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Evening star., 1947-07-26
lunkford Won't Talk
On Seine Haul Ruling
BY the Asseeioied Press

NEW PORT NEWS. Va, July 90
Charles M. Lankford, jr., State
fisheries commissioner, has declined
to comment, pending consultation
with the Commission of Fisheries
attorney, on a decision by Trial JUS
tice w. E. Hogg of York County
holding that pulling of haul seines
with two power boats simultaneously
is illegal.
Mr.. Lankford said orders to the
commissioners inspectors to cite any
one hauling seines by such method
will remain unchanged.
Evening star., 1947-07-26
Booby Trop BIost Kills
2 Soldiers in Jerusalem
BY the Associated Press

JERUSALEM, July 26.-Officials
said two British soldiers were killed
by a. BOBBY trap attached to an
underground cable they were re-
pairing on the outskirts of Jerusalem
today. This brought the casualty toll
since late last week In Palestine to
at least IL persons dead and rs
wounded.
An army spokesman said Jewish
extremists apparently had cut the
cable and installed the BOBBY trap.
Evening star., 1947-07-26
GriddIes Use Magnesium

One of the largest consumer items
for magnesium is in the making OF
magnesium griddles, due to excel
lent heat conductivity.
Evening star., 1947-07-26
Weather Report

District of Columbia-Sunny and
warm this afternoon with highest
temperature about 86. Clear tonight
with lowest temperature about %
Tomorrow mostly sunny but rather
warm and humid.
Maryland and VTginia-Clear
tonight not much change in tenn
perature. Tomorrow mostly sunny
and continued warm with a few
scattered showers likely in west
portion.
Wind velocity, 16 mp.h.; direc-
tion, south h-southeast.
River Report.
From United States Engineers)
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and muddy at Great Falls; Shenandoah
clear at Harpers Ferry.
Temperature and Humidity.
(ReadinRs at Washington National Airport J.
Evening star., 1947-07-26

Monthly precipitation in Inches IN Lhe
e. .itaI Innrrent rnnnfh to datel.
Evening star., 1947-07-26

eStS' were trying to divert pubic
attention from "the real issues" with
stories of lavish parties, pictures
of bathing beauties and other sexy
stuff that is being fed to the news
papers and radio"
They are trying to discredit this
investigation as merely a smear"
the Maine Senator declared. ~
AS part of the campaign, Senator
Brewster asserted, Carl Byoir of
New York, publicity man for Mr..
Hughes" and Hollywood interests"
are trying to play up Sex Angle" Z"
Gn New York, spokesman for
the firm of Carl Byoir & Asso-
ciates issued the following state
ment:
("Senator Brewster is quoted as
saying he is convinced that we
stirred up the Hollywood aspects
of this story. He or any news
paperman can instantly prove
the truth or falsity of any such
belief by simply asking any news
paper or press association in the
! country if 1t Is true.~
| Senator Brewster said that "all
kinds of political pressure has been
brought to bear in an attempt to
stop this investigation adding:
"They have gone out and at
tempted to hire Republican law
yers to represent them
Senator Ferguson said che wants
to get the inquiry back on the track
Monday when public hearings begin.
He added that these hearings will
be concerned chiefly with trying to
find out how and why contract
was let and how the Government s
money was spent"
To that hearing the COMMITTEES
The union times., 1947-07-26
lkSiIo.6!1s 5
 \ INENs M VNm

NEW YORK - Departing from top AFL policy, the Intl. Long, shOremen's Assn.'s 34th convention voted not to boycott the new HLRB set up under the Taft-Hartley act. The convention acted on the advice of its attorney, Louis Waldman.
 WASHINGTON = Pres. Truman nominated J. Copeland Gray, a Repub- lican of Buffalo, N. Y., and former Sen. Abe Murdock CD, Utah) to serve on the 5-man NLRB provided in the Taft-Hartley law. He renomin- ated Chairman Paul Herzog and Board Members John Houston and James J. Reynolds, IT,, to continue at their posts.
 WASHINGTON = Another call for organic unity as an imperative first step before considering joint action to defend American labor from the mounting attack of reac- ton came from AFL Pres. William Green in letter to CIO Pres. Philip Murray.
 DIES MONIES, Ia.-The Iowa. AFL's 1OO-man Policy Committee Inc. started statewide political move ment complete with block captains in every town to get out the vote to de feat ant1-labor legislators.
The union times., 1947-07-26
T-H Law Already Showing Signs
 Of Backfiring

Washington (LPA) - Employers are already finding that their Taft Hartley law has all kinds of back-hre possibilities. The New York Journal of Commerce, big business daily, de- clared last week that "The so-called anti-featherbedding provision of the new labor law appears to leave un- touched the common union practice of demanding reporting and standby pay"
 Verifying contentious by labor lawyers, the paper agreed that ''the section is vaguely worded and sub- ject to broad interpretation by the courts.
 Meanwhile a bill offered by Sena- tors Aiken (R., Vt.) and Hatch O., N. M.) to soften the laws prohibi- tion against political expenditures was given little chance of passage this session. Alarmed particularly at the laws gag on the labor and daily press, Hatch said he had grave doubt" that the ban is "wise or fair or just"
 The Hatch-Aiken bill is given little chance of enactment this session, as is the measure proposed by Is Sena- tors to repeal the Taft-Hartley law outright.
The union times., 1947-07-26
Taft Backtracks On Labor Press Gag On Politics

Washington (LPA) Sen. Robert Taft (R., Ohio) has admitted that he would be willing to see his anti labor law amended to exempt the la bor press, as IS Senators introduced legislation to repeal the Taft-Hartley law Flock, stock and barrel"
 A similar repeal bill was offered In the House by Rep. John Lesinski (D., Mich.). The Senate measure was placed in the hopper by Sen. Claude Pepper O., F1a.) on behalf of him self, 12 other Democrats and two Re publicans: Wayne Morse (Ore) and William Langer (N.D).
 Congressional leaders admitted that there was almost no chance of the re- peal legislation being enacted this ses- sion. Anti-labor Republicans and Democrats would probably insist on new hearings by the House and Sem ate Labor Committee, both of which reported out the original Taft and Hartley bills No hearings. it was ac- knowledged, could possibly be held before the scheduled adjournment on July %.
 Taft backtracked in a hurry On the labor press issue when he learn ed that the Justice Dept had made a preliminary examination of the law which disclosed-what labor editors had said even before the law was enacted-that editors would be gagged in making conn ments which might influence Con- gressional or Presidential elections.
 Taft, in an interview, said, "Pll be in favor of an amendment to the act to exempt bona fde newspapers pub lished the year round-even though they are paid for out of a compulsory allocation of union dues-say $1 out of $5." Even if the union papers were financed by means of dues check-off, Taft declared, ''I'd be inclined to be liberal about that"
 What undoubtedly alarmed Taft was the Justice Dept revelation that the law could also apply to any cor poratively owned daily newspaper.
The union times., 1947-07-26
US. Labor Dept.
 Opens Office On Registration

Washington (LPA) - Establish ment of new office for the Regis tration of Labor Organizations was announced last week by Labor Secre- tary Lewis Schwe1lenbach. The new office was set up under the Taft-Hart- ley law which requires the annual fil- ing of financial and organizational re- ports by unions
 A registration form will shortly be made available to unions which decide to register under the act. However, many unions have al- ready decided against doing busi- ness with the new Natl Labor Rela- tions Board. The law requires that the enlarged NLRB shall refuse to act on questions involving repre- sentatiOn, union shop election peti- tiOns, and unfair labor practices charges by unions unless ''such la- Dor organization and any national or international labor organization of which such labor organization is an affiliate or constituent unit" shall have filed with the Labor Dept copies of its constitution and bylaws.
 In addition, the union report must include statements on the salary and allowances of the principal officers, the manner i'll which union officers and agents are selected, the amount of dues and initiation fees, and detailed statement on receipts and expendi- lures.
The union times., 1947-07-26
United Rally Warns Solon

BESSEMER, Ala (FP) = At least one congressman has learned what the American people think about the Taft-Hartley law. He also learned that if the labor movement unites it will be an instrument ready and able to crush those who would crush union ism.
 In Bessemer football stadium near ly 1000 people from this most highly industrialized section of the south heard the new slave labor law de- nounced by representatives of both the AFL and CIO in the first joint labor rally held in this state since the split in organized labor.
 Not far away, Rep. Laurie Battle (D) was able to attract maximum of 70 persons, who listened to him ex- tol the virtues of the slave labor act at a widely-publicized meeting.
The union times., 1947-07-26
Berry Observes
 10th Birthday"

PRESSMEN'S HOME, Tenn. = (FP)-A steady stream of visitors from all parts of the country poured in here last week to pay their respects to Maj. George L. Berry, who ce1e- parted his 10th year as president of the Intl Printing Pressmen's & As sistants Union (AFL).
 Berry has been reelected without opposition through membership re- ferendum ever since he first ran for the presidency 40 years ago. In addi- tion to the crowds of we11-wishers at Pressmen's Home, hundreds of con- gratulatory letters and te1egrams have arrived from the pressmen's 600 locals throughout the US. as we'll as from employing printers, publishers and trade associations.
The union times., 1947-07-26
Voting Should BeCornpulsory

CINCINNATI = (FP) = Unions should make regular voting by mem bers condition for membership, the ASL Central Labor Union weekly, The Chronicle, declared here.
 In lead editorial The Chronicle declared: Registration should be a fundamental condition of union mem bership and no union should admit anyone to membership unless they can prove that they are registered. Sus- pension should be the lot of union members who refuse to register so as to be permitted to vote at the polls"
 The paper also urged that unions henceforth write into their contracts a clause authorizing members to take time off to register and vote in cleo tiOnS.
The union times., 1947-07-26
Hartley Ought
 ToGo Home

WASHINGTON = (FP) = Al though Congress goes into official re- cess July %, Chairman Fred A. Hartley (R., N.J.) plans to keep his House labor committee occupied dur ing the summer Investigating what he calls Tabor union racketeering."
 Hartley, co-author of the slave la bor law with Sen. Robert A. Taft (R., O., said he plans a "coast-to- coast" probe as soon as the present session ends.
 With three subcommittee already set up, he said some will be estab- lished to give the junketing congress men special assignments in various parts of the country at the taxpayers expense.
 Already set up for action is the subcommittee headed by Rep. Carroll D. Kearns (R., Pal, which will arrive in Los Angeles Aug. to open two weeks investigation of "labor rack eteering in the motion picture indus try" Hartley said.
The union times., 1947-07-26
Democrats ear
 Vandenberg Most

NEW YORK (LPA)-Congres- Slonal Democrats, boiled on the Re publican who would be hardest to beat for the Presidency next wear came up with a surprising majority for Sen. Arthur Vandenberg, of Michigan, with Dewey and Taft trailing far behind.
 Rolled by Pageant Magazine 11o Senators and Representatives rated the Republican hardest to beat" as follows: Vandenberg 58 votes: Dewey, IS; Warren, II; Taft, 10: Bricker, nine; Stassen, nine; Martin. three, and Eisenhower, one. The mag azlne pointed out that "after 15 wears as one of the Senate's leading nation ahstS' and 'non-interventionists. Van denberg reversed his field three years ago. Far from killing him politically. this seems to have made him stronger than ever before"
The union times., 1947-07-26
Communication Workers
 Vote For AFL Amliation

-Fifty-fve percent of the members of the Communication Equipment Workers Union, Inc, which represents 22,000 employees of Hawthorne workers of Western Elec- tric Company, voted to join the In- ternational Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, AFL.
 Andrew F. Hacqueboard, union sec retary-treasurer, said the vote was taken by mail after the unions ex- ecutive board had recommended afilia- tion with the AFL group.
 Meanwhile, Edwin R. Hackett, president of the Commercial Tele- phone Workers Union, said that his members, who are employed in the commercial department of Illinois Bell Telephone Company, also were voting on whether to affiliate with the AFL.
The union times., 1947-07-26
Citizens Save Town When US. Army Gives Up

WASHINGTON (LPA) = Con- gress was given a dramatic picture last week of why labor supports the proposal for Missouri Valley Au- thority.
 Donald Grant, reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, told a Valley Authority Conference here that the need for flood control program is so great that during the recent floods the people of Dupo, Ill.,, kept on work ing to save their town after Army engineers gave up.
 s'Whenever there has been the slightest hope that levee can be made to hold,'' said Grant, s'and the flood waters kept out, people have worked with a will to save their own homes-and other peO- ple's homes. The story of Dupo, H., for instance, will be remem- bered for long time along the Mississippi.
 "Dupo is community just below St. Louis," Grant continued pro tected by a levee which long threat ened to wash away. July 1, U. S.. Army engineers ordered the town evacuated, declared Dupo was doomed Some residents left. Many, however, instead of obeying this order, set to work pi1ing sandbags on the 1evee The engineers gave up but the people kept working"
 The town was saved. 'SOme 500 out of population of 26OO were at work day and night building up that crumbling levee in front of DupO," Grant related. ''Doctors, lawyers, clerks, ministers and la- borers worked side by side.''
The union times., 1947-07-26
O'Toole Named To Hospital Board

Efforts to obtain labor representa- tion on the Board of Directors of Bridgeport Hospital were crowned with success when J. Lawrence OToole, assistant secretary of the Connecticut Federation of Labor was one of three new directors appointed.
 Appointment of O'Toole by Hos pital Board President T. Osborne cu1- minated several years of effort on the part of Peter Benard, president of the Bridgeport Central Labor Union.
 Others named were Thomas D. Williams, president of the UE-CIO local at the Singer Manufacturing Co. and Oscar F. Swanson an employee of the Bu1lard Co.
The union times., 1947-07-26
PA. PASSES LABOR CURES

HARRISBURG, Pa. = (FP) = Two COP labor curbs have been signed into law here by Gov. James H. Duff, the first of which would ban strikes in public utilities, the second prohibiting picketing by persons who are not employees of the struck plants.
 The utility strike ban requires com pulsory arbitration and mediation subject to a maximum penalty of a $2,500 fine and six months in jail. The measure became effective Sept. l..
 Look For The Union IabeIi
The union times., 1947-07-26
Illinois Federation Defeats Labor Laws

Springfield, Ill.-VigorOus ac- ton by the Illinois Federation of Labor prevented the passage of anti-labOr legislation by the General Assembly which ad- jOurned its regular session.
 Reuben C. SOderstrOm, presi- dent of the Illinois Federation, announced that not a single one of eighteen anti-labOr bills de- signed to restrict or cripple un- ion activities was passed by either chamber of the state leg islature.
The union times., 1947-07-26

UnionizatiOn of textile workers over the past 10 years has doubled the average hourly scale for the en- tire industry.
The union times., 1947-07-26

First US. labor paper with any copies still on file is the Mechanics Free Press, started in Philadelphia in 1927.
The union times., 1947-07-26
Fourth "Pop"
 Concert Tues.

The distinguished quartet com prising the 'Footlight Favorites" will be presented at the fourth "Pop" Con- cert of the 1947 season in the Yale Bowl on Tuesday, July 29, at SIS PM.
 Harry German will conduct the New Haven Symphony in an "Oper- atic Night" program which is ex- pected to attract capacity audience of Connecticut persons. The first three concerts have been outstanding suc- cesses this season.
 The "Footlight Favorites" include Frank Wennerholm, Edward Kane, Luclelle Browning and Adelaide Ab- bolt. They are we'll known for their performances i'll opera, operetta, mu- slcal comedy, concert and radio work.
The union times., 1947-07-26

Make The Union Times work overtime. After reading. hand it to
 a nOn-subscriber.
The union times., 1947-07-26

Donald Richberg, erstwhile brain truster who has become the darling of the NAM, last week assailed '"weak-minded liberals who would swallow anything that carried a un- ion label" What does that guy do, make his own bread?
The union times., 1947-07-26

Total number of veterans who have exhausted their unemploy- ment benefits is 227,OOO.
The union times., 1947-07-26

Look For The Union Label!
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1947-09-12
KARQ VETERANQ
YRA' 18 MILIJONU

Gyvu Americas karu vetera-
nQ dabartiniu laiku randasi
18,227,932, kaip skelbia Vete-
ranq Administracija. Ju am
zius eina nuo 20 Xxi 100 metu.
Sekanti yra veteranu skai-
ciai:
Civilinio Karo 81
Karu SUI Indijonais 841
Karo su Ispanija $4,000
I Pasaulinio Karo 3,727 900
II Pasaulinio Karo 14,361 900
Civilinio Karo, 1865 M, We
teranai yra seniausi, po apie
100 metq amziaus, ir visoje
salyje jq like vos 81 ar jau ir
maziau, kai 81 zinia patiekia-
ma.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1947-09-12

Henry Wallace kuris kee daug ruksmo noredamas prvers
ii Amerka remit Russia labau, gavmui jos tikro paske
mo r draugiskumo vaznedamas po visa sail patyre kad
rejo trt treca partja lures passekma to asa
10 k is bet r o remejai Pagaau jo remea su komu-
nistu znia be abejo nor isiver uzgro Deokratu
tia sekancose prezidento noinaciose 1948 metals Jeigu
pavyktu, Demokrau partja k tue vardu tk is pavir
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1947-09-12
SIOJE SALYJE zmones sa-

vo namuose turi isirenge net
$4,000 dirbtuveliQ, su viso-
kiomis jega varomis masino-
mis- ir padargais. Taip yra to-
del kad daugelis vyru lgavo
tam patyrima karo tarnyboje
ir todel kad lengvai gall isigy-
ii nanny dirbtuvelems tinka-
mas masinerijas.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1947-09-12
KANADOJE, apie Labrado-

hANADOJE, ape LdUTduO-
ra ir Quebeka nepersenai at
rasta ir istobulinta nauji mil
ziniski gelezies rudies plotai,
kuriu verte siekia maziausia
bilijona dolariu. Ten sake bus
maziausia apie 3O0,O00,O0O to-
nu geros rusies gelezies rudies.
Minnesota valstijoje esanti
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1947-09-12

MESAEDzIAI gyvunai van
deni gerdami laka liezuviu, o
augmenimis mintanti gyvunai
vandeni siurbia.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1947-09-12

rudies plotai jau baigiami ir
uz eiles metu issibaigs. Sic
nauji plotai aprupins Amerika
gelezim ir plienu.
Arkansas State press., 1947-05-16
New Book Exposes
Crime On Negro
Women In South.

NEW YORK--Attacks on Ne.
gro women In the South, long
preoccupation Of inter-racial and
civil liberties organizations In
the fight for Negro rights, is
at last the subject of a novel,
The Hourglass by David Altman,
published by Simon and Schuster
New York.
or the thousands of complaints
filed annually with the Attorney
Generals Office in Washington
by Negro and civil liberties
groups one Of the principal COM
plants is that of attacks on Ne.
gro women. Both Mr.. Altman and
his publishers emphasize, how
ever. that despite the fact that
readers may be inclined to draw
parallels between the Hourglass
and actual cases which have at
tracted wide attention in recent
years, the story Is based on no
particular case, but Is compos-
lite picture.
The Hourglass describes the eff
feet on a small. typical southern
community OF the rape Of a Ne
gro woman by three white men.
1t shows that the perpetrators Of
these acts Of violence are also
its victims, and that the pattern
of Jim Grow imprisons and de-
grades whites as well as Negroes
The Hourglass has been enthu-
sastically endorsed by Dr. L. NJ
Birkbead Of Friends of Democra
See NEW Book-paoe four
Arkansas State press., 1947-05-16
Workers Walk Picket Line
As Plant Refuses Demand

last week against the r. J. Rey-
nolds Tobacco Company of Win
ston-Salem, N. c., makers of
Camel cigarettes.
The strike began when the
company refused to go beyond
5 IL cent an hour wage raise and
when it demanded a cut in over
time earnings for seasonal wokr-
ers. The workers asked IS cent
wage raise, in line with the ma
tional pattern set in other clio
organized industries. and certain
union security measures. All un-
ion measures were refused,
though the union has had such
clauses. including the checkoff,
in its contract for the past five
years,
A "a hour picketline covers the
huge plants 70 gates in Winston
Salem. The line is completely or
derby with white and Negro
workers picketing together, The
union. Local % of FTA-CIO, has
been publicly commended on the
orderlness of its lines by the
Winston-Salem Police Chief John
M. Gold
The r. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
is one OF the most profitable con-
Germs in a highly profitable in
dustry. Profits in 1916 We're $40.
100000 before taxes. but after all
other costs, including wages, were
paid. This is an amount 300 per-
cent greater than the total paid
out in wages. Profits after taxes
were nearly s2S,00o,OoO almost
sl2,O00.000 more than the total
wage bill.
See WoRkERs-paee Four
Arkansas State press., 1947-05-16
CITY
EDITION
Students Pay For
Education While
Parents Buy Home

Four students, members of the
same family, are working their
way through Shorter College. The
four are Misses Annie Mae, Jere-
line, and Pereline Robinson and
Jhon Arthur Robinson. They are
earning all Of their expenses -
feat which . local columnist -
Gently pronsunesd ~ - ineea
sible for 4 student The four Aai1
from Earl and are the childron
Of Willie Robinson and Mrs. Ro-
berta Robinson. Annie Mae has
been going to Shorter since 1910
with the exception Of the year
1912. Perellne since 1913 and
John Arthur since 1914.
Annie Mae and Jereline work
from eleven at night to seven In
the morning at the lew Drop
Drive In cooking and making
sandwiches. Pereline works in .
private home on Saturday and
Sunday. John Arthur works from
eleven at night to seven in the
morning at the Hotel Marion.
Now there are other students
earning their way at Shotrer and
there is at least one more group.
Reverend Daniels and his three
sons. of four, working their en-
tire expenses as the Robinson
sisters and their brother are do
ing.
But the remarkable thing about
See sTUDENTs-paoe eight