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Evening star., 1949-03-20
BY ELEM SAKES
P0shjoR Editor

CLOTHES for spring appear to fall into categories
~ the tailored and the delicate.
Daytime clothes tailored crisp and interesting
Evening clothes stress softness of line fabric and
decidedly beguling romantic look.
The two groups differ greatly in the cut of the skirts
The slim skirt Is used In abundance for day wear For
more festive OCCASIONS skirts gracefully full seem
to fall into ball gown" classification The long evening
dress Is back In greater numbers but shorter gowns
retain q great deal Of popularity.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-09-23
Official Bdres
ISrdel's Social
Insurance Plan

TEL AVN (JTA) = The de-
tails of Israel's all-embracing So
cial insurance program were out
lined here at a press conference
by M. Kanievski, chairman of an
e r. departmental government
committee set up to draft a social
security scheme.
First, the government will pro-
vide hospital facilities for the en-
tire population; he estimated that
by the end of the year there would
be some 1900 hospital beds avail
able, double the present number.
Social security insurance will be
provided in this stage, he said, as
we'll as health insurance for mo-
theirs and a complete workmen's
compensation program.
Also, national insurance
scheme will protect widows and
orphans and persons too old to
support themselves. A subsidy will
be provided for each child born
to an Israel mother and free dem
tai service will be available to all
children. Finally, unemployment
insurance will be provided.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-09-23
Welfare Leader Points up Problems
Faced by Jewry During Coming Year

hated DIP camps of Europe. Two
hundred and seventy-five thousand
Jews have been brought to Israel.
They are still pouring in, while
others are streaming through the
opened gates of America. The
Jews who remain on the Cont
nent are moving toward independ-
ence and self support.
Catching Up at Home
At home we have begun to
make up for 20 years of depres-
sion, war, and postwar neglect.
The reconstruction of Jewish COM
munal institutions and Jewish
communal life is under way,
marked by the building of new
synagogues, community centers,
hospitals, homes for the aged
and, more fundamentally, by an
overhauling of our communal or
ganization, streamlined through
mergers and revisions, enhanced
by new blood and energetic lead
ership.
Nationally, as we'll as locally,
we are beginning to put our house
in order. AS communities "come
of age" they are throwing off the
mantle of passive isolation and
stepping forward to link arms
with other communities in a Wig
orous attack on the common re-
sponsibilities which all American
Jews share, wherever they may
live.
Thus, the year 5709 was far
different from 5708. The next
year will be very different from
the last. The job in Europe which
has absorbed out attention, our
energy, our resources, is largely
completed. It no longer is the TO-
Gus of our interest. We are in the
liquidation stage of our work
there.
Israel Tops List
Israel has become the overshad-
owing item on our overseas agen-
da. It will continue in the next
year to require tremendous phil
anthropic aid. But like Europe,
and like our work at home, that
aid is for reconstruction, for
building, for growth, for develop
ment. We have left behind the
grim business of keeping people
alive. More than ever, the energy
and means we pour into 571O can
mean lasting achievement.
The next year will also be a
year of transition in our relation
to Israel. Politically, culturally,
organizationally, that adjustment
is under way.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-09-23
Remains Of Ancient
Synagogue Found

JERUSALEM (JTA)-The re-
mains of Samaritan synagogue
dating back to the fourth century
C. E. have been unearthed in a
site near Latrun under the direc-
ton of Prof. Eliezer Sukenik, of
the Hebrew University, it was re-
ported here. The archaeological
discovery is expected to shed new
light on the history of the Sa-
maritan sect.
The area, where the discovery
was made by group of soldiers,
is on the border of no-man's land,
which separates Israel and Arab
forces. The Jewish troops manned
machine-guns to ward off any pos
sible interference with the archae-
illogical excavations, which took
five weeks to complete.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-09-23
An+i-Semific Youths
Roam London District

LONDON (JTA) = Attacks
on Jews in the West Hamp-
stead district of London have
b n taking place for some
time, it was reported here. An
ti-Semitic hoodlums - usually
youths armed with sticks
have been concentrating their
assaults on elderly Jews whom
they waylay in deserted sec
tions of the district. Some jew
ish residents of West Hamp-
stead, according to the report,
have been so frightened by the
new wave of terrorism that
they have not reported the at
tacks to the authorities.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-09-23
Disovow Sweepstakes

The Central Committee of the
Israel War Veterans and the Man
agement of the War Veterans
Fund (Otsar Hahayal) have dis
avowed any connection with the
sale of sweepstake tickets in the
U. S. and elsewhere, Israeli Con-
sui Reuven Dafni of Los Angeles
announced recently. He asked
ticket owners to demand refunds
and said the veterans organiza-
tions received no money from the
sale of tickets.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-09-23
By Stanley c. Myers
president, Council of Jewish
Federations and Welfare Funds)
(Copyright, 1949, Jewish Teiegraphi'

copyright, 1e49, Jewish Teiegraphic
Agency, Inc)
The year 5709 was a year OF
great achievement. 1t did not
come easy. 1t has left enormous
problems still unresolved.
Twelve months ago we faced
the future on the crest of wave
of economic prosperity, enthusiasm
over victories in Israel, satisfac-
ton over the greatest campaign
totals in history and optimism that
at long last the era of communal
reconstruction at home and abroad
could begin.
That wave of prosperity h a s
ebbed, but the great promise OF
57O9 began to emerge into real
ity, starting a transition that
should take hold much more firm
ly in 5710. :.
We have practically emptied the
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-09-23
Attends Funeral

Mrs. Esther Beller, wife of Ben
Beller, local jeweler, flew to New
York to attend the funeral of her
father, Sam Abowhov, who died
August %.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-09-23

L. Do you religious services at least several
a year? Yes No.
e Are there of your home? Mo-
Do atten Jewish concerts theatres? Yes No
a.. Do to at least Jewish organiza-
on? No
S. favor Jewish organizations in
charitable contributions? No.
going to a vacation do deib
erately select places catering Jews? Yes Mo-
z. Do your children receive or have they received
Jewish education? Yes Mo-
g.. Arey concerned whether children inter-
Yes No.
g.. Are topics pertaining to Jewish life discussed
in your home? Yes No.
10. Is heard home? Yes---- Mo-
interested in the of Israel? Yes Mo-
Do you books of Jewish content? Yes Mo-
49, Do you refrain from concealng your Jewish
identity socially in business? Yes No.
observed home? Mo-
Is Jewish hcune predominantly served n
home? Yes No.
you uintere in the survival of Jews and
their civilization? Yes----- Mo-
subscribe to a one periodical of
Jewish interest? Yes----- No.
49, Can you read andu understand Hebrew Yid-
Yes----- Mo-
Ia Eyes" superior and indicates
that you closely identified with the Jewish
9-13 eyes" responses signifies good participation
A. "yes' responses signifies fair participation.
O. Eyes, signifies slight participation
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-09-23
Test Your Jewishness
By Walter Ducka+
fCopyrisht 1e4e Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc)

THE of Israel the heartening
years of Jewish history Even Jews who hitherto
the welfare of their people
the exharatng quality this dramatic achievement The feeling
of confidence of everywhere mmeasuraby lifted
Jewish life that countries
afford to rest the laure of Israel
do to set its house in order
The American Jews of their culture and the
participate Jewish cultural and communal
by positive of education and
participation An educated sefconcous American
Jewry the Jews Israel and through
out the world.
following QUESTIONABLE designed to help the reader deter
mine where he in relationship to "hngs Jewish"
rating will help place in the approxmaing
Identification with Jewish lfe
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-24
Supreme Court
To Rule On Dining
Car Segregation

Washington (LPA) = The Sup
rene Court has decided to rule on
the question of whether or not a
Negro is denied his basic rights
when he is forced to submit to seq
regation on railroads in the south.
The case, which has come from
a three-judge circuit court in Bal
timore, is to decide whether or not
Negroes are Disseminated against
by southern railroads which insist
that they sit in partitioned sec
tion at the kitchen end of dining
cars.
Two judges of the circuit court
said they thought the railroads
violated no constitutional law "as
long as there is no real inequality
of treatment of those of different
races" The minority judge said,
however, that discrimination exists
whenever a member of one race is
denied service made available to a
member of another race.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-24
NLRB Orders Vote
Of Tree Workers

Washington, d. C. (ILNS). -
The National Labor Relations
Board in recent decision ordered
an election for employees of the
Davey Tree Expert Co. in the Bos-
ton, Mass. area. Local 236 of the
National Farm Labor Union, AFL,
represents over 80 percent of the
employees of the Davey Co. The
election will be held within the
next 30 days by the Boston region
al office of the NLRB.
III. l.. Mitchell, president Of the
National Farm Labor Union, i'm
Washington, following the decision
of the NLRB in taking jurisdiction
in this case, announced that his
union was beginning a campaign to
the estimated 10000
workers employed in this industry
throughout the United States.
Mitchell said that the Davey
Tree Expert Co, whose main office
is in Kent, Ohio, was the leading
in this field, employing
several thousand workers in the
highly skilled and dangerous call
ing. The workers are employed on
large country estates, in orchards,
and also in clearing communication
lines. The men employed are
young, 20 to 30 years of age. Their
wages are low compared with the
type of man required and the skill
needed for his job.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-24
Frank Morrison
(ContiHned From Page OHe)

week, advocate of non-partisan
labor political action and as lead
ing advocate of legislation to elm
mate child labor. He was in the
forefront of every big labor cam
paign for years, particularly in the
Legislative field.
With Gompers and John Mitch
ell, president of the United Mine
Workers, Morrison joined in a
celebrated fight in 1908 against
issuance of court injunctions in
labor disputes. The case involved
a boycott supported by the AFL
against the products of the Buck
Stove and Range Co. of st. Louis.
In 1906 the metal polishers of the
plant struck for a 9-hour day and
appealed to the federation for help.
Sentenced to Prison
The federation added the COM
pany's name to it's "We Don't Pat
ronize" list. So effective was the
boycott that the company obtained
a federal court injunction forbid
ding the officers and members of
the federation from including the
company's name in the unfair list
and also from referring to the dis
pute in print or by word of mouth.
This injunction was obeyed as far
as the unfair list was concerned
but otherwise ignored. Gompers,
Mitchell and Morrison were sent
enced to prison for contempt of
court, Morrison receiving 6 months.
They appealed to the Supreme
Court and eventually the case was
dismissed.
Labor executives from many
places attended the funeral SER
vices, held at the Hines funeral
home. John Clagett Proctor, pres
ident of the Association of Oldest
and 13 vice presidents
were honorary pallbearers. Burial
was in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Morrison leaves his wife, Alice S.
Morrison, a son Felix Nesbitt Nor
rison and daughter, Miss Nettie
Esther Morrison and two sisters, Of
Walkertown, Ontario.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-24
TeamsterS Union
Barred By Board
In Election Poll

New York (LPA) = The Natl
Labor Relations Board has ordered
representation election for 1900
employees of the Stern Brothers De-
partment stores in New York City,
with two AFL unions, one CIO
union, and an Independent on the
ballot. A plea to the board by the
Teamsters Union-AFL, to be on
the ballot was rejected by the
Board.
The unions to be on the ballot in
clude the independent Department
Stores Employees Unions, the Re-
tail, Wholesale & Dept Store
Union-CIO, and the Retail Clerks
and Building Service Employees,
both AFL.
The boards ruling brought the
comment from Leonard Geiger, of
the Teamsters' Union, that he
would wait for some instruction
from Vice President Dave Beck,
but that he thought the union
"could not take the ruling lying
down." He added, however, that
the union was not considering
strike action against Stern Bros.
or Bloomingdale's or Namm's,
where the Teamsters were also
barred from the ballot recently.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-24
High Court Rule
Underscores Need
For TIL Repeal

Washington (LPA) - The Sup
RENE Court during the past week
presented organized labor with a
new and urgent reason to battle
both for repeal of the Taft-Hart-
lev act and for enactment Of all
amendments now in the Admins
tration bill reinstating the Wagner
act.
The same decision also showed
why workers must fight to elect
friendly state legislatures if they
are to avoid being saddled with re-
pressive laws at state levels.
At issue was a dispute involving
the Carpenters-AFL and plywood
firm in Wisconsin over enforce
ment of "closed shop" agreement.
The agreement was invalidated by
state authorities because it hadn't
been approved by three-fourths
majority vote of the workers in
volved as required under Wiscon-
sins anti-labor law. The contro-
versy started while the Wagner
act was still on the books.
By a seven to two majority, the
high court sustained the states
action. In an opinion written by
Justice Felix Frankfurter, the
court held that while the Wagner
act sanctioned "closed shops" it did
not prevent states from curbing or
outlawing such arrangements. And,
of course, the TIL act, said the
court, gave priority to tougher
state laws.
Justices Hugo Black and William
Douglas dissented. They declared
the majority decision conflicted
with what had been a general un
derstanding that the Wagner act
took precedence over state laws
which sought to restrict "closed
shop" agreements.
Damage caused by the decision,
labor spokesmen said, will be cor
rected if the Administrations TIL
repeal bill passes. 1t carries a
clause which makes federal sane
ton of "closed shop" contracts
supreme. Thus state laws prohib-
iting such contracts could not be
enforced in plants engaged in in
terstate commerce.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-24
NLRB Under!ineS
(Confinued From Page One)

against the labor organizations. He
ruled that the Taft Hartley act
didn't apply because the dispute
did not involve interstate COM
merce.
AS result of the courts action,
an NLRB trial examiner, Howard
Myers, dismissed a Taft Hartley
complaint against the unions. How
ever, the NLRB overruled him.
The courts decision, it said, was
not binding on the board. 1t order
ed that new proceedings be press
ed against the AFL groups.
Thus, though they have already
been found mot guilty" by Fed
eral tribunal, the unions are now
to be placed in new jeopardy by
another agency of government.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-24
Movie Shows Congressman
PLIGHT Of Migrant Labor

Washington (LPA)-Something
new was added to the House Labor
Committees hearings on the Taft
Hartley act last week.
President H. L. Mitchell of the
Natl Farm Labor Union-AFL put
on a movie, "Proverty in the Val
ley" which in dramatic fashion
portrayed the story of the unions
long and bitter strike at the huge
DiGiorgio fruit and vegetable
ranch in the Central Valley of
California.
Members of the committee, other
congressman and the days listen
ers at the hearings served as the
audience for the unusual show. 1t
made deep impression on most of
the lawmakers who watched, but
several Republican congressman
from California muttered some
thing about propaganda"
In his testimony, the Farm
Union leader put the spotlight on
one of the worst of the many pit
falls of the Taft-Hartley act.
Under that law, he pointed out,
farm laborers are deprived of any
of it's purported benefits, yet they
are subject to its harsh penalties.
He cited the DiGiorgio strike as
a prime example. The NLRB, he
said, has rejected a petition of the
union for a representation election
at DiGiorgio, on the ground that
farm workers are excluded" from
the TIL act.
Yet, NLRB's General Counsel
Robert N. Denham, proceeding
under the same law, Mitchell said,
has secured an injunction against
the striking union, and against
other unions aiding Mitchell's or
ganization in a boycott of Di-
Giorgio products.
at is said that the majesty of
the law permits the rich and poor
alike to sleep under bridges"
Mitchell said, "but in the TIL act
you have law that doesn't even
give US that much equality"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-24
Comreds In IfoIy
CONTINUED From Page One)

ly you feel. We have similar pro
blems here"
At a dinner in honor of the
guests from Italy on the first day
of their Washington stay, AFL
President William Green extended
warm greetings. "We both stand
for the protection of IA free demo
cratic trade union organization, y
he pointed out. "You can rely on
us to help you on this issue in
every possible way"
"We intend to fight together for
the preservation of world peace.
We abhor war as you do. We be-
lieve it belongs to the past. We are
now working toward establishment
of agencies which have as their
purpose the establishment of peace
thruout the world.
"The AFL embraced the Mar
shall plan even before it was
adopted by the government. We
have joined with the government
in supporting the Marshall plan.
cts amazing here to even hear
about the charge in Europe that
the Marshall plan is a Wall Street
program controlled by the capital
lists to capture the nations of Eu-
rope. 1t is all pure bunk"
In responding, the Italian lead
ers made it plain that they hadn't
fallen for the Communist smears
of the European recovery program.
"We didn't have to come here to
learn that the American unions are
free and that you were doing every
thing you can for Europe" Canini
told Green, "We know that we are
tied to the American workers and
we affirm this in front of the Com
munists of Italy"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-24
By LEW JOHNSON

At first it was just an itty bitty
rumor, and hardly anyone paid any
attention to it. But it fell into the
hands of people who loved it, and
with lots of coddling it mushroom
ed into a monstrous, full-blown dis
tortion.
We're talking about the gaseous
charge that guys without jobs are
taking off for Florida and then
drawing benefits from the Ohio
Unemployment Compensation Bur-
eau. It's been in all the papers, and
lots of people got puffed up over it.
The Industry and Labor Com
mittee of the General Assembly
has been the scene of most of the
indignant comments on this free
vacation-in Florida business. That's
where hearings are going on con-
cerning changes in the states job
less law. The Ohio State Fedora
tion of Labor wants the law to
move forward with the times; en-
ployers favor a glacier-like move
ment.
Well, the Industry and Labor
Committee members must have
gotten tired, or curious, or envious,
about the multi-repeated references
to working stiffs lolling around on
the Florida beaches and drawing
compensation, so one of them ups
and asks Frank Collopy, head man
at the jobless bureau, about the
matter.
Collopy obliged. These facts
We're brought out by his testimony:
Sometimes workers go to other
states in search of employment.
This, naturally, does not exclude
them from benefits. So, for the
sake of efficiency, the 48 states,
Alaska and Hawaii entered into
agreements to help each other pay
interstate claims.
If, for example, an Ohio worker
goes to Kentucky in search of
work, he reports regularly to the
Kentucky unemployment office. If
he can't find work, Kentucky noti-
fies Ohio, and Ohio pays his bene-
fits in the usual manner.
Florida, of course, is party to
the national agreement. During
December and January, only 1862
0hioans in Florida filed claims for
benefits. Most of these were sea-
sonal workers. They have better
chance of finding jobs where good
weather prevails. Disqualifcations
for Florida claims are unusually
high. This is because the Bureau
checks these particular claims with
an eye to misrepresentation.
California is also a nice place
to be in the winter, but California
has more jobless claims against
Ohio than Ohio has against Cali
fornia.
The little gaseous rumor that
grew into great big distortion
was thoroughly deflated and laid
to rest when Collopy flatly told
the Committee that "There is no
sound justification for this sort of
criticism"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-24
Civil Rights Hopes Dim After
ToIkufhon Weukens Senate Rule

Washington (LPA)-The chance
of passing any civil rights bills In
the 81st. Congress is very dim, as
result of the resounding defeat
handed the Truman forces in the
Senate at the end of the filibuster
last week.
In a tooling up process, the
southerners and virtually all of the
Republicans from the mountain
states did a thoro job of beating
back the attempt to change the
Senate rules so that debate could
be effectively ended on any matter
before the body by a two-thirds
vote.
The complicated wrangle boiled
down finally to votes on two
motions, one by Sen. Francis
Myers Cd, Pa and the other by
Sen. Kenneth Wherry (R, Nebr.).
Wherry's won, by vote of 63 to
%. Voting with Wherry, who is
Republican floor leader, were 20
Democrats and Sd Republicans.
With Myers, and therefore for an
effective curb on filibusters, were
15 Democrats and eight Republi-
cans. ,ec
The Wherry compromise" pro-
posal requires that two-thirds of
all Senators NORMALLY Ga, unless
there have been deaths and seats
are vacant) would be required to
cut off debate. However, there is
one exception to this rule. If an
attempt to change the Senate rules
for instance, to change the
Wherry rule-comes before the
Senate, nc curb on debate can be
voted. This, in effect, will make it
even more difficult than before to
change Senate procedure to cut off
debate.
Sen. Myers proposal would have
required that majority of all
Senators (normally 49) could vote
TO cut off debate. He mustered IL
Democrats and four Republicans,
but his proposal was defeated by
the votes of 38 Democrats and 81
Republicans.
At the end of the wearying ses-
sions, which lasted for nearly three
weeks, and which blocked all pend
ing legislation, Floor Leader Scott
Lucas Cd, Ill., predicted that be-
fore July 81 the Administration
will bring in an anti-poll tax bill
tho "there is not chance to pass
it when it comes to the floor if this
rule is adopted. We will test it.
We will test that rule after they
fasten it upon us and then, at that
time, see who was right"
Many liberal Democrats were
discussing a proposal to urge Pres
ident Truman to call Congress
back this summer if the poll tax
bill, or any other "test" civil rights
bill is filibustered to death during
the present session.
The filibuster defeat is also ex-
pected to lend impetus to President
plans to stump the
country again if the 8lst Congress
won't put on a better performance
than the S0th Congress did.