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The union times., 1948-06-19
Tragedy Responsibility Has Evil Tinge

PORTLAND, Ore.-FP) - Re sponsibility for the Memorial Day flood disaster at Vanport rests squarely on the Portland Housing Authority and on the people of Portland who knew the authority had a realty board tinge and yet did nothing about it,'' the Rev. Richard M. Steiner, crusading Unitarian minister, charged here.
 The Housing Authority, Steiner told his congregation, failed to evacuate human beings from Vanport while merchants in downtown Portland moved goods from their basements and airline officials moved men and per sonnel at the air base adjacent to Vanport to Salem"
 Steiner's blast at the authority fol- lowed the admission of its chairman, Herbert Dahlke, that he would have evacuated the 18,000 men, women and children who were in the doomed city when the dikeS broke Several days before if he had known where to put them"
 The young veterans and their fami- lies who fled from Vanport or who fell under her flood waters may not have $15,000 houses being promoted by the realty board or in the hotels and auto courts reserved for the Rose Festival guests from outside the city. But they must have felt that a bench in one of Portland's many parks was preferable to marble slab in the citys morgue.
 Of the seven Housing Authority members, only one is representa- tive of organized labor. All received their appointments from Mayor Earl Riley, former director of Benefit Savings X Loan. First Fed eral Savings X Loan and the Port land Investment Co.
The union times., 1948-06-19
Novel Training Project
 For Building Apprentices

If project under consideration in Canton, Ohio, becomes a reality, the city will have instituted something new in apprentice training, according to the Bureau of Apprenticeship U. s. De- partment of Labor. y
 The proposed project is the con- struction by apprentices, under super vision of journeymen, of a building trades school at which apprentices in those crafts would receive the related classroom instruction they must have. The proposal was made by a member of the Canton Board of Education and has been indorsed by the Stark Fri County Construction Council, Inc, representing Canton contractors, and the Stark Tri-County Building Trades Council representing Canton unions.
The union times., 1948-06-19
AFL Unions Contribute $1, 800 For Flood Relief

Portland, Ore.-Two AFL unions here have contributed more than $1 800, raised by their membership, for the relief of victims of the flood disaster in nearby Vanport.
 Announcement of the contribution was made by T. M. Kincaid, secretary treasurer of Local II of the Office Employees International Union, and James Falkenburg, business represen- tative of Local 133 of the International Chemical Workers Union.
The union times., 1948-06-19
Yoo-Hoo, Where's Our Right To Work?

CINCINNATI-FP) = Where's that Taft-Hartley law and where does 1t say that man can go to work If he wants to and no pickets can stop him
 Five hundred workers at the Colum- bia record plant at Kings Mill, o., near here, want to know. They can use 1t now.
 The company has just closed the plant down. Reason given: record sales are down.
 But the 500 workers, union mem berS, still want to work. Still like to eat, too. But their right to work has been violated.
 Now where is that Taft Hartley clause anyhow? What are the govern ment and NLRB Counsel Robert N. Denham going to do about it?
The union times., 1948-06-19
BACK HOME PRESSURE

lIlIu 10 passage.
 BACK HOME PRESSURE
 The demonstration of authentic, substantial support from individual citizens, veterans organizations, mayors of almost every large city, and organized labor, was credited by members of the House with the successful vote in the House Com mittee. There, by vote of IA to l2, with three Republicans bucking Chairman Jesse Wolcott (R., Mich.), the measure was pushed thru.
 A solid block of Democrats-with the exception of Rep. John H. Fol ger O., N.C.)-joined with Reps. Merlin Hull (R., Wis, William C. Stratton (R., Ill.) and Hardie Scott (R., Pal to substitute the major pro- visions of the TEW bill for a phoney housing measure proposed earlier by Chairman Wolcott.
 ''AT LONG LASTS
 Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas O., Calif.), who has led the fight in the House to force Wolcott's hand, hailed the vote. At long last," she said, "a blow was struck for the American people" In the final week of the ses- sion, the Californian said pointedly whether or not a long-range housing bill IS passed will depend upon the House Republican 1eaderships support of housing legislation.
 The split in the Republicans on the Banking Committee, largely as re- suit of the pressure by mayors and citizens groups in their home districts who feel the current housing shortage most keenly, may reflect itself in the final House vote if the Rules Commit tee does not bottle the bill up.
 As approved by the House Commit tee, the measure provides for:
 l-Federal financial assistance to local housing authorities to build 5OO,OOO dwelling units for low-in- come families in the next 10 years.
 2-Federal financial assistance to private builders to encourage meeting goal of l5,OOO,OOO homes built in the next 10 years, including guaranteed returns and mortgage insurance.
 3-Federal aid to cities who plan to redevelOp ''blighted' sIum areas in their limits.
 "A housing research program to find new ways and cheaper ways to meet the nations housing needs.
 Especial loan arrangements for housing cooperatives, especially for veterans.
The union times., 1948-06-19
Unions Pay Tribute
 To Reuben K. Lewis

A testimonial dinner was held We'd neSday night at the Hotel Bond, Hart ford, for Reuben K. Lewis, stage manager at Loew's Po1i Palace Thea ter since 1926.
 The occasion was the 18th anniver- Sary of Lewis service as business agent of Local 84, International AL liance of Theatrical Stage Employees.
 Guests included State Labor Com missioner John Egan. Joseph M. Rourke; Harry Shaw, district man. ager of Loews Inc; Hyman Fine, district manager for Paramount Films; Richard Walsh, president of the international union; Tom Shea, Assistant President; and other union officials.
The union times., 1948-06-19
Gov. Blue Out;
 Labor Not Blue

DIES MONIES, Ia.-(FP)- Un- ionists here aren't bit blue over the defeat of Gov. Robert D. Blue and Rep. John w. Gwynne for Republi- can renomination in IoWa's primary June &. Blues administration was marked by the passage of a little" Taft-Hart1ey law.
 State Rep. William s. Beard1ey, a druggist-farmer, defeated Blue. Gwynne lost out to H. R. Cross. former Waterloo radio newScaster. The Iowa Federation of Labor expressed "com- plete satisfaction at Blues defeat, while CIO spokesman said: "We're pretty happy about it."
The union times., 1948-06-19
Is This Clause In Your Contract?

EMERYVILLE, Calif. = (FP) = Something new in union contracts has been negotiated here between the Office Workers Union and the Bear Photo Co.
 According to the new agreement, working mothers will get day off every week to care for their house. holds and children. Those who do not take the day off will receive a bonus.
The union times., 1948-06-19
600 Leave CIO

PHILADELPHIA-(FP) = Pres. Sal B. Hoffman of the Upholsterers Intl. Union (AFL) announced that a charter had been issued to 600 Indiana furniture workers who had seeded from the United Furniture Workers (CIO. According to Hoffman, the group is the 17th local to leave the CIO union because of its non-com- pliance with the Hartley law and join the upholsterers.
The union times., 1948-06-19
Schwellenbach Death Is Mourned

Washington (LPA) U The death last week of Labor Secretary Lewis B. Schwellenbach was called a loss to the people of the country by top union leaders. They reviewed his long career of public service, both in the Senate, as federal judge, and for the last three years of his life as head of the Labor Department.
The union times., 1948-06-19
As We See It
 by THE STAFF

Many Connecticut unions and councils have rushed telegrams to Washington demanding passage of the Taft-Ellender-Wagner Bill be- fore Congress adjourns Saturday. Typical is the one sent by President Vincent J. McCovern of the New Haven Central Labor Council to Rep. Leo Allen, chairman of the House Rules Committee:
 Housing shortage SO critical il will be national scandal if Con- gress fails to pass Taft-Ellender- Wagner Bill. Your patriotic duty is to rush bill to floor of House imme- diately."
 IN the hills of West Virginia, the Williamson Daily NetUs notes that the manager of local store ''has been on the sick list. His wife is carrying On."
 STATE SENATE
 KILLS BROADER
 TEACHER BILL NeWport Ne,Os (Va.) Press.
 A man in the uniform of the Brinks armOred car service got $4,- 288 away from two Automat cash iers in New York.
 Gee, you can't trust nobody no more.
 WHAT'S IN A NAME?
 Joe Pledge was convicted of bOOkmaking the other day.
 A guy named Brokus got a rap for rObbing "a warehouse-andg get ting away with two packs of chew ing gum.
 Which prompted one paper to headline the item: NO WONDER HE'S BROKUS.
 Japan is offering to sell 5OO,OOO tons of scrap iron.
 Left over from what we shipped her before the war?
 You need a mountain of salt when you deal with the statisticians of the Natl. Assn. of Manufactur- CTS.
 Said gents filed a report with Congress stating that in l947 they spent the paltry sum of $I46,OOO for lobbying in Washington.
 However, the boys neglected to mention that their AZ annual bud get included such juicy items as:
 Government fnance," $68,28 1; industrial relatiOns,'' $I46,l93; government relations" $I66,495; {; ''law," $l25,348; ''totaI legislative activities,'' $67O, 1922; the NAM pro- gram to sell ''free enterprise," $2,- 364, IO5; public relations, $l,947,- 365.
 That's a lot of dough-a lot more than the $I46,OOO reported by the NAM for lobbying purposes.
 And you can do a lot with so much kale, as witness passage of the Taft-Hartley act and tax cuts designed to save the big-money gents millions.
The union times., 1948-06-19
LABOR LAWYER DIES

SAN FRANCISCO-FP) John c. Lawlor, one of the first defense at- torneys in the Mooney-Billings case, was found dead in his hotel room, ap- parently from a heart attack. He was 6Q
The union times., 1948-06-19
ate Of Housing Bill Still In Doubt
T-E-W Measure Sprung From Banking Group, But Rules Committee May Bottle It Up-Local Pressure
 Brought Successful Vote

Washington LPA)In almost the only victory of liberals and labor in the 80 Congress- asnute action last resulted in approval of virtually the entire housing bill by the House Banking Committee As the of this session began housing bill supporters hoped that they could press the bill
The union times., 1948-06-19

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The union times., 1948-06-19

Wages of US. postal workers have risen only 21%o since 1924.
The union times., 1948-06-19

Equipment being used the New City Hall the area wide free chest Xay Drive has been proXmatey Xay minute since campaign started last week. - ~
 The Xray offer has been residents of inc area the of 5 Results of the be strictly confidential announced, but where dCrder the individual and his physician will be privately notified
 The City Hall chest cheekup headquarters from AM PM and Tuesdays Thursdays until PM
The union times., 1948-06-19
Building Trades:

Know these figures: Since 1930, union rates have gone up 54 per cent, largely as the result of pOstsOar negotiations. In the same period the cost of living has gone up 69 per cent, and the average primary market prices of building materials has jumped by ll6 per cent. Use these figures to answer the charge that labor is responsible for the high cost of construction.
The union times., 1948-06-19

The fighters of freedom in days past were called | "radeaIs.H There should be stigma uffaehed \ +o being "rudieaI." if takes real courage fo be radical. Many great religious teachers have been radieaIs. So have been inc truly great in \ politics. Thomas Jefferson wus q radical of his day. So w0s inc first President fhe Republicans elected Abraham Lineoln.-The Milk Distributor, AFL Local No. 753, Chicago.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-02

no worries. His M ma ers
thought they had just the boy in
Marcel Cerdan.
Alas Tony found out to his
dismay that Cerdan never stood
still long enough for him to de-
liver the punch that Marcel
couldn't take and worse still he
could find no way of staying
clear of Cerdan's worrisome
right and left chops to the head.
At the end of eleven rounds
tired and suddenly very old
champion had to finally give up
the ghost and another precious
title had slipped away.
What about our chasers, Ez-
zard and Ray, you say? They're
still chasing. When Ray chal-
lenged Freddie Mills and the
prospect of fighting a middle
weight couldn't bring Freddie
out of hiding, Ezzard knew Fred
die would never fight a power
full lightheavyweight like him
self. He decided he'd have
better chance chasing after Joe
Louis's heavyweight crown.
Ray is still chasing around
trying to catch up with middle
weight champion who will fight
him. Cerdan is coming back. If
Zale realizes he is through, we
hope he does, Ray might finally
get his chance. Let's hope if the
chance comes he won't be too
tired by then to get in the ring.
You know every bedtime story
must have a happy ending. IL
you think of one let us know.
K < <
TT LOOKS like Bob Teller will
L oppose Johnny Sain in the
first game of the Worlds Series,
AS we go to press, Cleveland is
in the drivers seat in the hot
American League race and they
owe it all to Rapid Robert, who
made up for poor start with
two timely victories over the
Boston Red Sox and Detroit
Tigers. You can't keep a good
man down.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-02
SPORTS

a habit of not wanting to lose
meal tickets, didn't want to give
up those championships.
There were two Joes around,
EZzard Charles and Sugar" Ray
Robinson by name, who if given
a chance just might take away
those precious titles. But hard
as they might try Ezzard and
Ray didn't stand a chance of
catching up with Gus and Tony,
not while their managers were
guarding those titles.
On the other hand what good
was a title without cash? Man
ayers can't live on titles. What
to do?
Gus and his managers took a
little trip to London where they
expected to successfully defend
Gus's title against a supposedly
soft-touch, Freddie Mills, pick
up that all-important coinage
and return none the worse for
wear.
When the fight was over Gus
was a bloody mess and that pre-
cious title. of his was nestled
close to the bosom of soft-touch
Freddie, who was heading as
fast as he could toward the white
cliffs of Dover, now also a hard
man to catch.
Meanwhile, our other friend
Tony was doing a bit of all right
for himself. He was still 4 ter
rifle puncher and as long as he
could find guys who were easily
hit. like Rocky GrazianO, he had
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-02
Cards Bears
clash Oct. a
at Sox park

Come Monday night, October
4th, those Bears and Cardi-
nails meet head on in Comisky
Park. After comparing the tight
2114 squeeze the Cardinals had
against the not too powerful
Philadelphia Eagles last Friday
with the way the Bears routed
the powerful Green Bay Pack
ers 45-7 Sunday afternoon,
number of fans and sport experts
alike are predicting Bear vic
tory.
Don't be too sure, boys. The
Cardinals and pitching Paul
Christman, after a brilliant and
tough exhibition grind had an
off-night last Friday. They don't
figure to repeat against the
Bears. AS the season goes on,
the Cardinals figure to be weak
ened by the loss of their great
tackle, Stan Mauldin, whose
tragic death last Friday stunned
the sports world. But the mem
DRY of Stan is going to have
them keyed up for this one and
when powerful team like the
Cardinals is keyed up, watch
out.
The Bears on the other hand
were at their best last Sunday
at Green Bay. They were up for
this one. They got the breaks
and capitalized on every one of
them. Johnny Lujack was bril-
liant and the rest of the team
could do no wrong. They figure
to have let-down and that
could be the deciding factor as
1t usually is when two equally
matched teams meet. Cardinals
28-Bears "a.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-02

scornfully, have turned their
venomous mouthings" on Wal
lace in order ito again hang on
the coat-tails of the Tweedle-
dom and Tweedledee of the old
political parties"
They have forgotten, he said,
1.-The busting Of the railroad
strike, the miners strike, the re-
moval of OPA, the (Truman)
declaration that to re-institute
price controls means "a police
state the loyalty purges, the LOG
Democratic Congressman who
voted for the Taft-Hartley law,
the persecution of labor leaders,
and the drive for war"
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-02
New farm club
system started
by Chi. Stays

The Chicago Stays, Chicago's
entry in the Basketball Associa-
ton of America, announced this
week that they have adopted
farm club system and will sup
port a professional team in Chi
cago this year. The team, coach
ed by Mickey Rottner, former
Loyola star, will be known as
the Steers and will play a num-
Der of games as part of the
regular Chicago Stag double
header programs.
The personnel of the team will
be made up of players not quite
ready for the stiff B.A.A. COM
petition but who have ability
and need additional experience.
II the Negro players who are
being given tryouts with the
Stays are found not quite ready
for B.A.A. competition, it is very
possible some of them will be
offered employment with the
Steers.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-02

selves against the door and
broke in.
They ordered us to come with
them and, when we refused, a
fight began in the living room.
Four men jumped on me and
someone hit Mr.. Hill in the eye,
either with a pistol butt or with
a fist They overpowered us and
made us accompany them"
The five Wallaceites wer e
driven 10 miles out of town and
warned to stay out of Augusta. "
After the marauders left, Hill
was found to have suffered a
black eye and severe bruises.
Miss Kimmel and another wom-
an were also badly bruised.
Wallace headquarters at At
lanta have asked the Federal
Bureau of Investigation to step
into the case. Earlier C. B. Bald
win, Wallace's campaign man
ager, had wired Attorney Gen
eral Tom Clark from New York
to demand federal Intervention
ito guarantee free elections in
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-02
the state Of Georgia"

the state Of Georgia"
He claimed that Georgia law
enforcement authorities h ave
instituted the worst terror
campaign the Progressive Party
has met to date" since Herman
Talmadge, supported by the Ku
Klux Khan, won the Democratic
gubernatorial nomination.
Despite the terrorism here,
the Progressives already had
collected $4,000 signatures by
last weekend. State law COM
pels them to file a minimum of
$4,000 valid signatures by this
Saturday. Oct. 2
The $1,000 signatures which
had been collected indicate that
a vast number of Georgians do
not approve of the xxx tactics
to which Progressives have been
subjected, Progressives contend
ed here
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-02

Young ProgressiveS of Amer
lea, she had volunteered to
aid Henry Wallace's Peoples
Progressive Party collect
signatures to qualify for the
Georgia ballot.
The attack on Miss Kimmel,
three other women. and man
was the second outburst of vio-
lence against Wallaceites in
Georgia in two days. A day
earlier seven Progressives were
k d n p from a Columbus
hotel. driven 80 miles out of
town. and warned not to return.
George Folds. Augusta police
chief. said that 40 or so men
were in the mob that stormed
the house in which Miss Kim
mel and her companions were
staying
The five of us were i'm the
house when these men began
crowding around outside" Miss
Kimmel said. I'VE knew that
they meant trouble so we locked
the door. But they threw them
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-02

the Chicago Joint Board of
t h International Fur &
L e a t h er Workers Union
(CIO) voted to assign Clifford
Johnson, an organizer for the
union, to full-time work on be-
half Of the Progressive county
slate. He will concentrate on the
LIST Congressional district.
In addition, the board in
structed Frank Mierkiewicz, also
an organizer in the union, to de-
vote the major part of his time
to work for the new party in the
32nd ward.
Mierkiewicz, who is Progress
i've candidate for state represen-
tatlve from the 23rd senatorial
district, also was authorized to
take time off from his trade IN
ion work to organize his own
campaign.
ABE Feinglass, Midwest dis
trict director, told The Standard
that IFLWU is planning to as
sign additional people TO work in
the election campaign.
THE response of the Evans
Fur workers GhOWS what can be
done if the issues of the 1913
elections are brought home clear
Iy to Them" Feinglass declared.
The workers contributed from
S. to 500 after they were ad-
dressed by Feinglass and Lew
GOldstein, manager of the Chi
cagO Fur Workers Union, an
IFLWU local.
The most dangerous aspect
of the coming election is the con-
fusion that has been planted in
the minds of many workers"
Feinglass contended.
He blamed this particularly on
"the kept press and vested inter
estS, tn radio commentators,
and the turncoat labor leaders
who, only a few years ago, en-
braced Henry A. Wallace as the
disciple of Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, the interpreter of the
New Deal, and the man who rep
resented the aspirations of the
common people of America"
Such labor leaders, he added
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-02

ZaIe, at that Time lightweight
and middleweight titlehold-
ers respectively. Gus and
Tony were both getting up in
years. They had been great fight
ers but now time was taking its
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-02

Chi. YPA member
beaten in Georqid

AUGUSTA, Ga.-A 22-year-old Chicago girl, Miss
Kimmel, of five Progressive Party
paign workers who kidnapped and beaten by mob
here this week.
Miss Kimmel, a student Wright Jr. College lives at
Albion i'm Chicago Active in the colleges branch of
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-02
Fur union backs Wallace
with workers and cash

Some IS employees of the Evans Fur Co., along with
members of the executive board of Local As Chicago
Workers Union this week contributed than 81
the Progressive Party's chest.
The record contributions made day before
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-02
The Fans Corner
Uncle AIteIIs the one about
two champs who blew their tops
BY AL VAUGHN

WE MAY be far cry from Mother Goose but tonight
w Uncle Al is giving out with little bedtime fable For
of a better title call it "The Chase"
1t is little story that centers around those old
gladators of the squared ring Gus Lesnevch and Tony
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-02

Inevitable toll.
B u t they and
their managers,
especially their
managers, w h o
as a class have