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Evening star., 1950-04-03
|63HawaiianDe Delegates
will Meet Tomorrow
Ito Draft Constitution
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

HONOLULU, April 3.-Sixty-
three delegates elected by the
people Of Hawaii will convene to-
morrow to prepare a State con-
stitution. They want it ready If
Congress proclaims the Territory
a State Of the United States.
The delegates include doctors,
lawyers, teachers, wives, two pine
apple company presidents, two
labor union business agents and
a bartender.
Twenty nine are Republicans,
81 Democrats and 13 have not
been identified with either party.
Party Politics Emerging.
The election was nonpartisan,
but party politics is beginning to
become apparent. There may be
tussle for power.
The convention is expected to
last two months. The Legislature
has appropriated money to pay
each delegate $1,000 for 60 days
work.
The constitution drafted may
not necessarily be the one under
which Hawaii will be governed if
it becomes a State. The conven-
ton act calls for a later election
at which voters could ratify or
reject the draft.
The question of apportionment
seems to be the hottest. Terri
torial legislators are chosen under
an apportionment made when
Hawaii became a territory SO
years ago. Oahu now. has two
thirds of the population but the
Legislature is controlled by the
other islands.
Oahu, however, has SO of the SO
convention delegates. They are
determined on an apportionment
which would give Oahu control of
a State Legislature.
Union Rights on Issue.
Some out-island delegates have
threatened to dynamite the work
of the convention in the Legisla-
ture if this happens. It appears
unlikely. however, hat Gov. In
gram M. Stainback will sign any
bill intended to nullify the con-
vention's decision.
Some argument also is expected
over whether the right of union
organization and the right to
strike should be written into the
constitution. None Of the dele
gates may dispute the rights, but
whether they should be spelled out
has been raised as an issue.
A similar question has arisen
over whether to put on paper a
stand against racial discrimina-
ton.
Evening star., 1950-04-03
Secretary School Dance

The Washington School for Sec
retaries will hold a spring ball fol
students and alumni April Is ir
the Burgundy Room Of the Ward
man Park Hotel.
Evening star., 1950-04-03

Hey feo! Just look at the low price These jackets
wind-resistont woter-rePe|ent too just what guy
needs for Spring. Full cut, you bet for plenty Of action
yet the elastic sides hold the jacket firmly in place. Zip
front style With two large slash pockets Coors Of grey
maroon, tan, green or blue. Sizes 10 to 20.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-29
Harvard Law Deem
Hits Tax Fovors
To Oil Industry

WASHINGTON (LPA) - The
tax bill concocted by Congress is
full of "gross almost crude in
equities" The bill favors "oil
| n { e r e S is and everything that
smells of oil"
That's the opinion of Erwin N.
Griswold, dean of the Harvard
Law School, He hit at the tax
lawyers in a speech before the
tax section of the American Bar
Association convention h e,
asking why the members were
silent at the time the legislation
was being debated.
where was the voice of the
tax section on that matter?" he
asked. "The tax section ought to
be quick to act in the public
interest, John @. Taxpayer needs
our help, too"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-29
Strike If You Want To.
But Don't Slow Down,
la Dor Board Says
NLRB Issues
Ruling On A
Court Decision

MEDFORD, Ore. (LPA) -
Strike, if you want to. Or swal-
low your grievances and keep
working. But don't deliberately
slow down. If you do, the boss
has every right to fire you.
That, in effect, is what the
National Labor Relations Board
said in a case brought on behalf
of five former employees of the
Elk Lumber Co. here. The five
workers, whose job was to load
lumber on freight cars, engaged
in a concerted showdown back in
January and February 1949
when the company slashed their
pay.
The NLRB, basing its ruling
on federal court decisions, said
the men had a right to strike if
they wanted, but couldn't stay
on the job, accept pay and re-
fuse to do all the work assigned
to them. The board reasoned as
follows:
Here, the objective of the
carloaders' concerted activity
to induce the respondent (com-
pany) to increase their hourly
rate of pay or to return to the
piecework rate-was a lawful
one. To achieve this objective,
however, they adopted the plan
of decreasing their production to
the amount they considered ade-
quate for the pay they were then
receiving.
"In effect, this constituted a
refusal on their part to accept
the terms of employment set by
their employer without engag-
ing in a stoppage, but to con-
tinue rather to work on their
own terms. The courts, in some
what similar situations, have
held that such conduct is justi-
fable cause for discharge"
Originally, the NLRB discov-
cred, the five men had loaded
cars on a piece-work basis which
yielded them about $2.71 an
hour. The showdown came when
the C mpany changed the
whole loading system and cut
the five mems pay to 1.52h an
hour.
Charges of unfair labor prac-
tice were brought by the Lumber
& Sawmill Workers Local $685.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-29
Rubber Union
Invite
Talk
Members Resented
Taff's Appearance
Sponsored BY Co.

AKRON, Sept. 20 An official
request h Democratic sena-
torial candidate Joseph Ferguson
be allowed to address workers
of the Wooster Rubber Company
at company expense has been
m a d by the membership of
Local 302, United Rubber Work
ers of America-CIO.
A resolution, calling for Fer
guson's appearance in the
Wooster (Ohio) plant, was en-
d o r S e d unanimously by tn e
members at a meeting of the
Local Union.
introduced by Local President
Louis E. Darr, the resolution
asked the company to extend
the same courtesy to Joseph Fer
guson" as was shown to Senator
Robert Taft, whom they identi-
fled as ''their political enemy"
Union officials said Taft spoke
to the Wooster Company en-
ployees on August % without
the workers having a voice in
the matter. At the time of Taft's
appearance, Darr said, the COM
pany halted production and of
fered' workers the "opportu-
nifty" to h Taft's political
speech. Darr said workers were
paid for the time the plant was
not in production while Taft
spoke.
The resolution listed tn e
Locals objections to Taft ano
the Labor law that bears his
name.
It continued that the Union
has "gone on record condemn
ing the Taft Hartley law and its
anti Union provisions, S a ing
that the basic objective Of the
statute is the ultimate destruc-
ton of the legitimate t d e
Union Movement in the United
States"
The statement added that the
Local Union has announced its
intention of exerting every eff
fort to bring about the defeat
of Robert Alphonso Taft" while
the members "have gone on rec
ord supporting Joe Ferguson"
The resolution accused Taft
of using "the captive audience"
clause of Taft Hartley to fur
Their his personal political OBJ
jectives."
Citing the "amicable and har-
monious" relationship existing
between the company and work
ers, the resolution added, "In
view Of this relationship, tn e
officials of the company should,
in a spirit of fair play and in
the b e It American democratic
tradition, extend the same cour-
tesy to j S e h Ferguson, for
whom the workers have indi-
Gated their support, as was
shown to Robert Alphonso Taft,
their political enemy"
There was no immediate re-
Spouse from the company.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-29

working full-time. He's married
moved into his own home.
Hicks is a shining example OF
the fact that the physically
handicapped can be made fully
employable - a matter of great
Importance to unions in con-
nection with their members who
become disabled on the job.
"To reclaim and utilize the
nations h n resources" a
continuing campaign is waged by
the us. Department of Labor
to persuade industry to employ
the physically handicapped.
President Truman's Committee
On National Employ the Physi-
cally Handicapped Week (the
week of October -, numbers
among its members representa-
tives of the AFL, CIO and I'M
affiliated unions.
Hicks, a union man, after his
Is months in a hospital, w a S
equipped with a prosthetic APP
pliance, and granted a medical
discharge. Shortly thereafter he
got a job at the naval mine depot
here as an ordnance operative
and has since been promoted to
ordnanceman.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-29

pressure on the international for
a raise, however. They did not
get one last year when they
for a pension plan.
Murray said he does not in
tend to violate the contract. The
unions 120-man wage policy
committee is meeting in Pitts
burgh Oct. 3 and 4, and will de-
eide then how much to ask for.
1t seemed that the industry
would be stubborn about bar,
gaining before the expiration
date. In a speech at Berkeley,
Calf, John A. Stephens. U. S.
Steel vice president in charge Of
industrial relations, d eclared
that mature collective bargain
ing will be enhanced when union
members learn they are bound
by the agreement made, and for
the period it covers"
Iron age, however, the trade
journal for the steel indusry,
stated fatty in its last edition
that steel workers will get "some
kind of" a wage increase. Recent
pay boosts by auto manufacture
.ers and others make this Ger
tain," the magazine said. '"The
final showdown on steel wages"
it said, Knight reach the White
House, because a big wage in
crease would have to be accom-
panied by a steel price rise"
One steel executive said thu
most of the large companies were
ready to concede increases, but
not before the contract required
it. A voluntary pay raise, he
maintained, would give them no
excuse for asking higher steel
prices.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-29
Public Hearing On
Minimum Hours
And Wages For
Hospital Workers

PORTLAND, Ore. (LPA) -
A public hearing, urged by Lo-
cal 40, AFL Building Employees
Union, will be held on minimum
wages and hours for women and
children employees at hospitals
and sanitoriums. The state wage
and hour commission, to estab-
lish the new standard, is con-
sidering the proposal of a nine
member conference board for a
65-cent hourly wage and an g.
hour day and 44-hour week
with time and a half for over
time. The present law, adopted
in 1941, allows a nine-hour day,
a seven-day week, and a 35-cent
minimum.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-29
Texas Pepper Hit
For Disunity

HOUSTON, Texas (LPA) -
This city's three daily news
papers are so conservative 1t
hurts, but for the most part
they've given a fair account OF
the AFL convention proceed
ings.
One day, however, the
"Press," a Scripps-H pa
per, blossomed out with a head
line reading: "AFL Leaders Say
No To CIO Merger" The AL
roared back.
President Charles j. Mac
Gowan of the Boilermakers, a
member of the AFL Executive
Council and of the AFL COM
mittee negotiating with the CIO
for labor unity, got up to the
convention microphone to say:
II want the record to show
that the Executive Council of
the AFL sincerely and genuine
ly Is trying to bring about or
ganic unity in the American
labor movement.
"We have had conferences
with the CLIO and they have
been friendly. We make no
promises as to what will come
out of them. The conferences
have been suspended because of
many conventions at this time
those of the AFL, CIO and in
ternational unions. But we have
high hopes and will work dill
gently to bring about the con-
dition the rank and file want
that is, organic unity"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-29
AL Reflects Green,
Urges Price Control

HOUSTON, Tex. (LPA) -
Delegates to the seth Conven-
ton of the ALL elected William
Green to the Federation presi-
dency for the 9th time. The vote
was unanimous. Other conven-
ton action: a call for price con-
trolls now with wage stabiliza-
ton at least until wage price
parity is achieved, a demand for
extension of rent control and fo1(
reversal of present housing re-
strictions which operate "in the
wrong direction"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-29
Congress Passes
Anti-Red Bill

WASHINGTON tLPA) - BY
wide margins Congress passed
the anti-subversive bill over
President Truman's o. He
said the bill would weaken civil
liberties and help the Commu-
nists, rather than hurt them. He
warned against internal hys-
terra and said no considera-
tons of expediency can justify
ne enactment of such a bill as
this"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-29
Lost Arm In War
Marine Veteran NOW
disappearing

YORKTOWN, Va. (LPA) - Clemon L. Hicks stormed ashore
at PeIeHeu with the Marines early in World War II. He was hit
He spent 10 months in a hospital But for five years now he's been
working fulltime. He's married, has two children, and has just
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-29

ALL. However, the board said
the union was not representing
the men when the showdown and
discharge occurred.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-29

MEDFORD, Ore. (LPA) -
Strike, if you want to. Or swal-
low your grievances and keep
working. But don't deliberately
slow down. If you do, the boss
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-29
CIO SteeIUOrkers
To Ask For Pay
Hikes October 9

PITTSBURGH (LPA) - CLIO
Steelworkers have set Oct. 9 as
the date they will seek wage in
.creases from 1400 steel COM
panies.
United Steelworkers President
Philip Murray announced after
a USW Board Meeting Sept. Fl
that the million members of his
union should get pay increases
for the following reasons:
1.-THE needs of our people.
"2-The nation at present is
going through a period of ma
tional mobilization. No doubt in
the next few months will begin
to be felt shortages of manpower,
particularly where questions of
wages have not been settled.
"3-The question of maintain
ing moral at a high level during
a grave national emergency"
The same day, Aluminium Co.
of America gave practically the
same reasons in an offer of a
10 per cent pay raise to its
$4,000 m p S, including
10000 who are members of the
Steelworkers Union.
Acceptance of the Alcoa raise,
it was understood, would not
stand in the way of contract re-
openings scheduled for Novem-
Der. ALL Aluminium workers,
representing 1000 Alcoa en-
|ployes, are also considering the
offer.
The company pointed to high
err living costs and raises in sew
eral other industries. Uneasiness
that workers would leave for
better paying jobs was indicated
by the r m of a company
spokesman that the new pay
scale twill help to preserve in
tact the trained organization of
Aluminium workers at a period
when national defense considera-
tions are vital"
The unions contracts in the
steel industry do not expire until
Jan. l. Under the contract, USW
is not slated to make wage pro-
posals until Nov. /. Rank and
file members have been putting
Evening star., 1950-10-11
Rat Repe|Ieni Found
In Search for Cure
OF Sleeping Sickness

Army researchers, looking for
sleeping sickness cure, have acci-
dentally run across rat repel-
liant, the Defense Department an
nounced today.
Rats refuse to eat food or drink
water treated with the drug acti-
dione. Some rats, it was said,
died of thirst and starvation
rather than take the poison solu-
tion, even when it was enormously
diluted.
The drug is by-product in the
preparation of streptomycin. It
was first described in 1916. But
It was too poisonous for medical
use. Since then it has been used
to kill plant fungus.
May Help in Control.
And now, doctors say, it may
help in controlling rats. Rats eat
stored grain. They gnaw electric
wire coatings. They cause mil
lions of dollars damage each year.
But rats, as well as other ro-
dents, stay away from cardboard
impregnated with actidione, re-
searchers say. Containers coated
with the drug may provide rat
proof storage. The main problem
now is to find a way to combine
the drug with binding" agent
SO it won't wash away. There are
also problems of its poisonous
effects on human beings and its
expense.
Z Mai. Robert Traub and his asso-
ciates at the Army Medical Center
Research and Graduate School
here discovered the drugs rodent
repelling qualities.
u Tells of Experiments.
8 "We were testing various anti
biotics to see their effects on
sleeping sickness and other tropi-
cal diseases" Maj. Traub said
today. I'm the course of these
experiments. we put various
drugs in water and let rats drink
to see the effects of the drugs.
They wouldn't touch water with
even very small amounts of acti-
done"
& The Fish and Wildlife Service
co-operated in the research. In
vestigations now will be aimed at
adapting the drug for widespread
use and testing its effectiveness in
repelling without killing other
animals such as deer, which chew
the bark of trees.
Maj. Traub is particularly in
terested in it's possibilities in pro-
tecting electric wiring from ro-
dents.
"JuSt the other day." he said,
"our ultra a-centrifuge out here
wouldn't work. Finally someone
took it apart and found that there
was a short circuit in the wiring
at the bottom. 1t had been
chewed through by mice"
Evening star., 1950-10-11
BY the Assoeiosed Press

BALTIMORE, Oct. II. - The
Maryland Governors Committee
to Promote Employment of the
Handicapped has announced an
essay contest for 18th and 18th
grade students on the subject:
Equal opportunity in employ
ment for the physically handi-
capped"
Open to students in all public,
private and parochial schools in
Maryland, the contest starts Sun
day and closes December Is.
Savings bonds totaling $3.50 will
be distributed in State prizes. The
State winner also will be eligible
to compete in a national contest
Evening star., 1950-10-11
Kirk to Leuve Moscow
For Western Capitals
BY the Associated Press

MOSCOW, Oct. 11.-Ambassa-
dor Alan G. Kirk will leave Mos
COW tomorrow for a two-week
trip to Western Europe, the Amer
ican Embassy announced.
It said Mr.. Kirk was going on
personal business" The Am
bassador hopes to visit Paris.
London and Brussels. He is ex-
pected back in Moscow about
october %.
Minister Counselor Walworth
Barbour will be in charge of the
Embassy during Mr.. Kinks alb
Sence.
Evening star., 1950-10-11
MARYLAND to Sponsor Student Essay Contest

In which a first prize of $1,000 will
be offered.
Details of the contest can be
obtained at local Offices of the
State Department of Employment
Security and the Vocational Re-
habilitation division of the State
Department of Education.
Evening star., 1950-10-11
Bioeropher of Lonier
To Speak at Strutford
BY the Associated Press

STRATFORD. Va, Oct. H.
DR.. Edwin Minis of Nashville,
Tenn, historian and biographer
of Sidney Lanier, the poet of the
Confederacy, will speak Thursday
at Stratford Hall on the Goth an
niversary of the death of Gen.
Robert E. Lee.
Gen. Lee was born at Stratford
Hall on January 10, 1907.
Evening star., 1950-10-11
Girl Dies of Bruin Tumor
After Eorly YuIe Party
BY the Assoeioted Press

PHnLIPSBURG, N. j.. Oct. II.
Little Antoinette Strebig, who
had an early Christmas party
three weeks ago on the doctors
orders, died yesterday of an in
operable brain tumor.
The whole community turned
out last month to play Santa Claus
and shower the 9-year-old girl
with presents and entertainment.
The Red River of the North,
which crosses the United States
Canadian border, is so called to
distinguish it from the Red River
which forms part of the Texas
Oklahoma line.
Evening star., 1950-10-11

Britain now exports Seaweed
products to 20 countries.
Evening star., 1950-07-09
Plans Announced
For Two Long
.Cruises in 1851

NEW YORK.-The motorship
Oslofjord, Norways newest and
fastest liner, will offer cruise pas
sengers the attractive feature of
cruise membership limited to
about half the ships capacity on
its cruise to the Mediterranean
from New York next February 7,
according to Thos. Cook g. Son.
The Cook company will operate
the program of shore excursions
Plans have been completed for
1851 round -the-world cruise by
the famous cruiseship Stella
Polaris.
It will sail from New Orleans
on January 6 and return to New
Orleans on May 81. The voyage
will include ~ different ports of
call, many of which are seldom
visited by any passenger ships.
Among them are Panama, the
South Seas, Cocos, Galapagos,
Marquesas, Tahiti, Samoa, Fiji,
Guadalcanal, New Guinea, Thurs
day Island, Darwin, Timor, Sum-
bawa, Bali, Java. Siam, Singa-
pore. Penang, Sumatra, Ceylon,
India, Seychelles, Zanzibar, Nom
bassa, Durham, Port Elizabeth,
Capetown, st. Helena, Rio de
Janeiro, Bahia and Trinidad, ac-
cording to the initial announce
ment.
Evening star., 1950-07-09
Logl.no Beoch's
Art Pageant
Starts july 22

LAGUNA BEACH. Calf The
Laguna Beach Pageant of the
Masters. in which famous paint
ings come to life" will be pre-
sented July 22-August 6.
Laguna Beach is built in a
mountain canyon which opens
onto the Pacific. The name La
guna Spanish for "lake~ comes
from small fishing lakes at the
head of the canyon. Laguna
Beach is famed as an art colony,
and vacationers, strolling along
flower covered paths to the sea,
frequently will find painters at
work on canvasses of the sea and
landscape.
The Pageant of the Masters is
produced by about $50 of the
towns painters, potters, writers
and musicians. The setting is a
natural amphitheater in Laguna
Canyon. CARRIED as the subjects
in famous paintings. the actors
pose against life-sized enlarge
ments of the masterpieces.
Among famous paintings repro
duced are "Whistler's Mother, y
1.-THE Blue Boy" Washington
Crossing the Delaware" and 1.-The
Last Supper" the latter tradi-
tionally concluding each program
Other points of interest near
Laguna Beach are Spanish Mission
San Juan Capistrano, particularly
noted for its beautiful gardens,
and the green. sprawling orange
groves of Orange County.
Evening star., 1950-07-09
TRAVEL.

The final meeting Of the De-
partment Convention Committee
Evening star., 1950-07-09
District American Legion to Award Convention Trophies

A large number of annual
trophies and awards will go to the
various posts of the Department
of the District of Columbia Ameri-
can Legion and it's members as
we'll as to several citizens at the
District Departments department
convention at the Shoreham Hotel
later this month, according to
Albert T. Keating, chairman of
the Department Trophies and
Awards Committee.
Each of the post trophies will be
for outstanding membership ac-
oomplishments throughout the
year. The Watson B. Miller
Award to the outstanding Legion
naire of the year will go to Charles
L. Scheuttler, member of George
Washington Post and chairman
of the department Ways and
Means Committee. The runners
up for this award will receive gold,
silver and bronze medals. Several
individual members and a number
of Washington citizens, not men,
bers of the Legion, will receive de-
partment citations and Certificates
of Merit.
National and Department Hon
or Ribbons have been won by the
Army and Air Forces and the
Washington Building and Con-
struction Trades Posts, respec-
lively.
Department certificates have
been awarded to Bureau of En-
craving and Printing, James E
Walker, National Capitol, Depart
ment of Agriculture, Washington
Building and Construction Trades,
FBI and Army and Air Forces
Posts. A number of propeller
blades and wings have been
awarded to members. A cash
prize has been awarded to An
thony j. Luspin of Vincent B. Cos
tello Post.
The final meeting Of the De-
nartment Convention Cononoittee
Evening star., 1950-07-09

Wednesday-Police and Fire
Post. Department of Labor Post,
Legion Club; Kenneth H. Nash
Post, 224 D street Sc; Potomac
Post, Palisades Fieldhouse.
Thursday-Forty and Eight, Le-
gion Club: James E. Walker Post,
1882 Ninth street NV; Holleran-
Murray Post, 3201 Prospect street
NV.
Friday - Government Printing
Office Post, Fort Totten Post. De-
partment of Agriculture Post, Le-
gion Club; Clark v. Polling Post
1923 Sixteenth street NV.