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The union times., 1947-02-22
Only Two Strike Notices Required

Beginning this week, trade unions subject to the War Labor Disputes Act will be required to file only 3O- day strike notices, one with the Secre- tary of Labor and one with the NLRB.
 The status of 3O-day strike notices has been clarified in statement issued by Secretary Schwellenbach in view of the expiration of the National Wage Stabilization Board on February A. Previously, the law required the filing of three such notices.
 The War Labor Disputes Act termi- mates on June 30, 1o47. Until that time, however, Section 8 of the Act requires that unions notify the Secretary of Labor and the National Labor Rela- tions Board of possible work stoppages which would interrupt work contribut- ing to the production of military sup plies or interfere with the effective transition to peacetime economy.
The union times., 1947-02-22
Stamford C.L.U.
 In Hard Hitting
 Organizing Drive
Committee Offers Aid To All Groups Who Wish
 To Join A.F.L.

The organization committee of the Stamford Central Labor Union has been doing a bang up job in lining up new groups of workers to join in the ranks of organized labor in the lower end of Connecticut.
 This group has been in existence about year and in that time their efforts have been rewarded with a large enrolment of new members for the American Federation of Labor and the Connecticut Feoeration of Labor.
 The excellent cooperation on the parts of such we'll known state and international representatives, as Joseph M. Rourke, Harold V. Feinmark, Frances Jones, Joe Summa, Walter Brock, and many others has been a great factor in promoting the work.
 As a result of the committees re- cent work an election was held at the Palmer Engine Company Plant in Cos Cob, on Friday. Under the direction of the National Labor Relations Board of the 11o employees eligible to vote, l13 have signed up with Local 268 United Construction Workers, of the United Mine Workers, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor.
 The Palmer Marine Engine Com pany is a division of the Columbia Aircraft Corporation. Walter Brock -
 man of the organization committee, Stephen E. Kelley and Fred Darling, have spent considerable time in the or ganization of the new local and they are ready and willing to help any group, large or small, to become mem bers of organized labor.
 A line to Chairman Edward Mill Ter, Al Cove Road, Stamford, will bring them to your aid.
The union times., 1947-02-22
Monopoly Of Newsprint
 Worries Small Papers

WASHINGTON-(FP) = Small publishers are letting the Senate small business committee know their main problem is bucking the monopoly con- trol of newsprint which is squeezing out independent publishers and labor papers, committee source told Fed erated Press this week.
 The committee has written to 10000 US. publishers in October inquiring into their newsprint problems, sharp ened recently by decontrol of paper prices.
 "The information we are getting will probably be gathered in a report to Congress which will stress the im- portance of strengthening out this problem of newsprint," the spokesman said.
 "A lot of small publishers are wonA dering how it is that they can't get newsprint for 25,OOO copies of their paper when big New York daily can get enough for 132-page Sunday issue full of advertising" he said.
The union times., 1947-02-22
Obey Law, Dixie Employers Told

ATLANTA, Ga-(FP)-In his first official speech as an NLRB mem Der, James J. Reynolds called on southern employers here for stricter compliance to the law to avoid track ing a trail of blood through your won- derful southland"
 "The employer who seeks by espion- age, illegal discharge of workers and the imposition of company unions to break down self-organization among his employees is inviting reaction, !" he told his audience of 250 at an At lanta Junior Chamber of Commerce meeting.
 At the same time Reynolds said he knew of nothing in the Wagner Act which prohibits an employer from talking to his workers about unions. Employers not only may talk about unions-they should" he said, Out when an employer threatens his em- ployes that if they join union he will shut down the plant, fire them or Starve their wives and children, he's going beyond the law"
The union times., 1947-02-22
AFL Tickets Are
 Sued For $7O,OOO

SAN FRANCISCO (FP) = The Rexall Drug Co. has filed a $7O,OOO damage suit in superior court here against the Pharmacists Union (AFL) for picketing and closing its warehouses. An unusual feature of the suit is the company's demand for double damages if the court rules the picketing was in violation of Ca1ifor- nia's antitrust laws.
 The company, whose chain of drug stores and warehouses has been struck since Dec. 1o along with Owl and Sontag stores, also demanded "such injunctive relief as is necessary and proper"
 Damages asked by the company in clude $45,0O0 in business already lost and $25,0O0 in exemplary damages. Named as defendants are the officers and business agents of the union plus 600 John Does. Main demand of the strikers is a 40-hour week.
The union times., 1947-02-22
As We See It
 by THE STAFF

The request made by the New Haven Central Labor Council for a full investigation of the Charities Department by a group of impar- tiaI citizens has been referred by Mayor CelentanO to the Board of Charities for consideration" ac- cording to a letter received by Pres ident Vincent J. McCovern. The Mayor still won't commit himself on the political appointments he made to the staff of the Charities Department. Is it true, or isn't it, MT. Mayor?
 At a meeting of Meriden Local 79O, U. A. W.-A.F.L, members went on record as unanimously opposing any sales and withholding tax being levied on the laboring people of Connecticut, according to the re- cording secretary, Mrs. Hedwig Freeman.
 And Georgia is the state that's afraid to let Negroes vote-for fear they'll make a mess of the state government.
 Any amendment to the Fair La- bor Standards Act which would al- low workers to waive claims for back wages-once the portal-to- portal question has been settled would make that Act largely mean ingless. That statement was made this week to House Judiciary Sub- committee by L. Metcalfe WalIing, Administrator of the Wage and Hour and Public Contracts Divi- sions, U. s. Department of Labor, who pointed out that nearly half of the 20 million workers covered by the Federal Wage and Hour Law are unorganized.
 The Wage-Hour Administrator made it clear that he favors com promise settlements of past liabiIi- ties growing out of the portal-to- portal question. However, he said, an amendment which would permit such compromises for the future would s'be disastrous to enforce. ment of this basic humanitarian statute."
 According to an item in the MidLand (Mich.) Daily NesUs:
 BEAVERTON = Mrs. James s Brown comes in various and assort- ed colors.
 Don't buy that new phonOgraph (unless it has FM-Ed.)! If you do. you'll soon be wishing you hadn't. Many machines now being sold /. i. are deliberately and disgracefully obsolete. In spite of advertising claims, these new sets are designed to keep you in ignorance and con- fusion as to radical improvements imminent in both photograph and radio production = and thereby maintain the profitable status quo as long as possible. Edward Tat nall Canby.
 The above statement is reprinted from MT. Canby's weekly column "The New Recordings'' which ap. peared in The Saturday ReUieso of Literature. It is reprinted here be- cause we endorse its double mes- sage: CD It gives the public the real facts; CD It warns manufac. turers that they will be caught with
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The union times., 1947-02-22

Nation, was contained in letter by AFL President William Green to Charles w. Tobey, of New Hampshire, chairman of the Sen ate Banking and Currency Com mlttee.
 BLUNT TERMS
 In blunt terms, which left no4h- ing to imagination, Mir. Green told Senator TObey that the best inter- ests of the country would be served by extension of the rent ceiling provisions of the Price Control Act until June 30, 1948.
 MT. Green told Senator Tobey:
 "Rent takes between one-ffth and one-fourth of the average wage-earn- CTS pay. An immediate effect of 10 to IS per cent rent increase would be to increase their cost of living any where from 2 to 5 per cent depending on the type of accommodations wage earners could find.
 A REAL THREAT
 "Such a sharp rise in living costs would have an extremely disturbing effect on wages and present a real threat to industrial peace"
 The expression of the AFL's views produced virtually a united front of labor opposition to an ''acrOss-the-bOard' rent rise as a spur to militancy in wage negOtia- tiOns currently proceeding annie ably.
 Other labor groups previously had taken stand duplicating that of the AFL.
 MT. Green suggested that an in crease in rents would curtail consumer purchasing power and would be promptly felt by every corner store4 keeper, whose sales will fall off"
 GENERAL RECESSION
 "A nationwide rent increase at this time may easily precipitate a general recession" he wrote. Pointing to the present conditions of an acute shortage of housing, MT. Green feared that higher rents would result in many tenants being dispos- sessed.
 The proposed general increases in rent ceilings will lead to whole sale evictiOns of families who will be unable to meet the raised rent bills,'' he said. stIn the face of the acute housing shortage. thousands of families in almost every conn munity will have no place to gO."
 MT. Green urged retention of rent control authority with a gradual ter imitation of controls to be begun after January 1, 1948. He said government figures showed that 78 per cent of the landlords were in more profitable position in 1946 than in 1889. The re- maining 2 per cent, he said, benefit from "an orderly procedure" for relief of hardship cases.
The union times., 1947-02-22
Workers Can't Pay Higher Rents s-AFL
Elevator Men
 Plan Testimonial

A testimonial dinner for James ]. Brennan and other retiring officers will be given by Local Union No. 91, Connecticut Elevator Constructors on Saturday, February 22, according to an announcement by Business Agent Mike Brunning.
 The dinner will be held at Fitz- gerald'S Restaurant at 8 pm.
The union times., 1947-02-22
Labor Education
 Needed To Survive

Labor education will have an im- portant place in the critical years ahead for the labor movement, par ticularly in the maintenance of a strong and free-labor family and in the further development of collective bargaining. This was the statement of Assistant Secretary of Labor John w. Gibson.
 If you are to survive and grow during that period" Mir. Gibson de- clared, there must be trained leader ship from the top down to the shop committeeman and the active rank and file.
 The need for labor education is rec ognized today by all groups-labor, management, and the public. Interest in the subject is at an all-time peak"
The union times., 1947-02-22
When We Had To Do It, We Just Did It

WASHINGTON - (FP) - The federal government paid for and built, when the situation demanded it, an entirely new city within a few months, complete with sewers, streets, waterworks, houses, schools and hos pitals."
 That was Oak Ridge, Tenn, scene of atomic bomb activity, reported Federal Works Administrator Philip B. Fleming as he urged Congress to plan public works to meet Americass needs and to provide cushion against unemployment.
The union times., 1947-02-22
NON.SUPERVISORY

NLRB in a recent decision (Lumi- nous Processes) held that inspectors who had power to reject finished prod ucts and thus affect earning power of employees are non-supervisory. The theory of the dissenting member that such employees had no community of interest with the rank and file was not followed by the majority.
The union times., 1947-02-22
49 In Congress Urge Wider Quotas In U. s,

New York City. = Announcement was, made this week by the Jewish Labor Committee that 4o members of Congress including 7 U. s. Senators, have endorsed the unanimous decision reached at the recent convention of the American Federation of Labor, urging immediate entry into the United States of immigrants equal Tn number to the unused quotas of the war years.
The union times., 1947-02-22
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The union times., 1947-02-22
Building Trades Plan For Peace Highly Praised
Schwellenbach Sees It As An Act Of Industrial
 Statesmanship

The establishment of a National Joint Conference Committee for the orderly settlement of disputes in the construction industry is de scribed by Secretary of Labor Sch- wellenbach as San act of industrial statesmanship" and one calculated to set an even more outstanding re- cord of industrial peace.
 The Conference Committee plan agreemnt, made by the Building and Construction Trades Department of the AFL and the Associated General Contractors of America, Inc, was an- nounced at the White House by President Truman.
 NOTABLE STEP''
 Secretary Schwellenbach, respond ing to letter from the two organiza- tions announcing the plan, said: "The International Unions affiliated with the Building and Construction Trades De partment of the American Federation of Labor and the Associated General Contractors of America have taken a notable step in providing for Nation al Joint Conference Committee.
 "The fact that the speciality con tractors have their own machinery, or are setting up comparable procedures, or may have access to the flexible ma chinery provided in your plan should assure in the building and construction industry as whole an even more out standing record of industrial peace Your plan is an act of industrial state manship.
The union times., 1947-02-22
Guaranteed Wage
 Called Workable
Changes In U C. Law To Encourage Plan Urged In Lat inner Report-Says System Can Lift Dead Hand
 Of Fear And Help Economic Stability

Guaranteed annual plans be into effect for the bulk of the nations workers relatively little If few changes made in Feder nd dState laws
The union times., 1947-02-22
Green Warns Of Outbursts If Ceiling Rises
Would Be Real Threat To Industrial Peace, Presi-
 dent Asserts

Sound warning that rent in- creases may inspire a fresh wave of unrest in labor forces, already hard-pressed to meet soaring liv- ing costs in various parts of the
The union times., 1947-02-22

When it's bread you want-say union label bread.
The union times., 1947-02-22

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The union times., 1947-02-22
PREVAILING WAGE"

"The Department of Labor has had for many years a special interest in the problems of the building and con- struction industry. Since 1881 under the Davis-Bacon Act, the Secretary of Labor has predetermined the wage rates to be paid on projects involving monies of the United States Govern ment. Over the years we have enjoyed splendid cooperation from both con tractors and labor organizations. I trust that in the days ahead we may be able to improve the details of these mutual problems.
 ''The Consolidation Service of the Department will be glad to cooper ate with your National Joint Con- ference Committee in every possible way on any disputes that may arise.
 (Continued on Page Two)
The union times., 1947-02-22

The test Of President Creen's letter On Rent Control sviH be tOund On Page 3.-EditOr.
The union times., 1947-02-22

Referred to Sen. Labor &
 Public Welfare Comm. La bor witnesses appear from Feb. IS to March 4.
The union times., 1947-02-22

Write Senators and Com mittee members to reject proposals.
 Send protests to your Sena- tors, to Senator Ball, and members of Senate Labor Comm.
 Send protests to your Sena- tors, Sen. Ball, and members of Senate Labor Comm.
The union times., 1947-02-22

'sTO elevate the condition of men: to lift artificial weights from all shoulders; to af- ford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life |. This is the leading object of the government
 -AbrahGm Lincoln
The union times., 1947-02-22

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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-02-21

Too bad that Jack Parr, the comic
couldn't see eye to eye about hi:
material for the Vaughn Monroe
show; he and the advertising agen
cy that had signed him on a six
year contract ran into difficulties
and now the deals off.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-02-21

you should now be the curiously-
assorted family's chief bread-win-
ner, and that the war hero should
be humbly hunting job-all this
is wrong. The doubled-up family
works an injustice on you ALL Things
have become pretty hopelessly COM
plicated, and only infinite patience
and time can work them out.
And over and above all these I'M
natural difficulties, surely the rights
of Nancy's child deserve first con-
sideration; whatever happens, this
unfortunate baby enters life heavily
handicapped. To divorce Russ, to
have him rush into marriage with
Nancy, would only be to mix things
up further.
She Knew the Risk.
So my advice is, first, that Nancy
get out. She was no ignorant inno-
cent child when she surrendered to
the delights of Irritation with Russ.
She knew that Russ was, and is
still, the husband of her best friend,
the husband of the woman who
stretched out hand to her in her
loneliness and need. Exactly how
she betrayed that generosity is
something that the months to come
are going to bring home to this un-
scrupulous little woman. If Russ
goes away with her, as he we'll may,
Edie is no worse off than before. It
will give her time to breathe and
to think everything over.
But Russ may not go with her
Russ is comfortable now in the old
home, with his wife and child.
Nancy is the outlaw, and Nancy will
have to go to some city hospital, get
job in the kitchen or linen room,
as women in her distressed circum-
stances often do, and give her baby
out for adoption; any conscientious
foster-parent will give it a better
break than she can, and may she
come back a wiser woman. And
an honester one.
Love does indeed take a man and
woman unawares, sometimes
But not in this case. If Russ, still
war-bewildered, uncertain, embar-
raised by his joblessness and i'm
pecuniosity, was weak in being fiat
tered and companioned by this
pretty little housemate, Nancy
wasn't. She had no such excuse.
She considered neither the rights
of Russ, Edie, Sonia or the unborn
baby. She thought of exactly one
person-hersef. That is always an
expensive proceeding in these ques-
tons of a triangle.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-02-21
INVISIBLE FLAME

Campers next summer will be able
to cook hamburgers and coffee over
an invisible fiameless" flame. At
least, that is how Du Point de-
scribes its new tablet fuel made
from trioxane, form of formalde-
hyde. The fuel, produced for the
first time on commercial scale,
ignites instantly with a mountainous
flame not easily blown out by wind.
1t was used during the war expert
mentally in the search for a fuel to
heat field rations without disclos-
ing positions of troops to the enemy.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-02-21

Ozzie Nelson has to be very care
full of the dialogue he writes for the
radio counterparts of his young sons
They listen to the show, and if they
don't like the lines they remark lat
er Say, pop, we didn't sound much
like ourselves today!"
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-02-21
EVERYONE HURT

Il letter to Miss Norris reveals
one of THE unhappy attermatbs of
Var. Edie married man wbom
she bad known only for q fen
months. He sUas away in service
for four years. During bis ab-
senee, q baby sUas born. Edie Hved
Witb her mother, wbo cared for
the little girl .ubile Edie vorked
at sDell-baying sDar job.
Then Edie's old cbum Nancy
came to board sVitb her. when
Edie's husband Rnss Was dis
charged, be bad to come into The
bonse Witb the three vomen and
the baby. He turned to Nancy
for comPanionsbib, rather than
bis wife. Before they realized it,
they Were in lope.
Finally Nancy bad to confess to
Edie that she .Uas going to have q
baby and that its father ,vas Russ.
Edie does not know Vbat to do
under these Painful circumstances.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-02-21

While on tour for the March o
Dimes" Ezra Stone and Jackie Ken
of 1.-THE Aldrich Family" had nj
trouble with bobby-soxers, but in ev
cry community they we're mobbet
by mothers. "And we loved it,
declared the airs Henry and Homer
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-02-21
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
Bell syndicate.-wNu Features

DIES marriage took place
n in the first months of the
- war, and has gone on the
rocks. It isn't her fault, unless
, indeed it was a fault to marry a
man she had known only a few
, weeks.
However, she was not the only
girl to do that in 1912, and she and
Russ had some happy months to-
gether, before he was ordered away
to the South Seas. Edie settled down
In her old home with her mother to
wait for the baby; she did not see
Russ again for almost four years.
In the second of those years, her old
chum Nancy came to board with
her, and all three women adored
and spoiled little Sonia. Eide and
Nancy had good jobs; everyone was
happy.
Then Russ came home, to find
that, first, he'd earn less money
than Edie, for while at least; Sec
ond, that his lovely little daughter
didn't like him, and third, that he
was more lonely at home than he
had ever been abroad. Adjustments
were difficult, and by the time they
began to smooth out, Edie discov-
cred to her CONSERVATION that Russ
and Nancy were falling in love.
II had never suspected it, I had
never dreamed it," says Edie's
heartbroken letter. "Russ and had
been talking of finding a little place
for ourselves, but there was so lit
tie choice of places, his prospects
were so uncertain, and my job still
so absorbing. that there seemed to
be no hurry about it. To mother
and little Sonia and me this time
of reunion seemed heavenly. Then
suddenly it all broke, and Nancy
confessed that she and my husband
were not only deeply in love, but
that the baby she was expecting was
his child. She was covered with
shame and remorse but that was
the situation, and what were we all
to do?
Nancy Manages Household.
"a complication is that my moth
er has not been well, and Nancy,
who is very capable, has been man.
aging things at home and taking
care of her, too. Mother has always
been devoted to Nancy, and is shat
tered by this terrible revelation.
Russ is sullen and silent. Nancy
| goes on about household duties with
her face like mask, and I feel
frantic with despair. What on
earth is the way out? If they have
fallen in love, seeing each other
every day as they have, living un-
der the same roof, are they to
blame? Am I to blame for going on
with my SIS a week job, which with
mV mothers thousand year is all
we have? Surely it was not wrong
to offer my friend a haven in my
home, when she was widowed and
heartbroken? I am an ordinarily
nice-looking woman of %, always
neat and smartly-dressed, but not
glamorous. Nancy is "a, tiny, very
pretty, appealing. Please send adj
vice for us all; they know l am
writing you"
My dear Edie, I wrote her in re-
ply, this is no ones fault; it is one
more result of the supreme folly
of war. That Nancy should be wild
owed so young was a direct result
of war. That you and Russ should
have been separated in the first i'm
portant married years is another.
That Sonia should not have known
her father in her babyhood, that
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-02-21

After major studios had been bid
ding for them for seven years,
James Cagney landed the screen
rights to william Saroyan's 1.-THE
Time of Your Life"-it's the only
play ever to win the Pulitzer and
Drama Critics prizes simultaneous
w.