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Montana labor news., 1947-01-23
26 TOP C0NCILIAT0RS
ADDED TO LABOR
Dept. STAFF

Washington-An Announcement OF the
appointment OF 81 picked conciliators
to iron ont labor disputes was made
here by Edgar l. Warren. director OF
the Us. Cancellation Service. in a new
ulan to foster industrial peace.
The ~ trouble-shooters include such
men as William II. Davis. former
chairman of the National War Labor
Board and Sterilization Director: J.
l.. Els, former chairman OF the Federal
Communications Commission, and Ed
ward +. MrGrady. former Assistant
Secreary OF Labor and nov vice pres
ident in charge of labor relations OF
Radio Corporation Of America.
Warrcn's statement stressed they
will be used only IN special cases
where their talents could 40 the most
good, reinforcing the Cancellation ser
vices REGULAR fulltimc STAFF OF more
t1an 200 conciliators.
Montana labor news., 1947-01-23
Portal Pay Claims

Frey said the agreements involved
each party's good faith and integrity"
and without ii such agreements would
be Of little or no value. He said the
unions pledge themselves in the agree
ments not to introduce new questions
of wages during the life of the agree
ment unless the agreement specifi-
cally contains a provision for the re-
opening of the agreement for this pur-
pose.
ITO now inject the question Of back
pay for portal to portal time. would
be an admission that when wage
ion representatives, they had been in
sincere during the negotiations, and
had held mental reservations which
they were unwilling to discuss with
employers while seated at the con
ference table.
Our trade union movement has 40
assets more valuable than its agree
ments with employers. and the integ-
rity which is involved" Frey said.
There is nothing to prevent the dis
c~nssion Of portal to portal pay when
existing agreements with employers
are negotiated. and the inclusion of
this form Of payment in the new agree
ments. But as to existing agreements
with employers the executive II
ell definitely recommends that exist
ing collective bargaining agreements
must not be %dishonored by now en-
tering into legal suits to secure a form
Of wages which were not provided for
when the existing agreements were
negotiated"
Montana labor news., 1947-01-23
BUILDING TRADES ARE
OPPOSED TO PREFAB
CONSTRUCTION

Washington. y. C.-Opposition by
Chicago building trades unions 10 pre-
fabricated housing is based on the
charge that pre-fabricators thus far
have failed to produce a product COM
parable To convention building ma
terial.
This was the summation OF Patrick
f. sullivan, president Of the Chicago
Building Trades Council. who declared
the union group will continue to op-
pose pre-fabrication until such time
as the pre.fabricated house meets the
standards Of conventional construc
ton
at is not true that we are trying
TO stop REHABILITATION. he added bn'
I'VE reserve the right 10 say that II i
not good construction We don't wlsl
to be q party TO anything that VII
create future Sums.
Montana labor news., 1947-01-23

tiou" when in fact their customers
ar, b~amhoozled because their goods
ARE in less than perfect wearahie VI
dillon and the use in many cases was
excessive.
Further smrring honesty these
COMPANIES actually agreed not 10
claim goods were made OF SILK wheh
in fact they had only a slight me
tion With the lowly silk worm. me
.apreement said the firm would can
ravor bv its right name-lm type
equally conspicuous indicating rs
predominance by weight, b~esihhlls
uirh the largest single constituent
Even p%oultrymen get protection
from Uncle Sans ETC. The Norioik
Hatchery of Norfolk. Nebr-. agreed TO
I claiming its baby chicks were
II. :. Certified" when in TACT they
were not actually sired by males OF
~ficially banded by federal authori'les
and registered as such. which busts
M another racket.
If ETC is not blocked by a "busl'
ress as usual" congress, we may see
d LOT Of free enterprise" on the rocks
or the rock pile.
Montana labor news., 1947-01-23

IF small business under the Surplus
Property .Act can LEGALLY be contln
ued." Murray said, is precisely III line
with what our committee has advo-
Gated end recommended. The lnteht
of the CONGRESS in enacting the Sur
plus Property Act is ~abundantly clear
small business is to get and re-
tain q preferential right in the pur-
chase Of surplus property
IN spite Of the preference rights
cnioyed hv small businessmen and
veterans. Information reaching me
from Montana indicates that the
amount Of surplus property available
in the state is insufficient to I'LL the
orders filed by these preferential
groups. accordingly, | have conferred
with NJ NJ Royd. deputy WAA adj
ministrator in charge of general dis.
posals. ana with Col. Paul G. Rutten,
director al the WAA Sixth Zone which
inclgies Montana. Washington. Ore
con. California. Idaho and Colorado. i'll
an effort to work out ways and means
III maxine additional inventories OF
Grams ana small businessmen i'll Mon
tana
".As q result Of these consultations
ga now report the senator con
liNmed. chat the zone Director IS
sending 4 convoy Of surplus items
from sam Francisco into Montana, ac'
oompruicd bs a disposal expert who
Mil Investigate the needs Il re-
Quirempmts Of Montana purchasers.
Furthermore. the Helena, Montana,
WA office VIII be placed on a PAL
with the seattle, Spokane and Port
land WNA offices III having direct
atce~s 10 surplus supplies available
heretofore only to those prospective
fBrchascs Who dealt directly Wit
.fhc latter Offices
~ hope that these new arrange
Weais viii result in increased sales
~ surnlns property to Montana busi
neesmcn and veterans the Mohtan;
senator concluded. and am SURF
thar they viii now find that then or
ldcrs VIII receive prompt and salts
factory attention
Montana labor news., 1947-01-23
SETS FORTH AL
P0RTALT0P PORTAL
PAY POLICY

Washincton-FP-Official AFL pol
icy on portal-to-portal pay was set out
by President William Green in a mem
orandum on the issue released Janu-
airy Is, in which he warned against
permitting the courts or administra-
tive agencies to conduct the affairs Of
labor and management.
Although Green said that AFL ma
tional and international unions ARE
free to make their own policy determ-
nation in this mater he said very
few of these suits have been brought
by unions affiliated with the ALL"
Green added that any union or en-
ployer operating under a contract mu-
tually agreed upon, is under obliga-
tion first to present to the other party
to the agreement any question that
may arise regarding the terms Of the
agreement He said that appeal to
authority before all the voluntary
means Of resolving differences have
been exhausted, invites invasion of
the right Of labor and management tc
conduct their affairs
The statement follows and earlier
outline Of policy by Pres. John Frey
of the ALL Metal Trades department
opposing retroactive back pay suits
under the portal-to-portal principle.
Montana labor news., 1947-01-23
Federal SCHOOL FUND
BILL offered BY
Sen. AIKEN

: Washington FP sen. George NIX
en- tI,.. VII introduced 4 bill for led
oral aid 10 education January -. IN
tludine payments to p%arochtal schools
of mp To Go Per cent of their eNpehdl-
lures Tor Pupil transportation, school
health examinations and related
school health services. and non-rellg-
ious ~instructional Supplies and equip
.ment. including books.
The section covering school OF Il
non.puhlic character takes in tax eN-
empt priv t. schools n the elemen-
.tarv aud secondary school level.
Aiken's measure would set q uni
form national floor under educational
expenditures for each pupil in average
daily attendance At public elementary
and secondary schools OF $40 in 1918,
rising to 500 in 1853.
Federal grants RANGING from $50 pei
rupil III lsiS to SEQ in 1862 would sup
PIGMENT state and local levies III estab
fishing the floor under expenditures
The Aiken bill Is known as 5. 1879.
Montana labor news., 1947-01-23
.PESTILENCE DANGER IS STILL
GREAT IN EAST EUROPE

to an end. and the current tNRRA
food will all have been consumed o
Until the next harvest things will
be very difficult. Even then aericul-
tural Yields will still be far below
those of prewar years so the food
emergency will not be over. Tubercu-
losis. which is related to food and
housing shortages. is severe IL TINS
area.
About - per cen of the hospital
buildings in Byeprussia were demol-
ished by the Nazis. An estimated %
per cent of medical equipment. N-ray
apparatus. microscopes and surgical
instruments. were also destroyed or
stolen. AS a result health facilities
have peel put under a severe strain.
There are not enough sanitariums for
tuberculosis patients, and many ac-
tive. infectious cases are therefore
left at home. exposing their families
to the danger Of catching the disease.
UNRRA. Red Cross, American So
ciety for Russian Relief and other az
encies have SEM some medical sup
plies. But their programs never came
near filling the need, and they are
now practically at an end.
Politics In Food
A matter for positive worry for us is
the fact that our government has OPP
posed the continuation of UNRRA. is
opposing the formation of Il new uN
emergency food relief agency To re-
place it. and is talking Of giving aid
mainly to Italy. Austria and Greece
the first two. former enemy countries.
Fiorello Latiuardia. who recently re-
signed as Director General of UNRRA.
has accused the government OF using
relief as a political weapon-against
prolabor. democratic and left wing
trends in Europe.
This is another example of our reck
less foreign policy. which appears to
be trying to embroil us in an atomic
! war with Russia. 1t is up to organized
! labor. and working people in general
| to let the President, the state Depart
T ment and Congress know they do mo-
like it.
Montana labor news., 1947-01-23
PROPOSED PORTAL PAY
BAN IS OPPOSED
BY AL

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS to the
ban on portal-topo rtal pay suits 0
pendine in the Senate came from the
AFI. January II, with Legislative Keep.
Walter J. Mason warning the bills
would place the American workers
back several generations to the time
they were paid by the day regardless
of the number Of hours worked
Mason was the first labor witness
before the Senate judiciary committee
and was followed by Gen. Counsel
John Abt for the Amalgamated Cloth
Ing Workers tCIOl who declared the
bills would weaken. if not actually
destroy the federal wage-hour act.
on January is. CIO General Coun-
sci Lee Pressman objected to the bills
as catastrophe to the public welfare,
and added ,hat if industry were to be
retroactively deprived of rights in a
similar way "the hue and cry which
would arise could be heard around the
world.
There is a more basic evil Press
man said. presented by the bills. 1T
is this. These proposals depart from
our most cherished legal traditions
and constitutional limitations. II the
theory behind these proposals were
proper under our form Of government
no man would accept a liability which
one congress imposed on him bu
would rather defeat and evade it IL
the hope and belief that a %succeedin!
congress would relieve him OF it. TIL
prestige and authority Of our court
would he seriously menaced.'
pressman said he failed to find
single case where congress had al
tempted to reverse a L. $. suprem
court action. and insisted that the POI
~talto-portal ban would implant fea
among workers that Congress doe
not propose to play the game accort
ing to the rules where workers right
are concerned.
Montana labor news., 1947-01-23
IT'S
IS MARTY SOLOW
Federated Press

Time MAGAZINE. eager beaver when
il comes to doing big business a good
tnrn. did one of its sheer jobs On the
Nathan report for the ClO, the survey
which proved that big business gener-
ally can afford to grant a % per cent
boost without raising prices.
said Time. /" Industry, which
prefers to take the long view. pointed
out that since 1899 the cost OF living
has risen "a per cent while dollar
earnings have risen SO per cent-a
- PEI cent rise in real wages
Time. which helped industry take
the long view. might well ponder
another long view" According to De-
.uartment Of Commerce figures as cit
ed in the Nathan report. industrys
.~profits have scared lS3 per cent tafter
taxes, since 1899. while the total re-
Iceived by all workers has risen only
80 per cent.
When il comes to giving the
straight facts about big business, Time
evidently takes the dim view
part Of the big business drive TO
smash labor is a propaganda offensive
calling labor unions "m%onopolies, On
December 6 the Chicago Tribune pub
tlished an adv. signed by the president
of McGraw-Iiill Publishing company,
tattacking these so-called labor mon
Iopolies." The ad also asked that the
antitrust laws be applied to labor
Just as they are applied to business
and industrial monopolies.'
Not only is this part OF the anu
labor drive, it's also a coyer'up on inc
concentration Of wealth in American
business. Here's the true story, based
on data from Economic Concentration
4 World War II.
!. Onetenth OF one per cent OF ALL
the corporations in the L. $. own D.
Der cent chats FIFTY-TWO) OF the
total CORPORATE ASSETS.
2. One-tenth of one per cent OF ALI
CORPORATIONS earned so per cent OF tn
TOTAL CORPORATE NET INCOME
2. Less than 4 per cent Of all manu-
featuring corporations earned - pc
cent Of ALI. the net profits Of ALI
manufacturing corporations.
or course. labor also has a monoI
oly-~it does all the work
Montana labor news., 1947-01-23


All that fancy legal and med-'
zeal language means that the
company agreed. rather than
face a public Law suit. TO stop
claiming that lis pills and tab
lets would cure rheumatism,
arthritiS. gall or kidney stones.
brain or nerve fatigue and neu-
ralgia.
The Baltimore pill Operators also
agreed to stop claiming that rs Sc
lected Improved Sea Vegetables
whatever that may mean. have any
value in preventing or treating eoitre'
regulation OF glands Blood pressure
or heart action OF that they VIII ~
any way stimulate or promote normal
mental or physical development or
even he helpful IN clearing the ON
pleNion or iii eliminating body poi
sons
In another detisioA protecting The
poor consumer. ETC agreed Win Geo
" Goodie. trading as sai.TeN Lab
oratories oi Los Angeles. that he WI
stop riehl now from claiming that hls
feminine hygiene products sold as
"sani.TeN are recommended by phy
sicians or are of use MS a conlgaeep
tive measure.
Goodie. caught in a bald-iaced lie
also stipulated that he would ceas'
from using the word laboratory o.
any similar name in his ads. since III
does not own or control any approp
riately equipped laboratory where III
products are compounded or made ant
where research work in connection
with them * conducted by a trained
technician.
Three guys operating the Hadashlal
Export Clothing Co. and the EASTER
Mail order Co. Of New YORK CITY
agreed to cease and desist from ms
representing their clothing in advei
Using including use OF the ora
slightly used or excellent con
Montana labor news., 1947-01-23

The great influenza epidemic killed !
millions of people following World
Wan |. Typhus fever swept over east
err Europe. tuberculosis and starva-
tor took a huge toll. Are the o
horsemen. famine. pestilence, disease
and death. stalking the world after
this wal also?
Enough time n passed for us to
sec that things are better this time,
at least in Europe. There have been
cpidemics but they have been more
restricted in scope III h ave been
checked earlier. There still is starva-
tion and malnutrition but they have
not been so widespread and have been
counteracted more promptly.
Part of the credit for the better
record goes to the public health move
ment, for advances in the prevention
and treatment of disease made since
World Wal |. Much of il must 20 to
TNRRA, the United Nations Relief
and Rehabilitation Administration.
This agency has shipped food, cloth
ing. agricultural and other supplies to
the devastated countries. and has furn-
ished trained personnel for control of
tuberculosis. malaria and venereal di-
sease.
Danger Still Turks
But the danger period is not over
Practically all the major disease rates
are higher thar the prewar levels and
the threat of severe epidemics still
exists. As long as this is true, the Uni
! ter states is not safe from their eli
fects.
Food and shelter are still yer,
scarce. Supplies of clothing and fue
are also dangerously low. It. takes
far longer time to restore Il war-wreck
ed country than we in the L. S. cal
imagine.
An American doctor who has just re
5 turned from six months in Byelorus
sia. one OF the devastated areas i
eastern Europe. stated at a medica
d meeting that the winter and spring c
( 1917 will be very dangerous ones fo
J. peoIlo in this and other eastern Euro
pean areas. %Bylorussia is one of tn
II westernmost republics Of the Sovit
X Union. with a population of ten mi
IL lion. II was occupied for three yeal
b, the Nazis.
ii. Now. he reports. the food suppl
II is lacking milk. meat and other pr
e tein foods, fats fresh fruit and otht
~ necessities. UNRRA is the majt
s. source Of these foods available i'll Il
area. But UNRRA's program is comm
Montana labor news., 1947-01-23
TRUCKERS GIVEN BOOST

Newark, y Thirty truck drivers
Of the Northern New Jersey oil Co,
we're granted a pay increase OF l>i2
cents an hour after q lhree.day work
stolpaec recently The drivers are
members OF Local as Of the Team
st.rs International fAFlD.
Montana labor news., 1947-01-23

arrangements with the War
Assets Administration ito bring
about an increased supply OF
surplus property items for dis
posal to small businessmen and
veterans in Montana
"The favorable decision 81 the AZ
torney general chat the priority rlsh'
Montana labor news., 1947-01-23
ETC Continues To Make A
Few Honest Men Out
0fFly by Nights

free enterprise involves e-
cessas in NOR, WAYS than one. as the Federal Trade I omnlsSoh
we'll knows. ~.
ETC avoided further conflict with Minerahzed FOODS. me
- pol.;,,or bv Getting an agreement that the firm would no
anaa, lin in tbe nublic prints that It's products have thera-
.un,.ic nronnrtins that cannot be suStalned.
Montana labor news., 1947-01-23
Property Available
Soon For State People

Washington, ID. G. = Senator James +. Murray Oh MOI
tana outpoinp chairman Of the senate small business commit
tee. said today he was highly pleased at me successful out
come Of the committees efforts to get the surplus properly
nr;oritv right Of small business extended for the lie OF thc
Currlns pronerty Act" and announced that he had completed
Montana labor news., 1947-01-23

Patronize the Cooperative In your
community-it Is there to serve you,
Montana labor news., 1947-01-23

DEMAND THE UNION LABEL
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-02
jacksonville Scout
Troop Wine Three
Ribbons AT Camporet
SneciaI To The Star

JACKSONVILLE, June Three
scout patrols, representing Jack
sonville Tro',' 20, took blue ribbons
at the annual Camporee held in
Kinston, May 1925, it was report
ed today by Harold Gleitz, troop
reporter.
To qualify for a blue ribbon ESQ
points out of a possible 900 had to
be made. The winning patrols were
Eagle, Panther and Cobra Of Troop
20. The Jacksonville troop placed
at least two patrols in the finals
of the contests staged. which In
Guided, fire building, blanket roll
ing, undressing, potato race, KNOB
tying, first aid and others.
The patrols were also gradeo
in the care of the camp site, tent
age. proper uniforms. packs ana
other scouting factors necessary
to maintaining a good camp site.
The Eagle patrol scored BAL points
panther patrol, 816 and the Cobra
753 points.
Scout leaders from Jacksonville
attending the camporee included;
Gene Maultsby, Vann Murrlel ana
Charles Marshall.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-02
ASSOCIATION
TO MEET JUNE 26
Noted Speakers To Address
Three-D Day Assembly
AT 18th Convention

MOREHEAD CITY, June 1-P)
The North Carolina Press As
sociation will open it's 18th annual
meeting at nearby Atlantic Beach
June 26.
The opening nights program OF
the three-day meeting will feature
the annual address of President
Herbert Peele. Don Eek, general
manager Of the National Editorla!
association, will lead a discussion
of plans for the N.E.A. convention
and tour Of North Carolina in 1948.
Fridays program includes group
meetings of daily and weekly
publishers in the morning, a cruise
aboard the coast guard cutter
Cherokee in the afternoon and a
dinner meeting featuring an ad-
dress by Rep. Graham A. BardeE
(D-NC).
The annual business session will
be held Saturday morning. John
A. Park, publisher of the Raleigh
Times now on a trip of Europe.
is expected to return to this coun-
try in time to speak briefly at
the Saturday session.
Adjournment will come before
noon with a trip planned to Camp
Lejeune for luncheon.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-02
WI BACCALAUREATE
SERMON DELIVERED
BY DR.. TRIB L E

WAKE FOREST, June l - The
school, the church, the home. and
the state must find a plan of CO.
operation in the interest of the
welfare of all mankind, DR.. Harold
W. Tribble, head of the Depart
ment of Theology of the Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary,
Louisville, KY, told the al mem
mebs of the graduating class OF
Wake Forest College, in a bacca'
laureate sermon here tonight.
Speaking on the subject. IA
Harmonious Whole" DR.. Tribble
said that Gods design for nature
makes it a cosmos. an orderly uni
verse with symmetry and purpose,
but that mans behavior has made
it a chaos. a jungle of conflicting
forces. Man possesses the secret
of vast power. he said, but has
not yet learned how to use that
power for the welfare of the whole
human family.
DR.. Tribble, the son of a Baptist
minister-educator, DR.. H. w. Trib-
BILE, was born in Charlottesville.
Va, and was reared in Virginia
and Florida, He received his ed
ucation at Columbia College, the
University of Richmond, South
ern Baptist Seminary, and the
University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
During the more than twenty years
that he has been a member of
the faculty of Southern Seminary
he has travelled widely as preach
err and lecturer, and has written
several books. He is listed n Who's
Who in America.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-02
Traffic Safety Show
Slated AT Pine Lodge
Special To The Star

JACKSONVILLE, June l Tues
day afternoon( June 10, at 2:3o
o'clock, a traffic safety show will
be presented to the children OF
Onslow county at Pine Lodge. it
was announced here today.
Four trained dogs will give
demonstration on how to cross
streets safety, how injured peo-
pie cross intersections and othe-
safety illustrations.
Traffic officer E. E. Presley,
Of Charlotte will give an interest
ing talk on safety. The program is
sponsored by Billy Arthur, Jack
sonville publisher. the Charlotte
Police department and the N. c
State Automobile association.
No charge will b, made for the
show and all children Of the county
have been invited to attend.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-02
Pharmaceutical Foundation
To Launch PROGRAM June 4

CHAPEL HILL, June 2 - The
program for the North Carolina
pharmaceutical research founda.
ton, which was organized last
fall by the State Pharmaceutical
association, will be formally
launched at a luncheon at the
Carolina Inn here Wednesday, at
l o'clock.
All pharmacists in the state are
invited to attend as guests Of the
University.
There will be brief talks by
President Frank P. Graham, Con-
troller W. D. Carmichael, Jr.,
Dean M. L. Jacobs, of the Univer-
sity, and by Roger A. McDuffie,
of Greensboro, president, and
Prof. E. A. Brecht of the phar-
macy school, secretary of the
foundation.
Chancellor Robert B. House will
preside.
The foundation is a non-stock,
|non-profit organization Incorporate
ed by the pharmacists of the state
for fostering and promoting pha--
m%aceutical education and research
at the school of pharmacy of the
University and in the state of
North Carolina.