The Dallas Craftsman (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, June 7, 1946 Page: 2 of 4
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Green Hits
Anti-Labor Bills
Coal Strike Settled;
Victory for Union
AFL Unions in
Anaconda Granted
Wage Increase
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Man and wife are equally concerned to avoid all offense of
each other in the beginning of their conversation. A little thing
can blast an infant blossom.—Jeremy Taylor.
Kindred tastes, motives, and aspirations are necessary to
the formation of a happy and permanent companionship.—Mary
Baker Eddy.
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WALLACE BEILLY, Editor
There is no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind
and purpose.—Dickens.
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fool’s curtain, which
hides all his defects from the world.
Civil Service Head
Joins Congress in
CIO Crackdown
will admit they are
Even when the Com-
Worth begets In base minds envy.
In (treat souls, emulation.—Fielding.
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The happiness of married life depends upon making small
sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.—Selden.
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DALLAS COUNTY NEEDS
AN EXPERIENCED PROSECUTOR
The 21 per cent increase in crime in Dallas
during recent months demands the elec-
tion of a man who is capable of meeting the
best lawyers the opposition can employ.
ELECT
ANDREW J. PRIEST
DISTRICT ATTORNEY (Pol. Adv.)
“♦feet Your Friende Where Your Frienda Meet"
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in the Spring of 1945. The decline in wages averaged 10 per
cent of these non-war workers, largely skilled, and was about
154.30 a week.
On the other hand one out of every four war workers was
involuntarily employed from 5 to 7 months after V-J Day. An
even larger proportion had moved away from the communities
in which they had war jobs. Those who still had jobs had
taken sharp cuts in weekly earnings sufficient to reduce their
purchasing power below that of 1941. In the winter of 1946,
former war workers, many now in other occupations were aver-
aging $46 a week, a drop of 31 per cent in their earnings from
the Spring of 1945 when war plants were operating at a neces-
sary high level.
The BLS survey also found that men older than 45 were
having much more difficulty finding new fobs than those under
that age, nearly one-third over that age being unemployed as
compared with 14 per cent of the younger men. Women war
workers were involuntarily unemployed to a much greater ex-
tent than men. Excluding those who had left the labor market,
52 per cent of the women and 21 per cent of the men were look-
ing for jobs.
The report also failed to find any significant back-to-the-
land movement amorig workers. Only 3 per cent of former war
workers were working on farms as compared to 13 per cent of
them usually engaged in farming before the war. While this
report might indicate that war workers have suffered more
acutely economically in the reconversion than did non-war work-
ers, it should be remembered that non-war workers, in the pre-
war era generally were the highest skilled and enjoyed job pre-
ference to those who were less skilled or acquired new skills in
war industry.
However, this shrinkage in purchasing power of millions'
of former war workers and their families (among which 10 pqr
cent from rural areas intend to remain in urban industries) be-
low their 1941 level, is an unhealthy condiiton which calls for
wage leveling up from the bottom. It should prove an incentive
for the passage of the 75 cent an hour national minimum wage
for workers in interstate industries as well as passage by States
of similar minimum wage measures for workers in intra-state
occupations. The purchasing power of such workers will prove
an essential factor in maintaining a high national income needed
to preserve a widely diffused prosperity and the orderly re-
duction of the national debt brought on by war.—St. Louis La-
bor Tribune.
on the Job against their will by draft- cfpiuted the long dispute.
The coal shutdown began April 1
and was interrupted only by a two-
week truce granted by the union to
protect the Nation's economy from
breaking down.
The acreentent was entered into
between the union and the Govern-
ment which haf seized the mines and
is now operating them. It was rati-
fied by a hastily summoned session
of the I MW Policy Committee. Tha
coal operator* will have to auhaerfba
to the agreement it they wish the
mines returned to private operation.
Washington. D C. (AFLWN8).—
Unanimous approval of an 11)4-cent
hourly pay increase for 6.000 employes
of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co.
was announced by the Wage Stabili-
zation Board. Unions associated with
the AFL Building and Construction
and Metal Trades Department and the
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
(AFL) will benefit
The raise Involves 22 mines at
Butte. Mont., and copper, zinc, man-
ganese, milling, smelting and refining
plants in Butte and Great Falls,
Mont.
For the second consecutive month, retail prices of goods
and services for moderate-income city families rose 0.5 per cent,
as higher prices in all important groups of items except elec-
tricity were reported in mid-April. The consumers’ price in-
dex, prepared by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U. S. Depart-
ment of Labor is 130.9 per cent of the 1935-39 average, 3.0 per
cent above the level of a year ago. Food, clothing, and house-
furnishings costs, which represent 57 per cent of the budget
for wage-earners and moderate-income workers in large cities,
are now a little over 50 per cent higher than in August 1939, the
month before the war in Europe.
Food prices increased l.l per cent between mid-March and
mid-April. Higher prices in all minor groups, except eggs and
beverages, contributed to this rise. The cost of cereal and bak-
ery products advanced 2.7 per cent as the 10 per cent reduction
in the weight of loaves requested on March 15 by the President’s
Famine Emergency Committee resulted in a 4.8 per cent increase
in the average price per pound for breads. Fresh fruit and
vegetable prices rose 1.8 per cent with prices of Unions, pota-
toes, cabbage, and sweet potatoes increasing seasonally more
than 4 per cent; lettuce and spinach declined 5 and 6 per cent
respectively.
The average price of meats increased 1.1 per cent during
the month as OPA allowed higher ceiling prices to compensate
for wage adjustments. This repfresents the largest monthly in-
crease in this group since early in 1943. Chicken prices rose
sharply (6 per cent) between mid-March and mid-April. Sugar
increased 2.5 per cent.
Clothing costs advanced 0.8 per cent between March and
April, reflecting both the government’s policy of granting price
increases to manufacturers to encourage production and, to a
lesser extent, the return of some items of pre-war quality at
prices higher than they were last available. Higher prices were
reported for men’s topcoats, wool suits, business shirts, work
clothing and socks, and for women’s cotton house and street
dresses, hose and gloves. Retailers* inventories of inen’s apparel
continued low’, but some improvement over previous months
was reported by individual merchants. The cost qf rayon dress-
es declined over the month as substantial shipments of gar-
ments, manufactured under the government’s program to in-
crease stocks of lower-priced apparel, reached retail stores.
Increased costs of materials continued to force prices upward
for cotton products. Cotton clothing is now 84 per cent higher
kthan in August 1939; wool clothing costs have risen 48 per cent;
and silk, rayon, and nylon apparel, 45 per cent. Men’s shoe
prices advanced, as shoes of prewar quality became available at
higher prices.
House furnishings costs rose 0.7 per cent over the month
Prices for sheets advanced more than 6 per cent due to an in-
crease in ceiling prices and the further disappearance of lower-
priced sheets. Prices for stoves and bedroom furniture also in-
creased.
The average cost of miscellaneous goods and services edged
upward 0.1 per cent on scattered increases for beauty shop serv-
ices. tobacco, household appliances, newspapers, and motion
picture admissions. Since August 1939 the cost of services has
increased about 20 per cent._______________
The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U. S. Department
of Labor will shortly issue a report on the “workers experiences
in the first phase of reconversion." The BLS segregated its re-
port into two categories, that of war workers and of non-war
workers. It found that non-war workers generally had held on
to their jobs and maintained their earnings much more gener-
ally- °n|y five per cent of them were unemployed and leas
than 7 per cent had migrated to other areas. Over three-fourths
of them continued to work in plants where thev were employed
Washington. D. C. (AFLWN8).—
The nation-wide coal strike ended in
an almost complete victory for the
United Mine Workers of America.
President Truman announced the
settlement from the White House
after Secretary of the Interior Krug
and UMW President John L. Lewis
agreed on the terms of a new contract.
It provides:
1 Establishment of a health and
welfare fund for the miners to be fi-
naunced by a 5-cent a-ton royalty on
coal mined. The fund will be admin-
istered by a three-man board to be
chosen by the union and the Secretary
of Interior.
2— Wage Increases of $1.85 a day
across the board for the miners.
3— Union control of the hospitaliza-
tion fund instead of by the coal oper-
ators. thus ending the Company doc-
tor system.
4— Creation of safety committees to
enforce safety regulations in the
mines and reduce industrial hazards.
Thus the union w-on its hard-fought
Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their
limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are
wretched from other causes.—Coleridge.
Men and women in, marrying, make a vow to love one
another. Would it not be better for their happiness if they made
a vow to please one another?—Stanislaus Vefzcynaki.
During the war Americans became dramatically familiar
with the bond drives. This month the Treasury Department
is undertaking a new kind of bond sales campaign in which you
must act as your own salesman. No one will knock at your door
to remind you of your obligation to your fighting son or friend.
Everywhere you went, whether at work, and at home you were
reminded: “Back the Attack. Back the Attack. Back the At-
tack.” The fighting power of the war bonds you bought went
off to war but the dollar represented in each of the bonds you
accumulated stayed with you and earned interest.
United States Savings Bonds are still available. Each bond
says to you: “I back your future. I back your future." To be
sure, this is no flag-waving appeal of the character to which
you responded so remarkably in the war j’ears. Nevertheless
this appeal serves the country as well as you. We are still in
the throes of the battle against inflation. Billions of dollars
above the value of available consumers’ are in the hands of
Americans. There is no longer compulsory rationing. Self-
discipline in the matter of handling your resoures and income
is of the utmost importance now. Every dollar you put away
in bonds now is a dollar you keep out of competition with your
neighbor for scarce goods. Continued investment in savings
bonds is your personal guarantee against a shaky national econ-
omj’, jumpy prices of the things you need to maintain a com-
fortable standard of living.
The June slogan, “Back Your Future,” which the Treasury
Department has chosen can be safely interpreted to cover the
immediate future as well as the period 10 years hence wheru1
every $3 you invest in savings bonds returns to you with $1
profit. Tomorrow, the next day. and the next week and the ,
next month are your future when you talk about the fight
against inflation.
From every standpoint you truly back your future by con-
tinuing to buy and hold United States Savings Bonds.
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FOOD, CLOTHING, AND HOUSEFURNISHINGS COSTS,
CURRENTLY SO PER CENT HIGHER THAN
MONTH BEFORE WAR IN EUROPT
cannot or will not enter into a col-
lective bargaininK contract with a un-
ion. the Government will take over
nnd do the Job tor them, even to the
extent o( drafting workers into the
Army under conditions of involuntary
servitude to compel tmbtnisston.
The public intereat will not be
served by such methoda. The public
interest will not be promoted by hav-
ing the Government rescue recslci-
trans employers ahd crack down on
workers who have just (trievances.
The American Federation of Labor
cautions Congress and the President
to take time out to consider carefully
before going ahead with thia program.
If it is put into effect. Fascism may
grip America unawares.
Even the effects of a nation-wide
strike on a vital industry could not
be ar permanently disastrous to our
economy or to the American way of
life as slabe labor and the nationaliza-
tion of Industry. Yet these are the
inevitable outcome of the proposed
legislation.
To compel free workers to remain battle on every major issue that pre-
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Ing them into the armed forces and,
making them subject to court martial
If they refuse Is slave labor under
Fascism. _
To seize private industry and oper-
ate it as long as no agreement 1a
reached on a new labor contract con-
stitutes nationalization of industry,
not under Socialism, but under Fas-
cism.
The American Federation of Labor
founded upon the principle of volun-
tarism and giving its first and full
allegiance to the prinriptoo of Amer-
ican democracy, will resist such puni-
. _________ tive. restrictive, and un-American
It provides In legislation as the Case Bill nnd the
bonfire blazing. Propery values are rising rapidly—-so rapidly
that contractors hesitate to commit themselves on building costs.
This means that fire insurance policies can become outdated. A
fully insured home of ten years ago would be only about half
insured now with the same dollar coverage/ Insurance com-
panies are trying to impress upon the insuring public the in-
sidious menace of inflation to yesterday's insuranceopolicy.
Next month another forty or fifty million dollars’ worth
of property will disappear in smoke and flame. Night and day
the awful pageant will go do, until the American people realize
their bonfire is a disgrace to the nation—then maybe they will
do something about it.
Washington. D. ('. fAFLWNS).—
Text of statement by AFL President
William Green condemning such leg-
islation as the Case and Government
seizure bills follows:
Half of President Truman's two-
fold program for labor legislation al-
ready has been repudiated by Con-
gress. Only a few hours after the
President appealed to Congress to re-
rain from acting on permanent labor
egislation until after a six months'
tudy by a Joint Congressional Com-
nittee. a Senate coalition of Southern
Democrats and reactionary Republi-
ana on Saturday night forced adop-
ilon of a drastic anti-labor bill. Since
the House had previously adopted a
dmilar hill, it is no exaggeration U>
Mate that the President's program
has been wrecked
The Case Bill as approved by the
House and amended by the Senate,
■epresents the worst type of venge-
ful and hysterical legislation I pre-
lit t without reservation that if it
becomes law, labor relations through-
out American Industry will be dis-
rupted. It constitutes an open invi-
tation to hostile employer* to so out
and destroy trade unions with damaae
suits. The workers of America will
never willingly accept such a one-
sided law.
The President s second recommen-
dation. while temporary in scope, is
even more dangerous to the funda-
mental freedoms of Amercan workers
than the Case Bill. It range* the
Government on the side of private in-
dustry against labor. I
France has her eternal flame which tourists may visit, but
that is nothing compared to America’s perpetual bonfire that
roars along to the tune of a half billion dollars’ worth of prop-
erty annually.
In April alone the American bonfire consumed $52,000.-
000 worth of homes, farms, hotels, restaurants, dance halls, and
heaven alone knows what else. It is getting hotter all the time.
Currently it is burning at a rate that has never been equaled
since the National Board of Fire Underwriters began compil-
ing losses sixteen years ago.
One of the most effective ways to ease the housing shortage
would In? to use a little more care where fire is concerned. There
are very few unavoidable fires. Cigarettes and matches are
the great destroyers. Great caution in the use of these two
items alone would work miracles.
NexF to preventing destruction, the most important
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Washington, D. C. (AFLWN8).—
The United States Civil Service/'om-
mtosion Joined Congress in the gen-
eral crackdown on the CIO’* recently
created United Public Worker* of
.America with a itern warning that
any Federal worker* who "actively
supported” the Communist policies of
the new union can be released from
Government employment on grounds
of questionable loyalty to this Nation.
Coming fast on the heel* of a de-
termined movement in the Senate to
deny employment to member* of this
union becauee of their declaration In
their constitltion of the right to
■trike against the Government the
Civil Service Commission’s pronounce-
ment was regarded as a virtual death
blow to the CIO group.
The double-barreled action doe* not
affect the American Federation of
Government Employes (AFL), which,
in its constitution, renounces tbe
right to strike against the Govern-
ment and which recently called on
the Govprnmrat to remove from its
payrolls any employe of doubtful loy-
alty to this Nation.
The views of the Commission were
dated bluntly by its president, Harry
B. Mitchell, In a letter to Arthur
Stein, international vice president of
the UPWA. Stein had asked the
Commission to comment on news re-
ports Indicating the Commission was
planning an investigation of the
union.
"The mere fact that a persoti at-
tended a convention which declared
that the Communistic RUKSian Gov-
ernment wa* perfect in all that it did.
while the Government of the United
States was Imperialistic in its de-
signs on humanity, would not. stand-
ing alone, justify a decision that the
person was a Communist, and that
force to overthrow tbe government
to which he normally owed allegi-
ance. was justified.” Mr. Mitchell said.
“However, such action is bound to
arouse suspicion against the mem-
bers. aa it unquestionably did in tbe
case of your organization.
“Its purpose In throwing an ut-
terly uncalled-for proverbial red rag
in tbe face of the American public,
tbe employer of its members, is rath-
er difficult to understand.
“There la no question but that evi-
dence indicating that Individuals par-
ticipated in the drafting of such reso-
lutions, or actively supported the
adoption of such resolutions, would
be considered as relevant evidence in
determining whether or not a person
was following the Communist party
Uns.”
In his letter to Stein.. Mr. Mitchell
bluntly reminded the union that “rea-
sonable doubt” of a person’s loyalty
to the Government is a basis for dis-
qualifying an applicant for a Federal
Job or removal of an employe from
the Federal payroll.
In this connection,
cited Section 9 (Al of the Hatch Act.
which reads as follows:
’’It should be unlawful for any per-
son employed in any capacity by any
agency of the Federal Government,
whose compensation, or any part
thereof, is paid from funds author-
ized or appropriated by any act of
Congress, to have membership in any
political party or organization which
advocates the overthrow of our con-
stitutional form of government in the
United States.”
Mr. Mitchell told Stein the Com-
mission has carefully examined the
background of persons suspected of
following the Communist party line
■nd. where It found reasonable doubt
of the person* loyalty to the Govern-
ment has denied them employment
or caused their dismissal.
"Experience has taught the Com-
mission.” he added, "that it is diffi-
cult to prove that a person under sus-
picion is a member of the Communist
party. Very few Communist* in the
United States
Communists
mission has definite proof that cer-
tain persons are or have been mem-
ber* of the Communist party, they
still dispute the fact. Therefore, the
Commission has to rely on cumula-
tive. collateral or circumstantial evi-
dence.”
At tbe same time Mr. Mitchell took
occasion to warn members of the new
CIO union that tbe Commission will
strictly enforce the Hatch Act provi-
sions prohibiting solicitation of fnnds
by Federal workers for political pur-
poses. This section of his letter
served stern notice against any ac-
tivity by a Government employe to
raise funds for the CIO’s Political Ac-
tion Committee.
Gold Is tbe
effect that if a group of employers Government Seizure BUI to Its last ^Feltham.
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