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The union times., 1948-04-03
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"sinee 97% of our money is based on debts created by inc banks making loans, if follows if aII bank loans were paid there would not be dollar currency or coin in circulation.
 This is staggering thought. we are completely dependent on banks. Some one hos 10 borrow every dollar we have in eireUIu- lion, cash or credit. if the banks create ample money of this kind we are prosperous, if not we sforve. We are absolutely with out e permanent monetary sys- fem. When one gets q complete grasp upon fhis picture, the tragic ubsurdity of OUT helpless position is almost ineredihIe-bUf there if is."
 Robert HemphiII, former credit
 manager of inc Federal Re-
 serve Bank of Aflanfo.
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pIoyees, Potomac Cooperative Fed eration, numerous churches in the neighborhood and the American Veterans Committee.
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As the official publication of the New Haven Central Labor Council. the edl- torial and advertising policy of THE UNION TIMES are under the supervision of the officers and executive board of the Council. They are Vincent J. McGovern. Electricians Union B-90, President; Will liam P. Enright. Painters Union No. 1s6 Vice-President; Joseph Egan. Typo graphical Union No. 47, Recording Sec retary; August F. Striby. Bakers Union No. II, Financial Secretary; Frank Jacobs, Electricians Union No. B-90, Sergeant Barbers Union No. 215, Frank Spadola: Machinists Union No. APO, Alfred E. Murphy; Painters Union No. 1s6, Saul kreas; Plumbers Union No. 349, Stanley Greising; Car penters Union No. 79, George Rheims and John Dillon; Electricians Union No. B-90, Bernard Chloride; State, County and Municipal Employees, Harold V. Fein- mark; Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union No. 4O4, Rose Brunswick; Police mems Union, Everett Shaw. This news. paper is published by THE UNION TIMES, ING, whose officers are Harold V. Feinmark. President; Nathan Sher- man. Secretary; and Leonard Farmer. Treasurer.
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vious to us now that the real req son for statutes of this type is to bring union members into open shops where they will then enjoy the same ''rights" as non-union workers.
 Live and learn.
 Ten thousand people turned out in drizzle in Arlington, Va., last week, to look at America's first CO., op department store. A three-story layout, with 52,OOO square feet of floor space, the coop has sponsor ship of Central Labor Union, Dis trict of Columbia Credit Union League, Dept. of Agriculture em-
Montana labor news., 1948-04-22
Social Security

Congress has been debating various social
security act changes for the past several
months-and no progress is in sight as yet.
There are a few VITAL changes which
ought to be made in social security immedi-
ately. These changes have been recommend
ed before-they are simple and could easily
be made if congress had a mind to aid the ma
ton instead of working for it's own re-elec-
ton.
Among the changes needed today are:
l. Increase the monthly income by at least
fifty per cent.
2. Increase the amount which a pension
err may earn to augment his income from the
present $14.9 80 a month to at least S43.33 per
month $50 a week..
3. Reduce the age limit for retirement
from IS to 60.
A. Continue widows pensions AFTER her
youngest child has reached the age of 18 so
that there is no break in her permanent in
come.
5. Add a comprehensive system of pre-
paid hospital and medical care insurance (not
socialized medicine).
These recommendations are few, should
not prove costly and they will increase the
value of social security a hundred fold.
Congress-act-don't talk!
Montana labor news., 1948-04-22

is to create better public relations and prom
ote good will for all AFL organizations.
1T is more essential now than ever be-
fore in the history of the organized labor
move that we in the AFL acquaint the citi-
zens of the United States and Canada with
the program and policy of the federation with
respect to labor-management-consume re-
%lations.' the resolution reads. and further
1.-The Union Label Trade Department OF the
AFL has designated as Union Label Week the
period beginning May 10. 194S. Manage
ment and labor are called upon to cooperate
to demonstrate the excellent relations that
exist between management and labor and.
therefore,, it was resolved that the Amcri-
can Federation of Labor approve of this
means of public relations and urge all nation
al and international unions, state declarations
of labor. city central bodies, local unions, un-
ion label leagues and women's auXiliaries of
labor to cooperate in coordinating their ac-
~tivities for the display of everything that is
union-made and services that are performed
by members of the AFT. unions during that
week.
Montana labor news., 1948-04-22
AFL Declares Union Label
Week., MAY 1910

Plans for Union Label Week, from May
10 through 16. this year, were formulated by
the ALL and the Union Label Trades Depart
ment at recent quarterly meetings held in
Miami. The executive council Of the AFL
unanimously voted to place all the facilities
Of the AFL back of the excellent idea. The
members Of the council also pledged their all
out support to the Union Industries Show
which will be held during the same period.
]. NJ. Ornburn, secretary-treasurer Of the
Union Label Trades Department, is directing
the exhibition. The 18th convention of the
American Federation of Women's Auxiliaries
Of Labor will also be held in Milwaukee dur
ing the same week.
Union Label Week, May 10 through l6,
1913, was authorized in a resolution adopted
by the last annual convention of the AFL.
The general purpose Of the declared period
Montana labor news., 1948-04-22
Truth About Sales Tax
places burden on those least able to pay;
Says Bay State Congressman

The sales tax" Cong. George j. Bates
said last week, lis the most unfair OF all taxes,
since it imposes a burden on those least able
to pay"
1t would be difficult to improve on that
brief description. The conservative Republi-
can congressman from Massachusetts concen-
trated the truth about the sales tax in a nut
she'll
That kind of tax, more than any other,
takes the cost of government off the strong
shoulders of the rich and puts it on the lean
backs and bellies of the poor.
Bates is chairman of a House committee
which is considering new tax legislation for
the District of Columbia. Before his COM
mittee is a bill proposing that the District
government levy a 3 per cent sales tax on the
million people in the nations capital.
In speaking out against that proposal,
Bates was absolutely right. Not only is the
sales tax unjust and iniquitous, but there is
no need for it.
LABOR has pointed out before, and re-
peats here again I'm proportion to population
there are more rich people in Washington
than in any other city in the world. If local
taxes must be raised, they are the ones who
should pay.
Many of them are great landowners.
Backed by wealthy newspaper publishers,
they are determined to prevent any increase
in real estate taxes. which are lower in Wash
ington than in any other large American city.
1t is extremely important to have a wise
and just tax system in Washington, be-
cause people everywhere look to the CAPT
tai of their country as a model. What is
done here will be copied elsewhere, for
better or for worse.-LABOR
Montana labor news., 1948-04-22
False Bottom

There is no let-up in the drive by conser-
vative congressman of both parties to destroy
the major social legislation Of the New Deal.
Latest move of this kind is an attempt by
Sen. Joseph H. Ball (R., Minn.,) to sabotage
the Wage and Hour law, as well as the Public
Contracts Act of 1886 which helps to outlaw
child labor.
Senator Ball is the author Of a bill which,
under the guise of making needed changes
in these laws, would strip them Of most Of
their effectiveness.
Most Objectionable features of this bill
are provisions that would place an additional
5000, 900 low-paid workers-those who need
it most-outside the protection of the Wage
Hour law, and that would set the minimum
wage at 60 cents an hour, with a false-bottom
proviso that would mean so cents an hour
for many persons.
This false-bottom provision would permit
industry committees to increase their mini
mum wage to 70 cents if they desire to do so,
or-and here is the catch-lower it to so
cents.
Montana labor news., 1948-04-22

One out of every 20 government war-con-
tract termination settlements has been based
on fraudulent claims by the contractor, ac-
cording to the United States comptroller-gen-
eral.
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09

y
ment on unified occupation govern
ment, Russia unleashed its long
threatened drive to Gust the western
powers from Berlin.
When the west instituted its cur
rency reform, Russia clamped down
tightly on Berlin. All rail and truck
food shipments from the west were
shut off. So were supplies from the
Soviet zones farms. Public utilities,
which originate in the Soviet sector
of the capital, were shut down.
The Russians cannot force the west
out of Berlin by any means "short of
war;" said Gen. Clay.
But the Russian tactics brought
new pressure to bear on the west.
More than 2,250,000 Germans live in
their sectors of the capital. They have
depended on 1000 tons of food
brought in daily from the western oc-
cupation zones. Storage depots held
less than a 20-day reserve.
Air Shuttle service instituted by
Britain and the U.S. would supply oc-
cupation garrisons first, the civilian
population after that. Gen. Clay ra-
toned food for Berliners while both
the US. Air Force and the Raj
rushed air transports to Germany.
A British spokesman said it might
be necessary to drops food by para,
chute if traffic became too heavy or
airfelds within the American anc
English sectors of the city.
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09
AERIAL: Whoosh Go the Jets
Super Shooting Stors

OSSCt SitOOiulS StStS
The Air Force has contracted for
new super Shooting Stars, a Lock-
heed jet fighter with a speed of 500
miles an hour. During the next two
years 457 will be delivered.
The new model, F-80C, has new
engine with a higher rate of climb
than its predecessor, the F-80B. The
plane, whose development began a
year ago in experiments at Moroc,
Calf, air base, has six machine guns
and carries two half-ton bombs in
wing tip shackles.
In New York, 1000 Air Force
planes will fly over the Presidential
reviewing stand at Idlewild Inter-
national Airport on July 81 to open
a nine-day International Air Expo
sition.
The flight, described as the largest
ever massed in the U.S., will include
200 B-29s. The planes, detailed from
bases throughout the country, will in
clude Air Force and National Guard
planes, and ships from the Navy,
Marine and Coast Guard.
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09
Statistics
Record Federal Surplus

Record Federal Surplus
The governments budget surplus at
the end of the fiscal year, June 80, set
new record. It was close to $8,00O,-
100000 The previous high was ST.
155,000,00O 21 years ago.
But the surplus is figure on paper.
Most of the money itself-$6, $685.
OO0,00O-already had been used to
lower the federal debt to about $751;
60O,OO0,000. The rest, about $l,40O,-
000,000, went into the Treasury's cof-
fers, swelling its cash balance (largely
kept in banks over the country to
$4,000, 100000.
Technically. $4,000, 100000 was cut
out of the surplus Monday when
President Truman signed the foreign
aid appropriations bill.
A provision written into the bill by
the Republican-controlled Both Con-
gress required that $3,000,000,00O of
the money that actually is to be paid
out for recovery abroad in the year
that began July be charged as an
expense" in the old fiscal years
budget
Purpose of the bookkeeping shift
was to bolster the new budget, which
otherwise might show a deficit next
June 80.
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09
Belgium
To Be or Not to Be King

To Be or Not to Be King
Exiled King Leopold announced
this week he will give up his crown
if the Belgians do not want him but
he wants referendum on the issue.
Leopold, who surrendered the Bel
gian armies to the Germans in 1910,
was barred by Parliament in 1945
from returning to his country. He
now lives in Switzerland. His brother,
Prince Charles, is regent.
Leopold said Premier Paul Henri
Spaak told him the government was
unable to propose a settlement of the
royal question to Parliament and sug-
gested he write a letter.
In his letter Leopold says:
81 am in favor of general con-
sultation of all Belgians. If this con-
sultation does not bring an indispu-
table majority in favor of my return
to the throne 1 shall then abdicate.
''If favorable majority is shown
by the referendum, would expect
Parliament to put an end to the pres
ent regency and vote law bringing
me back to the throne. am so far not
sure my abdication is wanted"
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09
The IH2sl;S D This EEK
)SLAVIA: A Crack in the Red Line?

the United States and western Europe
The second is to lay the foundation
for an eventual strike for full polit-
ical control.
Observers Selieve the drive is di-
rected from a central headquarters
somewhere in Asia but not from Rus
sia or China. The British think con-
troll is vested in a central council
presumably a South Asian Comm
form about which little is known.
The first communist target is Ma
laya, the worlds greatest producer
of natural rubber. Guerrilla warfare
already is underway there.
Terrorist attacks by small commu-
mist bands against estates, mines and
Chinese Kuomintang leaders have
averaged more than one day for all
most two months.
EmbattIed Burma
In Burma, open fighting has been
reported for months between Red
guerrillas and the new Burmese gov
ernment. Before Britain granted Bur-
ma independence last January, COM
muniStS were among the loudest adj
vocates for immediate home rule.
)nce it was granted, they turned
against the new independent govern
ment.
In Indonesia and Indo-China COM
munists are confident of winning nu-
merous supporters against the colo
nial rule of the Dutch and French. In
Indo-China, communist influence al
ready is strong in Wet Nam, where
the top leadership consists of Comm
tern veterans.
In 1946, when Moscow made its last
serious bid for Iran in the oil-rich
Middle East, it employed the device
Of fostering a revolutionary republic
of Azerbaiian. It didn't work then
because of strong Anglo-Americar
opposition.
But the Palestine crisis has weak
ened this front. Now both the United
States and Moscow recognize the new
Jewish state, bat Britain has retained
its traditional ties with the Arabic
world.
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09

experienced.
All told, there will be so per cent
more Democrats than Republicans.
The COP delegates and alternates
totaled 2,l88 while the Democrats
will have 1892.
The first event on the pre-convens
ton calendar is a meeting in Philas
delphia July 8 Of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee. Seven members Of
President Truman's cabinet and Sen.
Alben w. Barkley, the convention
keynoter, will also sit in.
Truman on First Ballot
Sen. ]. Howard McGrath, Demo-
cratic national chairman, predicted
this week that President Truman
would be nominated on the first ball
lot. He said Mr.. Truman had $40
pledged and claimed delegates. Only
6l8 are needed for nomination.
But as Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of
New York and Gov. Earl Warren OF
California, the Republican Presiden-
tial and Vice Presidential nominees,
relaxed before the start of the cam
paign, there were rumblings this
week of ground swell that might
change the Democratic convention
picture completely.
In Madison, Wis, the two-day
Democratic state convention ended in
an uproar when the chairman adj
journed it rather than permit debate
of motion to beseech Gen. Dwight
d. Eisenhower to become the party's
candidate for President.
Sen. McGrath said he saw no pos
sibility of a successful draft-Eisen-
hover movement because he did not
regard the general as a candidate.
Nor has Ike, apparently, changed
his mind. Recurring rumors liking
his name with the Democratic NOM
mating met with an explicit dis
avowal in Eisenhower's behalf by the
presidents Office at Columbia Uni
versity.
v. p. Race Wide Open
In describing the field for the DEM
ocratic Vice Presidential nomination
as wide open, McGrath said: ''There
are lots of candidates, but no crystal
ization of sentiment yet behind any
one"
McGrath avoided comment on q
suggestion by Clare Boothe Luce that
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt run with
Truman.
Despite the furore southern Dem
ocrats have been making over Tru-
mans civil rights program, McGratF
intimated their fury will have SUBJ
sided by convention time. He said:
81 don't look for any difficulty will
! delegates from the south. / don't be-
lieve they'll have a candidate Of thei
own, so look to them to support tn,
President"
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09

THE Cominform threw the book
i at Tito and other Yugoslav
Communist leaders this week.
It accused them of conniving
with western powers, conducting
a wrong" foreign and domestic
policy, being hateful" to Russia and
of departing from the Marxist-Lenin
line in favor of nationalist" aims.
Unlike many other Communists,
the Yugoslavs talked back.
All the criticism, said the Yugoslav
Communist Central Committee, head
ed by Marshal Tito, was based on
lies" and Islander"
Belgrade headquarters cried, "An
historic injustice has been done" 1t
declared relations with Russia "must
be based on confidence and not on
spying"
Belgrade talked of national inde-
pendence" and the central committee
called for formation of Balkan bloc
uniting Albanian, Bulgarian and
Yugoslav people on the principle Of
national equality"
A Strong Army
It recommended that the Yugoslav
army be strengthened because it ''pro-
tects the freedom and independence
of the people of Yugoslavia."
This unprecedented defiance Of
Kremlin authority may be the start
Of definite split in what Russia had
hoped would be a solid phalanx Of
eastern satellites.
It may be based in part, observers
say, on Tito's desire for east-west
trade.
The Marshall plan has checked, al
least temporarily, the westward
sweep of Moscow doctrines short oi
Italy and France.
The Russian squeeze on Berlin is {
move designed to force the western
Allies out of their sectors in the four
power capital. Many observers lool
upon it as a flank attack by the
Kremlin to cover a resounding defea
in the campaign to dominate all Ger.
many.
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09

Europe's new economic alignment
under the Marshall plan may bring
defections from other satellites as the
cost of Russian friendship becomes
heavier.
The weeks developments in Yugo-
slavia and Berlin tend to center at
tention on Russian moves in Europe
but strategists are not overlooking
signs of increased communist activity
in Southeast Asia.
Soviet expansion, when stopped in
one direction, traditionally turns to
another.
China is still a vast theater of civil
war but continued success of the Chi
nese Communist armies may bring
about open Russian support. Recent
Chinese student demonstrations
against American "coddling" of Japan
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09
In Short

Spent: BY the Republican national
convention in Philadelphia, an esti-
mated $5,OOO.0OO.
Voted: BY striking London dock
workers, to return to work after King
George vi at the request of the Labor
government proclaimed a 'state of
national emergency"
Accused: By Syria, an American
warship off Palestine, of shelling
Arab lines
Inaugurated: BY New York City, a
1O-cent in place of its old Scent sub
way fare.
Rocked: Fukui province, Japan, by
an earthquake, killing an estimated
S,l55, injuring 7,75O, all Japanese.
Added: BY the government, to it:
civilian payroll during May, 1885,
workers. raising the total to 2,O65, ,285
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09
SCIENCE: New Drug for Polio

It does not help in paralysis or Grip
pling where nerve pathways have
been destroyed.
The findings are reported in the
American Medical Association Jour-
nal by DR.. R. Plato Schwartz, asso-
ciate professor. of orthopedic surgery,
and DR.. Frank M. Berger, assistant
professor of pediatrics at Rochester.
DR.. Berger developed myanesin, a
synthetic drug derived from glycerin.
two years ago in England.
In its new form, myaneSin can be
taken as a cherry -havored drink to
mask its bitter taste, or in tablets.
In "a of 80 patients. it diminished or
eliminated spasms, rigidity and in
voluntary muscle shaking, they said.
Sometimes relief came within half
hour. In others, improvement came
only after days of taking the med
icine
Three-Day Typhoid Cure
Another new drug, chloromycetin.
repeatedly takes only three days to
crack typhoid fever, ordinarily con-
sidered 30-day disease.
DR.. Theodore E. Woodward of the
University of Maryland Medical
School, and Col. Rufus L. Holt, COM
mandant of the Army Medical Re-
search and Graduate School in WASH
ington, said the drugs effectiveness
against typhoid was discovered by ac-
cident in Malaga.
Chloromycetin is derived from q
fungus. It was first used clinically
against scrub typhus, a disease ts
which many servicenen succumbed
in the South Pacific. This had beer
an almost uncomfortable disease
with death rate of IS per cent.
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09
cideliehts

O Adolf Hitler's automobile, a
black. 9,5OO-pound Mercedes Benz,
capable of 1876 miles an hour, with adj
Unstable arnor plate and bullet-proof
glass. was picked up in Sweden by a
Chicago importer in a barter deal for
ball bearings. Taking delivery at
New York pier this week, the new
ownerN explained: Il tried for l8
months to get a car in the United
States; it took just 80 days to buy
Hitler's."
@ In Hollywood, two youngsters
played game of hide-and- seek with
a stranger who stopped in at their
home. They were elated at finding
$40 he hid under a lamp but their
parents found jewelry valued at ST.
500 missing.
9 A ERADICATE. Ia, farmer is named
Dewey Warren Vote. He is a Repub-
lican. of course.
9 In Tokyo, Hideo Miyamae, 26, got
a one-year sentence for petty theft,
but then he stole his attorneys UNI
brella. took the cap Of the policeman
who questioned him. was caught try
ing to steal the courtroom clock
you're incurable," said the judge. u
add one year more. but don't think
it's enough"
9 In LaGrande. Ore. farmer G. L
Fallwell. borrowing leaf from Wins.
ton Churchill. is having his life story
published. Once each week he pays Il
run a chapter in the classified adver
tising section Of The EUening Ob.
seTUer. Last weeks installment wa,
Chapter Eight 'The Terrible RaiI
Storm with Thunder and Lightning.
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09

Each is the military
commander for his
country in defeated
Germany. They are
arrayed a g aims s t
each other in an in
creasingly t e n s e
battle to save face.
Obviously stung
by the vests de-
ciSion to go ahead
and create a Sepa-
rate state for part
of Germany after
waiting vainly three
xvaorc for o0roo
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09
Quotes

Joe Louis, retired heavyweight
champion of the world: Il won't
make up my mind who I'm for
politically until after the Dem
ocratic convention, but it def
nitely won't be Wallace"
Frank E. Cabral, Jr., II, Prov
incetown, Mass, lobsterman who
rode a 60-foot whale bareback
after it surfaced under his boat:
''It was a funny feeling"
Byron Price, United Nations
assistant Secretary General: ''The
world has become too small to
60 on living half free. half slave
to war. This time we must tri-
umph grandly or fail miserably."
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09
Modes
New Took g. Old


The new lool" is being called the
''has been look" in Paris. The straight
lined silhouette. seen at midseason
collections, will be popular this fall.
French designers are making no Sc
cret of the lines they intend to follow
for fall One summer exhibition fea-
lures a slinky silhouette called '"The
Mermaid" Straight lines and only
moderate fullness are the highlights
of most autumn collections.
''Extravagant use of material is
definitely out" says designer Pierre
Balmain, but the feminine look will
remain"
Christian Dior doesn't intend to in
dulge in any of the understanding
dresses he favored last fall. Il like
lines that are expressive but not over
stated" he says.