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THE BALLIS CRAFTSMAN
Teachers Fight Ban
Big Strike
POLITICAL
N. Y. Embalmers
ANNOUNCEMENTS Union Wins Fine
On Union Meetings Is Called by Tampa
In Chicago Schools
Cigarmakers
Agreement
STATE SEMATOR
Tom Sessions
TAX ASSESSOR AND COLLECTOR
President Ransom of the plant
an-
Tea Can save Money by Buying From
Ed. Cobb
C. B. Anderson & Co.
Geo. Clifton Edwards
Ed. Vandervort
Shelby S. Cox
W. L. (Jack) Thornton
PHONE 7-8765
UNION BUS DEPOT
PHONE 1.7111
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The agreement runs for two
agreement was negotiated by
PHONE 3-8141
2909 LIVE OAK ST.
here.
DRINK
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In Sterilized Bottles
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Southern Ice Co
Modern Air Conditioned Ice Refrigerators
Praetorians
The Oldest Texas Life Insurance in the State.
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DALLAS, TEXAS
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PHONE 4-6398
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The Dallas Craftsman
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“Labor’s Own Paper”
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the sun.
Friendly to Organised Labor
DALLAS
Main and Ervay Sta.
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Letter Heads, Envelopes
Membership Applications
Working Cards, By-Laws
Dues Books, or any class
of printing pertaining to
the business of your local.
Dallas’ Most Complete -
5—10-$1.00 Store
• Insurance for the whole family, on easy payment plan.
A Dallas institution doing business from coast to coast.
Longshoremen
Returning to AFL
Bargaining Right
Won by AFL Unions
‘Love and Hisses’
Starring Bernie
And Winchell
ATTORNEY AT LAW
1905% Commerce St.
‘Americans at Work’
Radio Program
Starts March 31
Rail Workers
Pay Cut Opposed
By Roosevelt
Chas. F. Weiland Company
DIRECTORS of FUNERAL SERVICE
222 Delegates
Attend W. Va.
State Federation
Building Trades
Hit Contracts 40-
Hour Week Scheme
trated.
years.
This
Residence
Phone 5-1063
Broadeast, Prepared by Workers Edu-
ration Bureau, Will Stress Dignity
of Labor.
TO THOSE INDEBTED TO OR HOLD-
ING CLAIMS AGAINST THE ES-
TATE OF MISS CARRIE L. VEA-
ZEY, DECEASED.
When Jerry Demirdian of Worces-
ter, Mass., recovered his stolen auto-
mobile. he found the radiator, wheels,
starter, headlights, battery and tool
box had been removed.
_ Christian Science
Services
Charleston. W. Wa., ws elected secre-
tary-treasurer.
Morgantown. W. Va., was selected
as the 1939 Convention City.
Office
Phone 2-4665
Contract With Large Undertaking
Firm Ineludes Minimum Wages and
Prices, Apprentice Rules and Pro-
vision for Arbitration.
LOCAL ICE DELIVERY AND NEIGHBORHOOD STORES
PHONE 7-4077
BURRIS
—---
WARE RUBBER CO.
2101 COMMERCE STREET
Distributors
Pennsylvania
TIRES
“QUALITY BREAD”
PUERTO RICAN GOVERNMENT
OPENS BIG CEMENT PLANT
NOT HOW CHEAP
BUT HOW GOOD
Twenty-seven. years at this address
learning how to do It better.
IDEAL LAUNDRY & DRY
CLEANING COMPANY
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JUDGE
101st DISTRICT COURT
JUDGE
44th DISTRICT COURT
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Free Meals, Pillows, Showers and Taxi—Low Fares
PAINTS, VARNISHES AND
ENAMELS |
Jones-Blair Paint and
Varnish Co.
Manutacturers
PAINTS VARNISHES ENAMELS
Made in Dallas of Highest
Quality Materials
Friends of Labor
THE
Southland Ice Co.
-Serving our Oak Cliff Friends
Md Customers :: We appreciate
your contidence and patronag-.
LUMBER WORKERS DESERT
C. L O.i JOIN A. F. OF L.
Clothing, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Shirts,
Pajamas, Underwear, Belts, Ties,
Suspenders, Sox Md a complete
line of the famous “Lee Brand”
Work Clothes.
Your patronage is appreciated
The price you pay it within your own choosing
TWIN AMBULANCES
COFFEE
Elegant and Brazos
Coffee
Blended and Roasted in Dallas
By
DAL-TEX COFFEE CO.
A cafe in Loveland, Colo., displays
this sign: "Free coffee. any time dur-
ing any day the sun is not shining."
DALLAS FIRMS
. YOU SHOULD
I KNOW..,..
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WILL T. RICHARDSON
(Kembet Dallas Typoerapateal Uaiow)
TELEPHONE I sass
FURNITURE
Stoves, Rugs, Radios
• CASH OR CREDIT .
2201 ELM ST, Corner PEARL
Phone 7-5677
over their new sweet-hot from Paris, nounced that operations would go for-
the saucy and viaclous Simone Simon, ward promptly.
who sings operatic arjas and popular
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The first teachers' institute was
held in the United States in 1839.
S. H. Smith of Atlantic City, has a
unique invention which waters his
potted flowers while he is away. Con-
sisting of a metal tank,. a length of
rubber tubing, and a tluy needle valve.
late John Mitchell, founder and presi-
dent of the United Mine Workers of
America.
Volney Andrews, member of the
A meeting of representatives of all
building and construction trades coun-
cils and building trades unions in the
State, called by the Everett Building
and Construction Trades Council, to
meet in the Labor Temple, at Everett,
was scheduled to devise ways and
means lor effectively fighting this
backward movement.
Indications were that resistance
may be strong enough to block the
move to lengthen the work day and
work week of building trades workmen
in the state, thus enabling these work-
ers to retain gains secured through
the slow process of a long organized
struggle.
Organizer Charles Vonie and his com-
mittee, under the direction of William
Collins, in charge of the New York
Office. Within the next few months,
the Union will sign up with the Asso-
ciation covering all of the larger un-
dertaking establishments in greater
New York. It has made a most suc-
cessful start for a permanent union.
The State of Texas,
County of Dallas:
The undersigned, having been duly
appointed temporary administratrix of
the estate of Miss Carrie L. Veazey.
deceased, late of Dallas County, Tex-
as, by Honorable Ben Fly, Judge of
the County Court of said county on the
10th day of March A. D. 1938, hereby
notifies all persons indebted to said
estate to come forward and make set-
tlement, and those having claims
against said estate to present them to
her at 1827 N. Henderson Street, Dal-
las, Texas, where she receives her
mail. This the 16th day of March A.
D. 1938.
MRS. L. P. MARTIN,
Temporary Administratrix estate of
Miss Carrie L. Veazey, deceased.
(Adv. Mar. 18-25, Apr. 1-8)
Thomas K. Hill, 105, of Mancelona,
Mich., whose family told him 30 years
ago that he was too old to drive an
automobile, passed his examination
and received his driver’s license.
Tampa, Fla. (AFLNS)—Charging lo-
cal cigar manufacturers have flatly
refused to abide by an agreement
signed last year whereby union work-
ers were to be given preference in
employment, more than 250 members
of one of the locals of the Cigarmak-
ers International Union, A. F. of L.
affiliate, employed at the Jose Escal-
ante A Co. cigar factory here, have
gone on strike. After a thorough in-
vestigation. A. Chiarmonte, editor of
the Florida Labor Advocate, gave the
following account of the controversy:
"George Salazar, chairman of the
Joint Advisor}- Committee. which is
composed of delegates from the va-
rious locals of the Cigarmakers Inter-
national Union, said the strike was
called to test a recent Department of
Labor interpretation of the preference
clause in the agreement, which manu-
facturers have refused to obey.
"The strikers have the support of
more than 6000 other members of the
various cigarmakers unions, who are
employed in two score other factories
in the city.
"In going on strike, the cigarmakers
pointed out that non-union workers
were employed in the factory in viola-
tion of the agreement. The day after
the strike was called on March 10, only
five of the companys workers remain-
ed outside the ranks of the American
Federation of Labor affiliate.
"We take the Department of La-
bor’s decision to mean that factories
covered by the union-manufacturers
agreement can not employ workers
not affiliated with the union while un-
ion members are walking the streets
idle,* Salazar declared.
“The union last Fall went into Cir-
cuit Court here in a suit seeking to
force manufacturers to abide by the
agreement, but the proceedings were
dismissed when it was revealed the
matter should have been referred to
the Department of Labor. Two con-
ciliators from the Department of La-
bor came here later, took testimony
and subsequently the decision was
made that cigar factories, under the
contract, were required to give union
members preference in employment.”
160 Locals of National Unions, 14 Cen-
tral Lahor Unions With 218 Affi-
liates. and Four Building Trades
Councils Represent 50,000 Loyal A.
F. of I. Members at Charleston
Meeting.
With a regular pack of cards it is
possible to get 2,598,960 different
poker hands of five cards each.
Frank Hellman, 85. suing his 36-
year-old wife for divorce at In-
dianapolis, charged her with tying
him in bed at night and in a chair
by day.
DAIRY PRODUCTS
Metzger’s Dairies
METZGER’S MILK
Truly ‘Ends the Quest fer the Best"
Since 1889
Holmes BL Road Phone 4-2111 1
Chicago, Ill. (AFLNS).—Numerous
protests have been received by the na-
tional office of the American Federa-
tion of Teachers here against the reac-
tionary policy of Chicago school offi-
cials in ordering refusal of use of
school buildings to teachers meetings
of the Chicago Teachers Union.
Prof. George Axtelle, vice president
of the American Federation of Teach-
ers, branded the action as a "petty re-
prisal by a floundering administra-
tion.” adding:
"School buildings are the possession
of all the people. They are not the
property of a school administration
which temporarily has control of the
school system. School buildings are
used for the welfare of education.
They are not instruments for bolster-
ing the power of any political group.”
M. J. Eck, executive secretary of
the Ohio State Federation of Teachers,
was equally emphatic in his denuncia-
tion of the Chicago school board's ac-
tion, “If this is carried to its logical
conclusion,” he said, "the Parent-
Teacher Associations, adult education
groups, and even student clubs that
have the temerity to raise a voice
against political corruption in the
school system will be summarily
barred the use of public buildings.
The school board apparently has for:
goten that schools are maintained and
operated for the public good and not
to fatten political hogs.”
Washington, D. C. (AFLNS).—The
plan of the railway officials compos-
ing the Association of American Rail-
roads to impose a pay slash on rail-
way employes in the endeavor to in-
crease net returns available for the
owners of railroad stocks and bonds
does not have the approval of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, who indicated at his
press conference that railroad man-
agement should seek to avoid cutting
the wages of their workers.
This "off-hand” comment was made
by the President in connection with
the announcement that the Association
of American Railroads had requested
the leaders of the twenty-one railroad
brotherhoods to attend a meeting here
to discuss the wages question.
It was pointed out that the Admin-
istration’s effort to maintain wages
had already been shown at the Presi-
dent's conference on the railroad prob-
lem. Chairman Splawn of the Inter-
state Commerce Commission then an-
nounced that while the current pay
cut plan suggested by the railroad ex-'
ecutives had not been specifically
mentioned at the meeting, “it was the
concensus that present wage and em-
ployment levels should be maintained
if possible.”
Chicago, Ill. (AFLNS),—Bargaining
rights for employes of two concerns
her have been won by A. F. of L.
unions.
In a ballot of die sinkers employed
by the International Harvester Com-
pany, Die Sinkers Lodge No. 1512, In-
ternational Association of Machinists,
was chosen as exclusive bargaining
agency by a vote of 34 against 18 for
the C. I. O. union.
The Thompson & Taylor Company,
cocoa, coffee and spice processors,
was ordered by the National Labor
Relations Board to bargain collectively
upon request, with the engineers’ and
firemen's unions affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor. The
powerhouse employes of the company
struck on July 16, 1935. Company of-
ficials claimed they refused to bar-
gain collectively with the unions be-
cause they demanded the closed shop.
The board found that the real reason
for the refusal was that the company
would not discuss provisions of an
agreement with an “outsider.”
The order to the Thompson & Tay-
lor Company required the dismissal of
enough employes to provide employ-
ment for the strikers, and, if the com-
pany should refuse, to pay the strikers
remedial wages.
Portland, Ore.(AFLNS).—Adherents
of the CIO. long trying to chisel in on
A F. of L. jurisdiction in the lumber
industry, took It on the chin again
when workers at the Eastern and
Western Lumber Company voted to
abandon CIO ranks and apply for an
A. F. of L. charter.
This is the sixth charter for lumber
workers installed in Portland, accord-
ing to union officials. It was planned
to lift boycott against the mill as
soon as the charter was installed and
"Reality” is the subject of the Les.
son-Sermon which will be read in all
Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sun-
day March 27.
The Golden Text is: "They that
trust in the Lord shall be as Mount
Zion, which cannot be removed, but
abideth for ever” (Psalms 125:1).
Among the citations which com-
prise the Lesson-Sermon is the fol-
lowing from the Bible: "Thy king-
dom is an everlasting kingdom, and
thy dominion endureth throughout all
generations" (Psalms 145:13).
The Lesson-Sermon also includes
the following passage from the Chris-
tian Science textbook, "Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures” by
Mary Baker Eddy: "The Scriptures
imply that God is All-in-all. From
this is follows that nothing possesses
reality nor existence except the di-
vine Mind and His ideas” (page 331).
Sunday. Monday and Tuesday,
“Love and Hisses," Ben Bernie, Wal-
ter Winchell, Simone Simon.
Walter Winchell and Ben Bernie,
those famous feudists who put puns
into their punches, are back for the
greatest return match in history in
“Love and Hisses.” This time the rea-
son for all the barbed wit is the fight
Henry Carpenter of Chichester,
Eng., retired as a postman after 42
years’ service, estimates that he has
walked 153,300 miles on duty.
ballads for the greatest surprise of the
year.
This new idea musical show from
hit-making Twentieth Century-Fox
features a great laugh-a-second cast,
including Bert Lahr, Joan Davis, Dick
Baldwin, the Raymond Scott Quintet,
Ruth Terry, Douglas Fowley and Chick
Chandler.
Brand new hot-and -hissing songs by
Gordon and Revel bead the musical
score, with additional hit-parade lead-
ers by Pollack and Mitchell, Raymond
Scott and Zeno and Irwin.
Darryl F. Zanuck, maker of the
screen’s biggest hit shows, was in
charge of production and Sidney Lan-
field directed. Lanfield also made
“Sing, Baby, Sing," "Thin Ice.” "One
In a Million,” and ’Wake Up and Live.”
The result is laughs and kisses, mu-
sic and misses, and a show that’s got
"ummph!” the new 1938 requirement
of musical comedies.
The punning punsters of "Wake Up
And Live" get all excited over the tal-
ents of a cute little number fresh from
Paris, played by Simone.
Woven into the continuity are bright
musical spots featuring specialty num-
bers by the Peters Sisters, Chilton and
Thomas and the Brewster Twins.
Wednesday, “Wells-Fargo,” Bob
Burns, Joel McCrea, Frances Dee.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
“Born To Be Wild,” Doris Weston.
Ralph Byrd; "Call the Mesquiteers,"
3 Mesquiteers.
(By AFLNS).
Building trades unions. represented
by the several building and construc-
tion trades councils in the State of
Washington, are determined to resist
a reported attempt by contractors to
re-establish the 8-hour day in the
building industry of that State.
The 6-hour day, 5-day week, has
been in effect several years in this
area and has proven a practical means
of sharing work and reducing unem-
ployment in this industry which was
so hard hit by the slump.
The move to substitute the 8-hour
day for the present shorter period was
said to have originated at a meeting
of the Associated General Contractors
The Dallas Craftsman is authorized
to announce the candidacy of the fol-
lowing candidates, subject to the ac-
tion of the Democratic Primaries.
New York, N. T. (AFLNS).—The Li-
censed Embalmers Federal Labor Un-
ion No. 21381 of Greater New York.
American Federation of Labor, have
made great progress since receiving
their charter a few weeks ago. Before
the union was two months old it suc-
ceeded In getting a signed contract
with one of the largest undertaking
establishments in greater New York.
The agreement provides for a closed
shop, with a minimum wage of $40 for
steadily employed licensed embalm-
ers, and a minimum wage of 860 per
month for apprentice embalmers for
the first year, and 875 per month for
the second year.
The contract calls for each salaried
embalmer and apprentice to be entitled
to two nights off a week, and one full
day. Not more than one apprentice
embalmer shall be employed to each
licensed embalmer. Whenever the em-
balmer or apprentice is requested to
work on his day off, he shall be paid
an extra day's pay pro rata.
The agreement also provides for ex-
tra compensation where the embalmer
or apprentice after completing his
night off, is called before 8 o’clock in
the morning. Extra work at night
calls for a minimum of 33.00 after 6
o'clock to 10:30 p. m.
Minimum price for embalming a
dead human body ten years of age or
over is $15.00. The minimum price for
a dead child is 310.00 from five to ten
years of age; under five years $6:00.
Other provisions include minimum
prices for derma-surgery whenever
performed.
There is an arbitration clause which
provides for no cessation of work or
strikes, and all matters shall be arbi-
New York, N. Y. (AFLNS).—The re-
cently created Committee • on Adult
Education of the Columbia Broadcast-
ing System, under the chairmanship
of Professor Lyman Pryson, has com-
pleted arrangements with the Work-
ers Education Bureau of America for
the preparation of a series of radio
programs entitled “Americans at
Work," to be given on Thursday eve-
nings between 10:30 and 11:00 over a
nation-wide network.
The series, which will be docu-
mentary broadcasts, will attempt to
portray the dignity of labor and the
variety of skills which are still being
developed by labor in carrying on the
manifold activities of the present day.
The co-operation of the Columbia
Workshop and other facilities have
been placed at the disposal of the Bu-
reau in preparing ths program, and
the co-operation of the national and
international unions is being invited.
The initial broadcast is planned ‘for
March 31.
San Juan, Puerto Rico (AFLNS).—
The Puerto Rico Recontsruction Ad-
ministration has turned over to the
Puerto Rican Government a big new
concrete plant with a capacity of 1,000
barrels. The plant, which has been
under construction for a number of
months, cost more than $1,000,000. It
will be operated by the Puerto Rico
Cement Corporation, a government-
owned corporation.
It is stated that the Government
plant is expected to compete with for-
eign cement firms more than with
companies in the United States. It is
understood the Government plant was
erected to secure cement at lower
prices than private concerns have Im-
posed in their dealings with Puerto
Rico officials.
Two Hundred and Fifty Union Em-
ployes of Jose Escalante and Co.
Charge - Violation of Agreement
Providing Preferential Union Shop.
TEMPLE LUMBER COMPANY
“Quality Southern Pine Lumber"
Remodel and repair your home
with our convenient monthly pay-
ments one to three years. Quick
service and no liens required. A
good credit rating is the only re-
quisite.
2508 So. Harwood Phone 4-5191
AUTO SALES AND SERVICE
Pontiac
SALES SERVICE
The Economy Straight Eight
DALLAS MOTORS, INC.
808 North Harwood Phone 2-9201
Glass Bottle Blowers Association, the device is operated by the heat of
. COUNTY COMMISSIONER
DISTRICT NO. 3
A. J. SMITH
1924 ELM ' 2209
UNION LABEL GOODS
Men Are Definitely Disgusted With
C. I. 0. Union-Splitting Policy.
Portland, Ore. (AFLNS)—The swing
of workers from the CIO back to the
protective affiliation with the Amer-
ican Federation of Labor has extended
to longsheremen here.
The International Longshoremen’s
Association has already signed up
many members In an intensive reor-
ganization drive with a two-point pro-
gram which includes:
1. Re-establish the I. LA on the
entire Pacific Coast. Eliminate all out-
side influences and confine the mem-
bership to legitimate, bona fide long-
shoremen on the original registration
list.
2. Revive, organize and perfect the
Maritime Federation, with the Idea of
placing it on a workable basis and
making it a national institution.
With five Portland sawmills now op-
erating under A. F. of L. charters,
longshoremen see a break away from
the CIO, which has tried hard to domi-
nate both of these groups. The revived
Federation is to include all sea-going
crafts, longshoremen, waterfront team-
sters; also super-cargoes and check-
ers, the latter included in the long-
shoremen’s group. Many application
cards have already been received.
Charles Peabody, international or-
ganizer of the International Long-
shoremen’s Association and vice presi-
dent of the Pacific Coast District,
made the following informative state-
ment regarding the existing situation
caused by the impending disintegra-
tion of the groups affiliated with the
Committee for Industrial Organiza-
tion :
"The CIO has had nearly six months
which is ample time to show what it
can do.
"Its net accomplishments to date
have been two: It separated the long-
shoremen and lumber and sawmill
workers from the rest of the labor
movement; then it split these groups
apart from each other within the CIO.
And the working agreement the CIO
negotiated for its sawmill workers
here in Poitland is a matter of history.
"Sawmill workers have had enough,
and are returning to the A. F. of L
Sept. 30, when longshore working
agreements with employers must be
renewed, is not far away. Longshore-
men have taken aoue on what to ex-
pect from the kind of working agree-
ment CIO got for the sawmill workers,
and are looking to I. L. A. organiza-
tion to save them from a similar deal
when their_own agreement expires.”
Charleston, West Va. (AFLNS).—
The special convention of the West
Virginia State Federation of Labor,
which opened here on March 10 and
concluded its three-day session on
March 12, shattered all precedents in
attendance, enthusiasm and work ac-
complished.
Two hundred and twenty-two legal-
ly accredited delegates, representing a
total of 160 local unions affiliated with
46 National and International Unions
chartered by the American Federation
of Labor, participated in.the delibera-
tions of the convention: Included
were delegates representing 14 Central
Labor Unions embracing 218 local un-
ions, while 60 delegates came from
four State Building Trades Councils.
Also one Federal Labor Union direct-
ly chartered by the American Federa-
tion of Labor was represented.
It was conservatively estimated that
the 222 delegates represented a total
membership in West Virginia of 50,-
000 members loyal to the principles
and policies of the American Federa-
tion of Labor.
Ovation Given Green
A fitting climax to the first day's
session was the address delivered by
President William Green in the Char-
leston Public High School Auditorium,
Thursday evening, March 10.
Mr. Green and his party arrived in
Charleston at 10:05 a. m. on March 10
and were met at the C. & O. depot by
a large delegation headed by Mayor
Boone Dawson of Charleston. At 2:00
p. m. Mr. Green was the recipient of
a formal reception given by Gov. Ho-
mer D. Holt In the Executive Offices
of the Capitol Building, participated in
by the heads of every State Depart-
ment.
When Mr. Green appeared upon the
great stage of the high school audi-
torium in the evening, he was greeted
by an audience of more than two thou-
sand.
In the auditorium were hundreds of
miners who had journeyed from the
mining fields of West Virginia to pay
homage to President Gren. Upon the
stage sat outstanding Charleston citi-
zens. lawyers, business men, repre-
sentative labor men and doctors. His
address was impressive, and was most
favorably received by the large audi-
ence which gave him an ovation at the
conclusion of his speech.
The sessions of the convention, held
in the Ruffner Hotel, were presided
over by Francis J. Dillon, representa-
tive of the American Federation of
Labor.
Veteran labor men interpreted this
significant convention as marking the
beginning of a titanic battle between
the representatives of the C. I. O. and
the American Federation of Labor in
the State of West Virginia.
Senator Holt Flays Lewis
Senator Rush D. Holt delivered a
provocative address before the conven-
tion on Saturday afternoon. "I would
rather retire from office than sit in
the United States Senate as a puppet
of John L. Lewis,” he declared.
“I believe in collective bargaining,”
continued the Senator. “We must not
allow it to be destroyed through the
selfish work of an individual who is
using that great aim falsely in a move
to elevate himself to power.”
"Because I have dared ask for
democracy within the ranks of the
United Mine Workers of America in
order that they might control their
own affairs. I have aroused the hostil-
ity of the puppet government of John
L Lewis, but such opposition will not
stop the miners from finally knowing
the truth." Senator Holt attacked, as
did President Green, what he termed
"autocratic rule" of the miners. "Talk
about democracy!" the Senator ex-
claimed. "I have personally heard Mr.
Bittner (Van A. Bittner, president of
the U. M. W. A. District 17, and a C.
I. O. leader) say that he could ‘throw
John Easton out as President of the
State Federation of Labor It a mo-
ments notice and John knew when to
listen.' •
"No wonder John was a tool by
which the State Federation was to be
used as an instrument of power for
John L Lewis because, as Mr. Bittner
said, 'John knew when to listen.’ ”
Mr. Holt termed the Guffey Coal
Act a "gold brick which John L.
Lewis sold the miners of our State.”
“He (Lewis) claims that be is a stu-
dent of Shakespeare. Does he recall
Ukis quotation: ‘In the names of all
the gods at once upon what meat doth
this our Ceasar feed that he has grown
so- great/ "
Cairns and Andrews Elected Presi-
dent and Secretary
Tom Cairns of Charleston, an old
timer in the West Virginia labor move-
ment. was unanimously elected presi-
dent by the delegates. Mr. Cairns,
former president of District 11. was
associated for many years with the
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