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Milford chronicle., 1948-02-13
Meat Outlook
Tough In 1913
By CECILY BROWNSTONE
Associated Press Food Editor


AMERICAN families will cOntin-
ue to eat we'll in 1913. During the
last two years food consumption in
this country has been running some
II to Is percent above the prewar
average. Figures based on our food
production goals and the amounts
of foOdstuffs that will have to be
sent abroad for foreign aid indicate
that 1913 will see food consumption
in this country still 13 to IA percent
above the prewar average.
The big item in food reduction
facing Americans is meat. Alto
gether it is estimated that the aver
age amount of meat available per
civilian during the coming year will
run about LAG pounds as compared
with about 156 pounds in 1947. The
shortage Of meat will be most pro-
nOunced next spring and summer.
More Water i'm the Stew
Meat reduction can't merely be
figured in terms of 80 many less
steaks per months. Americans will
be urged to use low grade meats
from grass-fed beef; this means
that cuts will be less tender. In or
der to make them palatable, ham
burgers, Swiss steak and stew will
probably be the order of the day.
There will be more fresh fish,
from all signs, on the 1948 dinner
table than there was in 1947. It is
predicted that canned fish supplies
will be larger in 1913; tuna leads
the way here with a 20 percent in
crease, salmOns' increase will not
be as great. Sardine production is
expected to be smaller than in 1947.
More turkeys and fewer chickens
is the prediction when it comes to
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-13
Pitching CastOffs
Turned in Fine Games

NETWORK -(P)- Five castoffs
turned in some brilliant pitching
efforts for National League teams
last season. Charley CRed) Barrett,
former Cardinal, accounted for two
fine games with the Boston Braves.
On June 8 he hurled a one-hitter
against the Chicago Cubs and two.
months later he tossed a three-hit-
ter against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Clarence Hook lott, cut adrift by
the st. Louis Browns, pitched two
hitter against the Cubs for the New
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-13

Extroyerts are said to favor red
colOrs.
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-13
IN MEMoRlAM

In memory of our mother Alice
Mccoy Beebe, who passed away Feb
ruary II, 1884:
We often sit and think of her.
When we are all aline,
tor memory is the only thing
That grief can call its own
The face we loved is now laid low.
Her loving eyes are still:
The hand so often clasped i'm ours.
Lies now in deaths cold chill.
Her weary hours. her days of pain.
Her weary nights are passed;
Her ever patient, beautiful face
Has found sweet rest at last
God saw the road would be too long
The hills were far behind
He gently closed her loving eyes,
And whispered, Peace be thine"
Missed by children, Barbara Town
send, Mildred Warren and frankie
DeeDe' 1tI
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-13
PUBLIC SALE
Of valuable
HOUSEHOLD GOODS
land.
Farming Implements

AT the LarimoPe Brothers Packing
House, Il mile north of Bridgeville.
on Route IS. on
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-13

York Giants, and Ernie Bonham,
ex-Yankee, turned in a two-hitter
for the Pittsburgh Pirates against
the Reds.
Emil Dutch) Leonard, ex-Wash-t
ingtoh Senator. tossed a three-hit-
ter for the Phillies against the Gin
cinnati Reds while Bill Voiseile.
traded by the Giants to the Braves,
had a three-hitter against the Card
inals.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-20

FEB. 5: Negotiations open
with Wilson & Co.
FEB. Is: UPWA's plans TO
strike authorized by a strike
strategy committee, following
a 20 to one strike vote by the
membership.
FEB. 2S: AS result of pack
ers' refusal to bargain, US.
Mediation & Cancellation Serv-
ice enters negotiations with
union and packers.
MAR. 3: UPWA announces
strike date.
MAR. IA: UPwA accepts
government arbitration pro-
posal.
MAR. Is: Big Four packers
reject government arbitration.
MAR. Is: UPWA rejects
President Truman's request to
postpone the strike until April
l, with no assurance to the I'M
ion of a reasonable settlement.
MAR. l6: 100000 UPWA
members strike Big Four pack
ing plants across the nation at
1901 am.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-20
Packing strike timetable

A timetable of events lead
ing to the nationwide strike
of 100000 Go United Packing
house Workers of America
members, compiled by UPWA's
Research Department, follows:
DEC. ~. l947: UPWA-CIO
wage contracts of 100000 mem
bers employed nationally by
Big Four packers are reopened.
JAN. 20. ls4s: UPWA opens
negotiations with Armour g.
Co.
JAN. 26: clearinghouse work
ers announced wage demands
of 20 cent hourly increase.
JAN. IT: Negotiations opened
with Swift & Co.
JAN. 81: AFL-Amalgamated
Meat Cutters and But CHI er
Workmen, representing 10 per
cent of organized packinghouse
workers, settled for a nine cent
hourly increase.
FEB. 2: UPWA begins TAX
ing strike vote.
FEB. 3: Negotiations open
with Cudahy. Co.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-20
General Motors
hits jackpot

DETROTT-tFP)- Last year
made history and super-profits
for the General Motors Corp.
Its ls47 profits were more than
triple those of 1916 and sales
also reached a record level. its
annual report revealed.
Net profits in l947 scared to
$297. 100000. equal TO $6.24 a
common share. This compared
with a 1916 net profit of $751;
100000. equal TO $l.76 a COM
mon share. Net sales were 3d.
800.000.000. almost double those
in 1916. Some of the dollar vol
ume increase in sales repre-
sented an increase In prices
rather than in increase in phys
icai volume. the report ad-
mitted.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-20
Shell
supports
strike

On the eve of the United Pack
inghouse Workers (CIO) strike
against the Big Four meat pack
ers, The Most Rev. Bernard ].
She'll, auxiliary bishop of the Chi
cago Catholic archdiocese, issued
the following statement:
"The packinghouse workers CIO
union offer to arbitrate is one
point in mass of evidence prov
ing their sincerity and the justice
of their cause.
"The meat packers promises,
regret to say, are a generation be-
hind their time. The profit re-
turns of the packers makes their
position completely untenable.
fIf the government should issue
an injunction, it should be not
against the workers but against
the meat packers to force them
into collective bargaining"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-20

of CIO-PAC against the forma-
ton of third party automatically
makes it a partisan organization"
Fitzgerald and Emspak said. ITO
condemn the formation of a po-
litical party necessarily leads to
this partisan position with the
furother result that CIO-PAC then
becomes an appendage Of the
Democratic machine.
Politicians knowing the po-
sition of PAC. months in adj
vance of any elections or nom
inations. now have a clear sig
nal 10 disregard the wishes of
PAC in the designation of can
didates for Congress or any
other office because they know
that PAC has given up its in
dependent position and commit
ted itself to partisan politics"
The two UE leaders added that
in accordance with request from
PAC Director Jack Knoll, they
were suggesting to Clifford Nc
Avoy, who is with PAC on leave
from UE, that he also resign.
UE, third largest union in the
CLIO, has been one of the most
active money-raisers and doorbell
ringers for PAC. Last year it gave
over 100000 to PAC, the largest
single contribution from any Go
union.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-20
The crooks had a heY-daY.

The crooks had heY-daY.
During the first IL hours last
Tuesday. AIS crime complaints
were made 10 the police. 3lS of
them TO the Central Complaint
Room at Police Headquarters
and 100 TO district police sta
tions scattered across the city.
Where were the police? One
third of the citY's force-2,S00
cops-were arraYed at the gates
of the Union Stock Yards in
an attempt TO intinidate peace
full pickets from the United
Packinghouse Workers of
America tCIOl.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-20

Workers, CIO; Mrs. Rhuea Pearce,
Congress of American Women;
Sidney Jones, prominent Chicago
attorney; Mr.. Milas Stephens, CO.
chairman of both the Civil Rights
Congress and the Defense Com
mittee; Reverend T. E. Brown,
Progressive Baptist Church, and
others.
March was emphatic in his de-
sire to join with those who are
protesting the move to murder
Mrs. Ingram and her two sons.
Many southerners say we have
no business sticking our noses in
the affairs of the south, but my
organization, as part of organized
labor, will keep sticking its nose
into the south as long the unfair
labor practices and the pattern of
intimidation toward Negroes con-
tinueS.
eve of organized labor recog-
nize that some disunity in labor
springs from the fact that pre-
JUDGE is sponsored by the bosses
to divide the workers in their
struggle for better living wages. !"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-20
This weeks comics
In Chief I'm IL o. IL he
INT really a villain?

WTE'RE confused. We admit it.
w Last week we told you that
I'm INT I'm. This week we learn
that I'm IL I'm! lint that in
terezting?
Just IN case you don't follow
our gigs and Gags, we'd better
remind you that Chief I'm is the
villainous-appearing character who
accompanied Deem Wilderness, the
pretty lady doctor m the SUMS
Steve Canyon corn1c strip, to a
remote outpost.
There she was to combat an
outbreak Of epidemic, artificially
caused for some obscure reasons
by some equally obscure gents.
The conspirators drugged Deem,
killed the tribal leaders son, and
pinned the rap on the pore purity
gal. Then they tried to incite the
people to lynch her by claiming
that she had murdered I'm.
But I'm has just showed up
alive-which should provide some
interesting results.
HIGHBROW. the blackmailer,
and his girl friend Smoky have
gone to theater. But they don't
know that it's curtains for them
mote: that was intended as pun.
Algy Wedmore, the fat cat
they're putting the bite on, is leav-
ing $4,000 in a hole in one of the
seats in the theater, and Smoky's
about to latch ON to it.
She doesn't know that Kerry
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-20

In joint letter to CLIO Pres.
Philip Murray, UE Pres. Albert j.
Fitzgerald and Sec. Treas. Julius
Emspak pointed out that in the
past few weeks UE representatives
have been ousted from member
ship on numerous state and city
PAC committees because they "as-
serted their individual rights to
engage in independent political
activity"
I'm our Judgment" they said.
these actions by CTO-PAC make
il impossible for il TO carry for
ward a construction campaign
for the election of a progressive
Congress and progressive state
and local tickets.
"The UE position at the CLIO
board meeting was and still is
that PAC should concentrate on
the election of a progressive Con-
gress and progressive state and
local governments without at
tempting to dictate to any local
union or individual on the matter
of what candidate they m i g h t
choose to support in the Presiden-
tial race"
NO Presidential Endorsement
has been made yet by the national
UE although some locals have al
ready gone on record for Henry
A. Wallace.
''The completely negative fight
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-20

Drake has been vaiifng Wedmore.
He Should be able to spot her.
Then watch shake-down artist
get the shakes.
IN THE TRIB. Dick Tracy has
finally found out how those street
lights get broken (only he could
worry about such a thing.
A maintenance man who works
for the power company breaks
them by tapping % caliber bullet
to the bulb. The heat causes the
bullet to go off.
Now all the cop has to do is
figure out why the guy does it.
This story, by the way, is moth
ing to be made light of.
TERRY and his pals are in
trouble. The French convoy with
which they were travelling through
the interior of Indo-China was
fired upon by the guerrillas, who
are fighting for the independence
of their country.
The convoy took it on the lam,
leaving Terry, Charles Charles, the
beauteous Motley Van Goblin, and
Motley's father marooned in the
jungle.
To add TO the worries of Motley
and her father, the truck in which
their mysterious black case was
hidden is going up in flames.
AS result, Motley too is all
burned up.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-20
AIS crimes but where are the COPS?

The absence of the cops from
their proper posts of duty this
week permitted the two thugs
TO hold up Paul ]. Moceri. 80,
a truck driver. and hold him
ciptive while they stole II
cases of whiskeY valued at
S2.S0o.. The hi-jacking &C.
Cured at 3s0s S. Wentworth
av. not far from the stock
yards.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-20
New car gone

Because one-third of the
citY's police force was trying
TO bulldoze striking packing
house workers. no cop was
around TO prevent the theft of
Frank K. Heider's ls47 black
sedan. which was stolen from
in front of his home at 1871
Warren blvd. this week.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-20

10th execution Of Mrs. Rosa
Lee Ingram and her two teen-age
sons.
The Ingrams are Negro farmers
from the town of Ellaville, and
were sentenced to death at trial
held in Americas, Ga, February
81, in the accidental killing of a
white farmer who had threatened
Mrs. Ingram with a gun and as
saulted her with his knife butt.
A Rally to Defend the ingram
Family here this week drew a
crowd of some 800 people to the
Progressive Baptist Church to
protest the attempt to have a
legal lynching" of Mother In
gram and her two sons, 10 and is
years old, for the so-called muir
der of their neighbor.
THE RALLY. sponsored by the
Committee to Aid in the Defense
of the Ingram Family, a commit
tee of the Civil Rights Congress,
was arranged to bring the facts
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-20
Bandits field day

John Jirka. IS. a salesman
of 27l3 Ogden av. has reason
to regret that one-third of the
citY's police force is being used
TO intimidate striking packing
house workers insead of pre-
venting crime. While 2.2S0
cops stood outside the Union
Stock Yards. a gunman this
week robbed Jirka of his car
and 81 in front of 1923 N. La
Sale ST.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-20
Miss the bus?

With one-third of the citY's
police force helping the Meat
Trust fight the striking pack
inghouse workers, crooks were
able to make off with almost
anything that wasn't-or was
nailed down this week. Some
one even stole a large bus at
l0eth st. and Ewing av.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-20

of this outrageous attempt on the
part of an Americas, Georgia.
court, that condemned this family
to death, to the attention of the
public.
Those present voted tnat Presi-
dent Truman be called upon to
intervene in the case.
The meeting also agreed to sup
port delegation to Washington
on Thursday, March 10, to visit
President Truman, and to also
support picket line to be formed
on Saturday, March goth, at the
Old Post Office Building, at II
am. 1t is on Saturday, March 20,
that an appeal for new trial will
be heard in Americas, Georgia.
THE MEETING was presided
over by Father Clarence Parker
of st. Marks Episcopal Church.
Speakers in clud ed: Herbert
March, District President of the
striking United Packinghouse
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-20
$500 hangover

Two gunner are glad that
one-third of the citY's police
force is stationed at the Union
Stock Yards 10 harass peaceful
packinghouse workers on
strike.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-20
PAC partisan to Denis,
say z UE men who quit

NEW YORK-FP-The two officers of the Unit Elec-
trical Radio & Machine Workers March
Political Action Committee executive board
become IAN appendage of the Democratic machine"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-20
Demand Truman halt
Ingram 'legoI Hynching'

Charging the state of Georgia with egazed aocy
Grant w. Cakes of the CO today
President Truman to intervene halt the
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-09-17
Proiit-Rich California
Oil Industry Won't
Pay 22c Wage Boost

LOS ANGELES (LPA)-The
oil industry-whose profits rose
34qo in just the first six months
of this year-by its refusal to
grant an adequate wage increase
has tied up $50 of the gasoline
production on the west coast
That's the charge of members of
the Oil Workers International
Union -CIO.
More than $4,000 oil workers
in both northern and southern
parts of California struck Sept.
4 when negotiations with nine
major oil companies broke down.
The union had demanded a pay
boost of 21c an hour, which
would lift base wage rates to
81 80, still 4c below the eastern
scale.
The strike might eventually
tie up all auto traffic on the
coast and affect industrial and
agricultural production. T h e
Army-Navy munitions board,
however, decided that it isn't
likely to cut the oil supply of
the armed services. The federal
government has put temporary
embargo on the export of gaso-
line and other oils from west
coast ports.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-09-17
GI0 Reveals Record
That Democrats Did
Best On Housing Bill

WASHINGTON LPA)-Dem-
ocrats have by far the better
record in support of the Taft
Ellender-Wagner housing bill -
the measure which aimed at
building of 100000 homes a
year for ten years, along with a
long-range program of 81 u m
clearance and financing of $780,
900 units of public low-rent
housing.
That's the conclusion rom a
careful chart drawn up by the
CLOS National Housing Com
In the house, 679o of the
Democrats signed the discharge
petition which would have
brought the measure to a vote.
Only 1870 of the epublican leg
islators placed their names on
the petition.
In many states, every single
Democratic member of the House
signed the petition. These states
are: Arizona, Colorado, Illinois,
Massachusetts,, Michi-
gan, Minnesota, Montana, New
Jersey New Mexico, New York,
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Is
land, Utah, Washington and West
Virginia Altogether, 124 of the
1875 Democrats tried to bring the
bill to the floor.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-09-17
Physically
Handicapped
Week In Oct.

October third to the ninth in
elusive, will be observed as Ma
tional Employ the Physically
Handicapped Week.
In his proclamation designat-
ing that week locally, Mayor
Michael V. Disable called or
Labor representatives of busi-
ness, religious, fraternal, farm
civic groups, women, veterans
and governmental organizations
to actively help to promote the
objective for the employment OF
otherwise qualified but physi-
cally handicapped workers.
The sole purpose is to seek
employment of all physically
handicapped persons.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-09-17
Depression
Says Corp. V-P
Good Thing

NEW YORK (LPA)-The 1948
award for the most poetic way
of leading up to the fact that
some businessmen see a depres-
sion as the only solution of our
inflationary headaches goes to
Vice-President Paul M. Millians
of Commercial Credit Corp.
Here, in all its unadorned
beauty, is his view:
"As surely then as the sun sets
and rivers flow TO the sea a de-
preston is coming
And may l suggest that it
might be a good thing-not too
severe depression Of course
and there are no elements in the
economy right now to cause us
to think of severe depression.
But too much prosperity in
business is a form of disintegra-
tion; with business good and
profits abnormally high all bust
ness has tended to acquire habits
of extravaganza and sloppy in
efficiencies, customer good will
that years and money bought at
high price has been ruthlessly
destroyed
"Yes, little depression and
the white heat of normal com
petition might be a good thing
for business.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-09-17
Macy Union Splits:
Right Wmgers
Form OUn CrOwd

NEW YORK LPA)-The To-
cal union of employees of Macys
famed department store split last
week. President Samuel Koven-
etsky, Of Local is of the Retail,
Wholesale and Department Store
Employees (CIO), successfully ad-
vocated program of signing
Taft-Hartley on-Communist af-
fidavits while Withdrawing from
the international at a meeting
of 1000 of the locals 1000 mem
bers. Kovenetsky had refused to
sign the affidavits when instruct
ed to do so by the RWDSE.
Meanwhile a rank-and-file group
opposed TO the "left-wing" ad-
ministration has been formed to
keep the union in the RWDSE
and the CIO.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-09-17
N. Y. Grocery Firms
Crack After Teamos
Strike For Week

NEW YORK - Agreement of
two big grocery chains-A&P
and Bohak's-to grant 171a can
hour pay boosts to truckers and
helpers was the first crack in a
solid employers front that re-
suited in teamsters' strike be-
ginning September /.
Members of Local 807, Inter
national Brotherhood of Team
sters-AFL, voted to make a COM
promise offer to settle for the
1712c figure. Union officials in
dicate they expect many en-
ployers to settle now on the
same basis agreed to by Arp
and Bohak, About 10000 work
ers have been on strike.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-09-17

80 49, .
but made her kick back all of
her salary paid by taxpay-
ers) to him; that he enrolled
a cleaning lady as clerk and
had her kick back her salary,
to; that he put his wife's aged
stunt on the PAYROLL until he
could influence New Jersey au-
thorities to put her on relief;
that he doled out a sinecure to
his daughter-in-law; that he
tried to shake down an insur-
ance company for $4,000 on a
shady accident in which his sec
retary was involved and that he
said a friend of his was an in
vestigator for his comitttee in
order to KEEP the guy, then in
the armed forces, from being
shipped overseas-when In fact
the fellow was no such thing
So far, Thomas hasn't answer
ed the charges, sued Pearson for
libel. nor even charged him with
contempt of Congress.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-09-17
DeWey's Labor
Chairman Is UTILITY
Co. Lawyer
Not Known To Be
Friendly In Circles
Of Organized Labor

ST. LOUIS (LPA) - Dewey's
labor chairman has never held a
union card. Not only that, he's
Just about as far from being a
friend of organized labor as you
could hope to find in top COP
circles.
His name is Barak T. Mat
tingly, and he's utility and in
surance company lawyer here,
who represents Public Service
Co. and the Transit Casualty Co.,
among others.
In that capacity, he lobbied ac-
lively and successfully in favor
of the King g-Thompson bill which
stripped public utility workers
including employees of Public
Service Co.--of many of their
basic rights.
The COP labor chairman is
campaigning for Murray E.
Thompson, Republican nominee
for governor of the state and CO.
author of the bill. ThompSons S
name is known In labor circles
IN Missouri much as Taft's and
Hartley's are known throughout
the nation.
Just TO make Mattingly's rec
ord clear as friend of labor"
he also worked for passage of
the states little Taft Hartley
act" the Madison bill. The AFL
here entered into costly fight
in the courts which last January
resulted in the state supreme
court declaring one section on
picketing unconstitutional.
The st. Louis CIO council
adopted a statement expressing
'incalculable surprise and aston
ishment" over the Mattingly ap-
pointment, because we in the
labor movement know of no con-
nection that Mr.. Mattingly had
with us, and 1t is the first intima-
ton we have that he has any
knowledge of or sympathy for
our problems"