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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-03-21
CIO Quits
ADA And Pea

WASHINGTON, March % -
(LPA) - The CIO Executive
Board moved last week to re-
move the CIO from the expand.
ing orbit of rivalry between the
Americans for Democratic Ac-
ton and the Progressive Citizens
of America.
BY a split vote the Board
recommended that "the officers
of CIO and of its affiliated in
ternational unions and indus
trial union councils abstain from
identifying themselves wi h
either Pea or ADA and devote
their time and attention to
building CIO-PAC,"
Three Are Opposed
Although CIO President Muir
ray did not say in a press con-
ference following the meeting,
it was understood that at least
three votes were cast against the
statement They were President
Samuel Wolchok, Retail, Whole
sale, Dept. Store Union; Presi-
dent Milton Murray, American
Newspaper Guild; and John j.
Grogan, member of the execu-
tive board of the Industrial I'm
ion of Marine & Shipbuilding
Workers.
1t was generally acknowledge
ed that the decision injured Pea
less than ADA since the letter
bars Communists and fellow
travellers. Murray had been
petitioned TO throw his weight
against such a decision by Col
umnist Marquis Childs, Mrs.
Franklin d. Roosevelt, IUMSW
President John Green, ADA Co.
chairman Leon Henderson and
a number Of CIO papers and
liberal magazines.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-03-21

MINNEAPOLIS (LPA) -
Minnesota members of the In.
ternational Typographical I'm
ion-AFL last week hurled the
lie at Sen. Joseph Ball (R,
Minn) for his gross misrepre-
sentation of their union.
The typos especially resented
Balls contention that com,
positors are barred from mem
bership in the ITU and, instead,
are forced to pay the union for
the privilege of working, ac-
cording to the Minneapolis Labor
Review, AFL weekly.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-03-21
Gordon Co.
Experiments"
Confinued from Pnne I

v
pers to talk with company of
ficials have been reported in the
papers as fruitless. Company
spokesmen could not be reach
ID for a statement" according
TO the daily newspapers.
The company has taken the
position that it laid off its en-
ployes in order TO experiment"
with materials so 1t could cor
rect its price rates. Meanwhile,
275 employees remain out of
work with the company APP
parently trying to make il APP
pear that its employees are the
cause Of the layoffs.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-03-21

mittee disclosed black market
practices, enormous profiteer-
ing and squeeze" plays that
threaten to force labor publica.
tions out of business.
New and clinching evidence
that there is no newsprint short
age but that the scarcity" is
due to redistribution was given
by President r. M. Fowler, of
the Canada Newsprint Associa-
ton.
Publishers of labor papers
had their day in court when
Francis ]. McIntoe, owner of
the Consolidated Color Press,
Inc. of New York testified that
many of the IA labor and other
small papers printed by his COM
pany are threatened with seer
tain extinction" under present
industry practices.
Prices Are liked
~ McIntee said he had year
to.year contract with the Clin-
ton Paper Co., of New York, to
purchase 1900 tons of news
print. When the contract ex-
pired last December McIntee
said Clinton offered to renew
the agreement only if McIntee
paid S2750 more per ton dur
ing 1947. The price had been
hiked from the prevailing price
of $3.50 to Sis.
The president of the Clinton
Co. told him, said McIntee, that
500 Of the Sis would go TO
Clinton and S25 to some mys-
terious special fund. When fl
nally McIntee got 20 tons of
newsprint on Jan. 2 he was
billed for Sis a ton.
II visited Gallwitz (the Clin-
ton president) to inquire about
the charge" McIntee testified.
He said he had customers who
were wiling to pay $500 a ton.
] asked about the price he was
charging my competitor, the
Rogowski Co. He told me $50.
When / protested that this was
unfair discrimination he shrug-
ged and said take 1t or leave
it, l gave him a check for the
paper"
STA Above Standard
Last month again he paid Sis
a ton for newsprint this time
for 80 tons, he said, while the
mill price was around $94 a
ton. His troubles were due in
part, he declared, to the fact
that Clinton had sold a news.
print contract for 5000 tons at
$3.50 a ton to a New York
lawyer.
This sale cat STA above the
standard price is just the type
of legal black marketing which
must be stopped" said McIntee.
He Joined more than a score of
small publishers and labor edi-
tors in urging that the govern
ment restore newsprint ration
ing.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-03-21
Foremen Win
Court Ruling

WASHINGTON, March 19 -
(LPA) - The u. S. Supreme
Court last week upheld the
right of foremen to organize and
bargain collectively. The long,
awaited decision had three swift
results:
1.-The independent Fore
mans Association of America,
the union involved in the Su-
preme Court decision, imme-
diately announced in Chicago
that it would launch a nation
wide drive to organize 100000
eligible foremen and super
visory employees throughout the
country.
2.-The National Labor Rela-
tions Board resumed the process
sing of foremen's cases which
were halted when a mora
torium was declared on Jan. 8
pending the Supreme Court
ruling.
3-At least a dozen Congress-
men whose anti.labor bills pro-
pose to outlaw collective bar
gaining for foremen announced
that they would intensity their
demands for enactment Of their
legislation.
One More Decision
Still remaining is an equally
crucial Supreme Court test of
the right of foremen to join and
bargain through a rank and file
union.
In last weeks case, involv-
ing the Packard Motor Co., of
Detroit, the court ruled only
on the issue of whether super
visory employees were covered
by the Wagner Act. The court
that whatever spe-
cial questions there are in de-
termining the appropriate bar
gaining unit for foremen are for
the NLRB."
The court battle on the right
of foremen to bargain through
rank-and-file unions was start
ed by the Jones & Laughlin
Steel Corp. which challenged an
WLRB certification of the
United Mine Workers (AFL) as
bargaining agent for its coal
mine foremen.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-03-21
Newsprint Racket
Hits Labor Press
Profiteering Threatens To Force
Small Newspapers To Quit

WASHINGTON, March % LPA - The phony news
print shortage that has vctmzed labor papers and other
smaller publications throughout the country took the
proportions of large scale scandal last week.
Testimony before special Senate NeMsnrint Subcom-
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-14
FIRST GOVERNOR

FIRST GOVERNOR - North
Cardinals first governor was a
Wilmingtor1ian. For many years
he resided. in a historic mansion
on South Third street, now the
home of the American Legion.
That man was Edward B. Dud-
ley. Historians of earlier days de-
scribed him as "a statesman Of
liberal and patriotic views, of
commanding presence and of most
amiable manners. His name
should ever be held in grateful
remembrance by u people, for
he was a leader in every public
and private work for the benefit
and prosperity of Wilmington
Governor Dudley "a the first
president of the old Wilmington &
Weldon Railroad. He contributed
$25, 900 toward it's construction.
After serving as governor he
was elected a member o. the 21st
United States Congress in 1929.
However, he declined reelection
because, as the story goes, he
said Congress was mot the place
for an honest man."
DUDLEY AS ENTERTAINER
The Governor was noted for social
functions that he held in Whining
ton. He was a lavish host and
many were the receptions and
dinners conducted at his Third
street mansion.
In May 1849, Daniel Webster
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-14
Along The Cape Fear

made a trip to Wilmington and
during his stay was the guest of
Governor Dudley. Among letters
of Webster is one dated at Will
mington, May 7, 1849 which states,
I'VE are grandly lodged in the
Governors mansion"
Among other events noted by
historians is a visit here of Cardi-
nal Gibbons, accompanied by an
archbishop and IL bishops, who al.
so were guests at the mansion, al
though it is uncertain if Governor
Dudley at that time was the host.
MONITOR NANTUCKET - Fol
lowing the Civil war, there was
stationed at the Market street
dock FOR many years, the United
States Monitor "Nantucket". She
was battle scared from conflicts
of the war including the Bernhard
ment of Fort Sumter. Her turret
was indented by shells.
The ship was in charge of the
Wilmington Division of North Caro-
lima Naval Reserves and was used
for many years as training unit
FOR cadets and reserve officers. 1r
addition, the vessel was consider
ed an interesting and worthy type
of the Uncle Sans navy prior tc
the war between the states.
Visitors coming to Wilmington
were attracted to the "Nantuck
ct" and certain days for visitors
to inspect her, were set aside.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-14
EXTREMELY
LIGHT ON MARTS
Border Belt W e e d Prices
Reported Irregular;
Average $47.80

Sales continued extremely light
and prices were irregular on to.
bacco markets of the Border Belt
yesterday. The Federal-State De-
partments of Agriculture reported.
Price gains and losses were
about evenly divided, the agricul-
ture departments reported. with
inferior grades showing strength
while medium and better grades
we're weaker.
Quality of the offerings was
down from Tuesday with more fair
qualities and nondescript and less
good and choice leaf on the floors.
On Tuesday, sales totalled 1,774..
1872 pounds at an average of $40. rs,
and sales for the season totalled
II, 351, 723 st an average of $47.80.
Average prices per hundred
pounds on a limited number Of
grades yesterday follows:
Leaf: good lemon $54, down 81;
fair lemon $54 up 81.
Cutters: good, lemon $50, I'M
changed; fair lemon $57 down 81;
fair orange $55, up 81; low orange
$51 down So.
Lugs: choice lemon $50, down
81; fair lemon $44, up So; low
lemon $31, down 81; fair orange
S39, up 81; low orange $28, up So.
Primings: fair lemon 500, down
2; low lemon $26, down So; low
orange $26, up $3.50.
N~ondescript: best thin s13, up
Sc. rs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-14
DECISIVE BATTLE
NOW UNDERWAY
Fight For Paraguayan Cap
ital OF Asuncion Reach
es White = Heat

BUENOs AIRES, Aug. 13-R-
Paraguayan insurgent sources in
Argentina said today rebel and
government troops were fighting
a decisive battle for possession of
Asuncion, the Paraguayan capital,
in the northern part of the city
around the foreign embassies and
the famous botanical garden.
Other reports from rebel quar-
ters said the insurgents. locked in
civil war with government troops
for the past five months, were
b%olstering their northern attack
with a major assault on the south
east sector of Asuncipn-the slum
and workingmen's district-and a
waterborne slash at Puerto Sa-
jonia, in the southern part Of the
city on the Paraguay river.
News dispatches from Formosa,
Argentina, on the Paraguay from
tier, said the rebels captured the
private residence of Higinio Mo-
rinigo, president of Paraguay, in
the northern part of the city, and
that the house later was destroyed
by fire. .Morinigo's official dwell
ing is part of the innermost re-
doubt in the center Of the city.
Border reports said loyalist
troops entenched themselves in the
public health ministry building, one
of Paraguay's newest public struc-
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-14
TWO YOUTHS ESCAPE
SERIOUS INJURY IN
AUTOMOBILE CRASH

Two Wilmington youths unac-
countably escaped serious injury
and possible death last night when
their automobile die a complete
flip on a curve on the Masonboro
loop road.
The pair were Charles Smith and
Dobson Bennett, who were rushed
to James Walker Memorial hos
pital in a Yopp funeral home am
bulance and were treated for lac
ernations and abrasions before
their release.
State Highway Patrolman R. E.
Sheriff., who investigated the ac-
cident, reported the coach in which
the two we're riding, evidently
at a high rate of speed, failed to
negotiate a curve.
The car left the highway, &C
cording to the officer, turned COM
pletely over and landed bach on
it's wheels. The occupants were
dazed. No charges were filed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-14
ASHEVILLE NAMED
CONVENTION CITY
Officers Named At Closing
Minutes OF AFL Meeting
Here Yesterday

Asheville was selected yester-
day as the 1913 state convention
city for the American Federation
of Labor meeting in the closing
minutes Of the three day session
here and officers for the coming
year were elected.
A last minute nominatiin result
ed in a three-way race for the
vice-presidency with S. E. Blaine
of Durham winning out. j. A.
Scoggins of Charlotte and j. L.
Dew of Wilmington had been NOM
mate: in the regular order OF bust
ness yesterday.
A few minutes before voting be-
gan, Blaine's name was entered.
He drew 81 votes to So for Scog-
gins and 81 for Dew.
A nip and tuck battle between
H. G. Fisher Of Salisbury and A.
Linton Same Of Asheville develop
ed for secretary treasurer. Fisher
edged out Sans by three votes.
Fisher received IS and Sans got
90.
c. A.. Kink was reelected presi-
dent without contest.
The office of sargeant-at-arms
went to P. T. Siler of Greensboro
and Chaplain to A. E. Brown Of
Durham.
In the race for Negro vice-presi-
dent-at-large George Lynch Of
Winston-Salem was entered at the
last minute. Both he and P. j. Nc
Coy Of Durham were named.
Boycott of the Curtis Publishing
See ASHEVILLE On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-14
Price Hikes Blamed
On Wage Increases
New Deal, 'CIO-PAC Dominated OPA's
As Cause By Georgia, Texas Agricul-\
ture Commissioners

last year. There was more money
in circulation but the population
had increased enough to make the
per capita figure lower. The pei
capita figure on June 80 was $196..
&c, compared with $199. 70 last year
Under and Macdonald condemn.
ed CLIO vice president Emil Reeves
contention that further wage in.
crease demands are inevitable il
price controls are not put back or
scarce goods.
Further wage increases at this
time" they said, would inevitably
bring still higher prices the
very thing CLIO leaders say they
wish to avoid"
They argued that a return "to 9
CIO-dominated OPA system of ra.
tioning would mean empty shelves
in grocery stores, a European.
style black market and "near star.
walton for the average American
family.
IF farmers again are to be de.
n1ed cost OF production o thel1
crops, the output Of American
farms will show disastrous de-
clines."
The national Association Of
Manufacturers also criticized
REEVE for accusing 1t Of going back
on its pledge to work for lower
prices if OPA was discontinued
The NAM blamed high prices or
wage increases granted in the past
year and on strikes which it said
See PRICE HIKES On Page Tw,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-14
FORMER OFFICER
MARRIES JAPANESE
Brief Civil Ceremony Held
In American Consulate
In Yokohama

YOKOHAMA, Thursday, Aug. "a
-(R)-Pretty ~21-year-old Pia Kuru-
su, whose father talked peace in
Washington while Japan bombed
Pearl Harbor, was married today
to former army 1t. frank White
of Somerset. Pa.
The brief civil ceremony took
place in the square. marble Amefi-
can consulate here.
The couple arrived at 9 a. m.
q p. m. Wednesday, E. S. I'd and
at 9:10, as the ceremony ended
they walked down the main steps
Of the building, declined to speak
to news correspondents, and WHIP
ped away in a black sedan.
The wedding had been scheduled
for 10 a. M. but they arrived an
hour early, presumably to AVOID
publicity. The black sedan slid
into the side driveway Of the con
sulate, and White and his fiancee
were sitting quietly in the car
when discovered by neWsmen.
Asked if they would pose for
pictures. White replied I'VE would
prefer no pictures"
Photographers asked if he would
not prefer to have pictures taken
See FORMER On Page Two
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CONTINUE
SINGING lTUAL
Pray For Deliverance O
Two Female Members
Being Held In Jail

TOWNSVILLE, Va, Aug. 13-UD
Chanting cultists converged on
the county jail here tonight to sing
and pray for the deliverance Of
two female followers Of their
snakehandlers sect from the pris-
on.
But the women, Mrs. Flora No
Ian, Cawood, KY, and Mrs. Mary
Lee Scott, Pennington Gap. Va.
earlier today were removed by
state highway patrolmen to the
county jail at Wise, 40 miles away.
The group Of so shouting snake
handlers, who we're watched by a
crowd Of 1000 which included
several burly highway patrolmen.
demonstrated for several hours.
They had a black four-foot rattle
snake with them, but did not ca
ress the reptile publicly.
Advised that the women could
not be prayed out of the jail"
here, the Rev. Bill Parsons. head
Of the cult, said, We'll return to-
morrow highland then 90 on to
Wise"
well put 'em all in jail if they
come up to Wise" 2 state highway
patrolman snapped to this.
The women were among a group
Of six of the clan arrested by
local police for caressing copper
heads in defiance of a state law.
The four men paid $500 bonds and
were released, but the women re-
fused to pay and remained in jail
with other members Of the cult
seeking to shout and sing their
deliverance. All six face possible
sentences Of $50 fine and 80 days
ironriSnrpoenf-
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WASHINGTON, Aug. IS. -W.D-
w.. aariculture officials joined in
~! wv bigh cost-of-living squabble to-
~. With q charge that high prices
ers due to wage increases, the New
ne.1 and bungling by the "CIO-
p pAc dominated oPA."
F~n rriculture commissioners Tom
,;nder Of Georgia and J. E.. Mac
nnnsld of Texas challenged the
cTn's demand for a special session
" rongress to restore price con-
.rols and criticized its warning that
t,rtber wage increases would be
n.cessary unless prices go down.
Thev stepped into a dispute which
.,resdv had seen management and
iahor hlsme each other for pres
.nt high prices and advocated
h%.sicaIIy different cures for. infla-
'i0 Ami5 the charges and counter
.bsrgeS there were these other de-
The labor department report
~ that union. wages in the build
in9 trades have gone up Is per cent
.ince July i, 1916, the largest gain
,incs 1920. 1t said the increase
amounted to 25-cents-an-hour for
s00, 900 men, with bricklayers
drawing down an average hourly
wage Of $2.37. New York city
rIasterers have negotiated a So
an.hour rate for the highest in the
industry. .
?. The treasury said that each
American had 1912 less cash on
.Tune 30 than he had on July 81,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-14
RIOTS BREAK OUT
IN INDIAN CAPITAL
Sixty PersonsK Killed Or
Eve OF independence
Day; Curfew Called

NEW DELHI. India, Aug. 13-
WR-Sixty persons were killed and
l0o wounded, dispatches said to-
night, when mobs Of Hindus and
Moslems fought each other in the
streets Of Lahore, capital city OF
me Punjab, today on the eve OF
Indian independence.
Fires were reported burning I'M
checked tonight in some quarters
Of the walled city and troops and
police were firing repeatedly to
check the maddened rioters.
Unconfirmed reports said there
were severe casualties In Amris'
lar, 30 miles to the east of Lahore
In wild rioting during which
troops fired on mobs.
The garrison Of one brigade at
Lahore was reinforced by another
today and a third is moving in TO-
morrow in anticipation of intensi'
ned clashes when the indepen-
dence hour comes at midnight
Thursday.
Ihirty-tive of the fatal Lahore
casualties occurred, dispatches
Sad, IN a fight at the MoghulrHra
railroad workshops.
Three places of worship were
Zee RIOTS BREAK On Page Twt
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-14
Heat Wave ScOrches
Half OF United States

CHICAGO, Aug. 13-W.D-A heat
wave blanketed the eastern half
Of the nation today with tempera-
lures in the COS from the scorched
cornbelt to the Atlantic coast.
Cooler air and scattered showers
moved into Nebraska and western
Iowa on the edge of the corn belt,
the first sign Of relief in four weeks
from a drought which has laid
waste millions of bushels of corn.
The parched fields soaked up
the scant rain and it was doubt
full the showers did much good ex-
espt in local instances. Additional
rain, thunderstorms and cooling
ar were forecast for some mid
west areas tomorrow.
But the weatherman had no pre-
diction of relief for eastern states
and the Atlantic seaboard, where
the mercury hit the high SOS in
some cities. He said the cooling
air would shave difficulty getting
East northern Ohio.
One Of the hottest spots in the
nation today was Newark, N. j.,
where the temperature reached 81
degrees. Burlington, Ia, apd
Quincy, Ill, had "a degrees, Chi
cago 95, and other cities to the
east had temperatures in the COS.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-14
EGYPT URGES I'm
AID ON BRITISH
Asks Council To Order
Troops Out OF Nile
In Is Day.

LAKE SUCCESS, Aug. IS. -U.D
- Egypt urged the United Nations
Security Council today to order
British troops out of the Nile Val
ley within 10 days or face the pros
pect of riots and bloodshed.
- For the first time in his three
appearances before the council,
Egyptian Prime Minister Mahmoud
Nokrashy Pasha set a time limit
for a British evacuation.
"We ask you to rectify this sit
uation without further delay" he
said 81. The surge of public feel
ing has brought about bloodshed.
and it has exacted a toll of human
lives. Egypt wants to live her own
life free from the iron hand of a
powerful invader"
Britain's Sir Alexander Cadogan
declared, that the only threat to
peace in Egypt came from the
Egyptians themselves. He asked
the Council once again to strike
the Egyptian complaint from its
agenda.
"There is no dispute here which
endangers peace and security" he
said, 'unless Egypt deliberately
creates one rather than comply
with her international obligations.
I think l have shown satisfactorily
that Egypt's 1896 treaty with the
United Kingdom is valid"
Other developments in the UN
today:
l.. Canada asked the Atomic
Energy Commission to table Rus
STA Atomic control proposals as
"inadequate." A vote ON the Ca
madam resolution Was postponed
until Friday.
2. Pakistan, midas new all-Mos-
lem State, announced that 1t felt
entitled to automatic UN member
ship, but that it would file a form
al application. for membership If
necessary.
3. Andrea Gromyko, Soviet Depu-
ty Foreign Minister, was expected
to reply in the Security Council to-
morrow to the blunt statement OF
American policy toward the Balk-
ans delivered yesterday by Deputy
American Delegate Herschel v.
johnson. johnson said the United
States was prepared to act outside
United Nations peace-keeping ma
chinery to prevent the establish
ment Of a communist government
in Greece.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-14

Oklahoma and Texas also had 90
degree readings.
More than 10000 automobile
workers were idle, in Detroit as
the results Of walkouts by key en-
playes who complained Of the heat.
The temperature reached a high
of 8! degrees there. :.
OF the number idle, II, 900 were
laid off at three Chrysler corpora
ton plants and 5000 at the Hudson
Motor Car company plant. The
Ford Motor company said a strike
Of 40 to so men on the motor as
sembly line idled between 500 and
600 workers at the River Rouge
plant.
ALI operations were expected to
return to normal tomorrow when
temperatures drop slightly in the
middlewest.
With the showers and cooling
air, temperatures in Nebraska to-
day ran about 10 degrees lower
than Tuesday when they hit the
high eos. State and federal crop
statisticians said that even with
the rain and cooler weather, how
ever, Nebraska would be lucky to
have even a fair" corn crop. AT
See HEAT WAVE On Page Two