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The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1950-11-11

VETERANS
WORLD WAR n
Both men and women who served
In any Of the armed services in
World War I've are entitled 10
purchase as . homs--singIe, 1--WE,
three or four family houses. Il is
necessary that they have an Hon.
orable Discharge having been m
the service at least 80 days and ~
least $500 cash.
First and Second Mortaaees
placed also Fire Insurance
on Real Estate, and Home
Furnishings.
FOR SALE
II LAUREL ST. - Z fam. house,
car gar, good condition. In
come STA. 5000 do,z,, h.f ekA
monthly.
IS MUNRoE ST. = 10 rooms, I
baths, parquet floors, st. heat. .II
vaesnt. $500 down. balance like
rent.
MoRElAND ST. - 4 fam. house.
b. WV floors, steam heat with oil,
5 car garage, well kept grounds,
fine home and investment. Price
right can show.
ROWLAND ST. - , fam. house,
6-6-7 FooR,s, h.w. floors, ensm-
elsd ranges, white sinks, sep. heat
ers, front and back piaxxas. Price
$io.5oo-$z.ooo down.
pENAlscN ST. = s fam. brick,
all 5 room suites, h.w. fIoors,
modern plumbing. file baths, atm.
heat with oil. ineinerstor, sssIgisg
sssts-rnf ans hsfas. Price $f8,s 500
Down Payment, terms. arranged.
WHITING ST. = z fam. house.
~ rooms, will vsesse and sen 8
rosms, furnishings, St. heat, oil
burner, large grounds. Reduced
price, easy terms.
I7-iS DIxWELL ST. - At Erle,-
ton Square, s fam. brick, sII s
rooms, hardwood Hoors, sim. IL.
with oil, 5 rooms vsesnt for buyer.
$500 down, balance on easy
ferHs.
HUMBOLDT AVE, Roxbvry = ,
fam. house, 6-7-T rooms, +. ",
tlooEs, sep. heaters. Income Si24.
Price reduced; will arrange terms.
az NoRWELL ST., DORCHESTER
= ; fam. house, 5-5-5 rooms,
sep. heaters, hardwood floors.
$1,000 down, balance as rent.
RANDOLPH = Single house, een-
sistiRg Of sun paFIpr and 7 reems,
h. ". floors, steam heat with ell
burner modern kitchen, beaufi-
FOL white stove. al new plumbing,
in excellent condition, z car gar
age, hen house. 5000 sq. Fl.
land, real home, house avail
able, Feueed price. terms arranged. |
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1950-11-11
Budget Helper Recipes

9Rh&ENt
Put butter in frying pan and
when hot, add beef. Stir until it
frizzles crisp. Add mustard and
-four. When mixed, add the milk,
stirring until smooth and thick.
Add cream and Worcestershire
Sauce. When we'll blended, pour
into patty shells or croustades.
Garnish with parsley. Serves 4.
Chopped tongue may be used FMS
place Of beef.
Fish Frlttsrs
(Welcome Friday or any day.
2 cups cooked fish
8 eggs
8 tablespoons -four
Salt
| tablespoon onion juiee
i tablespoon minced parsley
/ tablespoon Worcestershire Saul
Free the fish from skin and bone
and mash to paste. Beat the egg
yolks until thick and lemon colored
and add to them Gae -four. salt.
onion and parsley. stir In the fish
and the Worcestershire Sauce and
fold in the stitfly beaten egg whites.
Fry spoonfuls Of this mixture in
hot fat, (3eo 40o' FL.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-24
Worker Shortage
In Portland, Ore.

Portland, Ore. (LPA)-The city
is experiencing the greatest work
er shortage in five years, especial
ly in skilled jobs. Machinists,
mattresses, power machine opera
tors and office workers are needed
most. The shortage has spread to
unskilled jobs, particularly in con-
struction work, reported James H.
Bagan, state employment service
official.
The situation was caused in part,
said Bagan, by the peak activity
IN metals plants, building construc-
tion and general trade. Also, there
has been a recent drop in the usual
ly heavy influx of migratory work
ers, he pointed out. President of
the Central Labor Council Roy F.
Renoud said a construction boom
In other cities, such as the atomic
project in Richland, Wash, has
also contributed to the shortage.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-24
Company StaI|ing
Forces Strike At
Packard Motor Co.

Detroit (LPA)-Company stall
ing on a new contract forced q
strike by 5000 members of the
United Auto Workers against the
Packard Motor Car Co.
The union said the company's
wage, pension and union security
offers were "inadequate." A COM
pany spokesman described the
union demands as excessive and
unreasonable"
Packard representative d
they made two proposals. One, they
reported, called for a union shop,
pensions of 800 including social
security, $50 a month permanent
disability benefits, a wage boost OF
five cents an hour, three cents an
hour for insurance and increased
pay in lieu of vacation Gao hours
pay for one year seniority, 60 hours
for three years and so on).
The second proposal, they said,
called for pensions ranging from
500 to $11750, a cost of living es-
calator based on Bureau of Labor
Statistics indices, an unspeGfied
wage increase, three cents an hour
for insurance and a vacation plan
roughly similar to the first one.
Packard officials insisted both pro-
posals We're better than agree
ments with Nash, Chrysler and
Briggs.
Ralph Urban, president of Pack
ard local, said the union would ne
gotiate "on General Motors econ
omic package but we refuse to ac-
cept the GIN contract which isn't
applicable to Packard" The GIN
agreement contains an escalator
clause but also provides annual pay
boosts of four cents an hour for
the next three years.
with workers facing the possi-
bility of a federal wage Freeze"
Urban declared, "it is necessary
that we peg our wages as high as
possible" Meanwhile, federal and
state mediators were trying to-
hasten settlement.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-24
|Union-Sponsored
Health Center
Cuts Sick Leave

Seattle, Wash. (LPA) - The
average employed person loses six
days a year because of sickness
But in st. Louis, the figure for
members of Local 688, Teamsters.
who go regularly to their own
union-sponsored medical center foi
checkups and treatment, is only
three and one-half days.
That is what Lou Berra of the
staff of the Teamsters' local Health
Institute told the annual conven-
tion of the Cooperative Health Fed
Grafton here. The convention voted
to work hard for federal aid to
medical education to relieve "a
critical shortage of physicians.
dentists, nurses and related pro-
fessional personnel throughout the
country"
DIR. Dean Clark, Federation pres
ident and general director of Mass
achusetts General Hospital, said
that unless immediate steps are
taken, one-third Of the nations
medical schools may have to close
within the next three or four years
for lack of funds. Jerry Voorhis,
Federation secretary, said that
Except for the American Medical
Association, it is widely recogniz-
ed by everyone that there is an
acute shortage of doctors in the
u. S."
The convention also pushed sup
port of the bill introduced by Sen.
Humphrey Cd, Minn.) that would
authorize the federal government
to lend money to coop health CEN
ters on long-term, low interest
basis.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-24
Senate Committee
Completes Action
On Tax Increase

Washington (LPA) - The 1850
tax bill, complete with the emer-
gency provision to increase the
federal take by about IS billions a
year, was polished off August II
by the Senate Finance committee.
1t is expected to reach the Senate
floor about August %, and after
passage there must go back to the
House, which acted on the measure
before the Korean fighting and
demonstrated the need for new
federal income.
Besides the increase in corpora
ton tax rates, and in individual tax
rates, the bill as finally drafted
will raise the limit on the percent
Of an individuals income which can
be taken in taxes from II percent
as at present to 81 percent, for
those in the highest income levels.
No excess profits tax provision
lis included, but an attempt is ex-
pected to add the provision on the
Senate floor. In any case, a broad
study of excess profits taxes, "ex-
cess income" taxes, sales tax and
the Townsend-plan proposal for a
tax on all transactions, is to be
made by the committees staff of
experts.
Exemptions from income taxa
ton on probably $500 Of the in
come of soldiers in the actual area
of hostilities in Korea is planned,
for limited period. The exemp-
ton, in different forms, would ap-
ply both to officers and enlisted
men. Final language will be work
ed out before the bill reaches the
floor.
One new production pro-
vision, not requested by the Pres
ident but doubtless acceptable to
him, was inserted. 1t provides that,
for corporations whose plant ex-
pansion is essential to defense pro-
duction, the corporation can write
off one-fifth Of the certified expan-
sion costs each year for the next
five years. This is similar to the
accelerated depreciation" provis-
ion in effect during World War ii.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-24
NLRB Denies UNI v
Motion To Kill
Unfair Charges

Washington (LPA)-A trial ex-
aminer for the National Labor Re
lations Board denied the motion OF
the United Mine Workers for dis
missal Of the unfair labor practice
charges issued by NLRB General
Counsel Robert N. Denham. The
ruling came as much delayed hear
ings on the charge opened here
August 16.
Welly X. Hopkins, UNIV attor-
ney, contended the charges should
be dismissed because the coal min
ers' 1850 contract obtained in
March met all the issues raised by
the mine owners. He cited letters
to prove that the mine owners who
appealed to Denham were trying
to withdraw the charges.
An aide of Denham's replied that
in the past the NLRB repeatedly
had pressed charges after charg-
ing party tried to kill them. He
said that sometimes "public inter
est required they be pressed. Trial
examiner Arthur Left agreed the
public interest was involved and
added that the motion for dismiss
al was insufficient" anyway. The
decision surprised nobody.
Last winter the mine owners
complained to Denham that the
UNIV and union President John L.
Lewis were violating the Taft
Hartley act as follows:
u By insisting on a union shop
without the union shop election re-
quired by the act.
p By insisting on the inclusion
of a clause under which the miners
need work only when cable and
willing"
81 By demanding the right to
stop work for memorial periods" F"
A. By demanding that non-UMW
members be excluded from the
benefits of the UNIV welfare fund.
81 By refusing to bargain.
When after 10 months of strikes,
three-day weeks and injunctions
the UNIV won new contract May
5, union spokesmen contended the
agreement resolved all the above
issues. Miners were required to be
union members only "to the extent
and in the manner permitted by
law" The liable and willing" clause
was eliminated and memorial
periods" were explicitly limited.
The welfare fund was to pay "bene-
fits to employees of said operators"
not just to union members. Den
ham, however, insisted that the
charges be aired. The hearings are
expected to result in exhaustive
debate of the Taft Hartley act.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-24
Tdx Excess Wages Instead
Of Profits To Be Studied

Washington (LPA)-The Senate
Finance committee has not only
rejected proposal for tax or
excess 1850 profits. 1t has instruct
ed its staff of technicians to pre-,
pare a study of several possible
new taxes which might be enacted
on 1851 DEMONSTRATING a tau
on "excess wages, nationwide
sales tax, and a tax on transac.
tions.
The "excess wages" tax propos.
al, as explained by committee staff
members, would treat wage-earn-
er in much the same way that ar
excess profits tax would treat 6
giant corporation which might be
making millions of dollars in pro.
fits. The tax would be intended tt
wipe out any increases in income
over base period which would be
considered an average. Any pro
ductivity pay boosts, any annual
increases, and thicker pay-en.
velopes because a worker had beer
upgraded, all could be wiped out
by such a tax.
During World War III, wher
there was tax on excess profits
corporations paid as high as Sc
percent of their excess profits tC
the federal government However
they had the privilege of taking
back these payments as refunds if
during the following two years
they could show a loss. Unior
spokesmen at that time proposed
that wage-earners be accorded the
same privilege of balancing of
their loss of income against taxes
paid in previous years. They were
unsuccessful, of course, in putting
over the idea. But then they didn't
have to contend with serious con-
sideration of an "excess wages
tax.
Both this proposal and the ma
tionwide sales tax would hit hard
est at families in the middle anC
lower income groups. The sales
tax, since it's generally levied on
each small store purchase, mounts
up to a larger proportion of such
families spending.
Only two Senators would ack-
nowledge that they favored the ex-
cess profits tax proposal in the
committee-Senators Tom Connal-
ly Cd, Texas) and Edwin C. John
son Cd, Colo.). They are expected
to back up Sen. Joseph C. O'Ma-
honey CD, Wyo.) when he proposes
an excess profits tax amendment
to the committee-approved bill on
the Senate floor.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-24
WANTS NO RACIAL BIAS
IN NATIONAL GUARD

Hartford, Conn. (LPA) = Gov
Chester Bowles has asked Secre-
tary of the Army Frank Pace tc
assure non-segregation for the Ne
gro troops in Connecticut's 43rd
National Guard Division which is
to be federalized Sept. 5. In a let
ter to Secretary Frank Pace,
Bowles said he was disturbed over
the possibility" that the troops
may be segregated after reporting
to Camp Pickett, Va. Connecticut
abolished discrimination in the
National Guard last year Zone of
the first two states to do so), and
since then 104 Negroes have en-
listed, "a of whom have earned rat
ings and promotions.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-24
|SignaImen Hail
AO-hour Week As
Convention Opens

Hamilton, Ontario (LPA)-The
40-hour week won last year by 1e
incorporating rail unions was "the
most important victory ever achiev-
ed by organized labor in the his
tory of American industry"
That was the report Of Crane
President Jesse Clark and Secre-
tary-Treasurer c. l.. Bromley OF
the Brotherhood of Railroad Sig
nalmen-AFL to delegates to the
unions convention here.
The 40-hour week was not gain
ed without vigorous struggle, the
two officials reminded the conven-
tion. After an emergency board
appointed by the White House re-
commended the shortened week
without reduction in pay and with
a seven-cent wage increase, rail
management tried to eliminate
benefits from existing agreements
they said. However, the unions
stood firm and the board, called
back into session, supported the
union position, they said.
The 1850 Signalmen's conven-
tion marked the start of the 50th
year of the Brotherhood's exist
ence. The convention itself was
the unions 30th. The organization
is "still on the march to greater
things" Bromley and Clark en-
phasized, adding that further gains
twill be achieved by continued CO.
operation"
Clark and Bromley paid a spec
ial tribute to the Railway Labor
Executives Association, whose pre-
sent executive secretary is A. E.
Lyon, the Signalmen's president
on-leave. The RLEA, they said,
has helped rail labor and labor
generally to win many victories.
Tribute was also paid to the news
paper Labor published by the Stan
dard Railway Labor Organizations
OF which the Slgnalmen'S union Is
a member.
Railway Labor's Political Lea
que and the AFL's League for
Political Education should have
continued support, Bromley and
Clark said, citing the need for
electing candidates friendly to
labor ITO secure legislation to i'm
prove the social and economic well
fare of the workers." They called
for early passage of the rail union
shop bill and defeat of the Don
nell bill imposing compulsory arbi-
tration on rail employees. Their re-
port pledged all-out support for
Canadian members of the union.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-24
Unions Hold Up
Rent Decontrol
lin Los Angeles

Los Angeles (LPA)-Organized
labor lost its fight here to block
rent decontrol, but won a delay
through court action in Washing
ton.
The city council here voted for
decontrol in stormy session July
%, over the protests of labor and
military officials. Protests poured
in, at the request of James Roose-
welt, Democratic national chair
man and candidate for governor.
Tighe f. Woods, national housing
|expeditor, appeared personally be-
fore the council Aug. IA. He urged
compromise that would permit
neighborhood boards to determine
"justifiable" rent increases for
small landlords. Council turned him
down, 10 to 5, and Woods announc-
ed he would issue decontrol order,
as he is required by law.
However, at the same time in
Washington US Judge James Kirk
wood signed temporary order re-
straining Woods pending hear
ing Aug. "a. He acted on petition
Of the international Association of
Machinists, which made the request
for the Los Angeles Tenants Coun-
Gil, composed of representatives of
the AFL, CI0 and lam. The petit
tion charged irregularities in the
hearing on decontrol, and in the
council action on decontrol.
The Council chamber was jam
med when Tighe appeared. Out
side marched placard bearers for
the landlords, with signs such as
"Tighe Woods, Go Home, and
"Tighe Woods, Who Is the Law,
You Or Congress ?" G. G. Bauman,
head of the Small Property Own
ers League called Woods "a carpet
bagging bureaucrat." One council
man called Woods "a brash bur-
eaucrat." Another said Woods ad-
vice was unsolicited and unwant-
ed"
The unions lost in Los Angeles,
but they won, temporarily at least,
in Washington.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-24
'AFL DockWorkers
Refuse To Unload
Russian crabmeat

New York (LPA)-You're not
going to have any Russian crab
meat showed down your throat.
That is, not if rank-and-filers of
the Init LOngshoremen's Assn
AFL can help it.
Members of ILA Local 791 re-
fused to unload so tons of the stuff
which arrived here Aug. IA on the
British liner SIS Parthia. eve will
touch anything but that Russian
crabmeat," shop steward Frank
Kerins told reporters. "Why help
Russia make money in this coun-
try"
The British explained that no
proceeds from the sale of the de-
licacy would reach the, Soviet In
ion. They said the Russians includ-
ed the crabmeat in a trade agree
ment whereby British machinery
was exchanged for vitally-need So
Wet timber. The meat was re-ex-
ported when it proved too expen-
sive for British pocketbooks under
austerity.
The explanation didn't satisfy
the dockworkers. Moreover, ILA
President Joe Ryan declared he
wouldn't do anything to change
their minds. Il understand the feel
ing of the men," Ryan said, "and
l will not order them either to move
the cargo or let it remain"
Meanwhile, the Parthia was
scheduled to visit Boston, where
another attempt might be made to
unload the crabmeat. However,
Local 791 spokesman said Boston
ILA members were being urged to
leave the Russian seafood alone.
Demand the Union Label.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-24
Meany Lauds Role of CO-ops

Washington (LPA)-Well-man-
aged consumers cooperatives offer
unions an important service in in
creasing the buying power of their
incomes, said George Meany. The
AFL secretary-treasurer, praising
the Cooperative League, noted that
cooperation between the two
movements, which are both work
ing to raise living standards by
democratic means, will contribute
to the success of both. The aid of
experience CL personnel has been
indispensable in helping AFL
unions establish consumers coop
eratives, he added.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-24
Conference Urges
Mats Agency For
Problems OF Aged

Washington (LPA)-Some sort
of national agency is needed to
handle the problems of the grow
ing number of aged.
That conclusion was reached by
the 800 delegates to the first ma
tional Conference of Aging, called
by Oscar r. Ewing, head of the
Federal Security Agency.
Delegates representing labor,
business, medicine, education and
religion spent three days discuss
ing all facets of the problem. They
recommended that all workers be
covered by old age insurance, not
assistance benefits or doles; that
research be done in capability tests
to supplant the age criteria in re-
tirement; that a Research Council
on Gerontology and an Institute of
Gerontology be established; that
mass screening be instituted to de-
tect chronic diseases in the early
stages; that housing and educa-
tional facilities for the aged be
greatly increased. Their recon-
mendation will be submitted to the
President.
Ewing said of the conference
"We are engaged in great new
movement, worldwide movement
to give meaning and fulfillment to
the later years of every man and
woman" He credited the group
with starting a crusade similar in
Importance to those against child
labor and for woman suffrage.
In a message to the delegates,
President Truman said the country
"has far to go yet before the Social
Security system is satisfactory,
and even then it will be "but the
foundation for financial security in
old age" He assailed arbitrary age
limits as "depriving the country of
some of its best workers" and urg-
ed that the longer life span repre-
sent "more years of productive
activity, not "more years on the
shelf" For the aged who leave
their regular jobs, Truman said,
places should be found in part-time
jobs or in consulting capacities.
Still others will find "the excite
ment of entirely new lines of
work." he said.
Ewing said America should stop
accenting youth when that accent
is at the expense of its older cit
liens. "Too often we have forgot
ten that older people deserve the
deep respect of society for the hu-
man being who wishes to preserve
his dignity, his self-confidence, his
independence, and his capacity to
enjoy life-and to contribute to the
totel life of the community"
DR.. Evan Clague, commissioner
of the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
said society is just dabbling in the
aged problem. He urged a merger
of the two roads-social security on
the one hand and more jobs for the
aged on the other.
Frances Perkins, commissioner of
Civil Service and former Secretary
of Labor, declared, "There is no
evidence that older people are not
capable and effective. There is evil
dence that the aged make fewer
mistakes and have less absentee
ism than young people" She said
figures offset the casualty under
writer's swan song for the last 20|
years that old people can't be kept
in industry.
ck for TIuiop 7 ohalad Yoarchan.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-24
BRITISH MEDICS HIT
COLD CURE CLAIMS

London (LPA) - Antihistamine
drugs have little or no value in pre-
venting or treating colds. So de-
clared the British Medical Research
Council, after a series of expert
ments. American drug manufactur,
ers made millions of dollars selling
"cold cures" before the US Federal
Trade Commission ordered them to
stop making such claims in adver-
tisements.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-24
ETC FACILITIES IN SHAPE
FOR PRESENT EMERGENCY

Washington (LPA) - The facil-
tiles of the Federal Trade Com
mission to protect the consumer
and the small businessman are in
good shape for any war-like emer-
gency, ETC Chairman James Mead
told President Truman August 10.
He emphasized that ETC is in a
good position to check such mat
ters as cartel monopoly arrange
ments, boarding by industry of
scarce raw materials, and opera
tions of corporations in enemy
countries.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-24
12-CENT PACKAGE ENDS
PAPER MILL STRIKE

Gouverneur, N. Y. IPA)-The
AFL Paper Makers and Pulp
Workers have gone back to work
here with 12-cent package after
an eight-week strike. The agree
ment with the Rushmore Paper
Mills provides the $50 workers with
an eight-cent general wage boost.