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drive for 3% million cirgarettes to be
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These wetbacks—so named because many wade across the
Rio Grande River along the U. S.-Mexican border—work for
whatever they can get.
Powerful forces are fighting legislation now before Con-
gress to tighten the law against the wetbacks. Chief among
these is the lobby of factory farmers. They are the big farm
operators in the West and Southwest who import the Mexi-
cans, and force them to work at starvation wages. Cheap labor
often helps the factory farmer drive the small, family farmers
to the wall because the latter can’t compete against wetback
wages.
A Senate Labor subcommittee, under Hubert Humphrey
(D., Minn.), is studying the problem. One of its recommendations
to Congress should be to punish those who knowingly hire wet-
backs. As the law now stands, a farmer can employ a man, even
though the man tells him he is in the country illegally.
The committee also should recommend more money and
wider authority for the Immigration Service to hunt down illegal
immigrants along the Mexican border. As it is, there are too few
Immigration Service officers and they are restricted in their
search for wetbacks to farms within 25 miles of the border.
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movement mjurlous to the peace aad stability of American Institutlons. It Is
for America, first and last, and tor the honest, moral, upright, eourageous
and true unlons all the time.
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Washington, D. C — Recruitment of
more than 1 million "extra" workers
from reserve groups in the population
—mainly housewives and retired per-
sons—may be necessaty in 1953 to
meet defense manpower goals. Secre-
Ury of Labor Maurice J Tobin said.
.Hr said manpower needs over the
next 2 years will Increase by an esti-
mated 3% million, and labor force —
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Congress has a chance to help the school children of America
as they’ve never been helped before.
Sen. Lester Hill (D., Ala.) and 17 other Senators of both
parties propose that the $120 million a year which the Federal
Treasury gets from off-shore oil deposits be used to help the
schools.
Opponents contend that the $120 million—and that figure
might be doubled within five years—would be socialistic. They
forget that in the 18th century American colonies earmarked
public lands for the support of schools. And in 1785 and 1787
Congress set aside lands west of the Alleghenies for school
purposes.
Dr. Benjamin Fine, education editor of the New York Times,
told the Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee-that
some schools are holding classes in morgues and remodeled
garages. Teachers’ salaries are as low as $10 a week. The national
average is about $60 a week. We are short 70,000 new teachers
a year.
The states of California, Texas, and Louisiana argue that
off-shore oil belongs to them. But the U. S. Supreme Court has
ruled that it belongs to all the 48 states.
Surely Congress will not miss the opportunity to aid the
long-neglected schools by letting them have the off-shore oil
money for better buildings, better teachers, and better citizens
of tomorrow.
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George Wiltams founded the Young
Men's Christian Association tn London
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New York city. — Gov. Theodore
MeKeldin of Maryland told fellow
Republicans at a dinner rally that the
Federal government is trying to get
control of the coal mines because “I
or 2 states" might not have enforced
their mine satety laws.
congress is considering the Price-
Neely bill to give the U. S. Bureau of
Mines power to close the pita when it
rules they are unsafe.
during industries “should permit. ‘
sighcant easing of present limita-
Uons on tbs eivtan metal goods in-
dustries and on nondefense construc-
tion and, with continued gains in con-
saner income, we may anticipate a
pronounced recovery in labor demand
for the production of civilian goods."
Tobin's announcement senrsrutag
the Bis report-said estimates of man-
power needs were based on present
schedules for detehse production and
military reeruitment and on the as-
sumption that output for civilian um
will be maintained at the highest
levels consistent with the priority
given to the defense program.
Copies of the study are available
without charge from the U. S. Labor
Department. Bureau of Labor Statis-
tics. Washington 25. D. C.
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Wil) the Dixiecratic-reactionary Republican coalition in
Congress be able to strangle a strong price control bill ? President
Truman outlined clearly the danger of piddling around with our
present law with its formula for built-in- inflation.
"We are dealing with the welfare of men and women and
families,” he said. “The over-all rise in incomes and the great
increase in consumer savings conceal the fact that millions of
our people have suffered losses in real income, or barely held
their own, over the past 2 years.
“Most people are already having trouble paying present prices.
For their benefit, we should be working to find ways of moving
prices downward.”
Pressures for high prices are now greater than ever. People
are saving more money at the same time that civilian goods are
becoming scarcer.
But will the Capeharts and Tafts, Byrds and Cains and
Herlongs pay as much attention to the welfare of housewives
and wage-earners as they do to corporations and the NAM?
If Congress weakens the present phony price control law,
it means the Senators and Representatives responsible are
snubbing the guy who has to try to make ends meet on 60 bucks
a week.
If Congress refuses to tighten the law before it expires
June 30, it means the Senators and Representatives responsible
still are trying to fool workers and other moderately-paid per-
sons with the idea the present law is effective.
Watch how your Senators and Representative aet on price
controls. Then vote accordingly in November.
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ed communist infiitration in the Chi-
cago plant of the Stewart-Warner
Corp,
The U. S. Court of Appeals for the
4th District upheld bargaining rights
for the local. In a previous order, the
National Labor Relations Board had
directed Stewart-Warner to withdraw
recognition from 1031. The company
was also declared guilty of unfair ta-
bor practices.
In a reversal of the board decision,
it was shown that the original unfair
labor practice charges were presented
by the United Electrical Radio and
Machine Workers, a communist-domi-
nated organisation, and that enforce-
ment of the board’s order would ensble
the UERM to circumvent the labor
HOMEBUILDING
ACTIVITY UP 10
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Washington D C—New housfng ae- '
tivity advanced 10 percent from De-
cember to January, when 68,000 new '
permanent nontarm dwelling units ।
were started, according to preliminary -
estimates of the U. S. Labor Depart- 1
ment‘» Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Private residential construction in- 1
that can be shipped out of Florida
week by week. The purpose of the
restriction, says the N. Y. Times, is to
boost prices from present levels. So it
your oranges and grapefruits cost more
next week, you may want to thank
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authorities
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issue which
Visual handicaps have become
labor’s number one health prob-
lem. Two out of three adult
Americans have inefficient vision
that handicap* them on the job,
and with eye injuries occurring
every M seconds in the working
day (98* of them preventable),
the need for greater eye care is
critical.
Visual efficiency depends not
merely on proper gleesra, but on
the worker’s particular job, as
ai srotnernooa oi aww wprnuz, employment percentages ranging from
AFL, claimed a victory over attempt- S fnSarsrchusetts, where weakness
creased by 6j
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work under
December. -
Despite the rise ffom December,
housing volume last month was M
percent under that for January 1951.
resulting almost entirely from a lower
level of private homebuilding.
On the basis of preliminary tele-
graphic reports from both urban and
rural bundtng-permit officials. there
wss a 25-peret Increase in the num-
ber of new units for which building
permits were issued last month. indi-
cating continued strength in housing
activity for February, when many of
the Units authorized in January will
get started.
Regionally, the sharpest December-
January gains in permit issuance oc-
curred in the Southern and West North
Central States Two-thirds of the re-
porting cities showed increases during
January, with extensive gains occur-
ring in Atlanta. Denver. Detroit, Long
Beach, Los Angeles, San Antonio,
Washington, D. C., and Wichita. Kan.
New York and Cincinnati reported
sharp declines in permit issuance or
new residential constrection.
In 1953 when sharper pressures on la-
bor supply are expected. This I year,
however, reductions in nondefense em-
ployment due to curtailed suppijes of
metals for civilian uses will partly
offset pressures caused by expanding
defense manpower needs, he declared
Tobin warned that in recruiting the
extra workers "it will be necessary in
many Instances to adapt Job require-
ments. hours, and working conditions
in order to make fuller use of these
groups."
If needed, available manpower rap-
plies could be stretched by lengthen-
ing the workweek, the Secretary noted.
He recommended, however, that gen-
eral Increases in the workweek be held
in reserve as a measure to increase
output in an all-out emergency.
The Secretary’s statement was made
in connection with the publication of
a manpower outlook. "Projected Man-
power Requirements and Supply, 1952-
1953." prepared by the Bureau of La-
bor Statistics.
The report set the expected net geta
in manpower needs during 1952 at 1.5
million, including scheduled armed
force buildup. To provide the addi-
tional manpower needed in 1952, the
total labor force would have to be ex-
panded by an estimated 1.3 million,
bringing it to 67.7 million by the end
of the year, Thin increase, M achieved,
would exceed the "normal" annual
increase by about 400,000.
Tobim said potential manpower gains
from the pool of unemployed workers
are relatively limited. In the fourth
quarter of 1961, he noted, unemployed
workers averaged 1.7 million, equal to
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members are selling and buying
tickets, printed without cost at 2 un-
ion shops.
Every year, 1 million Mexicans come into the country illegal-
ly. They take jobs from American workers and drive down
American wages. They work on farms in the Southwest. They —____________
also go to work in such industrial cities as New York, Chicago, Florida Citrus Mutual for reducing the
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vision for each eye separately
and both eyes together st the
critics I “working distance."
3 Depth perception: ability to
judge distance and space rein-
tionships.
«. Field of vision: ability to
see over a large area to right and
left and up and down while
focused on a point
5 Color discrimination, a “skill"
in which 8% of all men had 1%
of all women are deficient
According to Dr EH. West-
land. occupational vision consul-
tant of the American Optometric
Association. cd the more than
65% of Americans who wear
glasses, many have the wrong
lens correction tot their partie
ular jobs Only a thorough pro-
gram of education and careful
examination can eliminate vision
as a basic factor in occupational
accidenta
(Special Correspondence)
New York. — The National Amer-
icanism Commission of the American
Legion denounced Westbrook Pegler
for "a particularly underhanded at-
tack on certain AFL and CIO officials
working in Europe against commm,
nism” and charged that by doing so,
Pegler “is really playing the commie
game with a vengeance "
This blast against Pegler, unpre-
the postwar period. “However, ire may
expect some further decrease in un-
employment— perhaps a 300,000 reduc-
tion during 1952—as unemployment
opportunities are expanded and as we
Intensify our efforts to place new de-
fense contracts in areas of labor
surplus," Tobin declared.
He said that in 1953. Increased ca-
pacity in steel and other metal pro-
They will work ava midnight show the minimum previously achieved in
March 21 to raise 112,000. Other union
cedented in American Legion history. eqmmunism, Pegler demeaned himself
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in textiles has caused heavy layoffs,
insured unemployment at 66.174, or
4.5 percent, was at the highest level in
more than a year Insured unemploy-
ment in Rhode Islara totaled 22.250 in
January, as compared with 10,858 a
year ago. Michigan insured unemploy-
ment. reeffecting effects of materials
cutbacks, rose to 5 3 percent, or 91,767
as compared with 62.769 in January
1951.
George Williams, founder of the
YMCA, was knighted by Queen
Victoria..
prove America’s schools at the same
time Powerful interests are trying to
have Congress give them 850 billion in
public oil reserves. You can upset
their plans by writing to your Senstor
at once. Urge him to use the revenue
from tidelands oil for the school kids
of America. Write your Senator at the
Senate Office Building, Washington,
D. C.
Profits Yersus Houses ...
What are your chances of getting a
house at a reasonable price? A group
of- mortgage bankers and Insurance
company officials have told the Senate
Banking Committee that higher inter-
est rates are the only answer. Unless
their profits go up, ths houses won’t
go up. Meanwhile, Congress has heard
about cases where veterans and other
buyers have been defrauded on tbe
purchase of government - insured
homes.
Rep. John Lyle said that in Corpus
Christi, Tex., the Jerry-built GI homes
look good from the outside but "the
bottoms are dropping out. The roofs
are falling in. When the builders
throw these things together and when
they pass inspection, file builders are
through, and the purBbaeers are left
holding the bag."
“Free Enterprise” ...
An organisation balled Florida
Citrus Mutual has set’ limit on the
amount of oranges and grapefruits
Washington. D. C— Unemployment
among workers covered by State un-
employment Insurance laws rose in
January to 1,420,000, the highest level
since July 1950, the Bureau of Em-
ployment Security reported to Secre-
tary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin.
Bureau Director Robert C. Goodwin
said insured unemployment during the
week ending January 12 amounted to
4.2 percent of covered employed work-
ere. This compares with 3 percent in
December and 3.8 percent in January a
year ago. Covered employment in
January was estimated at 34,165,000.
“The rise in the number of claim-
ants for unemployment insurance was
due in part to seasonal and administra-
tive factors.’’ Goodwin said. “January
normally brings curtailment in trade
and temporary layoffs for inventory
taking and this year was no exception.
Continued seasonal declines in the
lumbering, construction, food process-
ing and tobacco industries also added
to the claims load Other contributing
factors to higher insured unemploy-
ment included the cumulative effects
of weakness In some consumer goods
and materials cutbacks, especially in
the automotive, electrical products and
fabricated metals industries."
Goodwin said that as defense pro-
duction expands and employment picks
up seasonally during the late spring
and summer, unemployment levels will
decline.
States with the highest percentages
of insured unemployment included
Oregon with 9.9 percent, highest in the
nation; Rhode Island and Washington
State, both with 9 percent unemploy-
ment; Idaho with an unemployment
percentage of 8.2; and five States—
Arkansas, Maine, Mississippi, New
Hampshire, and Tennessee—with un-
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backfired American labor’s activities
abroad have received praise from al-
most all sources —except communists
tighalcHenodsminuexiy’kmefichgagh
ed at the columns and accused Feder
of giving "aid and comfort" to Stalin.
The American Legion scored Pegler in
an editorial statement entitled, "How
NOT to Fight Communism." Said the
Legion publication:
"In attaching Irving Brown, head of
the AFL European bureau against
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