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Size Of Virginia
Teachers Raise
Two Labor Measures
Approved by House
Go to Senate Today
By Alex R. Preston
Stor Sfoff Correspondent

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Stor stuff Correspondent
RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 15.-Deci-
sion on whether public school
teachers will receive more raises
than proposed by the administration,
and II so how much is expected in
the House of Delegates today.
Meantime, the Senate will receive
today the Governors labor legisla-
tion which already has the approval
Of the lower body.
The House Appropriations Com
mittee held three-hour executive
session late yesterday and agreed
on the salary increase bill with the
exception of an amendment to add
$4,000 to the $6,500,00 recon-
mended by the Governor.
Earlier the House approved in
almost unaltered form, the labor
bills requested by Gov. Tuck to
prohibit closed shop contracts in
intra-State enterprises and to pre-
vent sudden work stoppages in vital
public utilities because of labor
disputes.
The anti-closed shop bill passed,
76 to %. The utility bill passed,
80 to 6.
Bills BasicalIy Unchanged.
Both bills reached the Senate in
basically the form recommended by
the Governor. The House defeated
all efforts to make major changes
in the utilities bill, and the only
amendments accepted were either
with the open or tacit consent of
the sponsors.
One change would specifically ex-
empt from the utilities bill "any
utility to which the National Rail-
way Labor Act is applicable"-which
means railroads in interstate COM
merce.
Other changes would prohibit the
discharge of any utility worker, ex-
cept for just cause, during period
of State operation; would assure
that working conditions and wages
would be frozen under State opera
tion as of the date of the first notice
of union management negotiations,
instead of Immediately preceding
State seizure, and substitute more
specific language for the word
work" in one section of the bill.
States Profit Share Raised.
Adopted without debate was a
committee amendment raising from
10 to Is per cent the amount of the
utility's net profits to be retained by
the State during a period of State
operation. Sponsors said this pro-
vision would receive further study
and might be the subject of further
modification in the Senate If addi-
tional information indicated it
should be changed.
Among other bills passed by the
House were two applicable to North
ern Virginia. They were:
A bill by Delegates j. Maynard
Magruder and George Damn, both
of Arlington, permitting a referen-
dunn in l947 on the question of
abolishing the existing stagger
method of electing members OF the
Arlington County Board.
A Magruder-Damm bill amending
the 1912 Arlington Employees Retire
ment Act to include employees OF
elected officials.
Senate Measures Passed.
Among Senate measures passed
was one by Senator Robert Y. But
ton, Culpeper, authorizing loans for
school purposes from the State re-
tirement system when money in the
school literary fund is exhausted.
The retirement system could charge
up to 4 per cent.
Progress Of other Northern Vir-
ginia legislation was made in after
noon committee meetings.
The House Committee on Schools
and Colleges reported the Ma
gruder-Damm bill permitting Ar
lington voters to hold referendum
on the question of changing the
method of naming the school board.
The same committee approved a
proposal by the two Arlington dele
gates calling for study by the
Virginia Advisory Legislative Coun-
Gil of the question on furnishing two
additional years of free schooling.
among measures Endorsed by the
House Committee on Counties,
Cities and Towns was a resolu-
ton by Delegate Edwin w. Lynch,
Fairfax, calling for a v. A. L. G..
study of local government prob
lens in the Arlington-Alexandria-
Fairfax area with a view to solving
annexation, public service and other
questions. The resolution was sup
ported in principle, although the
sponsor is to introduce further
amendments when it reaches the
floor.
Fairfax Bonds Approved.
The committee also approved a
measure of Senator Andrew w.
Clarke, Alexandria, Fairfax and
Prince William, authorizing the is
suance of bonds for a Fairfax water
supply system.
The House Finance Committee,
for the second consecutive day,
postponed final action on bill to
impose a 10 per cent tax on wines
and liquors as means Of raising
about $s,OO0,0O0 to finance an ex-
panded program of increasing
school teachers pay.
House passage of the two labor
bills yesterday leaves before it only
the teachers pay bill out of the Gov
ernor's original legislative program
for which the special session was
called. A proposed rent control law
was added to the program after the
session convened.
MIR. Lynch and Mr.. Magruder
were the only Northern Virginia
representatives among the 20 who
voted against the anticlosed shop
bill.
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