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Evening star., 1949-01-12
The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight
Bill for $40 Per Diem Travel
Introduced; Early Action Seen
By Joseph YOUNG

designate Dawson of the Executive Expend
lures Committee has introduced legislation daily
travel allowance of Federal employees to $40 day
The has been referred to committee
where quick approval is virtually certain.
Government employe groups list the
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Sd Division Group to Meet

The Third Division Society will
meet at o'clock tonight at the
Gold Chevron Club, 1919 K street
NV
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Weather Report

District OF Columbia - Mostly
cloudy and rather cold. Highest in
upper 30s this afternoon. Consid-
cradle cloudiness tonight with low
est near 30. Tomorrow partly cloudy
with highest in middle 40s.
Maryland Cloudy with some
light rain near the coast this after
noon. Considerable cloudiness to-
night. Tomorrow partly cloudy and
not quite as cold except cloudy in
mountains.
Virginia-Cloudy, some light rain
near the coast this afternoon. Con-
siderable cloudiness; colder south
west portion tonight. Partly cloudy;
a little warmer east and north por-
tions.
Wind velocity, 2 miles per hour;
direction. west.
(From q. S. EngineerS)
and at Great Fails; shensndosh muddy at Al
Harpers Ferry.
Re.d,nss at wa:hinaton National Airport: !,
Yesterday PC. To-day PC.
| 4 pm. 49 am. o.
| 8 pm. - 40 80 pm. - 81
High and Low for Yesterday.
| High, SO, at 1901 am.
Low, 43. at ZOO am.
Record Temperatures This Year.
| Highest. 63, on January 8.
Lowest. 25, on January 3.
Tide Tables
! Furnished by united States Coast and
| Geodetic Survey)
Today Tomorrow
High 5:36 I'm. 6:2S Am
Low -- 1923 am. 1:12 am
High 6:lOp.m 6:5S pm
Low ------- 1927 pm. 1:16 p. p.m
The Sun and Neon.
Rises. Sets.
SUN. Sum. to@orrov soasy 7:ss 7:ss s::ooss
Moon, today 80 2:37 pm $50 m
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-haH hour after sunset.
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(Be sure to listen In Sundays
at 1875 am. 0Uer WMAL, The
Star Station, for Joseph Young'S
broadcast DerSion OF the Federal
Spotlight. featuring additional
ne1Ds and uteys of the Gouern-
ment Scene.)
Evening star., 1949-01-12

| Cne Dill CQlS year Is c1ptCLcu u
have clear sailing and be enacted
into law within few months.
PAY-Government employ
groups are trying to get admins
tration officials to interpret Presi-
dent Truman's failure to mention
general cost-of-living pay raise
in his budget message as meaning
that Mr.. Truman is not necessarily
opposed to such q measure.
White House officials, however,
say that the President does not
favor such a measure at this time.
And most members of Congress are
hesitant about sponsoring such leg
islation until the administration
gives them the nod.
It's beginning to look like the
most that Federal employees can
hope for at this session of Congress,
unless the cost of living takes
another sharp rise, is revision Of
the Federal Classification Act. Cen
orally speaking, this would mean
about an average 500 pay boost per
employe.
4 4 4
FHA-A top official of the Public
Housing Administration who was
under sharp attack by the House
Civil Service Committee because OF
alleged Communistic leanings. has
resigned his position. The Official,
however, was cleared by the agency's
loyalty board before he rendered
his resignation.
GSI-President Truman'S recon-
mendation for the creation OF a
new Government corporation to run
all the Federal cafeterias and rec
reation activities here probably will
be introduced as joint legislation by
Chairman Johnston OF the Senate
Civil Service Committee and Sen
ator Baldwin, Republican, OF Con-
necticut.
Senators Johnston and Baldwin
were members Of the three-member
Senate Civil Service Subcommittee
which investigated the Government
cafeteria situation here last year.
If the legislation became law, 1t
would abolish the present privately
operated cafeteria setup now IN
operation in Government building
here.
+ II + +
INTERNAL REVENUE-The fol-
lowing Internal Revenue Bureau
employees here received cash awards
for suggestions which resulted in
greater operating economy and eff
cheney:
Richard w. Barkley (two awards) ,
Joseph E. Macpherson. Nancy j.
Percival, L. E. Peterson, Agnes j.
Arnold, Ward Black, Avery B. Car
dot, Mack c. Batson. H. Everitt
Brogdon, Gerald E. Erickson, John
S. Costello, Ruth w. Zeitler, Spencer
Zimmerman, jr.; Ella E. Higman,
Herbert S. Gilmore and Benjamin
Goodman.
SCREWY-An Act of 1875 prevents
the Navy Department from hiring
civilian employees within three
months prior to a presidential elec-
ton.
This outmoded law does permit the
ban to be waived If the Navy De-
partment goes through all kinds OF
legal maneuvers and receives special
permission from the Budget Bureau
and the President.
All of this works as great hardship
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on the Navy Department every four
years and is silly bit of business
That's why Navy personnel people
are hopeful that Congress will enact
speedily legislation introduced the
other day by Senator LANCER that
would remove the hiring ban.
SENATE CIVIL SERVICE-As
disclosed here yesterday, ]. Austin
Latimer has been chosen as the staff
director of the Senate Civil Service
Committee. Mr.. Latimer is a we'll
known attorney here and formerly
served as executive assistant to the
then Postmaster General James
Farley.
Miss Virginia Bobo, who has served
with Chairman Johnston of the
committee for the last II years, was
appointed assistant clerk. Hiram w.
BrawleN an Investigator for the
Federal Trade Commission and
former OPA official, was appointed
staff member. Mr.. BraWley form
erly was chief accountant and per-
sonnel director of a large company
in South Carolina.
The status of George Riley, the
outgoing staff director, remains un-
certain. His appointment to one of
the minority staff jobs on the COM
mittee is up to Senator LANCER of
North Dakota, the ranking minority
member Senator LANCER, however,
has not indicated what he will do.
Evening star., 1949-01-12

They point out that the present Sc
a day allowance, in light of present
day living costs, is totally made
Evening star., 1949-01-12
Precipitation
,raniy,it.t,Nr t~

Automobile lights must be
one-half hour after sunset.
Evening star., 1949-01-12
Temperatures In Various Citi

HdHaRHF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-05-20

While the veterans training
program consists of night classes
for most of the year, the sum-
mer session hours are suitable
for those working on night
shifts. Glasses will be held for
full-time trainees from 8 am. to
2:30 pm. Those for part-time
enrolles will be from 8 to l am.
and from l1:30 am. to 2:30 pm.
Registration Hours
The courses will be free to
those using their entitlement
under the G.I. Bill of Rights and
these trainees also will be eligi-
BILE for subsistence payments
from the Veterans Administra-
ton. Registration is Monday
through Friday in the Boards
veterans training office, 1864
Vermont Ave, from $50 am.
to 5 pm. and al Macomber Vo-
cational High School from 3 to
9 pm. Non-veterans can enroll
by paying the tuition fee which
the Veterans Administration
pays for ex-G.I.'s.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-05-20

duction must be made possible
by improved technology and
production processes and in eff
ficient engineering and manage
ment and not by placing un-
fair work load on workers.
While supporting efforts to re-
duce unit costs on the sound and
basis of chronological
advances, we stand uncomprom-
iSingly opposed to, and will re-
sist with all our strength, any eff
forts on the part of management
to reduce costs and expand prof
its by speeding up the workers.
'It is our policy to authorize
strike action in any plant, large
or small, big corporation or
small shop, when the facts show
that an employer is attempting
to drive his workers to make
them produce more than a fair
days work"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-05-20
Discuss
Planning Needs

WASHINGTON CLIP Al -
More than 100 representatives
of government, labor, f a m
groups, and universities, experts
in their fields, gathered here
last week to hold a Natl Emer-
gency Conference on Resources.
Unless we plan to meet future
needs, not only for natural re-
sources but for basic industrial
products as well, we will face a
famine in many areas and un-
employment and depreSslons
which could be avoided, con-
ference speakers warned. Dis
aster can be averted, they point
ed out, if we act now to obtain
full use of our materials and
production facilities.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-05-20

the inhuman speed-up that ex-
listed in the automobile indus
try before it was organized.
Futher Complicated
| New model changes in the
automatic industries have his
torically created disputes over
the question of production
standards. These problems have
been further complicated by eff
forts on the part of certain cor
porations and plants to improve
their competitive position by
trying to cut costs at the ex-
pense of the workers.
The UAW-CIO fully recog-
nizes and supports the idea that
the standard of living of the
people can be raised only by re-
ducing unit costs and making
available more goods at lower
prices.
Unfair Work Load
However, we insist that re-
ductions in the unit cost of pro-
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-05-20

related instruction will be
given has been set up after
a study of the indicated train
ing needs of Toledo area vet
Grams, A C. Schrader, supervi-
sor, said.
A Growing Demand
He pointed out that there is a
growing demand for training in
special skills by veterans seek
ing insurance against unemploy-
ment in the event of lay-offs in
their present jobs. The demand
is most pronounced for instruc-
ton which can be employed in
the service trades. he said.
Choice Of Subjects
Summer session classes will
include those in auto mechanics,
general tailoring, television, ra-
dio repair and televiSion anten-
nae installation, business office
practice auto electrics, auto body
repair, cabinet making, electric
ity, mechanical drafting, ma
chine shop and welding, They
will be held at Macomber Voca-
tional, Whitney Vocational and
Waite High School. =
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-05-20

up to $50, ,496.80.
Donations from individuals,
shops and locals were $50
from Augie Law, canteen oper-
ator at ys-Overland; Bowl
O-Drome bowling alleys, $40;
Erie Zelb, $40; additional $25
from Plaskon Unit of Local II;
A friend, $5, and a $50 donation
from citizen who asked to re-
port the amount as anonymous.
The can collection in the shops
are based on a voluntary dona-
ton, Mr. Rediger said. He added
that the. can collections are be-
ing spurted by the union COM
mittees to help the fund to de-
fray expenses and expansion at
the Sand Lake, Mich. vacation
playground for youngsters.
Camp Opening
Camp opening is June IL
when boys will take over for six
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-05-20

as a public service feature
was made by Mr.. Gosser with
James Gerity, owner of radio
station WABJ in Adrian, Mich.
and Edward Lamb, attorney and
owner of radio station WTOD in
Toledo, it was revealed by
Howard Rediger, camp fund di-
rector.
30-Minute Programs
The schedule calls for 13
broadcasts, each for 80 minutes
duration, with II of the pro-
grams being interviews with
the boys and girls during the II
week camp periods. The first
program will be aired Saturday,
June IL over station WABJ at
7 pm. Toledo's WTOD will car
ry the transcription at 7:15 pm.
on Monday, June 13.
The initial broadcast will be
interviews of top union officials,
civic leaders and camp person
mel. 1t will mark the official
opening of the camp with cere-
monies and brief talks. The
camp will officially open the
following day as the first con-
tingent of boys will arrive for
the first six weeks designated
as boys periods. Girls will take
over on July 81 and up to Sept.
3.
On Air Same Day
Larry Payne, program direct
or at station WABJ announced
that a transcription of the in
terviewS TO be taken at 2 pm.
on June II will be broadcast
over WABJ at 7 pm. the same
day to give all participants an
opportunity to hear it. WTOD
will air the program at tbs pm.
on Monday for the local area.
Mr.. Payne said the opening
program of interviews of camp
vacationists is set for Friday,
June II, at 2 pm. Thereafter
the program will be recorded at
the same time and broadcast the
next morning over WABJ at
BIS am. when the youngsters
are finishing their breakfast.
Over WTOD At 7:15 p. M.
Douglas Taverner, program
director at WTOD said that that
station will brodcast by trans
cription every Monday at 7:15
pm. so parents, friends and
neighbors of the youngsters can
hear the talks and answers on
camp life.
Station WABJ is located at
1900 on your dial and station
WTOD has the familiar theme
of lat the top of your dial"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-05-20
Negro Heads
Wis. House

MADISON, Wis. LPA)-The
lower house of Wisconsin's legis-
lature has a Negro presiding Of
ficer for the first time in its his
tory. He is AsSemblyman Leroy
J. Simmons, Milwaukee Demo
crat who took the place of Re-
publican Speaker Alex Nicol.
The AFL and CIO state organ
izations sponsored luncheon
at which he was guest of honor,
after adjournment of the House
last week.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-05-20
LoW-Renf Homes
In Sight

WASHINGTON (LPA) -
Large-scale low-rent housing
projects may finally be built in
many communities in the COM
ing months, as the House votes
this week on its version of the
public housing bill Approved
last week by the House Banking
Committee, the measure author
lied federal loans to cities or
towns to construct 10000 units
of low-rent housing in the next
seven years, and would make
grants to cities to plan and car
ry out slum-clearance programs.
A smaller-scale bill has already
passed the Senate
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-05-20
TWUA Contract
Talks Break

WASHINGTON (LPA) -
The CLOS Textile Workers IN
ion and major carpet manufac-
turers have broken off negotia-
tions for contractual renewal.
TWUA is asking for a 15c an
hour increase plus establishment
of trust fund for old age pen
sions. Best the companies can
offer is one-year extension of
the present contract, without
change. If the agreement is not
reached before expiration of the
contract on May 20, the union
will strike the companies begin
ming May 81.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-05-20
Attention
Please

The article titled "Music
AS A Modern Industrial
Tool" written by Edward
Duck which was to be re-
published in this issue due
to an avalanche of request
will instead be published
next week.
The copy of the article,
appearing in the Dec. 8 is
sue of the JOurna was
modified and was printed
in the April edition of the
magazine, Education"
Ii was decided to reprint
the article from "Educa-
tiOn," which gives more of
a detailed plan for music
in industry.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-05-20

laws.
Mr.. Editor says in item four
''The Republican Congress was
not being politically expedient
when it enacted the Taft-Hart-
ley law. 1t was needing the pub
lie will" 1t sure as shootin'
guessed wrong, then, on the pub
lie will.
In ,the above mentioned item
and in the other four in his edit
orial balderash, he tries to
prove that the Taft Hartley Law
was not, as | stated in my last
column, "a veritable labrynth OF
legalisms" which was designed
and set up to negate the stated
intent and purpose of the law.
would like to offer him little
advice in this direction, because
he shows that he is somewhat
rehind the times in his informa-
zion.
/ would suggest that he read
the transcript of testimony be
fore the Labor Subcommittee on
Education and Labor. | would
like, particularly, to call his at
tention to the questioning of Mr.
Gerard Reilly and Mr.. Gerald
Morgan, the attorneys w n Q
wrote the Taft Hartley Act.
Of course, Mr.. Editor, the
questions that they were asked
and the answers they gave, for
some strange reason, were moi
published in the daily papers
But if you insist on getting your
information from what the pub
lie press sees fit to publish, may
! direct your attention to the
full-page editorial in Life Mag
azine for November 20, l948
(after election); Business Week
for December Is and December
Is which had rather startling
articles for a business magazine,
and the November 1948 issue OF
Fortune which also carried a
most revealing article. Then, be-
lieve it or not, Senator Taft ad-
mitted that what these publica-
tions said was the truth.
Continued on Page 4
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-05-20
Strikers Injured

ATLANTA (LPA)-At mass
meeting of striking Atlanta Bus
Drivers last week, at least eight
were injured when six-foot-
high grandstand, seating about
rs men collapsed. The drivers,
numbering about 400, had con-
vened for their first meeting in
12-day transit strike to hear
a report on negotiations. The
workers struck after demanding
a 19c an hour increase, while
the Georgia Power Co. offered
them 4c an hour.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-05-20
Make Believe
.FEPC Bill
Is Defeated
House Beats Down
Measure BY 5 Votes

COLUMBUS, May 17-By a
five-vote margin, the House of
Representatives today beat down
the make-believe FEPC bill
passed by the Senate earlier this
month.
The House voted on concur
renee in Senate amendments to
H. B.-1O6. Actually, these
amendments had e m n at e d
every line of the original FEPC
bill and substituted 'pious
wish that job discrimination
end"
In an hour of brilliant debate,
FEPC supporters tore into the
education only" substitute, la
beling it ''phony," "a meaning
less gesture" IAN emasculation
proclamation" education by
farce" and IAN emaciated, weak
monstrosity."
Carrying the ball for FEPC
were William Hart 3D., Cuya-
hoga); Majority Leader A. G.
Lancione Cd, Belmont; Morton
Neip %. Lucas; Ed Wilmer Cd.
Stark; Michael Damas I'd.
Lucas); Lowell Fess (R., Green)
and Milton Tobi MD. Hamilton).
In blistering speeches that
tore the mask off the FEPC sub
stitute passed by the Senate,
these proponents laShed out at
those who had bitterly opposed
any FEPC bill but were now
found in the camp of those who
professed to believe education
to be the solution" to the prob
lem.
The House was tense and
silent as the roll call began. The
verdict wasn't known until the
clerk had reached the very end
of the roll call, for the lead
shifted from minute to minute.
The score was SO to 65 and
FEPC opponents needed 68
votes to win concurrence.
The voting was generally
along party lines, with most
Democrats voting for FEPC and
most Republicans voting against
it.
There were exceptions to this
rule. The following Democrats
voted with the majority of Re-
publicans for the weakened
FEPC bill that had passed the
Senate: Morton A n d er S o n
(Franklin); John Gallagher
(Cuyahoga); Fred Harter (Sum-
mit, Irwin Miller CFairfield); {;
Paul Miller (Jackson); j o hn
O'Brien (Cuyahoga); Ray White
(Holmes) and Paul Shiple LaW-
rence).
Those Republicans who re-
membered their campaign prom
Use and voted for real FEPC
bill, despite the almost universal
abandonment of these promises
by their party, were: Ray Car
penter (Seneca); Lowell Fess
(Greene); Guy Hiner Stark;
George Marshall (FranklinO; j.
w. Masters Morrow; Dave
Moore Perry and Joseph
Schwartz (Hamilton).
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-05-20
Fight Rent Gouge

BOSTON (LPA) - The Unit
ed Labor Committee of Massa-
chusetts, on behalf of 100000
AFL, CIO, Int'l Association of
Machinist and Brotherhood of
Railroad Trainmen members
filed suit in federal court last
week to stop a general rent in
crease order that could up the
rents of 275,000 tenants in three
Mass. counties. Named as de-
fendant in the suit is Federal
Housing Expediter Tighe Woods,
the decontrolling rent control
ler.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-05-20
Gosser Asked To Help In
NEGOTIATIONS At Bendix
Skilled Trades
Issue Letter
cenfeins Six Items
Of Clorifieofion

The northwestern, y n 0
Skilled Trades Council, JAW
CIO which published an open
letter to DeVilbiss workers
in the May 13 issue in the
Toledo Union Journal have
issued another letter of clari-
fication.
The letter is as follows:
Qualification of open letter to
DeVilbiss.
Item No. l (Separate seniori-
ty). Is explained in the resolu-
ton submitted at the region 2 3
conference and also was adopt
ed by the delegates of the re-
gion.
Item No. 2 (Return these en-
ployees to their original jobs
Up to the time of the confer
ence of the skilled trades when
they met in February of this
year, at Chicago, dead line of
June oath 1941 required this
type of employee to return to
his original job if the upgrading
was since that date, with the
dead line date removed by the
conference, the upgraded en-
ployees must be certified by the
Journeymen card committee of
your plant to retain their posi-
tions in the department to which
they upgraded. However; to all
fairness to the trade, the senior
ity should be established from
the date of entry to the depart
ment for these upgraded en-
ployees. From here on out, up
grading is eliminated under the
Journeyman and UpgraderS
Program.
Item No. 3 Equip your con-
tract with the Journeymen and
Upgraders program). Inasmuch
as the delegates of the Regional
Conference have approved this
program the bargaining commit
tee should follow the recon-
mendationS of the delegates of
the conference.
Item No. 4 Representation of
the skilled trades). Was also in
cluded in the resolutions, in the
event where the shops are
small, and bound by contract,
without a skilled man on the
committee. AS to the number
that are permitted to set in on
grievance meetings, it is recon-
mended that one of the COM
mitttee step down to permit a
skilled man to set in on the
grievance of the skilled trades.
Item No. 5 Stabilized wages)
When negotiating your new con-
tract, contact your skilled trades
council for recommended rates
for the area.
Item No. 6 (You will benefit)
The council does not iron out
your seniority problems - but
your council delegates should
consult the council for recon-
mendations on your grievances.
The complete resolution may
be found in the Union Journal
of Nav 18th Issue
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-05-20

weeks. The period for girls is
from July 81 to Sept. 3.
Any boy or girl regardless
whether parents are union mem
bers or not can obtain accomo-
dation from one week and up to
six weeks.
Applications appearing in I'm
MON Journal can be mailed or
original applications are avail
able at Local II Hall dues win
dow and in PAC office.