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The union times., 1947-07-19
Housing Hearing
 At City Hall On Wednesday,8:l5
McGovern Urges All Locals To Send Full Represent
 ation To Meeting

All local unions in New Haven were urged this week to send a large representation to the public hearing to be held by the Board of Aldermen on Wednesday, July 23, at 8:15 P.M., on resolutions which, if passed, will help relieve the housing shortage in this area.
 The need for relief was clearly proven when it was learned that more than 1000 eviction notices had been filed under the trent control law passed by Congress.
 Following is the text of letter sent by President Vincent J. Me- Govern, president of the New Ha- ven Central Labor Council, to all ALL. locals:
 Dear Sir and Brother :"
 After several months of work, a public hearing by special committee of the New Haven Board of Alder men on our resolutions to provide more housing will be held in the AL dermanic Chambers on Wednesday, July g at SIS p. m.
 ''These resolutions, sponsored by the New Haven Citizens Hous- ing Council, which the Central La bOr Council was instrumental in organizing, will enable the city to obtain the benefit of part of the SIS, 100000 fund voted by the Legislature to help cities build housing projects for those who have moderate, as well as low in- comes.
 Congress has passed the Taft Hartley Bill, but ignores the Wag- ner-Murray-D -Dingell National Hous- ing program. It is up to us, as residents of New Haven. and as members of organized labor, to take the lead in using all available methods to help solve the housing shortage.
 T am therefore earnestly request ing your Local Union to have as large a representation as possible at the hearing. all registering in favor of the resolutions. Please be sure that your organization does its share"
The union times., 1947-07-19
Taft-Hartley Could Be Worse

What Congress cooked up in the Taft-Hartley bill said the Chicago Sun editorially last week, is not quite so bad as the "bill of conspiracy of victuallers and craftsmen, but it bears some striking resemblances. The bill of conspiracy was a statute en- acted in England almost exactly 400 years ago. The law read:
 Any artifcers, workmen or labour- CTS who do conspire, covenant or promise together or make any oaths that they shall not make or do their works but at certain price or rate, or shall not enterprise or take upon them to finish that another hath begun, or shall do but certain work in a day, or shall not work at certain hours and times (shall be punished) for the first offence ten pounds or twenty days imprisonment, and (he) shall have only bread and water; and for the second offence, (he) shall forfeit twenty pounds or suffer punish ment at the pillory, and for the third offence shall forfeit thirty pounds or shall sit on the pillory and lose one of his ears, and shall at all times aft CT that be taken as man infamous "
The union times., 1947-07-19
Realty Lobby Probe Asked

ST. LOUIS (LPA)-An editorial demand for a Congressional investiga- ton of the real estate lobby in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch drew nationwide attention last week.
 "As free enterprise the real estate lobby is lie. As front for build CTS it is an organized wreckihg crew" charges the Post-Dispatch. First of all the inquiry ought to show why every major housing bill since the Housing Act of 1o37 has been block aded, including the Wagner-Ellender- Taft bill"
 In fact, the midwest paper nomi- mates Sen. Robert A. Taft (R., Ohio) to carry out the expose. "The COP Senator" the Post-Dispatch points out, "who has never been pinker than his suntan, has been branded a Social ist and what-not by the building lobby because he helped write bill for pub lie housing"
The union times., 1947-07-19
MarkedProgress Being Made By 4O4, New Haven

Marked progress is being made by Local 404, New Haven Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union, accord ing to an announcement by Business Agent David Strauss.
 The union is now negotiating a contract with the Hotel Taft. Con- ferences now being held indicate that a successful conclusion will be arrived at in the near future. Local 4O4 is participating in an election under the supervision of the State Labor Relations Board at WilcOx's Pier Restaurant to determine whether the union shall be the bar gaining agent for the walters and waitresses.
 The union won a SLRB election at Seven Gables Towne House, and the contract is to be presented in the near future.
 Marcel Kenny, International Vice President, was in New Haven Mon- day afternoon, and discussed plans with leaders of the Local for an in tensive organizing drive in this area.
The union times., 1947-07-19
Admit Refugees, Congress Asked

WASHINGTON (LPA) = AFI., ClO, religious and veterans groups to- gether with the State and Labor De- partments were on record last week in favor of legislation to permit en- try into the U. s. of 100000 displaced persons in Europe.
 Witness after witness before a House Judiciary Subcommittee blast ed such ancient superstitions as that immigration causes or ever has caused unemployment or induced depressions Testifying last week for legislation in- troduced by Rep. William c. Strat- ton (R., Ill.) were: John Edelman, of the Textile Workers Union-CIO appearing for President Philip Mur- ray; Asst. Labor Secretary Philip Hannah Con leave as secretary treasurer of the Ohio AFL): the Natl. Conference of Catholic Chari- ties, Jewish War Veterans and Cath olic War Veterans. Previously AFL President William Green testified for the bill.
The union times., 1947-07-19
Labor Urged To Give Support To Co-op.eratives
AFL Says Co-ops Are Only Effective Means Of
 Reducing Prices

Washington, ID. C.-The Ameri- can Federation of Labor this week called upon its members to estab- fish cooperative stores, credit un- ions, and factories as the only effec- tive means of reducing prices.
 Citing the need for lower prices and increased purchasing power for workers to maintain full production and full employment" the AFL's Labor's Monthly Survey declared, By organizing as consumers in coopera- tives we can mobilize our buying power to achieve these goals"
 The AFL report said, ''We can- not afford to wait. Almost every AFL member spends at least $500 year on living necessities. These dollars, spent in cooperative stores, will fight for fair prices and good quality. Our 7,5OO,OOO members, buying in consumer cooperatives and saving in credit unions can be an immense power for goOd."
 "The AFL has repeatedly said that the forces of competition would re- duce prices when enough goods are produced to meet the demand" the Survey said. But today many fac tories are cutting production while prices hold at high levels.
 "This years experience has proved beyond a doubt that talk alone will not bring prices down. There has been no significant de- cline in the general level of either industrial or consumer prices this year.''
The union times., 1947-07-19
A.F.L. Leaders Declare War On Taft-Hartley'Act
Leaders Of 1O5 Interna. tional Unions Lay Down
 Battle Lines

WASHINGTON GPA) = Over 200 chief executives of 105 AFL na- tional and international unions, at an emergency meeting here last week laid down the battle lines for all all out struggle against the Taft-Hart- ley slave labor" law.
 I. eve will challenge the valid ity of the unconstitutional provi- siOns in the courts ... and exhaust every legal recourse at our com mand.
 2. ssThe repeal of this notorious legislation shall be our fixed Objec- tive.
 8. eve will organize. unite and concentrate our efforts toward bringing about the defeat of every member of Congress who voted in favor of final enactment of the Taft-Hartley bill.
 A." To protect our organizations against suits for damages and other vexatious and destructive litigation, we recommend that snO-strike' pro- visions be omitted from all future agreements.
 5. "So workers of the nation may be accorded a full opportunity to vote in national elections, we recommend that our organizations set aside election day as holiday to be devoted solely to election pur- poses."
 The declaration also denounced the law i'll these blistering terms Tt seeks to weaken, render impotent and destroy labor unions. It does so by striking a vital blow at free collec- tive bargaining and substituting gov ernment domination over employer employe relationships.
 "The provision of the law which makes it unlawful for any labor or ganization to make a contribution or expenditure = in connection with the election of members of Congress strikes vital blow at freedom oi speech and press.
 This must be interpreted as meaning that supporters of the Taft-Hartley bill want to make it a crime for labor to ;. prevent them from being reelected to Congress.
 'sThe Nat'l Association of Manu. facturers and other employer or ganizations may function and serve their respective membership with. out any substantial interference on the part of government. They are practically free from legislative re. straints and limitations. The attor. neys who serve the NAM and who wrote the Taft-Hartley bill saw to it that their clients were exemp, from many of the provisions of the Act to which unions and their mem. bers are subjected"
 The AFL leaders wound up b, branding the bill "a strike and strife provoking act" which means the end ot sound labor management relations.
The union times., 1947-07-19
MUSICIANS HEAD FIGHTS BACK Petrillo Holds His Oevn As Lynch" Probe Boomerangs Real Issue Is Bread And Butter For Members He
 Says; Offers A Fair DeaF'

A new lynch Petrillo' investiga- tion-the third or fourth to be held in the past few years by Congress sional units-was started last week by subcommittee of the House La or Committee.
 The Labor Committee has devel- oped new smear" technique. It has set Up subcomnlittees to probe" va rious features of the trade union move ment and has an army of "experts" at work, all bitterly anti-union.
 Furthermore, these subcom-
 mittees have been coming in
 with verdict of guilty before
 the evidence has been heard.
 For example, Congressman Carroll D. Kearns (Rep., Pa.), chairman of the subcommittee assigned to go after
The union times., 1947-07-19

Union easily holds its own as Congressional committees seek to put him "on the spOt.'' James Caesar Petrillo, president of the American Federation of Musi- clans, released an indictment" to the newspapers before .Petrillo took the stand.
 Trumped-Up Charges
 It charged that Petrillo and his union operated as a monopoly" and a dictatorship; "coerced" the broad casting and recording industries to pay tribute" ''held back technologi- cal progress" and even-believe it or not" "interfered with freedom of re- ligion and education"
 Ironically, Kearns, who boasted he was member of the Musicians Un- ion, led the effort to cruelty his own organization.
 A carnival atmosphere enveloped the hearings. The huge House caucus room was chosen as the scene. Scores upon scores of newspaper workers crowded the room, as did newsreel cameramen, newspaper photographers and broadcasters who surrounded the witness table with microphones.
 PetrillO Holds His Own
 The affair was "lynching bee" = and back of the performance were the rich broadcasters, recording compa- nleS and powerful newspapers which own radio stations all over the coun- try.
 However, Petrillo more. than held his oWn
 Time and again under the grilling of the lawmakers, he made it clear that he and the union have only one basic objective-"to look out for the bread and butter of musicians they and their families must eat.'
 Cites Slaughter of Jobs
 While broadcasters, record making companies and juke-box outfits are rolling in wealth, musicians are being driven out of jobs, he said. Hundreds ot radio stations employ no live musi- cians-all their music programs are canned"
 Even at weddings and funerals, luke boxes are replacing live musicians, Pe- trillo declared. q don't see why we should let juke box companies make $1,OOOOOO on a record, for which the musician gets only $2000," he said.
 On top of that, musicians are be- ing laid off at hotels, restaurants and theaters. At this rate, half our mem bers will be jobless by the end of the year," he insisted.
 May Take Drastic Steps
 The union may be driven to drastic moves, Petrillo declared. For example, 1t may refuse to renew its contract With radio networks, because hand tul of musicians on the networks iced stations all over the country and prevent thousands of our members from holding jobs."
 Also, the union may do the same Tn the case of recording companies, and even go into the record-making business itself. He added, however: q nope we won't have to do those things"
 Committee members said Petrillo and his union prevent music pupils in
The union times., 1947-07-19
I'll Law Backfres

WASHINGTON LPA) = The Taft-Hartley law will do at least one thing it was intended to prevent, ac- cording to daily newspaper columnist Lowell Mellet. It will assure "the ac- tive, organized participation of labor in politics" specifically, it will stimu- late rank-and-file political action on the part of workingmen and their families. "We have long been accus- toned to say there is no such thing as labor vote in this country" writes Mellett, but he predicts that "The campaign next year may reveal that this can no longer be said"
The union times., 1947-07-19
As We See It
 by THE STAFF

Real estate lobby is rumored de- manding an amendment to the voluntary" rent-raise law. They want tenants to smile and kiss the landlord, too, while he's giving them the business.
 About the only thing Jim Farley hasn't accused Roosevelt of is smashing OPA, busting the unions and raising rent.
 Ashes to ashes,
 Dust to dust,
 If Taft don't get you
 Then Hartley must.
 OFFICIAL returns are not yet in, but the magazine, "Business Week." predicts that Corporate profits for the first half of this year undoubtedly were the highest eVer."
 In its current issue, the magazine estimated that the six months pro- fits will reach an annual rate of ''more than 16 billion dollars''- nearly 25 per cent greater than the banner year of l946 and 100 per cent above the previous peacetime high, set in 1929.
 T,OO Congressional Epitaphs
 Here sit,
 Broken Hartley;
 l bust unions,
 But only partly.
 Here I sit,
 On my presidential raft;
 l think I missed the boat
 My name is Taft.
 AS PART of a straight report on girls baseball game, the Ogden (Utah) Times sports page said : Everything was going fine until the last half of the fifth when all of the bags got loaded.' " G AA1AtO AOO HIN HE OV' ION TIMES: NEW HAVEN award. ed 57th annual convention of Conn. Federation of Labor, to be held at Hotel Taft Sept. 8-1l inclusive. LOCAL B-9O prepares for full scale campaign to organize Whitney. Blake Company in Hamden. P E T E R BENARD, president Bridgeport Central Labor Union. submits names of three Bridgeport labor leaders to State OPA Direc. tor, Chester Bowles, for considera. ton as appOintees to local ration. ing boards. TROLLEY AND BUS Operators being fitted with new OK. ford grey uniforms. There's no mystery about the ffy. ing saucers, of course. They're just prices-dazzling, soaring, speeding upward faster than light. The blue smoke one spectator saw was just an anti-OPA congressman's pants smOldering after his constituents caught up with him.
 For the first four months of I947, Class l railroads reported ne, profits of $l2l million.
The union times., 1947-07-19
Big lndustrialist Warns Manaqement
What's Happening?

Because of the paper short age, The Union Times is forced to reduce the number of its pages this week. The daily news papers are monOpolizing what newsprint is available. The week. ly press has been trying to reme- dy this situation.
 In the meantime, we will con- tinue to print all the news about organized labor, with special emphasis on news favorable to labor. The daily papers, with their "A to g pages, cannot find space for this type of news.
The union times., 1947-07-19

the schools from going on the air, Petrillo denied that, declared the charges came from newspapers which own the radio stations and have been doing everything possible to discredit the musicians union.
 Petrillo Offers Cooperation
 The union, Petrillo said, wants to aid the youngsters, but he stressed that children don't have the right to take bread and butter from the mouths of musicians"
 The union will fight attempts of ra- dio stations to use children for com mercial purposes, thus displacing reg ular musicians, but he offered to sit down with educators and work out a national plan flair to the children and fair to the professional musicians" by which school bands may broadcast regularly.
 ''I'm willing to sit down any time, any place to work out a fair deal," Petrillo declared.
The union times., 1947-07-19

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The union times., 1947-07-19

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The union times., 1947-07-19

UniOnism Means Democracy
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The union times., 1947-07-19
Lid Lifted On Profteers

WASHINGTON (LPA) U The gates to postwar profteering were opened wider last week when the House of Representatives approved legislation repeating the profit limita tions imposed by the Vinson- Tram nell Act of 1884.
 The law limited profits on military air planes to 129o and on Navy ship construction to 109o. Also repealed by the House bill would be the re- quirement that fixed percentage of plane and ship construction be handled i'll government-owned plants. Excuse offered by the House Armed Services Committee was that repeal of the Emi- tation would really prove economical because industry has made the maxi mum allowable profit the minimum
The union times., 1947-07-19

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The union times., 1947-07-19

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The union times., 1947-07-19
Attend That Hearing!

All locals and friends of labor are urged to attend the aIdermanic hearing to be held at City Hall, New Haven, Wednesday, July 23. at 8:15 P.M., to consider the petition of the Citizens Housing Council for legislation which will make possible more housing for New Ha- ven.
The union times., 1947-07-19
Don't Let Them Fool You

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The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-03-14
Republican Majority Votes
To Kill State FEPC Bill

olympia, Wash, March IA = The Republican majority
the Senate this week voted down motion by Albert Rose'
m Democratic floor leader to discharge SD 259 which called
for a Fair Employment Practices legislation.
81 10 with four absent to force consdera
ton of the which patterned after the FEPC law
enacted years ago in New York state 1t introduced
Rosen the request of the National Negro Congress
The Senate substitute for losely drawn
House which the Negro Congress asserted would
"legaize Jim Crow
Only two Republicans, Renator Westberg of Seattle and
Senator Happy of Spokane broke with their party.
The roll call the motion to bring the FEPC bill to the
floor:
FOR: Beck, Black Coe, Dixon, Edwards Grieve, Happy
Kohhase Mohler Olson Ray Rosellin Tsdae Todd West
berg.
AGAINST Benz Binzer Copeland, Cowen, Dahl, David
Earlywine, Flanagan, Huntley Kmba, Lee McCut-
cheon Mcdonald Morgan, Ondorff, Ostrander Parkerg
Reardon, Robertson, Rogers Roup Rutter, Schroeder
Shank Wall, Witten, Zednick.
ABSENT: Harley, Jackson Miller Sapp
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-03-14
Fourteen Attend
wv Session

Fourteen Nisei girls attended
the YWCA Business Girls world
wide observance dinner and pro-
gram last Tuesday night in the
Central YWCA. The program, at
tended by business girls from
Olympia. Tacoma and Seattle, had
as its theme, Unfinished Bust
ness" Miss Judith Greguson, news
ANALYST for the Seattle Public
Schools, spoke on World Citizen
ship"
Japanese-American girls at the
dlnner-program were Violet and
Hanako Arase, Katsuko Full
kado, Mary Ikeda, Spring Koba,
Nori Kobayashi, Tatsuko Kozu.
Aiko and Yoshiko Nakatsu, Teru
Okla. Pauline Takahashi, Grace
Uchimura, Alice Yoshioka and
KIM Matsubara.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-03-14
Illinois Council
Seeks Action On
.FEPC Legislation

CHICAGO, H., March IA - A
Statewide action Conference for
the enactment of an Illinois Fair
Employment Practices Law has
been called by the Illinois Coun-
Gil for a state FEPC law for Tues
day. March Is, in Springfield
The Springfield conference fol-
lows conferences on local held in
communities throughout the state
of Illinois during the last several
months. The purpose of the con-
ference is threefold: To have the
delegates from business, civic,
labor and religious organizations
visit their state legislators to urge
favorable voting on FEPC legis-
lation pending before the general
assembly; to get together res
ervoir of individuals representa-
tive of every district in the state
individuals who will testify at
the FEPC hearings being held on
March IS, by the joint House-Sen-
ate judiciary committees; and last
ly to bring together on state
wide basis, for the first time, the
proponents of FEPC to allow
them an interchange of ideas and
actions in order to coordinate their
various activities.
THE action conference will be
a dynamic one which will enable
the delegates to witness legisla-
tive session in action as well as
to speak vigorously against dis
elimination in employment due to
creed. color, religion, ancestry or
national origin the executive
committee of the Illinois council
announced.
I Prominent leaders of various or
CARNATIONS will speak at the con
ference which will take direct &C.
ton in contracting members OF
the general assembly to secure
commitments for FEPC legisla-
tioon.
Delegates to the conference
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-03-14

will constitute the front lines"
in the fight for an FEPC and
will receive statewide support
from the organizations and men,
bers they represent by means of
two novel methods of activity to
be announced within two days"
the council added.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-03-14
Business Girls
To Meet tuesday,

All Seattle business girls are in
vited to Wiana's dinner-meeting
at $50 p. m. next Tuesday, March
IS, in the YWCA. Mrs Betty Cor
don, a stylist from Rhodes De-
partment store, will speak on
Tips on Spring Fashion"
Reservations may be made by
calling Eliot 1900, Extension 80.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-03-14
Editorial
Urge Heart-to-Heart Talk
On Unpleasant Fight Issue

There distressing reports that again Nisei
soldiers from nearby Fort Lewis misbehavng by gupng
down los weekends dances and getting themselves
broied in fist fights.
The few guilty CTS by their pugistc antics with civilians
of whom there number of not only
dragging their otherwise innocent fellow servicemen through
nasty but also smearing the unapproach
ably remarkable record set by Nse veterans serving in
World War II throughout the world.
nstgaors of these Incidents should realize too that they
face the possibility of losing the confidence of the
munitys we-meanng people who more than willing to
extend a welcome hand to these soldiers.
But if because few ungentlemany the city of Seattle
declared off limits both the community and the Nisei
CTS stationed would suffer Surely there must be
a happy solution to this unpleasant situation.
We suggest heart-toheart talk between Seattle club
leaders and the servcemen's representatives.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-03-14
Study Life-Soving
In YWCAPooI

Senior life-saving classes, which
will last eight weeks, will start at
g p. m. Monday, March II. in the
YWCA pool
All students must receive the
medical approval of the YWCA
physician, it was announced.
Further information may be OBJ
tanned by phoning Elliott 1900, Ex-
tension II.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-03-14

In this world it is not what we
take up, but what we give up, that
makes us rich.-H. w. Beecher.