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AFL Finds Crash "Almost
Impossible’9 Survey Reveals
Painters Union No. 53 Elect Dave Marr
And Charles A. Erhardt for Ensuing Year
German Union
Formed; Includes
Units in 3 Zones'
Minimum Wage
Boost Stymied
By House Group
ILO Acts to Establish
Freedom Commission
Stock Prices Slump,
Near Five Year Low
AFL Farm tabor
Union Organizing
Tree Surgeons
Since
how uni
fairly an
era
rates
Washington. D. ('.—America's econ-
omy is so healthy and vigorous thst
NLRB Rules
Rail Workers
Not Effected
red clearly that the
h have nought to
proponed that the
* reduced. He da-
House Unit Votes
Extra $33 Million
For Jobless Aid
TMisms union
uixnniOA) cnca
Power
must the
may be j
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46 dele-
nce. Dal.
unions r
through
Washington.—The Teamsters Un-
ion said its nation-wide highway sur-
vey of the union status of track driv-
ers in
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still hav
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Green Backs Aid to Education; Hits
Lack of Pay Raise in Barden Bill
" AFL Technical Engineers Win Drive
For Revised Job Classification System
sduced, thus, lower- have to reestablish its free trade
Income. ion
wernor
Minnesota was^fhe second to
pose that the ti
duced by town
price supports
"3. The SOtb
in the morning
session enachSK
that the fatsM
support should
the farmers' o’
he reduced—bu
put on an asm
barrassment l«
Hal campaign w
reduced incotm
Washington.—The decline In Indus-
trial production, begun several
months ago. continued into April and
early May, according to figures re-
leased by the Federal Reserve Board
The board’s index of production,
adjusted for seasonal variations, slid
downward in April to 179 percent of
the 1935-39 average This compares
with index figures of 184 for March
IMAM Chicago
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late through the
I have
could pn
over oth<
New York. — Stock prices dipped
close to a 6 year low on the heels of
announcement of a naw cutback in
steel production.
A slight gain followed a plunge
which sliced a billion dollars off the
market value of stocks listed on the
New Yortt Stock Exchange
the issues hit most seriously
cline wss Nickel Plate Rail-
Kef on
owned 5
200 gian
The ii
the back
1939 the
ed to mi
ansets of
000,000,
nee Metaen. u. — Joseph n.
Keenan. labor's League
for Political MUff>llin- declared here
that the BratU pl*n to maintain
the high IhMg Brndards of the na-
tion’s farmers
for labor as M
tain the wwrkl
in the cities."
tlon gave him a standing ovation and
called for more of the same. Your
secretary has been a supporter of this
man for a long time and after his
speech is more than ever convinced
that be ts the man for us.
In convention politics the highlight
of the convention was the election
of Paul Sparks, secretary of the
News of the Printing
Industry
ILO Reveals 5
European Nations
Need Workers
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housing
lobby m
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nature o
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up Wedi
thirty y<
of this bi
to local
ilies. Th
could n<
structioi
erage o!
io farm
prograrr
should I
prognm
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plan. On
Governn
all the i
terprise,
cientlv,
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the auto
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ante are
the laboe-fnnnw
helped put across
eminent farm wfa
to resist the attar I
cial interests' whi
l,.*m» -
worker la order i
selfish interests.
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Mme great fl-
have been attai
individuals wb
interests and v
fare of the pet
the unity of th
should find <h*
us strong OHM
lack, to prevan
our country an
with IL*'
Mr. Keenans
same forces v
crucify labor I
farmers* incogs
clared:
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speech In the
primary ia the
the first publieR
government prici
ture should be
ing the farmers*
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By ADRIENNE TARRLEB
Eorvpt'sa ('Mrespeadent far the
AFL News Service
Fro nk fort, Germany.— Henry Ruts,
the AFl.'s special European repre-
sentative. participated in the first
convention of German woodworkers
representing the 3 western sones of
Germany—held recently at Koenigs-
winter on the Rhine.
Rutx, who represented the Ameri-
can Federation of labor as a frater-
nal delegate, declared In an address:
"When the first delegation of
European trade union leaders visited
Germany under the auspices of the
Soviet controlled World Federation
of Trade Unions after the war. they
advised the 4 military governments
to go alow In permitting Germans to
organise beyond local levels.
’’In contrast to the WFTU policies.’'
he pointed out. "The American Fed-
eration of Labor as early at 1943
April was so successful it
similar checks in the dairy
■ and beverage industries.
The union's magnates, the Interna-
tional Teamster, said the checl
was "completed without tncMeat"
the union found “drivers, union
nonunion, extremely cooperative
wUling to answer all
The magazine said 1_ .
be need tn organising activities
said the survey indicated the unft
now claiming more than 1,444
members, could have a mesnberi
of MMAM or more.
Only about batt the "potential
membership * was found to bo organ-
teed te the New York City araa.
On Saturday June 25, Painters Local
No. 53 elected officers for the ensuing
year, with the following results:
President, Charles A. Erhardt: Vice-
President. Eddie A. Jakubec: Record-
ing Secretary, B. H. Day; Financial
Secretary-Treasurer, P. O. Marr; Con-
ductor. Grady Hume; Warden, T. Lack-
ey.
In the list for business agent. Dave
H. Marr received 121 votes. Charles A.
Erhardt. 47 votes. T. 12 Day. 2 votes.
Eddie A. Jakubec. 4 votes, and J. N.
’’Bill" Faison. 42 votes. Dave Marr
was re-elected business agent on the
first ballot with a clear majority over
all opponents.
Trustees, I. M. Blakely, executive
Beard — T. U Day. J. H. Cole. B. H.
Day. 8. J. "Roy" Carpenter, and Jim-
mie H Davidson.
Delegate to the Dallas Building
Trades Council—C. W. Beard, Jr.. D.
H. Marr. R. R. Mahaney and P. O.
Marr.
Delegates to the Dallas Central La-
bor Council—C. W. Beard. Jr., B. H.
Day, T. L. Day. R_ R. Mahaney and
J. N. Faison.
Reading Clerk—A. J. Steel.
Joint Trades Board—D. H. Marr. C.
W. Beard, Jr., and A. O. Mead.
Joint Apprenticeship Committee—
Chas. A. Erhardt. Charles Lay and D.
H. Marr.
To establish blood pool at Buchanan
Blood Bank Baylor Hospital for mem-
bers end their Immediate family, for
129. against M.
Chicago—Basebail tens ere “isars-
iag the score’’ on the Chicago printers*
strike through one of tbs most ed-
The printer circulate t ■
crowds and make a point or not
forcing their csrde on anyone. They
don't haye to. As one put it:
“They almost take your band with
it!“
["Just as important
» program to main-
standard of living
He caliM reconstruction of
toalltlon. which
l ike original gov-
* aunport program,
k» or the big flnau-
I' li seek to reduce
living etandaraa or tx.th farmer and
1* serve their own
He said:
»een attacked by the
[tial Interests. We
by the very same
bpeak for these big
HP disregard the wel-
they represent. In
lQtta< k against us we
MMlty which will make
M to defeat this at-
[p ’little economy' for
Vmil the evils that go
Backs j
nnon Plan
IH
well represented at the T ..
ntion and at the first Dal- liberals Urge •
Congress to Enact
‘Must’ Legislation ]
New York.—Congressmen! must re-
main in session until essential legis-
lation has been disposed of. the Lib-
eral party said in a communication
to all members of Congress from New
York state.
This observation was contained in
a series of recommendations on spe-
cific bills in the fields of bousing, edu-
cation. health teaurance. social se-
curity, minimum wage, displaced per-
M>ns, civil rights and labor, made by
the Liberal party in a letter over the
signatures of Marx Lewis, chairman
of the National Legislative Commit-
tee. and Ben Davidson, executive di-
rector.
BM when tbe-eager tens reached
e— . tai oft* far tha
y MM wUtely that the
were free •
“Compliments of the striking Chi-
cago printers."
The reaction was immediate and
satisfying, raagi
Thanks’" to a
of the fane’ at
Chicago newapai
printers out M a
JamM Burrow:
city staff, found
given away mon
cards in one ws
That reyresri
From the Reerotary at the Dallas
TypegMpMcnl I'nton
Mr. and Mrs. Al Jones. C. 1
“Swede” tfoderberg, Mr. and
Wallace Reilly and your secretary
aud wife, attended the state Federa-
tion of I^abor convention at Beaumont
last week representing No. 173 and
ladles* Auxiliary No. SO.
fluence of the Typographical Union
in this convention was very evident,
The Beaumont convention of
the Texas State Federation of .
Labor is now history. It was ■ “••rious buaineas recession- ia •ai-
the largest convention ever
held in the history of Texas la-
bor movement. The total vot-
ing strength in the race for ex-
ecutive secretary-treasurer to-
taled 7,347. This meant there
were over 700 delegates in at-
tendance at the convention.
This number, coupled with the
wives and children of the dele-
gates, totaled twice that num-
ber, or approximately 1C~. —
hotels of Beaumont were taxed
to house such a large delega-
tion. To the convention com-
mittee in Beaumont, consisting
mainly of W. M. Scarborough
and Ed Gross, a lot of praise
and flowers should be given.
They worked untiringly in the
interest of the convention and
its delegates and provided some
of the best entertainment,
amusement, educational
n. u^> a mi. co**, u tU /«<«. c<^ku ** MmJZvSZZSr; n. r- "-rEzHmr
THE DALLAS CRAFTSMAN
ytlual Benefit and Proyrem and Development of Dollar
.Geneva. — The governing body of
the IIX) approved the eatabltehment
of a fact-finding and conciliation
commiMion on freedom of aaaociatlon
for the supervlaion of freedom of aa-
aoclatlon in an international bavin.
Such a commiaaion waa auggeated In
propoMla aubmltted to the govern-
ing body by Director-General David
A. Morae.
The governing body requested the
director-general to continue conaulto-
tlons already begun with the aecre-
lary-genoral of the United Natlona
with regard to the manner in which
the commlaalon can moat appropri-
ately be established The governing
body also requested the director-gen-
eral, in the light of these consulta-
tions. to submit to the governing
body at an early session detailed pro-
, pnaala concerning the terms of rof-
tbia time were Colombia. Ire-|eroSce. procedure and composition of
The bill, which Mr. Lesinski in-
troduced, would leave the present
coverage of the statute unchanged.
The admlnstration’s bill stymied in
the Rules Committe. not only would
boost the minimum to 75 cents, but
also enlarge the law to take in ap-
proximately 5.000.00V workers not
now covered.
Mr. Lesinski has filed a petition
for House consileration of that bill,
and could compel a floor vote on tak-
ing it up before the House. He told
reporters the committee would meet
again next week on the straight 75
cent bill.
Cleveland. — Penlcious propaganda
charging every act of a government
ngency or a private philanthropic
body that increases a man’s social
welfare, automatically reduces his
freedom was scored as “a false and
misleading proposition” by Earl J.
McGrath. United States Commission-
er of Education.
This proposition, he declared, "must
be exposed if we are to have any
type of adequate Social Security pro-
gram.*' he addressed 7.000 social
workers attending the National Con-
ference of Social Work here.
"I believe that the hiatory of our
nation shows a steady growth In the
well-being of our people with a com-
mensurate growth in freedom. I be-
lieve that we can achieve much
greater security than wo enjoy at
present, not with a loss of. but with
an actual Increase in, political and
personal independence.”
brief strike of the Technical Engi-
neers, Architects A Draftsmen’s
Aas’n., Local 90-A. AFL.
Although a wage Issue was in-
volved, Ursa Stringer, president of
(be union, said the heart of the dis-
pute was a faulty classification of
Jobs which resulted after the city
clyil service commission conducted ex-
aminations after 21 years without
Members of the union are engaged
in planning of sewer, street paring,
isubway, bridge and auperhighway
projects, currently involving more
than 820,000,000 worth of construc-
tion.
Some of the men who left college
20 years ago or earlier have spent a
liteUme In apecialized fields. But
when the examinations wore held, the
questions they were required to an-
swer proved to bo outside their fields
in many cases.
Of 91 experienced candidates who
look the examination for junior en-
• B' > f M 1^ • a Xineer, for example, only » paaeed.
Furnished by AFL Printers
"Our union ia all in favor of civil
service,” eaid Btriager. "But after
a maa has spent bls entire working
life planning asphalt paviag jobs, he
caa’t bo expected to solve a compli-
cated problem of tuanol mining.
"He might have been able to an-
swer the aamo questions when bo loft
school, but after years of specialised
training, he has forgotten some of his
C ontinued on Page 4)
Washington. — The Taft-Hartley
law’s ban on secondary boycotts is
not effectlvs when the secondary par-
ties are railroads and their employee,
according to a recent decision of the
National Labor Relations Board.
In Its iirat ruling on the question,
the board objected to the arguments
of Robert N. Denham. NLRB gen-
eral counsel, and an NLRB trial ex-
aminer and ruled that the definitions
in the law exluded railroad employ-
ers and employes. Denham sought to
invoke the boycott ban anyway
The issue camo up at Crowley, la',
where Local 201 of the Teamsters
Union. AFL. walked out for recognl-
eoopamte Don at 4 rice mills. Pickets prevent-
h MHhri- train crews of the Southern Pari-
fic and Missouri Pacific Railroads
from switching railway cars to and
from the mftls during the 1947 strike,
it was charged. The trial examiner
found that the railway employes were
induced to stop their switching op-
erations for about 7 days by threats
and by groups of 15 to 30 pickets on
the tracks. A preliminary injunction
stopped those activities.
Ordinarily an attempt to effectuate
(Continued on Page 3)
pro- I “Consequently, the AFL inrtated 1 Hartley and Its nine pupa in Texas, era! aid for education where it is
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more than the Negroes. The Barden
Washington.—The House Labor
Committee refused to approve a bill
to raise the national minimum wage
from 40 cents an hour to 75. The
vote was on a measure designed as
a compromise to get past the Rules
< ommlttee, which has blocked ac-
tion by the House on broader legis-
lation previously approved by the
rules group.
Chairman John Lesinski. Democrat
Geneva - Tito International I<abor
Office announced that 5 European
countries will have 173,400 jobs for
foreign workers before the end of
1949.
Canada, largest single importer of
foreign labcr among the 22 counties
which have answered an ILO ques-
tionnaire. finds it "quite possible"
that 125.400 foreign workers will be
needed this year.
Fourteen coyntries and the Blzone
section of Germany replied that they
either had no Jobe for foreigners thia
year or that there was no Informa-
tion available at thia time.
New Zealand, which needs 1,100
workers, expressed a preference tor
British subjects Canada said that
of the 125.400 who entered Canada
last year. 44.1M were of British or-
igin. 7.400 from the United States.
13.800 Polish. UT.000 Ruthenlan and
9,400 Hebrew.
France, biggest Importer of for-
eign labor on the European continent,
estimated the need of 85,000 long-
term workers; Belgium. 9,000: Swe-
den, 1,600: Switzerland, 9.000. and
the United Kingdom. 13.000. France
needed 30.000 additional short-term
workers and Swttserland 26,000.
Countries reporting no Important
job opportunities for foreigners at
present were Austria, Ceyloa, Cuba.
Denmark. Domiafoan Republic. Bl-
zonia. (Germany), India, Pakistan.
Netherlands. Poland and Turkey.
Thoee unable to supply laforms-
tlon at 1 — " , -------
tend. Norway. I'ntao ot South Afrcla the commission.
moat impossible.’
Survey declared.
Even though unemployment is grow-
ing higher and may rise to 5.000.000
by July, the American people have
certain and definite safeguards against
a crash, the survey found. It took
a generally bright view of the eco-
nomic situation.
It said there are certain dangers,
however, and declared that policies
followed by unions, management and
government tn thia period are “all
important" The AFL said it is vital
500. The th,t vM»a move “steadily upward”
this year to restore and increase con-
sumer buying.
But it said wage increases should
now be baaed on "past or future in-
creases in productivity” to prqcent
undue rises in costa-end that com-
pany earning power should be con-
sidered.
It
management production committees
save expense, cut
duction." A wage
said, may depend
Washington.—William Green, pres-
ident of the American Federation of
Labor, called upon Congress to enact
a “fedaral aid tor education bill which
would give federal funds where they
are most needed.” Mr. Green attacked
the proposed Barden bill because it
does not assure the public school
teachers of America of one cent of
Increase in pay. He said:
“The Americas Federation of La-
bor has fought actively for federal
aid for education since 1917. We aro
to *“ur« every American child
1/3 ana aB opportunity to receive schooling
me ia- which will equip him to become a good
iu mis convention was very evident. AmericarTVederadon Ct i
a 5 point program of federal aid for
education: aid tor public school teach-
ers’ salaries, aid for essential health
and welfare services for every child
in America, aid for public school con-
struction, aid for scholarships and
loans to enable needy students to com-
plete their education, and aid for the
campaign for the eradication of adult
illiteracy. Under the Bearden bill
there ia no assurance that a single
one of these 5 points will be cared for,
and there ia the assurance some of
them will not be cared for."
Referring to specific convention ac-
tion, Presluent Green said:
“We aro by convention action called
Jto urge Congress to give fed-
most needed. This the Beardsn"biH
does not do. No group needs help
more than the Negroes. The Barden
bill carefully omits the essential safe-
guards for the rights of minority
groups.Wo are also called on to
make sure that the money granted
by the federal government will be
spent tn such a manner as to require
each state to maintain at leant the
building trades at Houston, to the of- present salaries of its public school
lice of executive secretary of the State
Federation of Labor to succeed Har-
ry Acreman of Austin. Bill Harris
was reelected president without op-
position. Bill Is a good president and
hie presiding at the sessions Is about
U<^B UUl BVt, MBV*. — — —— — W” ’ — — -w. —— , ww »"r1
iginning January I Cincinnati convention as the spoken- a meeting rolling without a set pro-
ueut price supports man for the German delegation, was gram is a hard job but the wav Bill
^resident of the nowly-fortn-1 does it you would think that he plann-
led every move a mouth ahead.
I Chapel chairmen and fbi tdember-
Ishlp as a whole are requested to oe-
Icare the names of members that aro
I entitled to forty-year and fifty year
[buttons thio year ao that some time
| later we can honor these men.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Dial are on
vacation in West Texas and Col-
orado, will visit the Home while
away.
M. K. Banner, Herald operator has
been on vacation. Built hlmaelf a
garage and breeeeway with built in
breese while away from work.
F R. Zeiler, who worked two weeks
at the Newt, drew a traveler and he
and the Missus headed for the West
Goaet to dig ia for the convention
(Continued on Pago 4)
tlon, four were chairmaned by print-
ers. One vice president. Leroy Wil-
liams of Houston, is a Typo. Wallace
Reilly. Joe Moody of No. 172 made
addresses to the coaventlon. Ralph
Wright, member of New York No. 6,
and asatstant secretary of labor
brought a stirring address to the
convention. H. L. McCormick and Jud
Moody of No. 87 were busy delegates.
BUI Arnold of 8an Tone was there
and working hard.
Cano March, candidate tor governor
brought the convention to its feet with
a very forceful speech in which he
pointed out that labor never support-
its friends for office and that waa
I the main reason that we have Tafl-
ifi of Ohio in his
Ibraska presidential
Uiiwner of 1948 was
advocate that the .
supports for agricul- insisted that a new Germany would
* 2 _X, t__un-
movement If a democratization
Stassen, of of the country was to succeed.
Siners’ income be^re- on the U. 8. government writing Into At the end of tils speech the ooaven-
|Pk the government the military government regulations
■>r agriculture. the provisions that among the first
■ongreMs at 4 o'clock organizations to be permitted in Ger-
■l the last day of its many after capitulation waa the or-
■ law which provides ganization of a new German trade
•’ government price union movement"
Br reduced and that I Rutz warned the delegates not to
•r ail income should be over optimistic in their expecta-
| the 89th Congress Hons of development at the foreign
Bdnient to avoid em- ministers' conference In Paris, de-
A the 1948 preidden- clariUg that Russia baa frequently
meh provided that the .tailed to keep her treaty obligations,
i for farmers should I The Koenigawlnter convention led
commence Jaauirv 1. 1»M This act |to the formation of a Western Ger-
ol the 80th CHBgress puts the 81st man Woodworkers Union with 180.000
Congress directly the spot, if the members Markus Schleicher, known ,
of Michigan, told reporters the bill I present Congress does not act. then, to AFL delegatee who attended the as smooth aa could be, to keep auch
failed on a tie vote of 10 to 10 with automatically.;
t members merely voting "present." next the gove:
Washington.—The National Farm
Ijibor Union announced the signing
of a contract with the Asplundh Tree
Expert Co. by its Akron Ohio. Local
265. The contract with the Asplundh
Co. covers all employes encaged In
line clearing work for the Ohio Edi-
son Electric Co.
A general wage increase of 7 cents
per hoqr waa provided for all work-
under* the contract The wage
J set by the contract provMe a
minlmam of 11 per hour and a top
rat.” 11.27 per how. The uakm
contract alee <M»a«aine>a atoltoBneaw
of membership clause, seniority rights
and paid vacations for the workers
The contract with the Aaplundh
t’o Follows a -—--
by Loesl 234 of Boston. Mm*., with
the Dsvey Tree Expert Co. The sign-
ing of union contrseta with these 2
leading concerns in s *«*• "“
Industry is a part of a nation-wide
campaign to bring into the ranks of
the American Federation of Labor
an estimated 25.400 workers em-
ninved in thia induatry.
P To date the National Farm Labar
• Union has won • NLRB elections
for representation of employes en-
gaged to tree surgery operations. An
eleetira of employes of the F. A-Bnrt-
lett On. whose home office to in mam-
ford. Conn., haa boas ordorod by the
i
The printers don’t mind. They loro
tt. Their storey to on the back of the
eeeroenM. It goes like this:
Strike1 one!—The Chicago printers
are still on strike against the Chi
cage daily newspapers, their first
strike in 47 years!
Foul!—William Randolph Hurst baa
granted union security to union
printers tn hie 14 other papers, but
refuses to grant identical conditions
to printers on strike sgsinst the
Hora W Americas!
FsirL—Your continued refusal to
purchase scab Herald-American, Trib-
une. Daily News and Bun Times is
your oontributlon to the fight for
decent wages and working conditions.
Play bail—With Chicago’s striking
printers!
The scorecards, even the opposition
will admit, aro one of the cleverest
Maas yet used in the printers' eir-
culatk>B WBr tagtatnat th# Chicago tail-
lowered.
____—______ ____ ____msw-W- — ......KlMBB thfe
inski to'caat~proxi~baltots"for'them. Fhrm Bureau Federation has publicly
— endorsed the program laid down by
TUft; then by Stassen: and then by
(Continued on Pago 21
By DAN SMYTH
Chlrago (orrrapeadret ter
AFL News Service
tlonhl£yriem some MH) englneero, numbers of unemployed and any fur-
draftsmen and construction techni-
cians employed by the city of Chicago
tber "unforeoeable work load "
Meanwhile. President Truman to
under civil services was won in a expected to send a message to Con-
gress on the unemployment situation,
according to a group of Democratic
Cxmgressional leaders who called on
him at the White House.
The callers were Senators James
E. Murray of Montana. Hubert H.
Humphrey of Minnesota, and Ebert D.
Thomas of Utah, and Representatives
Wright Patman of Texas, Andrew J.
Biemlller of Wisconsin, and Helen Ga-
bagan Douglas of California.
On leaving the Executive Offices,
they represented the President as con-
cerned about rising unemploymint
and determined to do something about
It before ft was too late.
The group called primarily to ex-
plain to Mr. Truman a program for
economic expansion which they aro
considering sponsoring in legislative
form at this session of Congress.
They said the President was way
ahead of us aa to the need for a pro-
gram of this kind.”
la addition to long-range planning
of public works, as well as tax- ex-
emption inducements to private capi-
tal undertaking specified typos of
new construction, the group** tent*-
ttve plan wonM provide a National
KcobohUc Cooperation Boertl to do-
volop policies for the promotion of
employment, production and BMSS
elected pi „
led unioil ,
Iowa Supreme
Court Upholds
War Vets’ Bonus
Washington.—The House Appro-
priations Committee approved an ex-
tra allotment of 423.000.000 for grants
to states for administering their job-
finding and jobless payments pro-
n rants.
The sum is 48,000,000 Ism than
that nsiuested recently by President
Truman.
The committee said that available
evidence Indicated the money was
needed to handle claims of the large
percent of ail the veterans home
t witn inc — loanv It has »u«r’n,/T<’I'*'''
similar one negotiated 7d t^rtgages co^^ wto Ftoferal
Housing Agency-Insured first mon
"™Many lenders prefer the combina-
tion loans because veterans maybe
charged 4H percent Interest on THA
loans, as against 4 ““
guaranteed by the
MrattaL
Furthermore, the combination loans
aro tally Insurod while
do not exceed 50 percent on VA first
n>Bnis*are pending in both bouses of
Congress to outlaw combination loans
and to provMe direct government
loans at 4 percent tor veterans un-
able to Bet private financial at that
Dea Moines.—The Iowa Supreme
Court upheld the legality of the 185,-
(<00,000 bonus for Iowa World War
II veterans which voters approved
last fall.
The court's decision also validated
the procedure which the 1949 Iowa
leglalature aet up for payment of the
bonus.
The new state bonus board already
haa received bonds applications from
approximately 215,000 veterans.
to "proven) waste,
costs, taiprove pre
_ increase, the AFL
ffea- OB.^ch •,»**“>
ture«, danced and feasts this | o. 4I
writer has ever seen. Dallas
was ’
convention and at the first Dal-
las caucus, when the policy was
decided for this city,
gates were in attendai
had the second highest number
of votes in the convention and
was only exceeded by Houston.
All of the delegates frohi Dal-
las took a very active part in
the convention and 13 were
named as members of import-
ant committees. Among these,
included Mrs. Charlotte Mor-
gan, member of the credential
and auditing committee; Char-
les Henderson, resolutions com-
mittee; John Sorenson; com-
mittee on rules; Mrs. Geneva
Hrancky, member of the label
committee; Wallace C. Reilly,
chairman of committee on
resolutions, etc. In addition,
Wallsce Reilly, served as chair-
man of the political committee
for the convention and nominat-
ed W. J. Harris and John W.
Hays for re-election—both be-
ing unopposed. John Hays, as
the third delegate from the
Dallas Central Labor Council, — ... ..
was active during each moment ‘‘n~195Kl?rJNo,reni^er’.JJ4S.,
of the convention and served
na presiding officer of the
meeting during the absence of
the president. The convention
hesrd many fine addresses,
among these being Dan Tracy,
president of the I. B. of E. W.;
John Robinson. Barbers’ Inter-
nationa) vice president; Price
Daniels, attorney general of
Texas; Caso March, member
of the faculty of Baylor Uni-
versity and an avowed candi-
date if or governor; Joe Stead-
ham, Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen, etc. In the business
of the convention, a move- to
increase the per capita tax was
defeated; a resolution to raise
the pay of legislators was ap-
nroved: the payment of true
per capita tax by affiliated lo-
cals to be entitled to a seat
in future conventions, was left
in the discretion of the execu-
tive secretary and approved;
demanding repeal of the Taft-
Hartley Act and a full partL
(Continued on Pare 4)
The boan) report said that there
are eigne jhat the decline continued
into May and tbat there hae alM>
been some drop in the output of min-
erals.
of Chicago Bewxraaero free score-
cards!
Chicago Is one of the hottest base-
ball towns tn the country and the
dally newspaper* «•» «44ed thou-
sands of papers at the city’s two huge
ball parka, Wrigley Field HBfcago
Cube) and Somiskey Park (hoae of
the White Sox), through the use of
scorecards, which aro either printed
tn a special edition or slipped be-
tween the pngee of an afternoon edi-
tion.
On Tuesday. Jane 14, approximately
44 shirt-sleeved striking printers
blanketed beautiful Wrigley Park.
They wore armed with the printer*’
own scorecards, complete with the
names of every player on the CBlcago
Cube and the Brooklyn Dodgers, their
numbers and their pooftfons in the
*^4any lenders prefer the combina-
tion loans because veterans «w*>«
orcent on those
eterano Admia-
groupa.We are also called
to
by the federal government wiiF be
spent In such a manner aa to require
each state to maintain at least the
teachers.
"in the minds of most people who
are urging federal aid for education
there is the thought that federal aid
should raise the Mlaries of the poorly
paid public school teachers. Every
good American citizen wants to do
that No group in America la tn more
need of better salaries, nor it any
I group more entiUed to batter ealariM
than are the public school teachers
of America. Yet. under the Bnrdea bill
no public school teacher is assured
1 cent raise in pay. Under the Barden
bill the state may take the federal
funds and use the entire sum to build
up the Mlaries of the top state ad-
ministrators, and actually cut the sal-
aries of the public school classroom
teachers. Such a proposal labor will
fight to the utmost.”
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