more
than the national debt and within
d few billions of the 1938-estimat-
ed national wealth Of the entire
nation. The $200,000,00O does
not include such forms of private
security plans as prepaid medical
care and disqualification insurance,
the $7OO,000,0O0 worth of health
and accident insurance carried by
44,000,000 persons; the 5000
pension and grolp annuity plans
conducted by private industry, or
the money set aside for 100000
persons receiving military and
civil pensions.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-02-27
New Presidential Plane

A new airplane, special de
luxe version of the DC-4, will re-
place the now famous Sacred
Cow, President Truman's private
airplane. Faster and more luxu-
rious than the DC-4, the DC-6 is
designed to cruise at better than
800 miles an hour and has a range
of 2,54O miles.
If the habit keeps up it won't
be long before Americans will joy
ously celebrate the Week That Is
Not A Week.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-02-27

There are thousands of ex-serv-
ice men who are wondering what
has happened to the theory of free
enterprise.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-09-12

TYPEWRITERS, Immediate de- livery on new Remington standard and portables. See Art Nelson.
 3E.tfc
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-09-12

This study is being made to in- sure that the establishment of the pulp industry here will not damage fishery resources by polluting the waters. The Forest Service has for several years guarded against da.a- age to fish and spawning grounds from logging by inclusion in all timber sale contracts clauses pro hibiting operations that will affect spawning fish or the spawni g grounds
 The Petersburg Diision Office T the Forest Service will aid in the study at Thomas Bay.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-09-12

4 survey of prices seen in Al8s- ka cities and comparison with fbe average in 49 United States cities a spokesman said. showed Alaska cities were this much higher:
 Ketehikan, g per cent; Anchor age and Kodiak, each 42 per eeua and Fairbanks. 51 per cent.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-09-12

FOR SALE - 16-ft. boat with inboard Oman motor, 2-cylinder, 10 h. p. At Kennedy's. Kabinet Shop. Call any day but Saturday. 41-3tp
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-09-12
St. Rose of Lima & St. John CATHOLIC CHURCH
 Rev. M. E. Hoch. Pastor

Sunday, Sept. IA, Sixteenth Sun day after PenticOst.
 Holy Masses are at and 10 Q ,1. Holy Communion Sunday for he Holy Name Society.
 Week day Holy Masses: Monday and Saturday, a. m; rest of the week. 7:3O a. m.
 Server for the week is Master William Wonders.
 Choir practice Wednesday even 'ng at 7.50.
 Mrs. Grace Miles will decorate the altar for Sunday.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-09-12

FOR SALE = G-M-C 11a ton truck, Al mechanical condition, flat bed with side racks. At Ray Kennedy's, miles out Institute road. 42-3.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-09-12

c. Howard BaltzO
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-09-12
at The Gift Shop

FOR SALE - Columbia River model gillnet boat, sockeye net aud gillnet skiff. See Charlie Nickel son. 43-ltp
 WANTED AT ONCE Rawleigh Dealer in nearby vicinity Write Rawleigh's, Dept. SKI-1S-F, Oak land, Calif 43-1tc
 FOR SALE - 175 fathom coloa glllnet; 15O fathom extra webb. l9-ft. gillnet skiff; h.p. Fit
 outboard All in first class shape, $500 cash. See Carl Messinger Or Herman at Hotel. 43-2tp
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-09-12
AT THE CHURCHES
ASSEMBLY OF GOD ". R. Gum. Pastor
 MISSION

10:30 a. m. Sunday School. 11;30 to 12 Morning Worship.
 7:30 Sunday Evening Evangel- stic Service.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-09-12
IL - SHOW STARTS 7:8O PM

Ms. Miriam Benson, Miss Mar le1 bauseu. William Fretwell, Mr. and Mrs. Karl sifferman, Mir. ana Mrs. Charles Yadon.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-09-12
SALVATION ARMY
 Corps Officers Cant. Esther Wilson Capt. E. J. MeITi

Holiness Meeting 11:00 a m. sunday s, hool 3:00 p. m. Prayer Meeting 7:30 p m. Salvation Meeting S:00 D. m. Wednesday. Young People 2 meeting. 7:30 D. m.
 Friday Holiness meeting Sou b m
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-09-12
STARTING SUNDAY. SEPT.
ARRIVE ON LOUISE

Passengers arriving in Wranga# . board the Princess Louise lasl Monday were.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-09-12

ALASKA FOOD PRICES
 THIRD TO HALF HIGHER
 THAN IN UNITED STATES JUNEAU - Alaska food prices average from one-third to one-half higher than in the United States. the Territorial Department of Ld- bor said this week.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-09-12
FOREST SERVICE TO START STUDY ON PULP MILL
 WASTE DISPOSAL

Chester of the Forest Service Mai ison Laboratory and Edward C. Locke Of the Pacific Northwest Forest Experiment Station at Port land, Ore, will arrive in Peters burg the latter part of September to study the problem of pulp mill waste disposal at Thomas Bay They will also study the Ketchikan pulp mill site for the same prob lem.
Evening star., 1947-09-07
Peril 10 Cotton Industry
Seen in Foreign Efficiency
BY the Assoeiatsd Press


HILLsBoRo, Tex. Sept. s-E. D
White, assistant to the Secretary OF
Agriculture, asserted today that
foreign efficiency and production
methods pose q threat to the Amer
lean cotton industry.
Mr.. White, in an address before
the Statewide Cotton COMMITTEES
of Texas, said that despite today's
favorable position Of the United
States cotton industry, there still
exists a destructive threat to cot
ton"
"Ceaselessly, day by day, Mr.
White said, this competition Is
gnawing away at the very founda-
ton on which cotton rests.
Rising efficiency and increased
production Of foreign cotton, and
of domestic and foreign synthetic
fibres" are the greatest threat.
Mr.. White disclosed that once
vast stocks of cotton held by the
Commodity Credit Corporation
have entirely disappeared" pri-
marily, he said, because Of the post
Evening star., 1947-09-07

made TO learn tust what happens
after exposure to radiations.
Complete disappearance Of skin
cancers in 80 persons Of 48 treated
with extracts Of beef spleen and
lamb liver were reported by DR.
Joseph c. Amersbach Of New York
City and DR.. Leo @. Nutini Of Gin
cinnati.
The skin cancers returned later
in five of these 80 persons, they
said in a progress report on studies
in the last five years with the ex-
tract, developed at the Institutum
Divi Thomae Of Cincinnati.
All but two Of the Is other pa
tients showed improvement but the
treatments were not completed.
Most of the cases were of the
simplest form OF skin cancer, and
no other kinds Of cancer 'other than
those occurring in the skin were
involved in the research, they said
Two-thirds OF the cases have been
observed so far from two to four
years since the tumors disappeared
Evening star., 1947-09-07
AZ Given Certificates
As Accountants in YeuI

The Board Of Accuntancy re-
ported to the Commissioners yester-
day that 1t issued Al certificates dur
ing the fiscal year ended June 80
emitting that number Of persons to
practice in the District as certified
accountants.
All but four Of the successful can
didates had taken the examinations
in May and November. 1916. Three
certificates were issued after oral
examinations Of accountants en-
titled to practice in other Stated
A fourth was a re-examination.
Wayne Kendrick Is president vi
the board; S. Frank Levy, treasurer
and Millard T. Charlton, secretary
Evening star., 1947-09-07
Congress Of Guam Asks
Continuation Of Navy Rule
By the Assoeioted Press

GUAM, Sept. 6-The Congress o
Guam today unanimously adopted
resolution urging continuation O
the naval government until such
time as Guam and her people are
fully rehabilitated and the economy
of the island is fully recovered
from the effects of the war.
The resolution, adopted at joint
session of both houses, made nc
reference to criticism of the Navy
administration by Secretary of the
Interior Julius Krug, former Sec.
retary Harold L. Ickes and others.
The Congress asked that the nav
Evening star., 1947-09-07

al governor. Rear Admiral Charles
A. Pownall, forward the resolution
to President Truman, the United
States Congress and all interested
governmental departments and
agencies.
Evening star., 1947-09-07

war development Of export markets
Mr.. White said that the Agricul-
ture Department recognizes that
increased industrialization Of the
South would greatly decrease the
possibility of a substantial social
problem arising from the complete
mechanization of cotton
He urged that unskilled laborers
displaced in the mechanization be
retained and relocated in other
segments OF Southern agriculture
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-12
VACATION CHURCH SCHOOL PICNIC IS
 SCHEDULED FRIDAY

Adjutant Henry Lorenzen has re- ported the plans of the picnic which will be held for the students of the Vacation Church School to the gen. eral assembly. All students will take lunches to the session tomorrow and also wear clothes suitable for pie nicking. Following school on Friday the student body will go to the Ever green Bowl, or to the A. B. Hall. if it is raining, for lunch followed by refreshments provided by the school
 Following the picnic competitive games for various age groups have been arranged. The remainder of the afternoon will be given over to the preparation of handicraft dis plays by the several departments, as in the evening parents and friends of the school as we'll as interested persons in the community are in- vited to attend the commencement exercises when certificates of merit will be given to those students who have shown proficiency.
 This program will begin at 7:30 o'clock and will be held in the Northern Light Presbyterian Church at Fourth and Franklin.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-12
MAIlMAM'S HOBBY
 ESD0CT0RING FISH,:
 HAS 1o,Co0 IN YARD

FL PASO, Tex-James D. King has Teen an Fl Paso mail carrier since 1915, but he's probably bet ter known as the goldfish doctor. .
 His reputation has been IS years in the making. It started when he ran out of fishing bait one day ana decided to raise his own. Today he has 10000 goldfish in his back yard, plus 10000 snails and an es- tihnated mile of fishing worms"
 The hobby keeps his telephone ringing with requests for advice frcm owners of ailing goldfish.
 King keeps his fish in tanks full Of fiant spear plants, star lilies and umbrella plants. Before us- ing 6 tank he waits until the wat CT is green-stained with vegeta- ticn.
 The goldfish would starve to death in clear water he explains.
 To supplement their diet he feeds green flies, supplied from specially built traps. and ground shrimp and oatmeal. The worms get bread crumbs.
 As fish doctor, dietitian and san itGry engineer, King has help from the snails, which serve as scaven- gers, ard from gambusha minnows, which he credits with ridding the fish of lice.