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The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-08-24
Funeral Association
Gives 500 to Negro
Business League

NEW YORK, Aug. "a. CAMP
: The National Negro Funeral
Directors association at it's annual
convention in Baltimore last week
donated 500 to the National Ne
gro Business league, John H. Har-
mon, executive director secretary,
announced here this week.
Harmon, who spoke at the fun
eral mems convention, said the as
ISOLATION endorsed the new pro-
gram 0 fthe NNBL.
Many NNBL leaders also have
written their praises to Harmon
complimenting him for his work
in arranging the recent July 21-23
NNBL convention in Atlantic City.
Among those lauding him for
his work were:
Albion L. Holsey, honorary vice
president of the NNBL and public
relations director at Tuskegee
Maceo Smith, member of league
executive board; C. C. Spaulding,
president emeritus of the NNBI
and president of the North Caro-
lima Mutual Life Insurance com
pany; w. D.. Morrison, Jr., presi-
dent, National Association of Real
Estate brokers, and others.
Holsey wrote, II have been
planning since my return from At
lantic City to extend my congrat-
ulations to you for the results OF
your hard work incident to the
business league convention"
Smith said, "You are to be
commended for a fine job OF
planning"
; Harmon wrote, "That is one OF
the finest jobs of planning that
have seen done in the history
of the business league and with
little or no assistance"
Also praising Harmon were Will.
liam A. Dart, president, Atlantic
| City Board Of Trade; William E
Shortridge, president, Nationa
Negro Funeral Directors associa
ton; Mrs. Gertrude Tolber, pro
gram chairman, National Hous
wives league.
Mrs. Kitty Hall, vice president
Housewives league; and B. T. Nor
gan, president, and William r
Hudgins, vice president, Unitet
Small Business association.
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-02-06
cIO Men Prepare
For Paris Meet
Continued from Page /

The inaction of the secretariat
is attributed to the unwilling
ness of the Russians to permit
full discussion of the European
recovery program in WFTU.
If, however, the Soviet sup
porters agree to the calling of a
WFTU meeting now, both TUG
and CIO are believed to prefer
that all conferences of trade
unionists of Marshall plan ma
tions to coordinate their efforts
in the recovery program be held
within the framework of WFTU.
Should WFTU prove incapa-
BILE of providing facilities for the
cooperation which the British
want, they are expected to try
and arrange conference at
which the AFL as well as the
CIO will be represented. On the
other hand, should WFTU set
up a regional conference ma
chinery for the unions desirous
of cooperating in the working
out of the Marshall plan, AFL
probably would not be involved
as it has remined outside WFTU.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-02-06
May Report FEPc
Bill This Week

WASHINGTON, Febrary A.
LPA) - Despite the opposition
of Sen. Robert A. Taft (R., o..
to the bill against discrimination
in employment, in the form en-
dorsed by both AFL and CIO, IA
vorable action on the measure is
expected from the Senate Labor
Committee this week.
Early last month the sub-com-
mittee which had been taking
testimony on the bill completed
its work A vast silence has sur
rounded FEPC developments on
Capitol Hill ever since.
Senate supporters of the meas
ure seem sure that they have the
votes to force approval by the
full committee this week, but
the long delay since the hearings
were complied has disturbed
many advocates of the bill.
Elmer Henderson, eecutive Sec
retary of the National Council
for a Permanent FEPC, com.
menting on the inaction of the
Senate committee, said, after
all, what can you expect of the
committee that wrote the Taft.
Hartley anti-labor law"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-02-06

Seek Raise

PORTLAND, Ore. (LPA) -
The lumber industry could easily
grant wage increase of up to
sc cents an hour ant still make
g substantial reduction in the
price of lumber, Research Direc.
tor Ellery Foster of the Interna.
tional Woodworkers of America
(CIO) claims. He bases his fig
ures on the profits figures for
the first seven months of 1947,
in support of the unions demand
for a 321a -cents-an-hour wage
boost plus 7l2 cents an hour for
a health and welfare program.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-02-06
Five Labor Men
To Advise USES

WASHINGTON, Feb. A (LPA)
The five labor representatives
on the newly reconstructed Fed
eral Advisory Council for the
u. S. Employment Service are:
John Brophy, director of indus.
trial union councils of the CIO;
Nelson Cruikshank. director of
social insurance activities of the
AFL; President Harry Boyer of
the Pennsylvania State CIO
Council; Frank Fenton, AFL in
ternational representative; and
President James McDevitt of the
Pennsylvania State Federation of
Labor.
The council, appointed by La.
Dor S ecretary Schwellenbaeh,
consists of 10 public representa-.
tives, four management repre-
sentatives, five from labor, and
four from the major veterans
organizations. 1t is to advise the
USES on national employment
developments and policies.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-02-06
Seek Wage Hikes
For u. S. EMPLOYEES

WASHINGTON (LPA) - I'm
ion spokesmen were Joined by
government officials in pleading
for cost of living wage raises for
u. S. government employees last
week. The AFL appearing before
Congressional civil service COM
mittees endorsed a bill granting
a flat $1,000 pay increase, Civil
Service Commissioner Mitchell
revealed that 10000 federal
workers make less than $1,000 a
year, and $4,000 less than 81, 500.
Secretary of Agriculture Ander.
son asked for increases in all
brackets and said that the $10,-
900 government pay ceiling has
lost able government employees to
private industry.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-02-06
Oil FaiIure May
End In Ro+ioninq
Continued from PAGE I


oil production, a seven-day work
week for employees loading and
unloading petroleum supplies,
and the pooling of supplies and
transportation facilities.
A special committee investigat-
ing the fuel shortage suggested
that the administration ask gov
ernors of all the states to reduce
highway speed limits to 35 miles
per hour, as was done during the
war. The committee also pro-
posed establishment of a joint
congressional committee to make
national fuel policy.
The SO billion synthetic pro-
gram propose by Secretary
Krug would increase U. S. oil
output by 100000 barrels a
day-40 per cent over our pres
ent output. The plan is to pro-
duce oil from coal and oil shale.
1t will take from five to 10 years
to effect and require 100000
tons of steel.
Krug pointed out that the Gre
alton of a synthetic oil industry
is too big and too long a job to
be undertaken under emergency
or war conditions.
The plans under consideration
call for either federal subsidy of
private industry or government
construction of plants to be run
by private industry.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-02-06
Clergy Supports Strikers

NIAGARA FALLS (LPA)-
An Inter-Faith Committee of
Clergym n representing the
Catholic, Protestant and Hebrew
religions is supporting a strike of
the United Chemical Workers
(CIO) against the Carborundum
Co. here. When the strike started
five weeks ago, the committee
decided to study the wage dispute
''in the interest of the public at
large" After several weeks
work the clergymen succeeded in
getting the compny to reopen
negotiations but the conferences
broke down again the same day.
Basic issue is a wage raise to
meet the high cost of living.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-02-06
Cosser Outlines Union
PROGRAM In Lima Conference

contract negotiations. He spent
the balance of the time discuss
ing internal union problems.
MIR. Gosser and his party con-
sisting of Charles B a l a r d,
regional director, Howard Seren,
International union representa-
tive and Ollie Pecord, man.
aging editor, TOLEDO UNION
JOURNAL were the guests of
the Lima Locals at a dinner in
the Wesley Methodist Church
basement. Mr.. Gosser was pre-
sented with a set of matched
luggage by the Lima unions.
Allan Ireland, Local 106 presi-
dent made the presentation.
Speakes At Auditorium
Following the dinner, Mr..
Gosser spoke at public meet
ing in South High Auditorium
where he outlined again the
unions economic and political
objectives. He expressed the
hope that the wage increases
would be enhanced by improved
labor-management relations and
that stability would be brought
about by mutual cooperation of
government, industry and the
unions.
Furl Williams, a member of
the Superior Coach Locals ex-
ecutive shop committee intro
duced Mr.. Gosser.
Arrangements for the Lima
meeting were in charge of the
presidents of the three Lima
UAW-CIO Locals consisting of
Allan Ireland, Local 106; Charles
Hutchinson, Local I'll and Max
Tomasi, Local 975.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-02-06
UPW TO Seek
2qc Raise

CHICAGO, Feb. 4 (LPA) -
The United Packinghouse Work
ers.CIO will demand a wage in
crease of zoe an hour, President
Ralph Helstein announced last
week. The demand will be made
o fall the big meat packers, and
is intended to raise average hour
ly wages to the level described as
adequate in the city workers
family budget prepared by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Translated into weekly and
hourly earnings for a 40-hour
week and a full years work, it
would require $165 an hour pay
for packinghouse workers, Hell
stein pointed out. BY contrast,
hourly earnings for packinghouse
workers are $1.27; and common
labor rates, which apply to al
most one.third of the packing
house workers, average $1.02 an
hour.
The union this week also re-
leased figures showing that
Swift's, one of the biggest of the
packers, could pay a rs per cent
Increase in wages to its non
salaried workers, and still "on
the basis of 1947 experience 4.
not impose more than 1.6 per
cent increase in meat prices"
Negotiations with Arm ou r
have already started, and others
are'expected to open very shortly.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-02-06
Lobby Bon End
Asked BY NAM
Continued from Page 1

required of any person who
made money through lobbying,
and 1t must show all sources of
income over $500 and all ex-
penditures over $40.
The NAM--whose interest is
lobbying is relatively little
has five full-time people on its
Washington staff.
One Gets S25,OO0
vice Presi d ent Walter
Chamblin, Jr., gets $4,000 a
year for his slight interest in
legislation and in the last quarter
ran up an expense account of
$25e1.10.
Other members of the staff
receive salaries of $4,000, $12,-
000, $4,000 and $500, plus
handsome expense accounts and
the services of force TO stenog-
raphers. etc.
All of this interest in legisla-
tion--the relatively slight in
terest," that is--arises, of course,
from MANS devotion TO "the
ma ional welfare" President
Shyre claimed.
THE Feb. 5 issue of "The
Machihist," charges that NAM
Is also financing Leonard j. Cal
houn and his Unemployment
Benefit Advisers, Inc, which
is spearheading the fight to
epnssculate the Federal COM
pensation system.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-02-06
Teachers Rebel
Then Get Poid
D.

CHICAGO, Feb. 4 (LPA) -
Recourse to labor's only real
weapon, the decision to strike,
last week brought Chicago's
$4,000 school teachers their pay
checks which had been held up
for five weeks by the City
Council.
The checks, first on the new
l948 pay schedule, were held up
because the City Council had not
yet taken action on a record
breaking $685. 100000 school
board budget with an accom-
panying $97,000,000 tax levy.
The nearly 5000 Chicago
members of the Teachers Union
AFL authorized their executive
board to call a strike if the
checks were not released or if
the Council refused to approve
the new budget with its increased
salary scale.
City Council members said
that they all feared pay raises
for the teachers but were holding
up the budget to see if it could
be trimmed of some of its other
provisions.
Alderman John j. Duffy,
chairman of the committee, an
nounced last week that there
was practically no chance of the
Council taking immediate action
on the school budget. After the
teachers voted to strike, how
ever, and showed that they
meant it, the aldermen managed
to get down to the business at
hand and passed the required
levy.
Chicago had been in sixth
place among major cities in sal
alies to high school teachers and
in seventh place in elementary
school salaries.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-02-06
WaIl st. For Union Shop

NEW YORK (LPA) - En-
ployes of the New York Curb
Exchange voted 178 to IL for the
union shop last week. In an
NLRB-conducted ballot the work.
ers in the heart of the financial
district proved their immunity
from the propaganda their bosses
grind out about unions forcing
union security contracts on the
workers. Local 205, United Fl.
nancial Workers (AFL), which
won the election, is also pressing
for wage raises. 1t has won SIM
liar elections in the main Stock
Exchange and the Cotton Ex-
change.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-02-06
Adopt German
Workers School

MADISON (LPA)-The Uni
versity of Wisconsin School for
Workers has started a drive to
have CARE packages mailed to
a German trade unionists' school.
CARE, so Broad ST., New York
City, will send food packages for
$40 each to Academic der Arbeit,
Zlmmerweg IL, Frankfurt am
Main, American Zone, Germany.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-02-06
Murray Calls For
Another New DeaI
Continued from Page 1

The PAC platform will be the
legislative program of the CLOS
executive board, Murray said, and
listed its principle planks. They
are:
Price control and rationing
as the most positive means of
checking initiation.
"A higher minimum wage
and a broadened social security
program.
"a national health program
based on insurance principles.
Am adequate housing pro-
gram.
S-Progressive taxation with
real relief to those who most
need 1.-THE low income groups.
6-Federal aid to education.
Murray reiterated CLOS en-,
dorsement of such civil rights
measures as a fair employment
practices law, anti-lynching Leg
islation, and the abolition of the
poll.tax. IA
He stressed, too, CLOS inter.
national policy - THE adoption
and imp1ementation of the Mar.
shall Plan as way to interna-
tional peace" a world conference
for universal disarmament, oppo-
sition to universal military train.
ing and to the increased influ-
ence of the military in domestic
affairs.
Hits Third Party
Lashing out at the advocates
of a third party, Murray said
"the position of the CIO is very
definite. We are opposed to it."
He called for unity of the pro.
gressive forces and repudiation
of those who argue that reac-
tionary victory in 1948 will make
easier a liberal victory In 1852.
To the argument that a third
party will result in a larger vote,
Murray replied 1T may be a
larger vote, but 1t will be split
vote"
This is dangerous thinking"
he said. Initiation must be
checked and houses built in 1948.
Taft-Hartley must be repealed in
1948. Furthermore, Murray ex.
planned, "once in power, reaction
will move swiftly to crush all op.
position"
"A victory for reaction" the
CLOS leader reminded, means
higher prices and new and more
vicious anti.labor laws" Murray
by reasserting the in
dpendent and non.partisan policy
Of the CIO, and asked that PACI
be supported on the basis of its
positive program.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-02-06
Court Stops
GIN Insurance

DETROIT, Feb. A (LPA)-
Federal Judge John Bright
last week granted a tempo
rary court order restraining
the General Motors Corp.
from putting into effect its uni
laterally determined group in
surance plan.
The court order was granted
after an NLRB associate general
counsel requested the court to
grant an injunction against GIN
for attempting to- violate its
pledge to the union that health
benefits would be a subject for
collective bargaining. It is the
first instance of the board citing
major corporation for unfair
labor practices under the Taft.
Hartley law.
Walter Reuther, president Of
the United Auto Workers ,(CIO),
filed a complaint with the re-
gional NLRB office when GIN
mailed booklet to all employees
describing the plan it intended to
put into operation and then re-
fused to discuss it with the union.
In the wage agreement signed
with UAW in April 1947, GIN
agreed that the unions demand
for an employer financed group
insurance plan would remain a
topic of collective bargaining.
But on Nov. 21 last year the cor
poration announced its determi-
nation of unilaterally evolving an
insurance plan. The union pro-
tested this breach of contract but
the company has disregarded its
requests for discussion.
Plan Is Limited
Analyzing the plan itself, Reu-
ther pointed out that it is "a far
more limited one than that asked
for by the union, and fails to
meet the benefit standards that
we have been able to win in ne
gotiations with other employers.
1t is principally employe-financed
and exclusively administered by
management"
Last month the UAW.GM Con.
ference voted to demand that the
company allocate 5 cents per
hour of the unions pay demand
to finance a group health plan in
whose administration the work.
ers would have a controlling
voice
NLRB Issued Complaint
Upon the unions request the
NLRB last week issued a COM
plant order against GIN. It then
applied to the court for an in
junction restraining the company
from acting on its own until the
board can act on the charges.
Hearings are scheduled to begin
on Feb. 10. A week before that
date the court will consider the
NLRB injunction request In the
meantime GIN is stymied.
Commenting on the board ac-
ton, President Reuther said:
''It is important, first, because
the action of the NLRB in this
case serves to remind the en-
ployers who urged the passage
of the Taft.Hartley Act that its
restrictive provisions can serve
as a two-edged sword.
Second, the board action en-
phasized the fact that group in
surance plans are an appropriate
subject for collective bargaining
under the law.
"Sjnce GIN has refused to bar
gain on this subject, and has
tried to push through an inferior
insurance plan, the union had no
choice but to demand that the
NLRB take action"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-02-06

|LPA)-ln a brief filed by
General Counsel Robert H.
|Denham, the National Labor
Relations Board told Federal
District Court last week that
the Taft Hartley laws nom
Communist affidavit proviso is
constitutional.
The National Maritime Union
CIO had complained that, the
refusal of the board to list nom
complying unions on its bar
gaining representative ballots,
in accordance with Taft Hartley,
deprived those unions of their
constitutional rights.
In denying the MINUS charges
the NLRB maintains that Com
munistS or persons unwilling to
file the disclaimers are not de-
prived of any constitutional
rights. The Denham brief says
they may serve as union Of
ficers, and employers are free
to bargain with unions that have
not filed.
All that section Oh of Taft
Hartley does, the board con-
tends, is to deprive unions whose
officers have not filed of the
projections and services of the
board.
Compliance OF Advantage
Denham's' brief admits that
this gives complying unions a
competitive advantage over non
complying unions, but asserts
that this is not unconstitutional,
and that Congress acted reason
ably in an attempt to hinder
Communist activities in trade
unions which may, the board
thinks, involve threats to the
security of the U. S.
Congress believed, the NLRB
stated, that Communists do not
regard labor unions as a means
of improving workers bargain
ing positions to relation to en-
plyers but as training ground
for Communist political action.
The brief stresses the idea
that neither the Wagner Act nor
Taft Hartley creates any "pri-
vate rights" which unions may
go to court to protect, but
simply establishes public policy
in labor-management relations
which the NLRB is given sole
power of enforcing.
INLRB Steps In
Recently the board has inter-
vened in two cases where fed
eral courts have assumed juris-
.dictioon to enforce provisions of
the Taft Hartley law. In one of
these cases the Textile Workers
'Union-CIO has sought the aid
of the court to secure recogni-
ton of it's. bargaining rights
from a North Carolina mill. In
the other an employer went to
court rather than to the NLRB
for an order to stop the Amalga-
mated Assn of Street, Electric
Railway and Motor Coach En-
ployes-AFL from establishing
what it terms a secondary boy
colt within the meaning of Taft
Hartley.
NLRB contends that courts
should refuse to hear these cases
as the board alone has the
power to Judge the issues.
Courts, the board says, should
issue injunctions only when it
asks for them.