Evening star., 1947-01-31
lUAW Veterans Farley
Votes Protest Against.
|cO Award 10 Bradley

A recent CIO designation OF Vet
Grams, Administrator Bradley as the
person who did most for veterans
during 1916 was protested as an
untimely choice today by a vet
erans' conference of the CIO United
Automobile Workers meeting at the
Hotel Statler.
The award was presented to Gen.
Bradley here two weeks ago by the
CIO Community Services Commit
tee.
TIE veterans conference resolu-
ton concerning the award was op-
posed by only one of the ITS dele
gates representing union locals. The
two-day meeting ends today.
The conference also opposed uni
versal military training and exten-
sion Of the draft.
Racial Resolution Approved.
Another approved resolution de-
clared that Segregation and dis
elimination based on race and color
exist on all sides of Washington
It protested "injustices and indig-
mites received by our delegates and
others who are members of minority
races because of this vicious Jim
Grow discriminatory system"
In an address Meyer Bernstein,
assistant director of the CIO Vet
erans' Committee, warned delegates
that congressional economy moves
are pointed toward the Veterans
Administration, and urged them to
demand retention of all veterans
benefits.
The group also asked that unem-
ployment compensation allowances
be increased from $40 to $25 a week,
with an additional $5 for each de-
pendent child. The same resolution
demanded that veterans be allowed
to draw the allowance while they are
not working during strikes.
later today to lobby for the benefits
they have urged at the conference.
Bonus Asked.
At yesterdays session, they asked
for a World War II bonus that
would pay veterans So for each day
served in this country and 81 for
each day overseas. They also de-
manded these new CT benefits:
/. Immediate cash payment of
terminal leave pay bonds for former
enlisted men. The men were given
Savings Bonds which may not be
cashed for some time.
2. Removal of restrictions on sub
sistence allowances paid to CT stu
dents and trainees, and a $50 in
crease for each veteran, with an
other $40 boost for each dependent
child.
3. Increases in money allowed leg
amputees of World War II to buy
automobiles.
4. The same provisions to provide
cars for arm amputees.
The conference also urged imme-
diate passage of provisions of the
Wagner Ellender Taft low cost
housing bill and asked President
Truman to re-create a central
housing agency that will make use
Va C1lC nl1AI sdlAA PO"OAc Va oAAO ese-
man Act" The only other housing
resolution strongly opposed any re-
Taxation in rent controls.
Bradley Not Invited.
Emil Marcy, director of the UAW
veterans department and chairman
of the conference, said of Gen. Brad
ley:
1--WE particularly did not invite
him to speak to us because we have
a number of justifiable grievances
against him."
One was a recent ruling Of the
administrator in cases of veterans
laid of during the General Motors
strike last spring that they would be
ineligible to join the 1920 Club"
1.-THE on-the-job subsistence al
lowance question could easily have
been regulated by simple ad-
ministratiye procedures, MIR. Macy
said.
"And don't forget, Gen. Bradley
opposed the cars for amputees."