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The union times., 1948-01-03
Labor Voice In Marshall Plan
 Asked By A.F.L.

WASHINCTON-(FP) - Labor should be adequately represented in the planning and administration of the European Recovery Program (Marshall plan) top AFL leaders informed Pres. Truman in a per- sonal call at his office last week.
 Meeting with the chief executive to outline AFL views on the program were Pres. William Green; Sec.-Treas. George Meany; Chairman Matthew Woll of the AFL Free Trade Union Committee and Pres. George M. liar rison of the Bro. of Railway Clerks.
 They told Truman that plans are being made for a conference of unions from the 16 nations to be given Mar shall plan aid to discuss ways and means of labor's aiding the success of the program This would mean free trade union delegations from Turkey, Switzerland, Austria, Greece, Den mark, Norway, Sweden, Holland, Bel gium, Luxembourg, Italy, Portugal France, Great Britain, Fire and Ice land.
 The AFL leaders gave Truman a 17-point program for American foreign policy, which urged that: ssAlI nations whom we aid have the inviolable right to decide democrati- cally their own political and eco- homie relations. Our government cannot emphasize too strongly that it is not the purpose of American economic assistance as envisiOned in the Marshall plan to infringe in the least on the national sover- eighty or independence of any peo- ple."
 The program made it clear US. policy should not encourage "anti- democratic or totalitarian men and movements, parties and programs whether they be communist, fascist or any other expression of arbitrary rule through one-party system of personal dictatorship"
 Attacking "the reckless and destruc- tive reparations policy of the Russian government" the AFL suggested all reparations from Germany be sus- pended until her economic rebuilding under the Marshall plan be achieved.
The union times., 1948-01-03
Pay Hike Won
 At Electric Boat

Grotor-The Electric Boat Com pany announced it has reached an agreement with representatives of the Metal Trades Council, AFL, calling for pay boosts of from to 20 cents an hour for about 1,50O maintenance, production and clerical workers at the company's Groton plant.
 The increases are retroactive to Oct. l, expiration date of the previous contract, the company said, adding that the agreement, which also calls for five paid holidays and vacations with pay, is subject to ratification by union members.
 In negotiations with the company, the Metal Trades Council represented most of the employees at the Groton plant except draftsmen and pattern makers.
The union times., 1948-01-03
Quarter Million Building Trades Workers Needed

Washington, D. C.-Approximately 2,15O,0O0 workers will be employed by construction contractors in September of 1o48 according to estimates released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, US. Department of Labor.
 This will be an increase of 25O,- 900 workers over the high of l,- goo, ,OOO reported for September of this year, but it will be well be- low the employment levels reach ed at the height of the war con- struction program in l942.
 Not quite a million of the 2,150,000 construction workers employed next September will be skilled mechanics working at the site of new construction projects. Of these, about half will be engaged on new residential building. New housing should require only about a fourth of the 825,0OO semi-skilled and unskilled workers.
 425, ,OOO CARPENTERS
 Estimates show that about 425,O00 carpenters probably will be employed at the site of new projects in Septem- Der, 1948 as compared to 390,0O0 car penters employed in September, 1947.
 In 1948 about 100000 bricklayers, over SO,OO0 painters and glaziers, 55,0OO plumbers and steamhtters, and 5000 plasterers will be needed.
 It is also estimated that private builders will start 95O,OOO new permanent dwellings next year-an all-time high. This figure tops the 1925 peak of 937,OOO units and exceeds the expected l947 private total by nearly 100, ,OOO units.
 In addition, 10000 publicity financed dwellings are expected to be started in 1948, compared with around 5000 this year.
 These estimates are based on fore cast of construction expenditures to- talling $15.2 billion in 1948, prepared jointed by BIS and the Office of Domestic Commerce.
The union times., 1948-01-03
Favors A Flat Fee Instead Of Profit

CLEVELAND-(FP) - Another grocer has joined the ranks of the 'wholesale-for-a-fee" merchants.
 Stanley Symanski, owner of Stan's Self Serve Market here, has set up a plan under which 250 customers pay him $1 a week for meat purchases (limited to $1O) and SIPS for groceries and produce (no limit). In exchange for this fee, Symanski will sell the food at wholesale price. Out of the total of $2.25 family, he expects to pay his four fu1l-time employees, him. self and part-time employe salaries and meet his operating expenses.
The union times., 1948-01-03
Vote Protested By Jewelry Workers

The Middlesex Silver Company an- nounced this week that they have re- ceived from the N.LR.B. a copy of ob- jections through which the Interna- tional Jewelry Workers union (AFL) have challenged the election for bar gaining agent held at the plant Dec. 1.
 The workers turned down the union by o1 to 59 vote. One hundred and flfty-four votes were cast with four being challenged.
 The. union through its Business Agent Matthew Gammerino said that they were contesting the results of the election on factions taken by the company during the organization drive prior to the voting''
 A company spokesman stated that they were awaiting the arrival of the NLRB investigator from Boston SO that they may give him any informa- ton relative to the objections raised by the union.
The union times., 1948-01-03
Churches, Unions Unite For Action

Top-ranking church1nen and labor leaders have sent out call for con- terence to be held at the Fort Pitt Hotel in Pittsburgh, January 12-14, to organize a joint campaign to se- cure effective price controls, defend civil liberties, repeal anti-labor legis- lation.
 The call declares that "the churches and unions by virtue of their mutual search for equity, justice, and the right of the least of these, have a common stake in preserving and extending our democratic life in SO perilous time as this" It expresses the faith that "the joint effort of these two mighty forces will help insure us against eco- homie decay within our borders and against war without
 Among the trade unionists who have signed the call are: Elisabeth Christ man, Secretary Treasurer, National Women's Trade Union League, Wash ington, D. C.; Harold V. Feinmark, Local No. AZ, International Typo graphical Union, former Secretary Treasurer, Connecticut Federation of Labor, New Haven; Mark Lewis, Ex- ecutive Vice Pres, United Hatters, Gap and Millinary Workers Interna- tlonal Union, New York City; James c. Patton, President, National Farm CTS Union, Denver, Colorado; A.. Phillip Randolph, President, Brother hood of Sleeping Car Porters, New York City; A. F. Whitney, President, Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, Cleveland, Ohio; and Max Zaritsky, President, United Hatters, Cap and Millinary Workers International Union, New York City.
The union times., 1948-01-03
Meriden Barbers Elect Huntley

William Huntley was elected presi- dent of the Barbers' Union, Local No. 88, A. F. of L., at the annual meeting held last week. Other officers are as follows:
 Vice-president, Alfred DeAngelis; Secretary treasurer, Anthony Fucci; ; Recording secretary, Patsy Cello; Guide, Anthony Ciaburri; Guardian, Ernest Pipicelli; and Trustees, Michael Montehore and Domenic Tino.
The union times., 1948-01-03
Only Way To Get Real Peace. Green Says
AFL President Sees Some Price Regulation By
 U. s. Inevitable"

WASHINGTON - FP) - LabOr's chief job in l948 is to ''Oust the present stand-pat Congress and elect a new one which will be more responsive to the needs of the American people,' AFL Pres. William Green said this week in his New Years message.
 Labor hopes to lay the groundwork in l948 for ''the establishment of real prosper ity, lasting peace and cOntinu- ing progress in our time," he said.
 Green said it was likely from present conditions "that employ ment will continue at a high level next year," and this is the "best insurance against any possible recession setting in."
 The chief threat for the new year, he said, is imitation. Green found "the price situation is rapidly getting out of hand. Wages, as usual, are losing ground.
 PREFER FREE ECONOMY
 HI wN0Ssksnvn of preferring a free economy with out controls, but said that s"unless the present economic crisis takes an immediate turn for the better, it will be necessary for the protection of the consuming public and for the preservation of the free enter prise system itself, to clamp gov- ernment brakes on the uncOn- trOlled price spiral.''
 The AFL leader recogized that some sections of thought feel that the Taft-Hartley law hasn't been as bad as labor feared because there had been fewer strikes than in similar periods. Green said these people ignore the fact that many unions signed con- tracts just before the act went into effect last August, and are exempt until their termination dates or Aug. g, 1o48 whichever is earlier.
 BLOW-OFF COMING
 "The blow-off will come at the ex- piration of these contracts in 1o48," he warned. "At that time many unions and employers who have been getting along well together will discover that they cannot continue their long-stand- ing contractual relationships on the same basis because of the Taft-Hart- ley law. The results may be chaotic unless industry as whole resolves not to take advantage of the special benefits conferred upon it by the act."
 This would be depending upon the largesse of big business, he said, and labor does not relish that prospect. Therefore i've are now organizing to get out the vote for the national cleo ton of 1948. The AFL has formed Labor's Educational & Political League for this purpose.
 ''It is our hope and determina- ton that the members of organized labor and their families and friends will respond to our pleas and go to the polls next November in full force. If we can succeed in this en- deavOr we are certain of electing a new Congress which will repeal the Taft-Hartley act and which will en- act program of progressive ecO- homie and social legislation neces- sary for the nations welfare"
 This legislation, he added, inc cludes an effective housing law, im- prOvement and expansion of the social security system, lifting of the minimum wage standard to at least 75c an hour, and the inauguration of federal insurance against the cost of medical care.
The union times., 1948-01-03
Building Service Group Aids Jewish Labor Unit

New York City-Representatives of 62,O0O American Federation of Labor building service employees in this city have pledged full financial and moral support to the work of the Jewish La bor Committee in promoting racial and religious tolerance. The pledge was given at a meeting of the New York Building Service Council. The committee is carrying on national drive for $1,75000O.
The union times., 1948-01-03
Wallingford Union Backs Swimming Pool

At the regular membership meeting of the Silver Workers Union, Local No. 45, Wallingford, it was unani- mously voted to endorse the Commun- ity Swimming Pool drive. All labor was urged to give the drive its full support and to contribute to same.
The union times., 1948-01-03
TEST AVERTFD

KANSAS CITY, Mo- (FP) "A constitutional test of Missouri's new antl-labor law was avoided here when Jackson county circuit court dismissed contempt charges against the Int1. Typographical Union. (AFL).
The union times., 1948-01-03
BARBER OFFICER

Neal Agresta was elected recording secretary of Local 197, Bridgeport Journeymen Barber's association, Tues day night at a meeting in the Sons of Italy Hall, Bridgeport, attended by 200 members.
The union times., 1948-01-03

To restore consumer purchasing power to last years level, prices would have to go down about IF per cent.
The union times., 1948-01-03

The Union Times for one year for only $2. Every reader is "Committee of One'' to get new subscribers.
Evening star., 1948-06-09
Who Fooled Whom?

1t is too bad that all the lurid details in
the case OF the kidnapped" Russian officer,
Lieutenant Colonel Y. D. Tassoyev, may
never appear in public print. There are
all the makings of an Oppenheim spy
thriller in this partially revealed story
melodramatic disappearance and reap
pearance of the VICTIM" hints of inter-
national intrigue, conflicting charges and
countercharges by high officials, even a
girl "spy" named Betty.
The interesting episode began on April
%, when Colonel Tassoyev, chief Soviet
reparations officer at Bremen, called at
the home of Stanley A. Glen, American
director of the port of Bremen. Dispatches
from Bremen at the time related that the
Russian officer, dismayed by orders to
return to Moscow, announced his decision
to desert his post and, as other Russians
had done, to take refuge in England. He
was flown to London the next day. Rus
sian newspapers promptly charged that
the colonel had been kidnapped. Strangely
enough, no formal protest was made by
the Soviet government.
Tass, official Soviet news agency, says
the colonel was abducted" held in an
intelligence hideout in West Kensington,
subjected to unprecedented tortures" and
finally flown back to Germany when the
British were unable to force him to re-
nounce Russia. Tass gave the address of
the alleged hideout and the name of the
"landlady" and charged that Betty, the
daughter of the "landlady," was in the
employe of MIS- British Intelligence). 1t
stated that on one occasion Colonel
Tassoyev escaped to the street, shouted
for help in reaching the Russian Embassy
and was arrested and beaten by police.
1t all makes good summertime reading,
but the Moscow version is hardly convinc-
ing. 1t seems to be true that British
Intelligence rented an apartment at the
address cited until two weeks ago, that
the landlady had daughter named Betty
and that some foreigner created a public
disturbance and was subdued by police
But the British Foreign ONCE insists that
Colonel Tassoyev came to London "at his
own request" and departed under similar
circumstances. The Foreign Office denies
that the Russian was nlistreated in
any way.
The rumors in London are that the
Colonel was really Soviet spy, planted"
to investigate the freedom" route over
which number of Russian deserters have
travelled recently. That would account for
the colonel's peculiar behavior and for
the failure of the Kremlin to make official
demands for his release. What remains a
mystery, however, is whether the British
suspected trick all along. The prob
ability is that they are suspicious of every
such "desertion that they are not
50 foolish as to commit any act which
could be used against them by released
Evening star., 1948-06-09
ASain-Standee Is Wrong
To the Editor Of The Star:

TO the EDITOR OF Ine star:
am glad to see that someone else objects to
the word "standee' as it is misused in the news
papers. Pro Bono Publico, in The Star of May
%. asked a question that would be difficult for
an editor to answer satisfactorily without ad-
mitting that newspaper writer's are an initiative
set, copying any innovation introduced by one
OF their clan. Today they seem SO unsure of
what is good diction that when one of them,
through ignorance or otherwise. misuses a
phrase, word, prefix or sufhx the others fall in
line and perpetrate the error.
Webster defines Zee" as "a suffx used to in
dicate the object Of an action, the one to whom
an act is done or on whom right Is conferred >
Obviously, then, there is no excuse for referring
to one who stands as q standee or one who
escapes as an escapee This misusage savors
strongly of the New Deal and its crackpot
writees. (You have me doing it now.
D. M. SANDE.
Evening star., 1948-06-09
EquuIizinq the Tux Burden

The House has approved local sales
tax only as last resort. Chairman
Dirksen of the House District Committee.
who piloted the legislation through the
House yesterday, was largely responsible
for killing it in the past. Representative
Bates Of Massachusetts,, who heads the
Subcommittee on Fiscal Affairs withdrew
his strong personal opposition to the tax
only because there was no other way to
raise the money.
The tax Is a nuisance. Even with such
exemptions as food and medicine, 1t hits
everybody who buys anything. But 1t
raises revenue and the twenty-five or more
States that have come to 1t in recent
years have not found it too burdensome.
Here in Washington it marks the first
important attempt to bring about more
equitable distribution OF the total tax bur-
den. In debate yesterday Representative
Koran Of Washington developed the point
that direct local taxation here affects
only about one in every eight persons and
that too great part OF the load has been
placed on real estate, about half OF which
is tax exempt. AS he said, taxes should
be levied not only on ability to pay, but
also for benefits received. AND one OF
our difficulties here has been that too
large proportion Of the citys population
has been able to enjoy benefits OF municipal
services without direct contribution to the
costs
The income tax which the House ap-
proved as companion piece with the sales
tax corrects one of the inequities which
has made this tax, in Washington, so
highly discriminatory. Although it does
not begin until net income reaches So 1000
thus cutting down the number OF local
income taxpayers from about 10000 to
perhaps 750O-it does apply the tax to
Washington residents who maintain
legal domicie in the States. Yesterday
marked the first time that the House has
been willing to approve that principle.
Any new taxes are unpleasant. But the
bill passed by the House yesterday is more
reasonable and fair than any local revenue
measure of recent years.
Evening star., 1948-06-09
Railroad Working Conditions

To the Editor of The Star:
You have printed a great many articles on
the railroad SIDE Now how about some facts?
My husband works for the railroad In yard
service. He earns 5000 for hours work in
7-day week. He gets one week vacation year.
He is an engineman; fireman makes even less.
We have no sick leave. We pay $4.75 a month
health insurance At the same time, we have to
pay higher rate to insurance companies.
Some companies refuse us insurance altogether
The 16 incorporating unions have two weeks
vacation and time and half for Sunday work.
Some work on a six-day week, and now they
are asking for 40-hour week with an increase
also. You say they were satisfied with 15a
cents increase. If the yard men had the same
working conditions. they would be too Also,
they want 10 cents an hour difference in
night work. Why can't you be fair and print
some facts about the working conditions?
RAILROAD WORKERS WIFE
Evening star., 1948-06-09
Free Speech, But Loud

Down in Argentina a man named
Guerrero is claiming new worlds mara
thon record, having run for II hours and
20 seconds without stopping. 1t is not
true that Guerrero was running away from
the frightening implications of the Su-
preme Courts loud-speaker decision, for
he was blissfully unaware of the fact that
the ruling had been announced. But it
Guerrero had had the slightest inkling OF
the thing that happened in Washington
on Monday we may be sure that he would
still be running in the opposite direction.
What the Supreme Court, or rather five
of its judges, has done is to fasten upon
us, as the law of the land the utterly
dismaying proposition that loud speakers
are today indispensable instruments Of
effective public speech" And pursuant to
this conclusion, the judges have held that
the first amendments guarantee of free
speech was violated when the city of
Lockport, N. Y, refused to let Jehovah's
Witness invade the quiet of the COM
.munity's only public park with a sound
truck and batch of speeches.
What can men do to cling to the rem
appalling decision? How is one to protect
himself against what Justice Frankfurter,
dissenting, aptly terms "aural aggression?
Must we be without answer to this question
posed by Justice Jackson: Can it be
that society has no control of apparatus
which, when put to unregulated prose-
lyting, propaganda and commercial uses.
can render life unbearable?" Surely there
must be some way out, some escape from
the blaring, magnif1ed voice which now
has legal license to pursue us through the
public streets into the public parks, and
from the parks into our very homes.
OF course, not many of us can hope to
duplicate Guerrero's achievement, but
there is perhaps something that we can
do. The authors of this assault on mans
sacred right to peace and solitude are
Chief Justice Vinson, Justice Douglas, who
wrote the opinion, and Justices Black,
Murphy and Rutledge. They professed to
be greatly concerned lest the Lockport
action, If allowed to stand, might pave
the way to ban on the use of loud
speakers by political candidates. So let
us contrive some way to get these five
gentlemen out of the staid and quiet con-
fines Of the Supreme Court Building and
compel them to listen via the loudest of
loud speakers to the forthcoming political
speeches, preferably the Republican
speeches. If that does not do the trick,
then nothing will.
Evening star., 1948-06-09
Up.to.Date Drivers Rules

To the Editor OF The Star:
see a summer safety contest is starting, but
am over the age limit to enter. So, how
about The Star proposing that the Traffic
Bureau give or sell copies of up-to-date traffic
rules with every renewal of driver license
and with every car tag issued. g..
AS an example of what mean, have been
driving since 1921 but never have had a copy
of the up-to-date traffic rules since that date
simply because it meant an extra effort have
never made. But and many other drivers
would be glad to have copies with their tags
or renewals of drivers licenses
~. .-r t...,m a. CORNELIA H. HILL
Evening star., 1948-06-09
L. n. Council Presidents Status

To the Editor of The Star:
In the seat of the president of the United
Nations Security Council sits the Syrian gov
ernment's representative, Faris El Khour.
Does this not seem strange under present
circumstances?
If the U. N. is to be honest and effective in
its efforts to make peaceful and Just settle
ment between the fighting nations of Arabia
(of which Syria is one) and Of Israel, how can
it make unbiased decisions when Judge who
has helped in committing aggression interprets
the case?
Can you tell me what kind of constitution
has the U. N that permits such farce to be
played before supposedly intelligent audience
and that farce be called justice?
Even a school child would understand the
implications. If the U. NJ constitution does
not take into consideration such a paradox,
then there should be an amendment stating
that any country (and all countries) involved
in case of which settlement is to be decided
before the U. N. should not supply the judge.
H. and S. w.