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The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-29
Hoffman triple feature
won't win any Oscars

the United clearinghouse Work
ers, Go, refused the role OF
whipping boy written into the
script of the hearings for him,
and denounced the investigation
as the strike-breaking junta it
was.
He also challenged Hoffman's
authority to Enquire" into the
strike. Hoffman appeared as
member of the House committee
on expenditures in the executive
departments, citing the Taft
Hartley Act as his authorization.
Helstein opened his formal ap-
pearance before the two congress-
men by saying:
81 would be less than frank
with the members of this COM
mittee if I did not state at the
outset quite frankly and bluntly
that a disservice to the American
people and to the name of Con-
gress is rendered by these hear
ings."
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-29
UE scores in two
wage victories

Two more wage victories were
scored during the week by the
United Electrical Workers, CLIO.
One thousand workers in the
Goodman Mfg. Co., 1884 S. Hal
sted ST., ended a 24-day strike
with an eight-cent an hour
wage increase granted by the
company.
Another $50 UE members in
the Paasche Airbrush Co., 1909
w. Diversey, gained a ten-cent-
an-hour raise, bringing their pay
increases since 1916 to more than
half dollar. The Goodman set
Element is retroactive to April
IS, as will be other increases
which may be arranged when
wage negotiations are reopened
in August.
Further settlements in the Thor
Washing Machine Co., 2115 S.
54th ST., and the Chicago Trans
former Co., 1901 w. Addison ST..
await the outcome of Taft Hart
ley elections.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-29
Battle to save steel union
in face of Boston setback
From Page u

discredit the union in the eyes
of the workers.
In the meantime, the company
stooges have been modified to
carry on campaign of disrup-
ton. They say whats the union
doing for you? Nothing!"
WHILE this goes ON, June is
almost here. In accordance with
the Taft-Hartley law, two-week
escape period will be declared
and every worker will have to
be contacted to secure the sign
ing of individual check-off cards.
Anti-union employers hope to
create enough confusion and dis
sension to mislead thousands of
workers into refusing to sign
check-off cards.
The question many ponder
over is how to beat the COM
panY's anti-union plans. Pro-
gressives are confident that the
company can be licked and the
union saved. provided fighting
program and a united member
ship is organized TO do real
job.
They recognize that the rank
and file membership and the
stewards have to be brought into
the campaign to secure the sig
natures of 100000 steelworkers
on check-off cards.
= +
UNDER these conditions, the
decisions of the United Steel
workers convention last week are
considered of little help.
The talk here is for restora-
ton of the unity and fighting
spirit of the $50 and '37 cam
paigns. Steelworkers say the
union must now be strengthened
and steered back to its pro-
gressive course.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-29
WILSON STILL OUT
Packing union beck TO
words nl1iIifczlnfx united

by the AFL meatcutters, who
did not walk out with their
CLIO brothers as they had
pledged. Next had come Big
Steel's big "No!" to the hat-in-
hand request for a wage in
crease from leaders of the
steelworkers. The final blow
to the strike had been "the
sell-out by the stockhandlers,"
March said.
Local by local. District One
members stood up. union card
in hand. to receive ballots dis
tributed by the ushers. Long
discussion from the floor fol-
lowed a period of questioning
which demonstrated that all
strikers knew from past expert
ence what they faced from the
packers when they returned to
work.
Bishop Bernard J. Shell,
speaking for the Back-of the
Yards Council, gave them the
answers that were in their own
hearts. $50 back with your
union," he said. Fight for
your union. Build your union.
1t is the only constructive
weapon for justice and prog
ress that you have in your
struggle"
JUST before the meeting
ended, the folded ballots of
the strikers were collected in
huge bins carried through the
audience, and held out at the
exists, by ushers. On the fol-
lowing day clearinghouse Work
ers' President Ralph Helstein
announced that Armour, Swift
and Cudahy workers had Greg
istered a majority for return
ing to work" Wilson strikers
voted in accordance with the
recommendation of the national
committee to continue. their
strike
This strike ushered in
the Taft-HartleY era. with all
the strike breaking and union
breaking devices customary
with corporate monopolies for
decades prior TO =. the Was-
ner Act" HeIsfein emphasized.
Scab violence had killed
three strikers.s Police violence
had smashed workers heads and
their union halls. Troops had
backed police and scabs. Now,
after ten weeks of withstand
ing such assaults, the strikers
who had come out together
were going back-together.
But from the ten weeks had
come more tightly knit union,
more conscious of the struggle
that still lay ahead.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-29

DY8 o'clock the vast quad
ID triangular main hall of
Ashland auditorium was rum
bling with 5000 conversations.
Here and there a phrase leaped
out:
not without unionl No,
sir 1 amt goin' back in with
out a union."
Packinghouse strikers damned
the buildings two other halls,
waiting for the word of their
leaders through the loudspeak-
ers connected with the micro.
phones in the main assembly
room. From time to time the
voice of Herb March, Chicago
district director for UPWA-
CLIO, came through, advising
1atecomers where seats might
be found.
THE TUMULT ended sud-
denly as his voice began:
Brothers :" In the main
hall black and white faces
lifted, intent on the speaker,
waiting for word on the ten
week-old strike.
March explained the decision
that faced the listening work
ers. In Swift, Armour, Cudahy,
the strike strategy committee
recommended an end to the
strike, a return to work.
If the listening workers voted
to accept their committees rec
ommenaation. to accept the
packers innocent pittance. they
would return together, and with
their contract in force. with
full seniority rights. vacations.
sick pay and the other benefits
previously exacied from the Big
Four.
& =
ANY discharges demanded by
Swift, Armour and Cudahy for
'sillegal acts by strikers" would
be subjected to arbitration.
Only Wilson & Co. had insisted
that it alone would be the
judge of. who would be rehired
and who would be fired.
And that means every one
of your leaders. every one of
your executive board would be
fired" Wilson Local President
Sam Parks told the listening
thousands.
In the face of such arrogant
determination to smash the
union, he added, the strategy
committee recommended con-
tinuation of the strike of 5000
Wilson workers.
z.
MARCH took the microphone
again. One by one he licked
off the body-blows given the
strike. First had come betrayal
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-29
Wilson strike solid I'm
fuee Of seub-herdiEag

Strengthened picketlines at Wilson & Co.,
whose officials had refused to honor the I'M
ion contract, this week sent those same Off
cials scurrying to w. Madison st. and S. Chi
cago in an attempt to recruit floaters and
riff-raff willing-to scab in Wilson's Chicago
plant.
There were $500 Wilson workers on the
Chicago picketlnes. Another $500 were still
on picketlines before Wilson plants in Cedar
Rapids Ia, Omaha Kansas City and in Cal
ifornia
In Chicago, scab recruiting the South
side conferred about the Palace Hotel 36th and
State bachelor dormitory. Wilson officials
had made arrangements to hire strikebreakers
through the Golden Gate Employment Agency,
36l1 S. State, next door to the Palace.
With Mayor Kennedy Wilson & Co. ex-
ecutive, Chicago police were giving Wilson's
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-29

scabherding attempts complete cooperation.
Officials picking up scabs in their cars were
dumping them out at the corner of Saith and
Ashland. There, protected by police, they were
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-29

put in other vehicles, which police prowl cars
then conveyed through the Wilson gate at
And and Ashland.
One picket, watching carload Of scabs
pass through the lines said: sThey amt go
ing to kill much cattle with those guys"
Meanwhile, Wilson & Co. foremen con-
tinued their attempts to break the strike by
visits to the homes of picketers.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-29

Strikers at Wilson g. Co. point out that
the following come under the category of
struck products:
Laurel lard, Bake-rite Shortening. and
all Wilson sporting goods. Fresh meat BUTCH
cred in the Wilson plants bears Federal in
spection serial number beginning with the
figures. 20.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-29
StoIIing

Wagreens still Sailing Their latest Hartley
anliable
Longshore 208 negotiatos until
signing the dotted At that point the
snapper-"WeI sign when your union complies with the
Taft-Hartley Act"
Then in true Nazi-style Mundt version, they fell back
upon the red batting popular among employers
So the phone again Call Atlantic 400 for
tell forget the
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-29
Is there q docter :?

Doctors are being asked by the Chicago Typographical
Union protest their journals lockout of Chicago printers
Eight provocative acts" by the shop that prints the
Journal the American Medical Association listed the
the 48
Chicago printers Association that
locked the cru.
The CTU asks the doctors to meeting between ANA
trustees officials predicting meeting
would lead to ian amicable understanding"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-29
HeII-bent

of local union resolutions the Nundt bin
continue to flood our offices Latest to arrive are from Nine
Smeter Workers locals 209, 449 and 632. The first
Whereas in all three correctly points that the
Committee and others Congress "heben de
soying the Constitutional rights of the American people,
they therefore gave birth un-Amercan BILL
the MUNDT BILL"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-29
INSIDE LABOR
GM settlement

Leaders of the UAW-CIO this week accepted flat
increase behalf 900 Gen.
Another nickel included the settlement,
living bonus" However the five cents may be
Withdrawn Sept. 1, should the cost of living decline.
GIN years, with discussions
limited maximum of three cents
1949 of the six plus five settlement also be
withdrawn should there be decline in living costs
Six locals of the United Radio, Electrical & Machine
Workers. CIO representing 49, 900 GIN refrigeration
workers. sat the beginning of the negotiations.
However representatives offer
sufficient
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-29
Cold soup

Campbell Soup still Sailing contract negotiations hs
adopted the Ford Motor Co position in negos
with Local 1874 FTACIO They justify this with state
ment that Campbell than of its compel
tors"
negoators pointed that the higher rates
merely the result of the higher output produced
Campbell workers. under the drive of the notorious Bedau
speed-up system.
Speed-up?" company officials replied in aggreved tone
"Campbes does employ speedup, only improved
featuring methods"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-29
'Unionize'

Don't Smonz--unionize!" is the slogan OF Local 453
UAWCO supporting the strike of 25 union brothers at the
fabuously profitable Simoniz plant 2100 S. Indiana Ave-
Simoniz workers walked out in January, when The
pany refused conclude except 100
Simoniz seeks to out
will, bar increase
in the ST. hourly paidwhch accounts for the
firms fabulous profits
"Al Sinoniz is the union" Bill
Walker unit president and shop steward
Evening star., 1948-06-22
Favored Netmen Win
In College Tourney
By the Associated Press

LOS ANGELES. June 22.-With
the favorites still undisturbed, play
begins to tighten today as con-
testants in the National Collegiate
Tennis championships swing into
the third round Of the tournament
at u. c. L. A.
Center-court duels include matches
between top-seeded Vic Seixas OF
North Carolina and Conway Cation
Of the University of San Francisco
Jim Brink Of Washington against
Heath Alexander of North Carolina
and Herb Flam of U. C. L. A. against
Jack Lowe Of Washington.
Other feature matches include
Jack Tuero of Tulane against Ron
aid Dumas of U. c. L. A., Bob Curtis
of Rice against Bob David of Notre
Dame and Fred Kovaleski Of Will
liam and Mary against Bob Lewis of
Stanford.
Second round doubles engage
ments list Flam and Gene Garrett
against Brink and Lowe, and Felix
Kelley and Clarence Mabry of
Texas against Tulane's Jack Tuero
and Dick Mouledous.
Surprises were scant In yester-
days opening rounds.
The Strong william and Mary
entry of Kovaleski. Bernard Bartzen
and Bob Galloway moved ahead as
did Virginia's Harold Burrows.
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION
Little Rock, 3--5: Mobile. Ia.
Birmingham, IA; Nashville, e.
New Orleans. 6: Memphis, 3.
Only games scheduled
SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE
Columbia, 6; Savannah, ..
Charleston, IA: Jacksonville, IL.
Greenville. B; Macon, ..
Columbus. 10; Augusta. 4.
Evening star., 1948-06-22
Worrenton, Potomac Offering
Horse Shows This Week End

Sundays program of eight classes
will get under way at pm. est.
1t will be climaxed by the awarding
of the hunter championships in
the three pony divisions and the
grand hunter and jumper titles.
The Potomac program, scheduled
to begin at 10 am. (EDT) Sunday,
is one of the most attractive and
complete offerings to be seen this
year. Sixteen classes are listed for
jumpers and hunters with tricolors
and reserves for each division. In
addition, there Is a Junior horse
manship event for youngsters under
l3 years Of age and a junior hunter
High-lighting the jumper division
will be the knock down -and-ou
event which carries with it leg on
the Rocksie Challenge Trophy,
being placed in competition for the
first time by DR.. and Mrs. August
Kramm as a tribute to Mrs.
Kramm's nationally famed jumper.
Evening star., 1948-06-22
By Lewis F. Atchison

Il amt even in the joint two
minutes when a tout tries to put
me on the winner of the first
race" said the man In the blue
suit. Honest, the place amt
hardly open when this guy edges
up to me with the good thing.
Course I don't play it, but guess
what he gave me?-Vonian Har-
vester, an 8to-l shot, and 1t
wins. So what's so different
between this harness racing and
the reglar STUFF"
He gave a shrug and got lost
in the jam at the Laurel Raceway
inaugural that really wasn't much
different than opening day at
Bowie, Laurel or any similar
track. Conditions last night were
more rustic because the place
still is IN the rough, with the
grandstand only half rooted and
odds and ends Of building materi-
al still strewn around-evidence
of the construction race against
time 10 open on schedule. But
with horses and 81 betting win
dows the public didn't seem to
mind.
Beer at 80 and 40 cents a bot
tie flowed freely down gullets that
found the brew satisfying on a
warm, June night. Customers
stood three deep at the bar from
the second to the seventh race,
when part Of the crowd starting
leaving to avoid the traffic crush.
And a dollar bill didn't carry
much economic weight there,
either.
This place is bound to click"
said an old geezer. Young Dick
Hutchison kicked over a clod Of
dirt and found himself a gold
mine. This stuff grows on you"
He gave a wise, old cackle. THE
only thing this crowd here to-
night knows about harness racing
Is they can make a 50 bet, and
that's all they care about. But >
there's a lot to this stuff and
they'll catch on to. IT. gradually"
The place will need more 50
windows If last nights enthusi-
asm for buggy racing was a
barometer. To avoid the danger
of being shut out at the betting
Evening star., 1948-06-22
Women
Match Play
BY the Assoeiatsd Prsas

CHICAGO, June ~ Medalist
Margaret Gunther, = pretty and
consistent shooter from Memphis,
today led the field Of 81 qualifiers
into the opening match play round
Of the 10th Women's Western Open
golf tourney.
Miss Guthern, Tennessee State
champion, solved Skycrests tricky
6.439-yard course for a 2-over-par
rs yesterday. That was q stroke
ahead Of favored Babe Didrikson
zaharias, three-time open winner,
and Beverly Hanson of Fargo,
N. Oak.
The way she steadied In yester-
days firing stamped Miss Gunther
a rugged customer for Dot Kielty,
Curtis Cupper from Long Beach,
Calf, in today's leadof battle Of a
top-weighted upper bracket. Miss
Kielty scrambled to an unimpres-
sive a.
All four of the professionals gun
ming for Louise Suggs' undefended
title qualified. Mrs. Zaharias, Patty
Berg (78), Betty Jameson t85) and
Helen Dettweiler. Indio, Calf. (82),
who copped the open in 1899, round
ed out the play-for pay quartet in
the running.
Miss Dettweiler, who had the best
opening nine Of the qualifying round,
a 1-under-par 36, blew up on the
final nine for q -46. Her nrst-round
opponent in the upper bracket is Mrs,
Nathaniel Kanrich, Chicago (88).
Evening star., 1948-06-22
Larned Tops Behrens
In Net Tourney Final
By the Assoeioted Press

KANSAS CITY, June PICARD
ner Larned, the national intercol
Ilegiate champion, emerged yester-
day as the top player in the mems
division OF the annual Heart OF
America tennis tournament.
The Chicagoan trounced a Rol-
Inns College teammate, Buddy
Behrens of Fort Lauderdale, Fla,
SO, 60, to win the mems sin
giles title.
Then he teamed with Behrens
to cop the mems doubles cham
pionship by defeating Hal Surface
and w. F. Coen, jr, Of Kansas City,
6-8. 6-3, 6-3.
Magda Rurac OF Romania, seeded
No. l in the women's division, took
the womens championship by
trouncing Marta Barnett, Miami,
Fla, 60. 6-8, 60.
The junior doubles title went
to Jack Turpin of Dallas and Dixon
Osburn of Houston, Tex. They
beat Ben Sobieraj OF st. Louis and
Gene Echols Of Topeka. Kans., IS,
81, 6-3. Turpin earlier beat Os-
burn, 6-4, 81. 6-3, in the junior
singles finals.
Laura Lou jain of Coral Gables.
Fla, teamed with Joan Simon of
st. Joseph. Mo-, to win the girls
doubles. They whipped Natalie Co
baugh and Rosalie Meluney of st.
Joseph, 6-1, 6-3.
Fifteen-year-old Laura Lou also
won the girls singles crown, beat
ing Barbara Beckel of Peoria, Ill,
6-3, 81.
In the women's doubles, Baba
Lewis Of Tulsa and Miss Barnett
beat Mrs. Rurac and Doris Jensen,
Des Moines, IS, 64
Evening star., 1948-06-22
Cameo Nine Winner
In Second-HaIf Debut

Cameo Furniture, first half champ
in the Industrial Baseball League,
is away winging in the second half
race. 1t started by topping Sunny
brook, 81, yesterday on the Ellipse.
A two-run uprising in the sixth
provided the winning margin after
Sunnybrook opened with five mark
ers In the first.
The big hit Of yesterdays sandlot
action was the four-run homer
smacked by Ed Eden Of FB1 in the
fourth inning as his team trimmed
Naval Gun Factory in Recreation
South League, 1876.
In other Recreation League games,
Silver Hill sank George Washington
Post, 1872. and Jet Motors blanked
Mckee Pontiac, 90. A Junior City
League tilt want to Georgetown over
Fort Stevens, 1874.
Evening star., 1948-06-22
By Angelina J. Corobelli

Two major events will interest
the horse minded this week end.
Saturday and Sunday the 10Th an
nual Warrenton Pony Show will
conduct a two-day meet at Warren
ton, Va, and on Sunday the annual
Potomac Hunt Horse Show will be
held at the clubs kennels near
Potomac, Md.
The Warrenton event. Oldest pony
show in America and the most i'm
portant Junior equine event in the
East, will give youngsters the op-
portunity to compete within their
age limits and ponies within their
size groups.
Starting at 9 am. CESTr, the
Saturday program will include pony
breeding classes, hunter and jumper
classes and a beginners equitation
event. The afternoon session, start
ing at (EST, will have IL classes,
featuring the 500 hunter stake
event and the Virginia Horse Show
Associations equitation event, hunt
teams and pony driving class.
Evening star., 1948-06-22
Houghton Surprises Ndders
'By Victory in Pro-Amoteur

The golf pros who were crediting
the spring thaw and short courses
for Al Houghton's early season sue
cess are singing . different tune
today, and with the Maryland Open
and other important sectional events
coming up it's q fact that Houghton
is the man to beat.
The Middle Atlantic PGA pro-
amateur was at Mount Pleasant
yesterday, the Baltimore public
course with the mammoth green's
and one that measures every inch
Of its 6.s92 yards. The tees were
back, the ground was soft and
Houghten took his usual first tee
kidding about being out Of luck
because he was a short hitter.
But when 1t was over there was
Houghton again. tied with Clifton
Park Pro Johnny Bass at the top
Of the pro sweepstakes with II
over the authentic par u layout.
Houghton and his senior partner,
A. j. Owen Of Prince Georges, won
the pro-senior division Of the event
with a best 66.
The secret Is that the pros who
are kidding the veteran Prince
Georges pro about his short hitting
actually are kidding themselves
With q driver Just few weeks old,
Houghton is hitting the ball as far
as all but the real long hitters and
ba r1ai aiynS bn y,eyer hos hoep o,,t If
the fairway since he started using
the club.
Next Monday the pros 60 to
Quantico for q pro-amateur and
the following event will be the So
hole Maryland Open championship
at Chevy Chase July 13. Houghton
has won 1t four times and is playing
well enough to make it five If he
goes in training for 36 holes.
Evening star., 1948-06-22
Harness Racing (ot 81 a Bet) Is No Different
Same Old Stuff New Setting Opening Night Fons Conclude

last and others that seemed to
be out merely for exercise came
snorting home with plenty to
spare.
Il can't hsure these things
out" said one harassed looking
and well-dressed gentleman.
But I have enough trouble try
ing to pick a winner without all
the stuff these horses have to
carry around"
Tom Wingate piloted the win
ner of the first race, and the
smart ones in the crowd strung
along With him and came away
with winnings Of four victors and
a second place. Wingate was al
most happy enough to smile
after trimming William E. Miller,
Washington businessman and
sportsman, In the $1,000 Inaug-
ural that featured the card.
HE didn't give me any trou-
ble," he said after the race.
ANY time I get In that No. 2
hole I can beat anybody" he
added.
Wingate is a 50-year-old vet
eran of harness racing. Learned
it under Mr.. Albert Saunders"
he said, land If you're gonna
write anything about this please
give him the credit. He's fine
man and a great driver. Sure
he's still driving-he's only 49,"
Wingate's boy. Charles, warmed
up the horse Watson E. Direct
for him before the old gent went
out to beat the 75-year-old Miller
in the feature.
HE rides some." the older
Wingate said of his son. But
he's hardly old enough to be in
this company. He's only 30.
The fans were strangely quiet
during the early part of the pro-
gram. but a few close finishes
loosened their vocal chords mid
way through the evening.
Women seemed to get more fun
out of 1t than men.
1.-The horses look prettier at
night than they do In the day
time" said one woman. And
they're always close enough for
you to see them. At those big
tracks I cans tell which horse Is
where when they get on the
other side Of the track"
Evening star., 1948-06-22

window 1t was necessary to get
in line almost as soon as the
window opened and then there
were the usual smart boys who
coaxed persons at the head Of
the line to get me ticket on
No. g." The betting lines were
not as long as those at saddle
racing strips, but only because
there wasn't as much room un-
der the grandstand. You had
to walk around the stand to get
to the other side while the fans
were crowding in to get their
money down. There wasn't as
much of a crush on the pay
of side.
Unlike saddle racing, the pad
dock seemed OF little impor-
tance., Once the field In the pre-
vious race had returned to the
barns. horses for the next can
ter came out on the track to
warmup The. inexperienced eye
could detect nothing to help
decide how to bet from these
runs. Horses that looked able
to run old man Hanover him.
self into the ground wound up