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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1949-05-28
Chestnut Center
'Teen-Aeers, Trek
To Music Hall

The Chestnut Stree, Gem,
under direction OF ,ne Dr' 4,
Uroan League. Offers rp
;elesting and varied rt,.r,es =.
adults. feen-agers and IN ~
Last Saturday moro 10
Youngsters witnessed N-n-
cite Show al the Mas Hsr
Making the evening mnle,.
Wss free candy whicr ar
en- 10 compensate their lkr,
10 and fro.
Messrs. Williams an ! ~,
rub scout leaders. are plsra.ae +,
Cook-Out and hike a. Rog,
Park. The charter pre>tn.s,,,n
ceremony is arouSirg elh n.
icresi. This troop is pa e3l
and II is open for new 81,
20 share experiences.
Ladies OF the sewing ca. laa
Wednesday afternoon Greeted ,
new look on their wararob,
under direction Of Ms. !. Vel.
don. activities director.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1949-05-28
MY TEACHER

M teachers are yer, consioersie
and KIND
Tres give me assistance all the
time
Good marks. ! ~ ALWAYS 20
earn
For 10 school ! have been sent
70 learn.
TIE teachers work 10 MAKE YOU
leSxn
ST. Wnv con, YOU help
Wnen i comes your turn
They work 10 help YOU reach
Your goal
So that vou'il ne sel.-supportlng
When you arc old
DORIS Williams IA.
Garfield intermediate.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1949-05-28

coup !. thus among relatively
snail number Of musical groups
IN the entire state 70 be- classcd
IN the first and second rating
The award is made doublv
significant BY the laci that the
Jlce Club ia lnksier Hign School
was formed only last Sepicnbet.
and also bv the fact that Il
competed In the Large Glee
Club section rather With tho
small Glec Club section The
lnkster Clee Club numbered 81
while all Of those with whlch II
was compared had from 30 20 60
voices
The Inkstcr High Gifls Glec
Club was also rated excellent
recently IN the regional festival
held al Royal Oak That rating
enabled tl1em 10 participate in
the state affair. a source % sat-
isfaction 20 the members ~ the
Clee Club and 10 Mr. Meek IS
the fact that they have sung
with first rate musical groups
from 81 parts ~ Michigan and
have compared very well. rc-
cardless OF their recent ofganiza-
ton and limited experience.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1949-05-28
Russell 8-Graders
Gle an-Up All Year

The auditorium. ;esche VI
Faith Chapman 1as organized
q club with the 6ih grade stu
cents q Russell Sehool The club
under her Supervision IS putting
On an al ;he year r,,und clean.
VI prc,ec' for ih.S community
4 health and MUTATION unit IS
also one 80 cur projects "
Chapman has ordered films dem
ons,railn4 GOOD estlrg habits.
ana teaching chil0sen table man
MRS
Deiosts hsvre> SB
RrsscM StaooL Sec 81
Age .
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1949-05-28
mister Students From 13 Wayne Schools
DR.. Charles Brake
Keynote" Speaker

master IN school. vas the host representatives
from i. roo. the Wayne County area attending a
rerferenc~ Youth Looks Al the Government and World
rt The conference which each OF the schools sent
dffis ard feachTr sponsored by the lnkster
rfrt classes Arder the direction ~ James
JOHN. ngh school science teacher The purpose
N 49, r4rsrre wss giye ign school students from
mass, .erno- ~ opportunity discuss together the PROT
}. N fnday-
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1949-05-28

~ ~ Al, ,ne school represerts;i-
vss os saving that the ccnfcrcrcs
eeS . complete success ard ~
excellent cCr;rnLticr - ire I'M
proserscri q citizenship
Lunehed Served
a lrCr which earned pisuc *
frc al Was prepared an1 served
~ i-ssie Horerskirg st~1erts
a-se- ire direction Of Ms Mare
Nr -
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1949-05-28

mated as second lisufsnsnn In
me U. S. Air Fcree by Pres
idenf Truman and approved by
the Senate.
From left TO right. they are:
Cadets Rufus l.. Billips. Biz.
mineham; Prentice z. Jones.
Malvern. Ark; James w. Wheat.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-15
/oA8 UEo
Will Stop Insuring Mortgages
On Homes With New Covenants

Washington (LPA)-Bowing to
a Supreme Court ruling that racial
on houses are unenforce-
able in the courts, the Federal
Housing Administration has ann
ounced that, after an unspecified
date in the future, it will refuse to
insure mortgages on homes cover
ed by such covenants restricting
occupancy to one race.
While the storm of protest rous-
ed by the announcement-made by
Solicitor General Philip Perlman
in New York and confirmed by
President Truman's e m porary y
headquarters at Key West-indi-
Gated it was interpreted as bann-
ing all racial segregation, FILA of
ficials here said bluntly it did not
go this far. The ruling brings FLA
(and Veterans Administration,
which is expected to follow FHA's
lead) up to the policy set by the
US Supreme Court, no further.
The Supreme Court, in ruling
in May 194S, said that both the
Constitution and the 1866 Civil
Rights Act guarantee the right OF
any citizen to inherit, purchase,
lease, sell, hold and convey real
and personal property" Therefore,
it said, the federal courts cannot
be called upon to levy damages in
suits arising out of breaking coven-
ants.
Racial covenants, which are in
effect on many millions of dollars
worth of home property in the US
have restricted even well-to-do
Negro families to crowded slum
sections of many cities. With the
war-induced migration of Negro
families from farms to cities, this
was aggravated. More than 2,7O0,-
900 non-whites left the farms
Negro family incomes doubled be-
tween 1910 and 1947; despite the
covenants, Negro home ownership
increased 40 per cent over the
seven years, while white home own
ership went up only 2S per cent.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-15
US Investigators
Digging Into Five
Lobby Outfits

Washington (LPA)-The House
lobby investigating committee has
sent field investigators into the Of
fees of five different lobbying or
ganizations-but Chairman Buch-
anan Cd, Pa.) is withholding the
names of the outfits.
Buchanan said he did not want
to name them until he determined
whether information warranting
hearings was turned up. He hopes
to begin hearings about Feb. l.
A dozen committee investigators
are probing through the files of
the five organizations, Buchanan
said. He indicated that so far they
had turned up little in the way of
"pay dirt"
1t has been reported that the
housing lobby is one of those under
investigation, but Buchanan refus-
ed to confirm this report. He said
investigators had mot yet" been
assigned to the medical lobby
which has become the biggest in
the country-financially.
While his investigators are at
work, Buchanan has sent question
naires to members of Congress,
writer's, and registered lobbyists
seeking additional information on
the activities of LOBBYISTS.
congressman have been asked to
report to the committee any evid-
ence they have of lobbying by un-
registered lobbyists, any unreport-
ed expenditures, or other abuses OF
lobbying. Buchanan said much in
formation had been received al
ready. -
Congressman were asked par
ticularly for reports of lobbying
abuses by government employees.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-15

The statistics for some countries
include persons who were made
idle by strikes and lockouts in the
same establishments but who were
not actually on strike themselves.
In the case of the United Kingdom,
over a 21-year period, it was found
that this group accounted for about
one-ffth Of the lost man-days.
q = y
The study concluded:
"From the figures Of the table,
it is clear that the loss from dis
putes is of very minor Importance
in relation to the total time work
ed. A rate of LOCO days lost per
1000 employees per year means one
day per employee per year or, if
the year comprises 300 working
days, only one-third of one percent,
of the years working time.
"Only 4 countries had time-loss
rates from strikes and lockouts as
high as this figure. On an average,
the time-loss from strikes and
lockouts is half a day per employee
per year, or less than two-tenths
of l percent. In comparison with
unemployment, therefore, for which
a rate of 4 percent is low and one
of 10 percent not unusual, the loss
from industrial disputes appears
almost negligible"
In a recent address, Assistant
Secretary of Labor Philip Kaiser
said:
"One of the great things about
Point w "a program to aid under
developed countries) i. is that it
provides a medium through which
all groups-la b or, management,
farmers, educators, all of us-can
work together with comparable
groups in other countries. The
job that has to be done if the OBJ
jective of Point " is to be realized
is, first, to develop adequate labor
standards in the undeveloped areas
and secondly, to improve progress
sively standards of living through
productivity.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-15
Revenue Increases But Transit
Firm Fights Pay Demand

st. Louis (LPA)-The st. Louis
Public Service Co. is fighting a
union demand for wage increases
and a 40-hour five-day week, but
its directors have just approved an
increase in the par value of stock
from so cents to $12; have just de-
clared dividend; have reported a
net operating profit of $240,667 in
August and September, almost wip-
ing out the net loss of $271 ,667 for
the first seven months of 1949,
The company recently hiked tran
sit fares from 10 cents to IL and
abolished the weekly $1.50 pass.
The Amalgamated Association of
Street, Electric Railway, and Motor
Coach Employees-AFL, the union
involved, represents $500 employees.
and is seeking a wage increase and
reduction in the present six-day
48-hour week and other contract
changes.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-15
Comment On
World Events

Time lost by strikes and lockouts
has increased sharply since the
war but is still almost negligible"
by comparison with normal unem-
ployment, the International Labor
Office emphasized in making pub
lie a recent study. The study en-
phatically refutes exaggerated
charges of strike losses in the
United States and other industrial
nations-charges that enemies of
organized labor delight in making.
Robert Morse Woodbury., ILO
chief statistician, prepared the
study, which shows that United
States workers in mining, manu-
featuring, construction and trans
port missed only about halliday
per year each during the war be-
cause Of strikes and lockouts, but
lost about 2.9 days per year dur
ing the 8 postwar years, l945-1947.
The average number Of man
days lost annually by industrial
disputes per thousand workers var
led as follows:
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-15
Lauds Co-0ps As
Anti-Red Force

Kansas City, Mo. (LPA)-Noth-
ing could be further from the truth
than the charges of a small group
of selfish business interests that
cooperatives are institutions of
communism, Agriculture Secretary
Brannan told the Consumers CO.
operative Associations annua
meeting Dec. 7.
"The enemies of the cooperative
movement. said President Tru-
mans cabinet officer, "are doing
themselves a dangerously short
sighted disservice. Cooperatives are
a strong bulwark against state So
cialism and communism"
Brannan added the co-ops of
Europe shave always been high
priority targets for communist
propaganda and communist wreck
ers."
Since the wars end, Brannan
told the farm coop leaders, "the
only real break American consum-
ers have had has come in the form
of lower prices for the products
produced on American farms, and
yet consumers have not gained
nearly so much as farmers have
lost"
With farm income expected to
decline for the third successive
year in 1850, Brannan made spir-
tied appeal for support to his pro-
gram to maintain farm prices at a
fair level, through federal pay
ments directly to farmers when
market prices fall below that level,
while allowing the commodities to
go to the consumer at the lower
prices.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-15
LPA GETS INTO WHITE
HOUSE PRESS CONFERENCE

Was shington (LPA)-Labor
Press Association has now been
admitted to the White House for
President Truman's weekly press
conferences.
Eben A. Ayers, assistant White
House Press secretary, notified
LPA December 1 that it was being
admitted to the White House. He
said cards were being issued to the
LPA members of the Congression-
al Press Galleries-Alvaine Hamil-
ton and Nathan Robertson.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-15
Court ReverSeS
NLRB Decision

Washington (LPA) - The Natl
Labor Relations Board took it on
the chin from the Supreme Court
in case involving the Intl Long
shoremen & Warehousemen's Union
and dating from Wagner act days.
The high court ruled that the
Colgate Palmolive-Peet Co. would
not have to reinstate 38 workers it
fired from it's Berkely, Calf, plant
in 1915 at the request of the union.
The NLRB had ruled the men
should be hired back and given
back pay, view which the Ninth
US Circuit Court of Appeals reaf-
firmed.
The NLRB had reached its de-
cision after it discovered that the
ILWU, which had a closed shop
contract at the Colgate-Palmolive
plant, had demanded the firings be-
cause the 38 were leaders in a
move to take the 800 employees into
the AFL Chemical Workers. This
was in line with the NLRB's policy
of not permitting firing under a
closed shop clause when an cleo
ton loomed. The board acted on a
complaint filed by the AFL union.
In reversing the labor board and
the circuit court, the Supreme
Court held the company could not
be penalized for what was in fact
discrimination by the union. The
decision was written by Judge
Sherman Minton, the high tribun-
ais newest member. go.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-15
PhiIIy Wage Tax
Is Boosted Again

Philadelphia (LPA) - Despite
labor protests, City Council has
voted, II to 4, to increase the city
wage tax from l per cent to Ia
per cent. The measure was altered
to tax virtually all net income and
profits. When first levied in 1910,
the tax was on earned incomes
(wages) only, so that corporations,
bond clippers, and those who lived
on annuities escaped.
In 1910, when the city faced
bankruptcy, the Republican gang
pledged that the wage tax would
be only temporary, until the city
got out of the red. The tax was set
at 11a per cent. 1t was cut to l per
cent in 1943, and at that rate will
produce $31 100000 this year, or
about 25 per cent of the total city
revenue.
During a stormy hearing labor
charged the tax ordinance was a
9J,uUU,OOO Sidu rum lHe wage
earners and that it would be pock-
eted by the City Hall gang. Fin
ancial interests a | 5 objected,
charging that the measure would
tax trust holders and savings de-
positors twice, and would drive out
of town millions of dollars in trust
accounts.
Exempt are net profits made out
side Philadelphia, but not earnings
outside Philadelphia. A wage earn
er working outside Philadelphia
but living in the city is taxed; so
is a wage Garner working in Phil
adelphia, but living outside Phila-
delphia.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-15
Committee Opens Hearings On Problem
OF Families With Income Under $1,000

Washington (LPA) - The Fair
Deal program is tailor-made to
meet the "national dilemma" Great
ed by the existence of ten million
families with incomes under $20OO,
it became clear as Sen. John Spark
man Cd, Ala.) opened ten days OF
hearings on the problem.
Tackling the low income family's
situation as a shaky underpinning
of the whole national economic
framework, Sparkman indicated the
experts coming before his sub
committee (of the Joint Congress
ional Committee on the Economic
Report) will be asked these ques-
tions:
Can our economy be stable at a
healthy level of production and en-
ployment, while this large part of
the population has sub-standard
earnings?
How, over long period of time,
can these families be helped to pro-
duce more and earn more?
What stands between these fam
lilies and higher earnings? Lack of
education? Can the children of
these families "pull themselves
out" of the depressed group?
First witness, Acting Federal
Security Administrator John Thur
ston, had a hopeful answer. Efforts
to raise the income of the people
of the US "pay double dividends
and are doubly productive national
investments" AS we raise the in
come of our people, their health
and their education should be i'm
proved, and conversely as health
and education improve, earning
power is almost bound to increase.
Thurston outlined government
programs-and proposals now be-
fore Congress-to meet the needs
of two groups.
For the families with workers
whose wages are too low to meet
their needs, even though they may
work hard every day, "there is a
way out of this national dilemma.
for the handicapped, the very
limited re-training and rehabilita-
tion program now in effect are
spectacular demonstration of what
can be done,
Of children from families with
under-$2000 incomes, only about
80 per cent ever finish high school.
BY contrast, nearly all children of
high-income families complete high
school, and so per cent go to col
lege. Thurston said that fully SO
per cent of our potential top quail
ity intellectual resources go vast
ed because families are too poor
to send their most talented child
ren through college.
Federal aid to education, Zap
proved by the Senate, still pending
in the House) "would be long
step toward wiping out the inequit-
les which are still a blot upon our
principle of equal educational op-
portunity," the FSA head main
tanned.
"The nations investment in child
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-15

Prague, Czechoslovakia (LPA)-I
rague's Communist-controlled
council announced this
week that workers in heavy indus
try will be frozen in their jobs. The
move is necessary, they said, "to
supply needed manpower and in
crease production in essential in
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-15

health and welfare services is "too
little and too late" Thurston argu-
ed that more funds should be made
available for basic research into
why some children develop serious
emotional and behavior problems
which will affect their earning
power and social adjustments all
through their lives. Some esti-
mates, which shocked the Congress
men, are that out of every class
room of 80 children, "three are des-
tined to spend part of their lives
in a mental hospital" Thurston as
serted.
Good health costs money. And
wage-earrers in poor health can't
earn adequate incomes. The Fed
eral Security Agency official point
ed out that many public health ser
vices programs, operating with
federal and state funds, are doing
a good job, but the performance
varies from place to place. Short
ages of doctors and other medical
workers have handicapped many
areas. Bills to extend public health
programs, and to aid more workers
to enter medical and nursing
schools are now before Congress,
ThurstOn said.
"a national health insurance
plan," he told the subcommittee,
"by bringing medical care within
reach, in conjunction with rehabil-
ltation services, should substanti-
ally cut down the loss of earning
capacity because of i'll health and
disability. And this in turn would
reduce the number of families
whose low income is attributable
to this cause"
Another problem" group of low
income families is the kind of fam
lily that's headed by person who
can't work full-time-a widow with
small children, or a disabled work
err or an old person who can't find
employment. For them, extension
by Congress of the federal social
security program is the most direct
way to meet their needs.
The 2,700,000 benefciaries under
federal old age insurance are re-
ceiving shockingly low incomes,
Thurston brought out; $25 a month
for a single retired worker; SAL
for a retired worker and his wife;
$53 for a widow with three or more
children. These contrast with the
$125 to $3.50 a month needed by an
elderly couple in a large city, and
the $85 average payment proposed
under the House-approved bill i'm
proving the social security system.
Extension of social security to
cover permanently disabled work
ers-also proposed in the House
bill-was urged, along with an in
crease in the amounts paid in pub
lie assistance recipients. The FSA
official asked for federal grants to
states to aid families whose wage
Garner is temporarily disabled, OF
have used up unemployment insur-
ance benefits, or who otherwise
need public assistance.
Later this week, the subcommit-
tee will hear from Commerce
Agriculture, and Labor Dept heads
housing and farm life experts, and
social welfare organizations.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-15
WHAT NEXT?

Russia claims to have invented
the first parachute in the world
for use underground. Moscow radio
said the chute had been developed
as safety device on the lift cages
that lower miners into the pits. If
the cable snaps the parachute will
open and lower the cage to the
bottom of the shaft.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-15
Phone Companies
Unfair In Pension
Move, cWA Claims

Washington (LPA) = The Com
munications Workers Of America,
on Dec. 6, ordered its 81 divisions
holding contracts with the Bell
System to file unfair labor prac-
tice charges with the Natl Labor
Relations Board against the Ameri-
can Telephone and Telegraph Co.
and its subsidiaries.
The union says the telephone
system violated the Taft-Hartley
act last month when it unilaterally
upped pensions, but to level be-
low union demands, while the union
was in negotiations with several
companies.
The CWA bargains with the Bell
system companies, inc Ia d in g
AT&T, the ruling company, on an
industrial basis, union president
Joseph A. Bierne, pointed out while
making the union complaints pub
lie. He said that after various COM
pany spokesmen told the union it
would be impossible to better the
systems pension plan now, union
negotiators all over the land were
suddenly informed that pensions
paid would be increased. Moreover,
he said, drafts Of the new pension
program, identical to the last COM
ma, suddenly appeared as if by
magic all over the nation, and the
new plan was in operation five days
before the union was informed.
Beirne said it was clear that
AT&T, not the individual subsid-
iary companies, controls negotia-
tions. He said he hoped the NLRB
would either order AT&T to stay
out of subsidiary negotiations en-
tirely or come into them openly.
He asserted that the union would
fight the issue to the Supreme
Court if necessary.
Bierne said nobody would refuse
the pension increases granted by
the Bell system. But he declared
that "If company has the right
to improve pension provisions un-
ilaterally, it also has the right to
decrease those provisions. If it can
capriciously modify pension bene-
fits up or down, it can do the same
with wages, hours of work or other
conditions of employment without
consideration of the union repre-
senting the employees. If allowed to
go unchecked, such actions would
mean the complete destruction OF
collective bargaining in America"
In modifying the present plan,
the Bell system increased the min
imum pensions for workers retiring
at 65 from $50 a month, less one
half social security payments, to
500 a month less all social secur-
ity payments. Employees retiring at
60 will get a minimum of $40.
Longevity requirement is 20 years.
Beirne said there were ways to in
duce a man to retire before he was
due a full pension.
Bell workers, who have had pen
sions since 1918, feel that now is
the time for them to take the lead
again in pensions, Beirne declared,
since in the past they have accept
ed low wages because of the pen
sions. Accordingly, they are de-
manding a minimum of 500 a.
month with no deductions at all for
social security payments. The union
represents 100000 workers in the
Bell System.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-15
ANA STOOGE UNETHICAL'

Washington (LPA)-One of the
star speakers for the American
Medical Assn this month is Brl-
tish physician, DR.. Eric Lyburn,
who is ballyhooed as having left
his native country because he
couldn't stand the British Health
Program. ANA neglects to tell DR..
Lyburn's audiences that at the
time he left Britain he was facing
prosecution on charges of running
unethical ads about his clinic.