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The union times., 1947-08-16

PROVISOS
 |. The funds are held in trust for the purpose of paying particu- lar types of benefits to the em- ployees of the employer concerned or their families.
 2. The detailed basis for such payments is the subject of a writ ten agreement with the employer, and employees and employers are equally represented in the admin istration of the fund.
 3. Funds for the purpose of paying pensions or annuities are made completely separate from funds paying other benefits.
 The union welfare fund provision is so complicated and ambiguous that locals faced with the problem of col lecting for or administering such funds would do well to seek legal ad- vice in order to avoid any possibility of the heavy criminal penalties pro vided in the Act.
 Another section of the Act makes it an unfair labor practice for a union to cause or attempt to cause an erf1- ployer to pay or agree to pay any money or other thing of value for services which are not performed.
 AIMED AT MUSICIANS
 This section is directed principally against "featherbedding" or stand by" practices. It is aimed particularly at the Musicians Union and their con- tract requirements protecting the em- ployment of their members.
 It is conceivable, however, that this section would make illegal sscaIl-in" pay and even paid holi- days and vacations. From the con- gressional debate on the section, however, it would appear that there will be no effort to prohibit a mimi mum number of hours guaranteed work for being required to report for work, or paid holidays or vaca- tiOns. Unions should still seek pro- visions covering such matters in collective bargaining contracts.
 There are no criminal penalties pro- vided in this section, but the Labor Board is empowered to issue a cease and desist order and to secure court enforcement Violation of court or der could constitute contempt of court. The section making payments for services not performed an unfair labor practice may be further differentiated from the section covering check-off by the fact that in the former the en- ployees are usually the recipients of the payments, while in the latter the union, or the representative of en- p1oyees, is the recipient
 (In his nest article, Mr. Cor
 don sOiH discuss boycOtts and
 jurisdicti0naI disputes.-Editor.)
The union times., 1947-08-16
 Now Underway Called Illegal
Housing Council Believes Some Clusters Must Wait
 For Local Rent Boards

The legal rights of tenants under the new state Rent Control law, Public Act No. 394, were discussed at an open meeting of the Greater New Haven Citizens Housing COun- cil, to be held 800 P.M., Thurs day, August IA, at the Labor Tenn pie.
 Attorneys who have studied the State Act, which was signed by the Governor on July 8, will give opinions on the protection it gives tenants of houses, apartments and hotels in both rent increases and evictions.
 The Housing Council feels that tenants have much greater prOtec- ton under the new state law than is generally known. The meeting will be devoted largely to an 'expla- nation of the provisions of the state law and how tenants are protected even though the federal law per- mits increases in rents, evictiOns in certain cases and has decOntrOlled hotel rents. There will be ques- ton and answer period, during which the Housing Councils legal advisers will give answers to prob lems of tenants.
 According to officials of the Citi- zens Housing Council there is no req son for any tenant in this State to sign lease with an increase i'll rent, because, the state law gives greater protection than such lease after the end of federal rent control.
 It is believed also that certain classes of tenants, including most of those who have been threatened with eviction since the passage of the new federal law, cannot be evicted until local fair rent boards have been appointed under the State Act.
 PERMISSION NEEDED
 After the local board begins to function, under some conditions land lords cannot take legal action to evict tenants until they receive permission from the local board. The Housing Councils position on the eviction pro visions of the law will be presented in detail at the August IA meeting.
 A report will be made at the meet ing also on the action taken by the Board of Aldermen on the three reso- lutions which the Housing Council
 Continued on Page Two)
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A.F.L. In Louisiana Heads For Politics

SHREVEPORT, La. = (FP) = A state political action group will be set up by the Louisiana Federation of Labor at a special conference in Alex andria Delegates from 500 AFL To- calls will meet to discuss the Taft Hartley law and form a separate po- litical body in which they hope to en- roll every AFL member in the state.
 Purpose of the political action group, announced by state AFL Pres. E. H. Williams, will be to register every AFL member and his family and get them to vote, and wage cam paigns to elect friends of labor.
The union times., 1947-08-16
AFL Man Named As Labor Commissioner

AUSTIN, Tex. = (FP)-For the first time in IA years a union man has been named state labor commissioner He is N. B. Morgan of Denison, a member of the Bro. of Railway Clerks (AFL).
 The appointment was made by Gov. Beauford H. Jester after conferring with Sec. Harry Acreman of the Texas Federation of Labor. The ap- pointment does not require the con firmation of the anti-labor senate, since the legislature has adjourned.
The union times., 1947-08-16
Funds
 Under T-H Law
This Provision Of "Slave Labor Act So Complicated And Ambiguous, Unions Should Be Careful To
 Avoid Heavy Criminal Penalties
By WILLIAM s. GORDON, JR.
 A E Of T. Attorney

(4t Attorney William S. Gordon, yr, Ot Hdord, Ne Egand Resident Counsel for Joseph A. Paday Genera! LabO prepared series of articles TaftHaey This the fourth of the seres)
 section of the aHartey Law which restricts the checo fobds employers pay any money other thing of value any representative of his employees wages satisfaction of judgment payment for goods sold in the business and for certain other specific purposes Elm poyer payments welfare funds within the prohib ion except where three things true:
The union times., 1947-08-16
PROFITS HIT RECORD YET PRICE GOUGERS GO ON RAMPAGl

'Everything is sailing along-high wide and hand some,' declared the magazine 'United States News,' put by David Lawrence, ultra-cOnservative paper cOumnist and publisher
 Is there any justification for the latest price marathon
 Significantly publications of the industrial world concede the "No-that profits staggering high level sufficient for most corporations to absorb higher wages and other costs without hiking prices.
 For example, the "Wa Street Journal pointed out that profits of U s. industries for the second quarter
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DESPITE profits so great to be embarrassing,
 business groups have embarked upon priceboost- ing spree-and result, consumers again being taken" for ride
 During the past week prices scared all the lot. Meats for example hit new al-time high and in the nations capital markets demanding $12O to $125 pound for choice cuts.
 Other foods likewise mounted forcing the housewife to lay out more for the family larder
 Elsewhere, the being hit similar blows.
The union times., 1947-08-16
Chamber Wants Good" Defined

WASHINGTON = (FP) . The US. Chamber of Commerce wants Pres. Truman to explain what his economic report meant by asking the employer and emp1oye to be good"
 In its publication Business Action" the Chamber said "good" is not de- fined. Until there is clearer definition, much of the report will remain pug zling."
The union times., 1947-08-16

Steel corporations slapped $5 to $O increases their list prces-a boost that's likely be reflected in higher prices for most manufacturing products using steel
 General Motors yanked up auto prices again-this time by $17 to $168
 Coal operators added 50 $165 to the whole sale of the "black ue" and by the time middeen got through tacng their margins" the retail price up to $150 to $1.75 ton. New narkups" started in cotton textiles clothing, shoes and many other products And to top it all rents rising all the country
The union times., 1947-08-16

that admitted corporation profits in the first half of this year reached "about $87OOO millions after taxes figure
 Thus total profits after for all of 19H should the magazine sad hit close SIS billions which is 50 per cent above the banner years and than 100 per cent above the boom year of 1929
 Take some typical profits U. s. Steel reported earnings of nearly $69 millions for the first half of this year. highest in history and nearly 200 per above the period of 1o46 (Continued Page Two)
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showed whoppng 84 per increase over the year-ago level"
 ''Frst half of 1947 profits are the highest ever' said the .Journal" The magazine, Business Week." leading periodical of its kind, echoed the view with article which as- serted that profits for the first and second quarters of o add up to a breath-takng half year"
 From an earnings standpoint. this si-month period is by all odds the biggest ever the magazine let be known cited Department of Commerce estimates which show
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LABOR DAY SPEAKER

DETROIT = (FP) = US. Sen. Wm. Langer of North Dakota will be the guest speaker at the AFL Labor day mass meeting.
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The union times., 1947-08-16

There can be no peace if national policy adopts as a deliberate instrument the disper- sion all over the world of millions of helpless and persecuted wanderers with no place to lay their heads-President Roosevelt to the Her. ald Tribune Forum, Oct. 27, 1888.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-28
s4oo,OoO OWED UNCLE SAM

Meanwhile. Treasury officials point cut that the Farm Crops company is the only plant in the nation which also wants the right to make syrup, even though it is no longer on a war footing. (It now sells chiefly to Seagrams and the Glenmore Company in Ken tuckyD Officials also say that the company has not been using sur plus potatoes, as claimed on Capi- tol Hill, but corn.
 Another interesting angle is that the Omaha plant is now in the middle of @ wrangle with the OPA over how much money it owes the Government. OPA claims it owes neat little S4OO,0O0, and one item in this disputed amount is espec- ially interesting.
 On cost-plus contracts, private company is not permitted to charge the. Government for royalties or any patents owned by officers Of the firm. However. OPA officials state that three officers of Farm Crops signed their names to a claim in an efior. to collect money from the Government for royalties.
 The three officers are: Leo NJ. Christensen, head of the chemistry department uf the University of Nebraska; c. 4. Sorenson, Lincoln. Neb., attorney; and George E. John son, general manager of the Gen. tral Nebraska Public Power Co.,. who also draws salary of sl5,000 as general manager oi Farm Crops Processing
 The company has put former OPA official, Morris Vailes, on its payroll to battle out it's financial argument with the OPA.
 This is the whole picture regard ing the company for the benefit of which Senator Butler tried to rush through a special resolution last week.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-28
BAND PRACTICE
 ON TOMORROW

The regular weekly practice of the Juneau City band will be held to- morrow night at 8 o'clock in the Grade School auditorium. Director Joseph Shofner asks that all mem- bers report as selections for the coming concert are now being plac- ed on the stands. There was a good attendance at practice last We'd nesday night and there were sev- eral new players added to the or ganiZation
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-28
Editorial from The Honolulu Star Bulletin
 January l5 l947)

January 10, 4S4El
 Rep W Sterling Cole of New York State has rein troduced in Congress his bill put the United States Navy in control of all the Territories and Island Possessions.
 His measure put into the lower house on Tuesday. would transfer jurisdiction over territorial admins tration from the War and Interior departments to a proposed new branch of the Navy Department. l. would be called the office of external possessions MT Coles basic arguments on behalf of the bill is, in his words:
 The Territories are of basic importance to national defense.
 The maintenance of naval bases and in stallati0ns in such Territories. and security measures for defense of such areas arc the primary responsibility of the Navy Depart ment"
 The bill introduced by Mi Cole would put the functions of civil government now exercised by the United States Army in the Panama Canal Zone under the Navy
 This is not the first appearance of this proposal MT Cole introduced a similar bill January 6. 1945 It referred to the House Committee on Territories and brought immediate protest from the Delegates from Hawaii and Alaska. Thereafter MT. Cole introduced revised bill It excluded Hawaii and Alaska from the Navy-eontrol plan. It sent to the House Naval Affairs Committee
 Neither bill was acted cn by the 18th Congress. They died in committees.
 The new measure should and doubt will draw another sharp protest from the Delegates from Hawaii and Alaska And it should be protested likewise by official civil organizations and by individuals in the Territories Fer t strikes at the very heart of local self-government basic principle of American citizen ship and American freedom of political action.
 
 At the outset, let emphasize that do not question the sincerity of MT. Coles motives, or his belief that his measure would provide an essential factor in national defense.
 MT. Cole represents the 39th district of western New York His home is in Bath N. Y. He is lawyer by profession graduate of Colgate University and Albany Law School with Phi Beta Kappa high scholarship award He is a member of the T. s. Naval Reserve. and has long been member of the House Committees on Naval Affairs and Insular Af-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-28
BUTLER FIRM CRITICIZED

Commenting on this in a special Investigation report in 1945, the OPA stated
 As the Butler Welsh Grain Company buys all Of the grain, except malt. consumed by the Farm Crops Processing Corp there is q tie-in of homogeneous of the two companies through J. l. Welsh lex partner of Sen Butler This rais- es question in our mind concern ing the propriety as well as the necessity for the cost of grain buying intermediary in an opera tion of this size under cost-plus '
 What the OPA report referred to was the fact that the Farm Crops company vas operating on a cost-plus contract, and any addi- tional amounts paid to the Butler Welsh concern for buying grain would be added to the Govern ment's total bill
 Continuing, the OPA report stat ed.
 In November 1940 Senator But Ter was elected U s. Senator and shortly thereafter disposed of his and his deceased wifes interests to Welsh (his partner and D. o. Al Ter in exchange for personal notes. .
 Questioned by this columnist as
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to whether he still owned any in terest, direct or indirect. in his old grain firm, Senator Butler said that he had retained the privilege Of reacquiring his stock under cer- tain conditions but that he had no financial interest in the company He also stated that i'll June 1922 be had purchased one quarter of the company and given it to Doane College. Crete Nebraska, for a scholarship fund.
 He explained that D. ,. Aller. who had taken over part of But ler's interest in the grain company, was almost an adopted son and helped him with business matters for many years.
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happened. Not only did the com pany of which Senator Buffers partner is an important officer buy grain through the old Butler firm, but on top of this, Senator Butler last week was virtually being the company's personal lobbyist on the Senate floor, in attempting to pass a resolution permitting alcohol companies also to make syrup.
 For years the Treasury has ban
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-28
BUrLEE's COMPANY PRoF!rED

The Butler-Welsh Company holds Ia membership on the Denver, Omaha and Chicago Grain Ex- changes, and operates grain eleya- tors at South Omaha, Nebraska City with two at Council Bluffs, Ia. According to the OPA report, the company made a net profit for the fiscal year 1914 of sle4,8S9
 How much of the above prof / constituted commission, grain pro fits and elevator earnings on grains handled for Farm Crops was not ascertained, continued the OPA report But it has been calculated that cn purchases of 4,944,6l4 bush els Of grain at cent per bu. on corn, li2 cents per bu. cn wheat and rye, and cents per cwt. on scrghums during l944, the aggre- gate would be S63. 3.532l8.
 At the instance oi the account ing department" OPA reported the Omaha OPA office made an examination of Butler-W Welsh grain transactions and reported that ap- parently there were no violations of the maximum price regulations. This did not, of course, have any bearing on the question of whether an officer may properly derive any personal benefit through procure- ment of distillery materials under ccSt-plus
 According to our observation, it is unusual for grain buying in an operation of this size to be handled entirely through brokers.
 That, however, was exactly what
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-28
Daily lessons in English v L. GORDON

WORDS Anyone learn English if they study" Say Anyone English HE studies
 MSPRONOUNCED: Recalciant (stubborny rebeious Pronounce AT in IT. second as in An second syllable
 OFTEN MISSPELLED: Bully LILY. Pulley; LEY
 SYNONYMS Depraved, immoral vile vicious wicked evil
 WORD a times and it yours Let Us vocabulary mastering word each day Todays word something ntmaed meaning not expressed definite ly. implication is that he is guilty"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-28

ned manufacture of syrup in the same plant with alcohol for lear syrup grains would be converted surreptidously into alcohol. This ban was suspended during wartime {; now Butler is demanding passage of a resolution suspending it for seven months more.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-28

while Butler himself pushes legiS- iation for the company on the f.oor of the U S Senate.
 The alcohol plant In question ls the Farm Crops Processing Cor poration of Omaha, which leased an S8,000,000 government built plant to make wartime alcohol, and is rated as having done good war job However, the war job is over and it Is now selling to Seagrams. Meanwhile. it's war operations have been under sclutiny by the OPA and other Government agencies be- cause of it's contract with the But ler-Welsh Company Senator But ler's former firm to purchase all it's grain TOT distillng purposes.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-28
FiVOLNN LlIUUL IL ROBERTA LEE

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-28
20 YEARS AGO FIFE TIT EMPIRE
JANUARY 23, 1927

announced the Thomas Hardware Store would be opened fer business o January 3l.
 Commerce and Douglas Board of Trade decided to consolidate the former continue.
 The cpped straight match from bow the Anchorage local Eks pins ahead to be played. Legion announced would be given on Feb ruary p.
 Weather report High fl; low, ST. cloudy
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-28
LOOK and LEARN Sy c. GORDON

What famous English journalist series of novels called attention prevailing evils time country? 2. element has highest atomic 
 is c long great 5. phrase. persona grata"?
 ANSWERS:
 Charles Dickens 2. Hydrogen lowest, highest 3. Aconcagua Argentina high 4. Three and three nights 5. acceptable"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-28
ANCHORAGE VISITORS

MT. and Mrs. L. Robbins of An chorage arrived in Juneau by air and are registered as guests of the Baranof Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-28

Back again n stock. Pendieton, all-wool gabardine shirts. Green wine beige. H. s. Graves. 487-t6
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JANUARY 28 Dorothy Langseth Mrs. Anna Webster Thomas w. Cashen Mrs. I've Hanson Gordon Graham Mrs. Karl Alstead Mrs. Anita Meier Verne E. Smith
 Roberta Newell
 R. F. Edwards
 Rae Cummings
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The Washington Mery-Go-Round

fConttnuea rom Page One.
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J. c. Thomas announced the Thcmas Hardware stcr CT business on January 3l.
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Weather report: High, fl; low. 37; cloudy.
Evening star., 1947-11-08

when he was pastor Of Mount Ver-
non Church. When the mission be-
came an independent church in
1893, with a new building at Tenth
street and Independence avenue
S.W., Mr.. Haddaway became its first
pastor.
Until 1912 Four Corners Church
was on a circuit, in later years the
circuit consisting of Colesville, Lay
Hill and -Four Corners. During the
early years among those active in
the church were John w. Hodges
and William Manakee. Mrs. Carrie
Milstead Clark and William T. Mil
stead are longtime members Of the
congregation still active.
Marvin Church, organized in 1888,
was named after Methodist Bishop
Enoch Mathew Marvin, who served as
a chaplain in the Confederate Army.
Four Corneres Church received some
money, the pulpit, altar rail, pipe
organ and furniture from Marvin
Church and also took its name.
Recent pastors of the church were
the Revs. Paul H. Groseclose, Will
liam D. Keene and Edward Lewis.
The ceremony tomorrow marks
erection of the first unit of a four
unit group consisting of the church,
educational building, parsonage and
chapel.
The present pastor, the Rev.
Marion S. Michael, came in June,
1945. A native of Doubs, Md. he
is a graduatefof Dickinson College
and Boston University School of
Evening star., 1947-11-08

This Is the VIM. 7. Ellis
continuing miracle of Christianity.
1t changes lives. 1t makes foul men
clean, drunken men sober, idle men
thrifty, cruel men kind, ill-natured
men pleasant, sinful men sanity.
Everywhere on earth this mysterious
power, which we call the grace of
Christ, is work Transforming hu-
man lives, and filling them with
peace and power. Whole nations
have been made over, and our only
hope for new world resides in this
supernatural life-changing power of
Christ.
There is no other hope for human
ity. After science and philosophy
had done their best and material
riches and might had been given
full sway, we find the world teeter-
ing on the brink of complete disaster.
All the big influences of life-philos-
ophy, education, economies, politics
and religion-are in frantic mood
OF f1ux and reappraisal. Christianity
is finding itself challenged to meet
times gravest crisis.
Our days lesson is termed "A
Call to Right Living" and the test
of right living is the Bible. From
the standpoint of this study we per-
ceive the immeasurable influence
that the Sunday school has had
upon our national life. All ages,
from tiniest tots to ripe men and
women, who have put the Bible to
test. find their everyday life shaped
by these teachings. Life for many
has been turned inside out and
from bottom to top. Goodness,
rather than gain, has become life's
goal. Our Nations strength resides
in these myriads of citizens whose
central purpose is to do what is
right from the motive of pleasing
| Christ.
Day by day, one by one. we are
all to do our part in creating a good
world of good people. Transforma-
tion of society must come from the
bottom up-from individuals to the
mass. We have already seen the
ineffectiveness of the United Ma
tions and of top-level diplomatic
conferences. So we are forced back
to the simple, central truth of a
life-changing Gospel, which makes
saints out of ordinary men and
women.