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Evening star., 1947-06-13
Ethridge Will Confer
with GriswoId Today
On Greek Conditions

Mark F.. Ethridge, American men,
Der of the United Nations Balkan
Inquiry Commission, planned to
confer here today with Dwight
Griswold, director of the new Unit
ed States assistance program for
Greece.
Mr.. Ethridge told reporters after
meeting with Secretary of State
/ Marshall yesterday that border Sc
curity is the primary requirement
/ for restoration of stability in
/ Greece.
! Mr.. GriSwold was due here from
/ Germany. where he has been one
of the top officials on the American
Military Government staff.
Preliminary Work Done.
| He will spend some time in con-
ferences here, Gen. Marshall told a
news conference yesterday, before
going to Greece. Gen. Marshall said
as much as possible of the prelim-
mary work of developing details of
the aid program and assembling a
staff of assistants for Mr.. Griswold
already has been done
Mr.. Ethridge tersely replied nut"
to criticism of him by Yugoslav
Ambassador Sava N. Kosanovic be-
cause of statements he made about
aid furnished to Creek guerrillas
by Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Albania.
Mr.. Ethridge had said in an inter-
view Monday in New York that
those three countries were "arming,
training, supplying and giving hos
pitalization and refuge to guerrilla
forces operating in Northern
| Greece"
Challenges Propriety.
! Mr.. Kosanovic challenged the pro-
priety of such statement by MIR,
Ethridge as a member of United
Nations agency Mr.. Ethridge told
newsmen that he had made the
statement but that the United Ma
tions Commission had said the
same thing, by an 8 to 2 vote, in
its report of its investigation into
conditions in Greece.
Mr.. kosanovic made his protest
in a letter to Trygvie Lie, secretary
general of the United Nations. The
letter said of Mr.. Ethridge:
His conduct in this instance
makes it permissible to conclude
that what he presents to the Sc
icurity Council will not be the OBJ
jective findings of an investigator
seeking to help the Security Council
by ascertaining the facts and there
by making it possible to adopt the
right solution for a most important
problem. but very preludiced re-
port with specific political aim"
Evening star., 1947-06-13
Bombuy Sturts Gift Fund

The government of Bombay, IN
dia. has created Private Do
nations and Contributions Fund for
those who wish to make gifts to
the government for use in some
particular manner
Evening star., 1947-06-13
Correction

The Mount Rainier and Greenbelt
High School graduation ceremonies
will be held next Friday, June 20,
and not today as printed in yes
terdays Star. The Star regrets the
error.
Evening star., 1947-06-13
Record Temperatures Thi. Year.

Highest. or on June II
Lowest. T. on February 5.
Tide Tables
Evening star., 1947-06-13
TempersHre and Humidity.

tResdinss at Washington National Airport
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-28

July l, 1913. whichever is
sooner, including union secu-
rity clauses and check-off.
Question: Is it illegal for a
worker to contribute dollar
TO the PAC campaign?
Answer: No. There is nothing
in the act which forbids such
contributions.
Question: Does the new law
mean that worker now nego-
tiates his own grievances with
management?
Answer: Stewards and union
representatives have the right
to sit in on negotiations of
grievances with management.
Question: Is the Taft-Hartley
Act now in effect?
Answer: Most of the provi-
sions of the act are not in eff
feet until August %, 1947.
Only the following provisions
became effective on June %,
l947.
J.. Forbidding government
employees from participating in.
strikes.
2. Providing new require
ments for new contracts in
volving check-off clauses.
3. Permitting employers to
sue unions for breach of con-
tract or for damages resulting
from strikes, secondary boy
colts or jurisdictional disputes.
4. Providing for the enlarge
ment of the NLRB.
S. Allowing employers to
seek injunctions for 80 days in
strikes 'imperiling national
health Or safety"
6. Forbidding unions from
spending money or making con-
tributions to political cam
paigns for federal office.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-28

by organizing, striking and picket
ing"
Most observers discounted news
paper propaganda to the effect
that administration officials would
fail to enforce the new act. Point
eddy, insiders noted that President
Truman and other leaders had
failed to mobilize Democratic SEN
ators. illinois Senator Scott w.
Lucas changed his vote and sup
ported the Truman veto.)
THIRD PARTY possibilities
doomed as an only alternative and
intensified political action to CAM
paign now for Independent can
didates was definite.
President A. F. Whitney of the
Brotherhood Of Railroad Train
said labor will not accept the
measure without desperate
hight Railroad brotherhoods are
now negotiating with major lines
here)
William Miller, executive di-
rector of the Illinois chapter of
the Progressive Citizens of Amer
lea. lit is obvious that prog
ressives must think in terms of
creating Independent political
machinery. Otherwise progressives
viii have no choice in 49,"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-28

(CIO): "Our traditional two-party
system OF government is gone.
With both parties competing in
the service of reactionary big bust
ness, there is no representation
for the will of the people. :.
workers now have nothing. !. :.
except their will to act together
in self protection. the govern
ment is following the Hitler Mus
solini blueprint for fascism. To
save our free institutions. Amer
lean workers must meet this chal-
lenge by uniting as never before,
in economic and political action"
Jack Knoll, vice president Of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
union and chairman of the CIO
T. Official Action Commit
tee, came here to meet local union
chiefs this week and reminded
them that labor must unite Gas
did our ancestors around one of
our first flags" The flag he de-
scribed was that which bore the
sketch of a rattleSnake and the
slogan of Don't Tread On Me-"
FAR from running to cover in
the face of legalistic attacks and
threatened falling, practically all
labor leaders here and in other
cities smacked back with greater
militancy.
International President Harry
Bridges of the Longshorenen's g.
Warehousemen's union warned
that his union would flight back
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-28
Resist slave act.
miners walk out
BY TED cox

the labor
Tat-Eartey 81
In an unofficial ayou that snowbled
a them
ean"ne workers all sections of the
washington unse battle fronthe
poyers who have deadies
PRESIDENT esofI
the
CO meetings Washington and REGIONAL %
met here eO'f'
William combat the drive for slave
90 n Aneria
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-28
Who likes slave
law? City's No. l
strike buster

From Police Capt. George
Barnes. head of the Labor De-
tail" who has smashed more
strikes than any other man in
Chicago came hearty approval
for the Taft-HartleY act.
Barnes. who has long found
the provisions of the Wagner
Act highly troublesome. in his
business. feels that at last he
has free fist.
THE law will take a little
power away from the unions.
but il will hurt no one" he de-
clared.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-28


Within hours after the Taft
Hartley Act became law, the
Chicago Star was bonbarded
with phone calls from workers
and union leaders asking for
Qualification of their rights
under the act.
In some cases, employers
were, reported to be taking the
new law into their own hands
by demanding that stewards
sign loyalty" affidavits.
In response to these requests,
the Star asked Labor Attorney
David B. Rothstein to answer
several of the many questions
that come in:
X Question: Are unionists re-
quired to sign a,ffidavits stat
ing that they are mot MEM
bers of the Communist Party
or adherents to any organiza-
ton that believes in or teaches
overthrow of the government"
Answer: Individuals do not
have to sign such affidavits
under any conditions. The
clause relating to this matter
does not go into effect until
August %, 1947. At that time,
such affidavits must be on file
with the Secretary of Labor
only in cases where an inter-
national union or a subordinate
body is seeking bargaining
rights through the National
Labor Relations Board. In such
cases affidavits are required
only of officers Of the inter-
national union or bargaining
levels.
In no case does the employer
have any right to demand such
affidavits.
Question: Does the Taft
Hartley Act nullify our union
contract?
Answer;se ALI contracts in
force lat present =eentinue in
force until expiration or until
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-28
Any similarity
is purely
coincidentaI'

In Hitler Germany an early
decree. called a Proclamation
for the Protection of German
Labor. stressed that I'VE do
not want to disrupt and destroy
unions"
Its purpose. the Nazis de-
clared. was TO end Marks"
domination of the unions. OPP
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-28

ponents of the Nazis were COW
cred by the following:
THE right TO protest against
the dismissal of an employee. !.
shall not subsist if the dismis-
sal is based on suspicion of an
attitude of hostility to the
STATE"
Under this and similar pro-
visions. first Communists and
Jews We're thrown out of work
and frequently into jails. Only
a few months later. however.
this very order was used TO
wipe out the Catholic Trade
Union Federation.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-28

William Green and other
labor in America.
Declared Green: 1.-THE ALL will
launch an immediate campaign
for the prompt repeal of the Taft
Hartley Act. We believe the law
will prove such boomerang that
the sponsors and supporters viii
be voted out of office by the
American people next year" Rep.
Lesinski Cd. Mich.) introduced
repeal bill.
The coal diggers (AFL United
Mine Workers and the Indepen-
dent Progressive Miners of Amer
ica) were more direct. They pulled
up the elevators to the pitmouths,
LETT them there and walked off
the job.
Let the Senators go down
and dig that coal" they shoutsd.
Apr XIMA TELY 10000
working miners were out of Illi-
nois mines and nobody could pre-
dict when they would go back.
Reached at his home in Spring
field District IL President Hugh
White of the UMWA explained to
the Star why rank and filters were
staying away from the pits.
Senator Taft. in his arau-
ment for passage of the bill. in
sisted that no man can be
forced TO work against his
will" White said. THE miners
take him at his word and they
won't operate as slaves under
the bill so they didn't go TO
work. working under slave
labor conditions is working
against our will"
No formal strike was called and
no miner was ordered off the job,
although commercial newspapers
blamed John L. Lewis instead of
Senator Taft for the drop in coal
production and Attorney General
Tom Clark was quick to grab
headlines by announcing "inves-.
'igation" of the mine waIk-out.
sPEARHEADED by Alabama
miners, the walk-out quickly
spread to Illinois, Ohio, West Vir-
ginia and Pennsylvania. R. E.
Farr, southern district president
of the CLIO United Steelworkers
of America, predicted general
strike by at least 80 per cent of
all organized CIO unions.
In San Francisco. the Indus
trial Union Council wired Clio
President Philip Murray urging
an Immediate 24-hour work
stoppase TO protest passage of
the law.
Officials of the printing trades
unions here asserted they will
continue to demand closed shop
agreements in forthcoming nego-
tiations with newspaper publish
ers.
SEVERAL labor leaders sought |
joint emergency action, but final
action depended upon a series of |
almost continuous sessions of lead
ers and members over the week
end, both here and throughout the |
country.
Declared International Presi-,
dent Maurice Travis of the Mine. 4
Mill and Smelter Workers union
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-28
Questions end answers
on Toft-HortIey act

"aong the dangers Of the Hartley bin IS the
Drought about by looselyorded provisions
possible the Chicago Star sH dvote itself coming
and months 10 The job of clarifying the rights of
under the act and to Explain Sghere
0ithin the confines of the act.
Arizona sun., 1947-01-24
WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF WAR DEPARTMENT
PRESS RELEASES OF GENERAL INTEREST

Forty-nine United States Infor-
nation Centers have been estab-
lished in areas administered by
American Military Government to
revive the free interchange of cul-
tural, scientific, and educational in
formation in the former enemy
countries. the Civil Affairs Division
of the War Department has an
nounced.
These centers, as we'll as pro-
viding library facilities for the To-
cal population will be used as
channels for distributing books,
pamphlets, and periodicals for loan
to designated individuals and insti-
tut;ons in the areas served by them.
Twenty Centers have been es-
tablished in the U. S. Zone in Ger
many, II in Japan, seven in Korea,
four in Austria, and one, served
jointly by the British and U. S.
Military Governments, in Trieste.
To each of these 49 Centers an
identical collection of approx
mately 5000 to 5000 titles (insofar
as present depleted book stocks
can provide 49 copies of the titles
selecteO and 300 current periodi-
Gals will be sent during the year.
These basic collections are to be
extensively supplemented by spe-
cial collections for Centers having
special areas of interest.
Arizona sun., 1947-01-24
Pioneer phoenitian
Suteumbs To Illness

4 Funeral services for Thomas Z.
Smith, retired Western Union
maintenance worker who died Sum
day at his home, 1221s East Mon
roe Street, was held at 11:3O a. m.
last Wednesday in Memory Chapel
of A. L. Moore and Sons Mortuary.
The Rev. J. L. Boyd offictated
at the rites. Burial was in Green
wood Memorial Park.
Born July 16, 1870, in Wichita,
Kan. Mr.. Smith came to Arizona
in 1892, settling in Globe. In 1897.
he moved to Phoenix, where he
has since resided. He had been in
i'll health three years.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Rhoda Bell Smith, Phoenix; a bro
ther, E. Hilburt Smith, Prescott
and a sister, Mrs. Ray Dago, Oak
land, Calf.
Arizona sun., 1947-01-24
NEGRO PARACHUTE NFANTRYMEN TAKE
PART IN EXPERIMENTS WITH (-74 PLANE

Fort Bragg, N. C.-Members of
the 555th Parachute Infantry Bat
talon stationed here under the
command of Major James H. Porter
of New York City, in conjunction
with the Army Air Forces and the
Airborne Test Section of the Army
Ground Forces, are carrying on ex-
tensive experiments with the Army
Air Forces Globemaster," pro-
saically referred to as Type GA.
Capable of transporting $50 fully
equipped combat soldiers to any
part of the shrinking world, it is
one of the Air Forces latest an
swers to the speculations on NOV
ing the Army of the future.
With no doors to enter through,
the soldiers are lifted into the plane
by an elevator which drops from
the belly and lifts twenty-four men
at a time into its interior. The
Paratroops are working out the
most efficient methods for loading
and unloading personnel and equip
ment, the latter ranging from u
ton Jeeps to heavy Artillery and
"a ton trucks.
The 555th Parachute Infantry
Battalion, a unit of the Regular
Army and part of the 82nd Air
Arizona sun., 1947-01-24
jim CROW VOTED
DOWN ON COAST

Palo Alto, Calif-Admission of
Negroes was approved recently by
two-to-one vote of members of
the Peninsula Cooperative Hous-
ing Association here.
While the Jim Crow question
threatened to create a crisis in
the organization regardless of out
come" SO members said yes, AZ
voted no and 81 others abstained
on the issue of endorsing the Roch-
dale coop principle of open MEM
bership, regardless of color or
creed reports the Associated Co.
operator, Oakland, Calf.
Although it had been expected
that ga number of members might
withdraw regardless of which way
the vote went, t''few strong reac-
tions" have been registered to the
open membership stand of the Cali
fornia coop, it was reported.
Arizona sun., 1947-01-24
Army Band Leader
Is Separated From
Service Al Fort Dix

Fort Dix, N. Warrant Officer
Henry S. Johnson, Indianapolis,
Ind, organizer of an 88-piece Me-
gro band which entertained more
than million troops serving in
the European Theater during the
war years, returned here last week
for separation from the Army after
So months of continuous service
in the European Theater.
After seeing action in France,
Belgium and Germany, having
landed on the Continent shortly
after D-Day, Warrant Officer
johnson set about organizing the
band which was to bring many
moments of relaxation to battle
weary troops.
The band toured the European
Theaters under orders which came
directly from General Dwight D.
Eisenhower, then the theater COM
mander.
! Warrant Officer johnson also has
in his possession a letter OF COM
mendation from General Joseph T.
McNarney, who succeeded General
Eisenhower.
Arizona sun., 1947-01-24
Chicago Bargaining Victory
Shows What Can Be Done By
Labor Union In Negotiating
reprint Of Editorial in
Chicago Sun, Jan. 12)

Once again, as in the case of the
meat packing industry and its
unions, a group of Chicago en-
ployers-the city's 1000 trucking
companies sat across the
bargaining table from union Off
cials and hammered out an excell-
ent agreement without a strike and
despite the fact that union con-
tracts had expired.
Both the employers associations
and the two unions involved are
to be congratulated for keeping
their heads and remembering that
public interest required, as Presi-
dent Truman said in his Estate of
the Union" address, that neither
side resort to economic force with
out exhausting the possibilities for
agreement through the bargaining
process"
The u. S. Cancellation Service
also is to be commended for it's as
signment of Howard Plank, an able
commissioner of conciliation, to the
truck dispute. The employers
groups are the Carriage Exchange
of Chicago, the Illinois Motor
Truck Operators Association and
the Central Motor Freight Associ-
alton. The unions are Local 705
of the international Brotherhood
of Teamsters (AFL) and the Chi
cago Truck Drivers Union (inde-
pendent).
Arizona sun., 1947-01-24
Ex-Husband Kills
His Former Mate

Eula Mae Williams, 81 years old,
was shot to death in the living room
of her home at 1920 East Jefferson
street early last night and her di-
vorced husband, Clarence, 30, ad-
mitted firing the shot but insisted
it was accidental.
Preston Pettus and Peter Wurts,
police patrolmen, found the woman
dead in a chair after being sum-
moned by Mrs. Williams daughter,
Thelma, who ran to a neighbor's
home when the couple started ar
guing. tkn
Williams told Sgt. Earl O'Clair,
chief of detectives, and r. H. Re-
maud, chief deputy county attor-
ney, that his former wife suddenly
produced a pistol, he drew his pis-
tol and it discharged into. her neck
in the Scuffle,
The shooting occurred shortly
after Mrs. Williams returned from
a visit with relatives in Texas.
Arizona sun., 1947-01-24
Negro Group Sharply
Condemn Cartoon
Song Of The South

Los Angeles.-Sterotyped charac-
terizations Of Negroes depicted in
Walt Disney's "Song of the South y
were sharply condemned blythe
Los Angeles chapter of the Nation
al Negro Congress.
In a letter to theater owners and
managers throughout the city,
Helen Samuels, executive secretary
of the congress, charged that "Song
Of the South" will only serve to
whip up antagonisms between
Negro and white Americans"
She urged a boycott of the
"subtly vicious film"
If response from theater man.
ayers is not favorable, Miss Samu-
els said, the local chapter of the
congress, together with other COM
munity organizations, will picket
theaters attempting to show the
film. It is due for release in Los
Angeles soon.
Arizona sun., 1947-01-24
Funeral Service Held
For Willie Lee

Funeral services were held for
Mr.. Willie Lee, At, of 1922 E. Ad-
ans ST., who died in local hospital
on January 9, on Thursday of last
week at the First Colored Baptist
Church, Rev. L. B. Nelson, offici-
ating. aEa
Mr.. Lee had been ailing for the
past three years. He came from
HarrisoWille, Mo-, q years ago to
Phoenix, and was an operator of
shining parlor on N. Central Ave.
for more than IS years.
He is, survived by his wife, Mrs.
Ada Mae Lee. }lSF
Out of town relatives who at
tended the funeral were: Mr.. and
Mrs. J. w. Garrison, Mrs. Robert
Ware, Mrs. Walter Davis, all of
Los Angeles, and Mrs. Walter
Sweets of Atlanta, Iowa. ys3sgst
Interment at Greenwood Me-
mortal Park, Eastlake Mortuary
in charge. tst}'
Arizona sun., 1947-01-24
Executive Secretary
OF Phoenix Urban
League Resigns

Mr.. John c. Williams, eXecu-
tive Secretary of the Phoenix Ur-
ban League, who has been here
since last June, rendered his resig-
nation to the Executive Board last
week.
Mr.. Williams did not reveal his
future plans other than that he
will return to his home in Oakland,
for the time being.
He expressed gratitude to the
people of Phoenix in the following
manner: "I wish to say in leaving
Phoenix, to my many friends and
acquaintance that I enjoyed my
stay and my work here in Phoenix.
Too, I wish to thank all of you for
the fine cooperation you gave, the
many courtesieS you extended my
way, and your sincere acceptance
of me as one of the community"
Arizona sun., 1947-01-24
Disabled Vet Offers
To Die For Francis

Lafayette, LA totally and
permanently disabled World War
II veteran in Washington, D. c.,
today offered to sit in the electric
chair for Willie Francis, 18-year-
old ST. Martinville, La, Negro,
whose first electrocution failed to
bring death.
Bertrand Leblanc, Francis at
torney, reported he had received a
letter from John S. Kenney who
said he hoped his offer would be
acceptable to the state of Louisi-
ana.
Leblanc was quick to disclaim
the legality of Kenney's offer.
A u. S. Supreme Court opinion
early this week held Francis must
again sit in the electric chair.
Arizona sun., 1947-01-24
Mz61AMM "
Muula7p
ALBRIGHT WARNS ON
TERMINAL LEAVE PAY

washington, d. C.-Warnlng
that millions of dollars in terminal
leave pay will "go down the drain"
if veterans are not alerted to the
danger, Joseph F. Albright, Special
Assistant to General Bradley, is
sued call to all Negro organiza-
tions to take up the cry.
"It has been estimated that %
billion dollars will be paid to hon
orably discharged veterans under
the Armed Forces Leave Act of
1916. Only about one-fourth of that
amount has been issued so far, and
the deadline for applications is
September 1, 1947," Albright stat
ed. SIN case discharge is re-
viewed and changed by a review
board to read honorable or under
honorable conditions as outlined
in the CT Bill of Rights, that vet
eran has the same deadline, or he
must apply within one year after
the date on which his discharge
status is changed, whichever date
September /, 1947 or date of cor
rected discharges the later.
"The procedure for applying is
simple. All a veteran has to do is
to go to any U. S. Post Office, Sc
cure a form which is called Claim
for Settlement-Unused Leave, and
fill it out according to instructions
thereon. He will receive the base
pay at the time of discharge for
his unused leave, plus 70 cents per
day subsistence, plus an additional
$1.25 per day if he was discharged
CONTINUED on Page So
Arizona sun., 1947-01-24

In Session

The Arizona legislature opened
its 18th session Monday, Jan. Is
for a regular term of 60 days. 1t
got off to q slow start because Of
the tight race in the house for
spe a k ership, Representatives
christensen and Jameson con-
testing for the spot, with jamie
son winning with the support Of
the republicans on Monday.
Senator d'Autremont was elect
ed president of the senate. Both
houses are now hard at work on
legislative problems affecting the
state. 81
Tie Labor Journal wishes for
a harmonious session. >sttfjy.5,