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The union times., 1947-10-18
A.F.L. Asks US. Aid For Schools And Teachers
Teachers Federation Shows How Education Is Being
 Neglected

SAN FRANCISCO = Charging that public schools are not meeting their responsibilities - largely be. cause of inadequate funds-Ameri. can Federation of Labor leaders demanded today that Congress ear. mark at least $1,OOO,OOO,0OO Fed eral money to aid the nations classrooms and teachers.
 The A. F. of L.'s executive coun' cil furthermore outlined plans for stepped-up Federal program to use such aid in a report to the A. F, of l.. convention now in progress here.
 The plans already have been ap- proved by the American Federation of Teachers, and the entire convention is certain to vote further indorsement next week.
 The executive council contended that teachers pay everywhere" is too low, with "even the best paid professionally qualified teacher not fully compensated" The council con- tended that not less than $1 ,000,O00,- GOO in Federal aid can meet the pres ent needs, and made it clear this Fed era1 money must supplement, not supp1ant' state and local education budgets.
 CONTRASTS COST OF CRIME
 The Teachers Federation had some examples of its own on this point. Crime, the teachers noted, cost the United States $15,0O0,000OO0 a year before the war. This compared to $2,W0,000,000 year for education and the education figure included local, state and Federal budgets all together
 In its report the executive coun- cil emphasized that ''the American free public school has a major role in preserving and developing the democratic way of life." The council added that, considering this fact, ''the public school of to- day is not adequately meeting its responsibilities
 The council gave number of req sons for this criticism. For one thing, it said, ''the people of a community no longer deal with schoo1s-they deal with school systems" The council ex- pressed the belief that the public schools should be in the hands of "the people whose children are being edu- cated in them"
 CLASSES TOO LARGE.
 The council charged also that classes today are too large and edu-
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The union times., 1947-10-18
Rent Control Law Even Worse
 Than Expected
Unrepresentative Boards Have Power To Scuttle
 Program

Washington (LPA)-Severa1 mil lion tenants this week learned, to their dismay, that the COP version of rent control was even worse than they ex- pected.
 According to interpretations of the law both by President Truman and by Housing Expediter Frank Creedon, there is no recourse fOI tenants once local rent control board recommends decOntrOl or 8 boost in rents. Creedon reads the law to mean that if local boards order is appropriately substantiat- ed'' he has no alternative but to ap. prove it. Truman reminded ques. tioners in his weekly. press confer. ence that he had called the COP law sorry version of rent control when he reluctantly put his sigma. ture on it and made it law.
 A storm of protests greeted the first rent boost allowed under the law which will allow rents in Louisville Ky, to be raised 59o. Labor officials spearheaded by the International As sociation of Machinists, had been pro- testing for weeks that the Louisville board is entirely composed of real es- tate men and landlords stooges. The 5% increase was proposed without any public hearings at all in Louisville According to Creedon, almost 76,00C houses and apartments will be affected
 If Creedon is upheld the next vic tims of the law will be tenants in Dickinson County, Kansas, where
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The union times., 1947-10-18
Political League Proposal Before
 AFL Convention
Will Spearhead Drive Against Taft-Hartley
 Congressmen

SAN FRANCISCO - American Federation of Labor leadership laid down blueprints this week for the first permanent political action agency in A. F. of L. history, ''la- bor's educational and political Ieague.' In special report to the sixty-sixth annual convention, now entering its second week here, the fifteen-man executive council called for immediate establishment of such a league to spearhead the A. F. of LIS economic and political policies
 The A. F. of Lis proposed league is expected to pursue non-partlsan course, with emphasis on defeating thoses congressman who voted for the Taft-Hartley Law.
 The executive council listed five duties for the league, subject to elab- oration or modification by the 700 delegates to the A. F. LIS 105 affiliate unions.
 PROGRAM
 The council urged that the League ::
 ssPrepare and disseminate infor- nation by such media of communi- cation as the league may decide for the purpose of acquainting the workers of the nation with the eco- homie and political policies of the American Federation of Labor.
 ssPrepare and disseminate infor- mation concerning the attitude of candidates for renomination and or election to Federal offices, with par ticular reference to their attitude toward the political and economic policies of the A. F. of L.
 s'Take such other actions as it may deem advisable in furtherance of its obiectives.
 ssProvide for the raising of neces- sary funds for the conduct of its business, in such manner as it may determine.
 ssBe authorized to employ staff members necessary to conduct its business and fix their compensation and expenses.
 The council asked the convention to authorize and direct" its fifteen members to take such action It also recommended that the officers and executive council call conference of
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The union times., 1947-10-18
Defends Pay Increases
New Deal Return Will Avoid War. Sen. Pepper Says
High Prices And Imitation Threaten Our National
 Economy

A restoration of New Deal demo- cratic capitalism in our national government is the best antidOte to communism, Sen. Claude Pepper O., FIa.) told a Boston audience this week in a speech ringing with calls for liberalism's return.
 "Republicanism and reaction are dominant in Washington" Pepper said, adding that only return to New Deal democracy could retrace the nations steps. ''That's what won us victory over the last depres- sion," he asserted.
 After outlining the economic chaos facing the national economy because of high prices and infation, Pepper said that mot only are we threatened with exploitation at home, but before the peace is made they tell us there must be another war"
 THEY DIDN'T FIGHT
 "I note that the people who talk loudest about war didn't fight in the last one and probably won't fight i'll the next. There is no defense against modern war except peace. Once war starts nobody can win 5. :. everybody loses," he said, accounting the $22 billion he said the U. s. is spending on the military, veterans and war debt out of $35 billion budget.
 As a solution he offered a nine point program that called for:
 1. Effort to find bridges that will be instruments of peace and not war;
 2. Expenditure of $lO billion year for 10 years through the United Nations security and eco- homie council for world recon struction, contingent upon all na- tions, including the USSR, cutting in half their present military bud get. (Such program, he said, would not cost us dime more than at present, and would recognize hunger wherever it is without re- spect to bOundaries.)
 5. That the U. s. propose an earnest effort at real disarmament among all nations and that after 509o had been cut, no new weapons be built.
 WITHDRAW TROOPS
 4. That it. be agreed at the LIN as7 sembly that all nations withdraw mili- tary forces from non-enemy countries.
 5. That the trusteeship council of LIN take over administration of all colonial peoples to free them from exploitation.
 6. That the U. S. propose that
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The union times., 1947-10-18
Small Business
 AppIauds Drive On High, Prices
Say Situation Due To In. adequate Use Of Anti
 Trust Laws

WASHINGTON (FP) - Atty Gen. Tom C. C1ark's promise to prose cute conspirators who keep prices soaring in the food, clothing and hous- ing field won quick approval from the Natl. Federation of Small Business, Inc.
 NFSB Pres. C. Wilson Harder wired his congratulations to Clark and said ''Present precarious ecO- homie situation is direct result of 40 years of inadequate antitrust law enforcement resulting in up building of tremendous business concentration. This concentration must be broken"
 Harder also said his membership was heartened by "your promise oi more effective penalties for antitrust vio1ators. Civil procedure and nolo contendre (no contest) have outlived their usefulness"
 At the same time the Natl. Assn. of Retail C1othiers & Furnishers urged industry wide action to keep prices of mems suits from rising next spring. Pres. w. o. Swanson has warned re- tail stores that the consumer market must be kept at its present high level of consumption.
 Swanson, however, used the tra- ditional argument that high prices were the other fellows fault. Local he said ''have already reached the limit of their ability to absorb cost increases" He appealed to the mills to ''cOntinue the pro- gram of sacrifice and absorption which they have largely reflected in the past.''
The union times., 1947-10-18
As We See It
 by THE STAFF

What this country has is a good Scent dime.
 Sen. Joe Ball says proudly that he hasn't been able to find any defects in the Taft-hartley law yet.
 The senator might see better if he opened his eyes.
 THE FREE PRESS IN ACTION: Last week, Intl. News Service (Hearst) correspondent Robert C. Nixon wrote the following story from Washington: ''Pres. Truman today called upon the American people to eat less so that Europe may be spared starvation this win ter.'"
 Another story was filed the same day from the same place about the same subject by United Press cor. respondent Joseph Nolan. He said s'Pres. Truman today set in motion a waste less food campaign. MT. Truman emphasized that he is not asking Americans to eat less but to waste less."
 WE CHOOSE to call this one an error rather than mischief: A Rail. way Express man wrote on a re- ceipt blank that the shipper was s'Editor & Rubbish.''
 
 Carl C. Hoff. Musicians Union No, "A, has been elected vice-chairman of the Rent Control Board which covers the Greater New Haven Area. Edward D. Kusterer, real estate official, is the chairman. In addition to Hoff, labor is represented on the board by Joseph M. Rourke. secre' tary-treasurer of the Connecticut Federation of Labor.
 That many Americans are sur. viving by going into debt is made manifest in report by the Securi. ties and Exchange Commission.
 It reveals that during the second quarter of this year mortgage i'm debtedness increased a billion dol lars-a new record-and other con. sumner indebtedness jumped 5000 millions. At the same time, Ameri. cans disposed of $lOO million of securities.
 FROM the Utica (N. Y.) ObserU.
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The union times., 1947-10-18
Labor s Gift To Chest May Mean Successful Drive

Community Chest contributions from organized labor members is ex- pected to push the current campaign total over the top, New Haven Chest officials said as the $831 900 drive moves into its final stages.
 To date, slightly more than $500, ,OOO has been raised, with in. tensive efforts being made by 2,OOO Red Feather volunteers to reach the total goal by October 2.
 The industrial section which in- cludes employees in local plants and industries has started slowly but it is expected that the workers will come to the front with increased individual contributions and more givers.
 ONE DAYS PAY
 Special messages have been directed to the AFL membership by local union leaders, urging them to give one days pay to support the 30 separate Chest agencies
 In an advertisement appearing in THE UNION TIMES, Vincent J. Nc Govern, president, New Haven Gen. tral Labor Council, said:
 eve of organized labor join all groups of responsible citizens fin supporting fully our Community Chest campaign. We are for it. And we have particular reasons.
 Labor uses the Red Feather ser- vices. We want our boys and girls and all youngsters to benefit we want health protected, family security strengthened, aged and handicapped people cared for with kindness and understanding.
 we believe that the Community Chest is the sound, sensible and fair way to plan and to support health and welfare services
 ssThis is good trade unionism- good democracy-and good sense.''
The union times., 1947-10-18
Teamsters Report

Indianapolis (LPA) = The Int'l Brotherhood of Teamsters-AFL re- ported last week that its net worth as of June 30 was $17 ,369, ,52O with a net cash balance on hand of $4,56o, ,520. The IBT's net worth in September 194O was $6,267,5 ,558. Total receipts from Sept. l, 1o4O to June 30, 1947 were $22,012,158.
The union times., 1947-10-18
NAACP Seeks Primary Law For All AS, States

Montgomery, Ala. (LPA)-A Fed eral Elections Act requiring every state to hold primary elections for Congress and providing the means whereby independent and minority party candidates may be placed on the ballot will be introduced at the next session of Congress.
 Announcement of the bill was made this week at the Alabama conference of the Natl Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People by Les lie Perry, legislative representative for the NAACP in Washington.
The union times., 1947-10-18
Coop Bicycles Won By Twohill, Bennett

Tricky" Twohi11 with 4Oo4O votes and Tony Bennett, with 77,236 votes are the Fair Haven and Montowese winners of the New Haven Consumer Coop Bike Contest, it was announced at Coop staff meeting. Second prizes (roller skates) go to Beverly Shea and Patty Thompson.
 Fifty-fve children in the two areas participated in the contest, piling up g total of 404,500 votes. Other high scoring kids were: Mary Lou Ger manese, Elaine CahiH, Winifred Spa1- lone, Mary Lou Crockett, Margaret C Gambardella, Patricia King Michael Strianese, Jeanette Kline, Nancy Mongil1o, Dolores Sommo, Johr Shanahan, and Francis. O'Conne1l.
The union times., 1947-10-18
AFL Treasury Down To $464,582

San Francisco (LPA)-The AFL's treasury balance dropped from ST. 742,O77 as of Aug. 31, 1946, down to $464,582 the AFL Executive Council reported to the convention here last week.
 With a record membership of 7,- 5Z7,716, the AFL reported an income from per capita tax of $1,888, ,358. To- tai receipts were $5,589,81o. Organiz- ing expenses were listed as $1,264,3OO and organizers salaries, $715,136.
 Printing of the AFL weekly news service was listed as $15,224. Cost of printing the American Federationist, monthly magazine, was reported $12o,- 450.
The union times., 1947-10-18
Can You Help?

Stanley Criesing, business agent of New Haven Plumbers Union No. 349, his wife, and his boy l6, and daughter, IS, will be evicted from their flat within two weeks or less. If they are unable to find rent before the first of the month, the family will have to split up, and live with relatives. If you know of a rent for the Criesings, call their home, 6-7782; or the Plumbers Union office. 5-5O86.
The union times., 1947-10-18

Between June l946 and May 1947 the price per unit produced rose 25% while the labor cost per unit produced rose only 89o.
The union times., 1947-10-18

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The union times., 1947-10-18
Today s Wages Buy The Same Goods As In'4l
U. s. Labor Secretary Says Workers Should Not Have
 To Use Up Savings

SAN FRANCISCO. - The most powerful force which can furnish leadership in the solution of our economic problems must come from the trade union move ment in the United States, Secre- tary of Labor L. B. Schwellen- bach declared here before the convention of the American Fed eration of Labor.
Evening star., 1947-10-30

management and financial activities
of issuers.
6. To preserve relationships with
issuers for whom they act as fnan-
cial advisers or from whom they
purchase securities issues.
7. To utilize their domination
and control over securities business
and their influence and control over
issuers to encourage and promote
consultations, mergers, expansions
refinancings and debt refundings
in order, among other things, to
create an increasing volume OF Sc
curities issues for merchandising by
the defendants"
Permanent Injunctions Asked.
8. To concentrate the business OF
purchasing and distributing security
issues in a single market where sales
are made to large institutional in
vestors, upon terms and conditions
favorable to such buyers and with a
minimum of risk to defendants"
The suit asks for permanent in
functions against all of these alleged
practices. 1t also asks that the
bankers be prohibited from engag-
ing in, or causing others to engage
in, market operations Of any kind
designed to stabilize and maintain
the market price of securities in any
issue it purchases, except where such
activity is permitted by an act OF
Congress or by the rules and regu-
lations of an appropriate admins
trative agency based upon such act
of Congress for the sole protection
of investors
Evening star., 1947-10-30

developing organisms, Of killing
doses of the various rickettsia and
following this up with chloromycetin
innoculations. Tests then were
made with mice.
Scrub Typhus Results.
OF particular significance are the
results with mice infected with the
rickettsia known as r. orientalis,
which is the causative agent of scrub
typhus-malady which first became
prominent in the Pacific during the
war and which cost the lives of two
Public Health Service workers at
Bethesda who worked on a vaccine
A single very minute dose given
daily for 20 days furnished complete
protection, DR.. Smadel reports
When the treatment was delayed
for two days after infection all
seven out of eight mice, which are
especially susceptible to this dis
ease, survived. AL would have died
otherwise.
The effects Of incubation with
other types of typhus were found
with inoculated egg embryos.
The official report from the Army
Medical Center, Yale and the Parke,
Davis Co. appears in Science, jour-
nal of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, which
will appear tomorrow.
Evening star., 1947-10-30

tempted late that night to use q
Forest Service telephone, but there
was no response to his ringing over
the single wire circuit linking iso-
lated Ranger stations. Later yes
terday, his efforts brought an
answer from a Northern California
forest station. Mr.. Lowden said
Mr.. Hill had no radio and conse-
quently did not know Of the news
that the Governors plane was
missing.
The two pilots who sighted the
wreckage, Robert Adams and Greg
Painter. of Lakeview. Greg, were
flying one of a score of planes from
four States that circled the area
in the afternoon. They spotted the
shattered craft through a break in
the overcast and flew at treetop
level to establish identification by
the numbers.
Swath Cut in Forest.
A swath had been cut through the
forest where the small plane struck
and the pilots reported mo sign Of
life. The plane Is SO oadly dam
aged that no one could be alive"
The crash was the third within a
week to shock the Nation. Last Fri
day a United Airlines plane crashed
in Bryce Canyon, Utah, carrying So
persons to their death. Search par
ties are still hunting for trace Of
a Pan American Always craft that
disappeared Sunday with 18 persons
aboard en- route to Juneau, Alaska.
Mr.. Smell became Governor after
serving in the House from 1927 to
1888, when he was elected Speaker.
He was elected secretary of State
in 1884, reelected in 1898 and be-
Evening star., 1947-10-30

nations which drew up their esti-
mates of need at Paris conference
would be expected to continue an
organization to deal with the United
States on overall aspects of the re-
covery program. In addition, spe-
cial agreements probably would be
worked out between the American
Government and each of the 16 ma
tions to guarantee that American
goods were used for the specific
purposes for which they were fur
nished.
The Europeans would undertake
to reduce as rapidly as possible the
tariff barriers and currency restric-
tionS which now prevent a free f1oW
of trade on the continent.
Would Sell to Own People.
They would be able to sell Ameri-
can relief goods in their own cur
rencies to their own people. The
income thus gained would be spent
on promoting internal recovery. For
instance, the income from food
might be used to build farm ma
chinery to increase local food pro-
duction.
Among top officials the prevailing
view is that this country should
supply the import goods themselves
rather than the dollars with which
to buy them. This, it is contended,
would afford a constant American
check on the flow of supplies.
The main job Of policing the re-
covery program in Europe, however,
would fall on the Europeans them
selves. This Is because officials here
are wary Of any measures which
might appear to infringe on the
sovereignty Of any Of the nations.
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a request by Mr.. Bunch's family
and furthered by the Commissioners
request that the evidence be for
warded to the grand jury.
2. An investigation by the Civil
Rights Section of the Justice De-
partment Criminal Division, the
results of which have not been made
known. This was requested by Mr..
Bunch's family and furthered by a
request from Senator Byrd, Demo-
crat, of Virginia, who also had been
approached by the carpenters rela-
tives.
3. A private investigation by the
family, conducted by John r. Fitz-
patrick, attorney and former dean
of the Columbus University Law
School.
Mr.. Bunch was arrested early July
20 after being found semiconscious
on a sidewalk. He was booked on a
drunkenness charge and taken to
No. 8 precinct station.
Later that morning, complaining Of
illness, he was taken to Gallinger
Hospital, where a doctor decided his
only ailment was alcoholism.
He was returned to the station but
again was taken to Gallinger that
night and admitted. He died there
August 4.
The coroner's jury, which heard
testimony by police detectives and
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effective against rickettsial disease,
DR.. Smadel says A few months ago
Army experiments demonstrated a
mild effect from streptomycin but 1t
was so slight as to be OF doubtful
medical value. The effect of ct1lor-
omycetin is vastly greater. =
The rickettsia are group OF ul-
tromicropscopic organisms which
seem to bridge the gap between the
easily visible microscopic plants,
bacteria and the almost inf1nites-
timably minute filterable viruses re-
sponsible for such scourges as small
pox, influenza, poliomyelitis and
encephalitis.
Can Enter Body Cells.
Like the viruses, they get inside
body cells. This presumably has
been the major reason why previous
antibietics and the sulpha drugs
have had no effect on them. They
were protected by the cell walls
from substance circulating in the
blood stream.
The only protection against them
has been with vaccines, which
proved extremely successful during
the war, made by inoculating the
embryes in incubated chicken eggs.
Once rickettsial disease was con-
tracted, however, there was little
to be done except systematic treat
ment and use of immune sera from
the blood of persons who had re-
covered.
The filterable virus is even lower
in the scale of life than the rick
ettsia and also works from inside
body cells where it is protected
from poisons circulating in the
blood stream. The largest viruses,
however, shade into the smallest and
most primitive rickettsia so that 1t
is dificult to draw a line between
the two types of organisms. One of
these borderline organisms Is the
one responsible for the pneumonia
like disease, parrot fever.
Virus Kingdom Assailed.
The response of this organism
shows that chloromycetin at least
hits the edge Of the virus kingdom
which hitherto has been completely
unassailable. Tests on smaller VI
ruses, such as those responsible for
influenza and japanese encephalitis,
showed no effect.
1t is emphasized in DR.. Smadels
report that the new drug has not
been used with human patients. 1t
has, however, a very low degree of
toxicity, comparable to that of
penicillin, 50 that experiments prob
ably can be made with no risk.
The chief technique followed has
been the incubation Of chick en-
bryos in incubated eggs, living and