The Dallas Craftsman (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, February 14, 1958 Page: 1 of 4
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Leaders in Dallas say that Mr
Jasper Washington, about
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Court Judge in New York, and the
of events came last year when the
"thance Vought to exchange pro- pattern—otherwise, the union will
bers that he had stayed in
bed
headquarters here.
or
attended
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monthly meeting of
tion in Dallas in July.
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-Fifty-Two Thousand AFL-CO Members In This County Depend On The Dallas Graftsman
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UAW Local No. 893
issues Strike Warning
Teamster Monitors- Assume
Stewardship of International
Teamsters' kcal No. 745
Receives Benefits February 1
John Flowers, State Sec. Bldg.
Trades, Visits Dallas Unions
the
the
shocking insult to the people who
had given them an excellent rela-
management wil come off these
regressive proposals and meet the
obligations of the national aricraft
have no alternative but to strike
the plant.”
J. E. (John) Flowers, executive
secretary of the Texas State Build-
ing and Construction Trades Coun-
cil. AFL-CIO, was in Dallas last
The Dallas Craftsman before he
left that he had received confirma-
tion of newspaper reports that he
was the choice of the Internation-
al Union, to serve as their monitor
BUS DRIVERS LOCAL
UNION NO. 1142
various
While
regular
Dallas
which
posals for the forthcoming nego-
tiations.
Demand the AFL-CIO Union
Label on all purchases.
Pressmen of Local
No. 21 Visit Waco
Committeemen from the News-
paper Printing Pressmen’s Local
No. 21 of Dallas attended a meet-
ing in Waco of Local No. 88 and
invited them to send representa-
tives to the Southwest Conference
of Printing Pressmen which will
He stated that if anyone read-
ing this column had clothes suit-
able for either of the children or
The other two monitors‘for the
IBT are Nathan Clayton, chairman
and notify Mr. Hunter.
They explained that the office
is not open all the time, there-
fore, if no one answers, try again,
since Mr. Hunter spends as much
as a week at a time covering the
various headquarters where Local
No. 1142-members are stationed.
indefatigably
for the rights of organized labor
Reilly Printing Company, 1710
iouth Harwood, HA 8-8385. Union
Shop and Union paper for all your
needs.
since the law firm of which he is
a member, was retained as counsel
by the Texas State Federation of
Labor (now the Texas State AFL-
CIO).
became a law. Later he was named
M chairman of the Labor Relations
Committee of the American Rar
Association.
President O. E Elsik and Secre-
tary Charles Hunter reported this
week on one of their members, re-
vealing how a series of unavoida-
ble circumstances can come into
the lives of some people.
building trades unions greatly to
get into our program.”
For three years prior to his
election to the state office, Mr.
Flowers was secretary of the Beau-
mont Building and Construction
Trades Council. He is a member
of the Boilermakers’ Union.
years old, has been a member of
Local No. 1142, for more than 10
years. He is father of three chil-
dren—a married son, a son 16
The maximum in the shops wil
be $2.89 now with an increase to
23.03 in 1960, at the rate of 7 cents
per year.
This 7 cents per hour increase
wil be for all members regardless
of job classification for the next
two years with the cost of living
clause in effect at the present time
being incorporated into the basic
wage. In other words if the cost
of living is down next August, the
members will still receive the same
wage; if it is up in August, the
members’ wages will be raised
accordingly.
Building Trades Council,
various unions in Texas, who is a Wells has worked
member of the law firm, Mullinax,
Wells and Morris of Dallas, told
was held Wednesday night Feb-
ruary 5.
Mr. Flowers said he was in Dal-
las and also in the Fort Worth
area in interest of gaining new
affiliates for the state building
weekend,
building
here he
Monitors for the International
Brotherhood of Teamsters assumed
their posts in Washington, D. C.
Tuesday, February 11. L N. D.
Wells, long-time lawyer for the
Dallas tornado demolished
tiie gas compay had cut off his gas
during a severe cold spell. The
members made up voluntary con-
tributions and the next day he had
the father, it would be appreciated
hold its 20th anniversary conven- if a call was placed to RI 7-7207
erad court judge, having served
in Washington, D. C., who is re-
ferred to “as the public member
of the panel;” and Attorney God-
frey P. Schmidt, who represents
the 13 rank and filers, who insti-
tuted the suit of injunction, which
originally kept Hoffa and other
officers from taking offices per
schedule.
These monitors will serve for
one year and thereafter until the
next convention of the interna-
tional union. They will observe all
phases of the operations of the In-
have ratified the new contract
agreements which call for two dol-
lars per week to be paid into the
pension fund for each employee,
making a total of $4.00 for this
fund.
The health-welfare fund will re-
ceive 25 cents per week per em-
ployee from the employer which
will increase the present $2.25 to
$2.50 per week.
Shop contract rates for the min-
imum wages will be $2.16 per hour
tary-treasurer of the Southern
Conference announced the raises
last week.
Verifying the amounts for Local
No. 745 was Charles Haddock, bus-
iness agent, who said that all
members of the local, in all job
classiflacations received 10 cents
per hour across the board, effective
February 1, except the city pickup
and deliverymen, who received 11
cents per hour. On February 1,
1959, and on the same date in
1960, al of the job classifications
will receive raises of 7 cents per
trades. He said that since he was
elected to the office of executive
secretary last August 15, 24 new
affiliates have been initiated into
the council. He was a little dis-
appointed that so few in the Dal-
las-Fort Worth area are affiliated
with the state body.
"In Dallas only the Painters’ Lo-
col No. 53 and the Iron Workers’
Local 481 are affiliated. In Fort
Worth it is the Operating Engi-
reers and the Painters,” he said.
"I would like to see more of
them come in. I note the Carpen-
ters have come back into the Dal-
as Council. I would like to see
them and the others come into the
tne International Union, wherein the
his officers of the International who
until noon time. It developed that director of the Southern Confer-
ence of Teamsters, which has
sters, Chauffeurs, and Warehouse-
men, in Dallas received raises and
ether benefits on February 1, as
a result of recent negotiations be-
tween the union and the motor
freight line operators.
A spokesman for Local 745 said
that the members in Dallas re-
ceived the same benefits which all
the members in the Southern Con-
ference of Teamsters received—
and that this series of increases
are equal to those of the Midwest
Conference. Ralph Dixon, secre-
field gave fraternal greetings to
at the present time to $2.30 perthose in attendance.
visiting the
trades unions.
ternational Union, make recom-
mendations, and report to Federal
Judge F. Dickinson Letts twice
years old in school and a daugh-
7 ter, 13 years old, in school.
were elected last October at the
union’s convention, can now take
office—a fact which has already
taken place.
Under the compromise, James
R. Hoffa is president of the giant
Teamsters’ Union. Also among
the officers are M. W. (Dusty)
Miller, vice president, elected in
. October. Mr. Miller has lived in
Dallas a number of years and is
___monitors rather than trustees
he left when the Taft-Hartley Act administrators.
In a prepared release, Roy Ev-
ans, president of the United Auto-
mobile Local No. 893, which rep-
resents most of the hourly paid
employees of the large Chance
Vought Aircraft plant near Grand
Prairie, said that unless the com-
pany stope its regressive proposals,
the union will have to strike the
The proposals of the union for
the most part embodied contrac-
tural benefits already enjoyed by
most of the union workers in the
aircraft industry.
The company‘$proposal to their
workers; however, was a “rude
and ungrateful jesture. It was a
state group also. It wil help the motsorand elso discussing other
-plant if negotiations which began
February 13, fall tionship these last two
years. It
in last week s UAW-893 News, was an odd thanks for the compa.
a weekly circulated by the union ny to give those who with their
for its members, the following pro- skills and hard work had pro-
posals were listed as “What Youduced the top flights jets and mis.
.Can Lose,” if the workers decide si les for this country’s defense”
not to have a union: "1) the right said Evans.
About five years ago Mrs. Wash-
ington died. He kept his two
younger children at home and tried
to keep them in school.
The next step in adverse turn
Members of Local No. 745, In- hour over the next two years
ternational Brotherhood of Team- —
on the three-man panel.
This panel is part of the com- of the panel, who is'a retired qeg
promise between the Federal
Representatives from Local No.
288 of Temple were in attendance
at this meeting.
President John W. Hays of Local
21, who is chairman of the com-
mittee, explained to the members
about the convention stating that
delegates from a six-state area will
be in attendance.
Vice President Charles Turner
of Local 21 addressed the group
briefly on working conditions in
the Dallas jurisdiction. Rube Zain-
met with representatives of
hour.
Both management and labor
Mr. Wells has held other na- ...1
tionai offices, at one time serving or more, if needed.
as assistant director of field op- This is a new departure in union
। erations for the National Labor administration, the panelists being
1 Relations Board, a position which monitors rather than trustees nr
1 wrote him a letter saying that
medical examintion had shown his
’ daughter as being totally deaf in
one ear and 80 per cent deaf in
the other. The letter said in part,
"there is no doubt in my mind
but that you have the interest of
jour little girl at heart, and that
you are willing to extend yourself
to the limit of your physical ca-
pacity to secure those things so
essential to her education and well
being.”
Mr. Hunter and Mr. Elsik said
at the present time the local is
trying to get some of the communi-
ty agencies to help with this aid,
since Mr. Washington has not been
able to go back to work as a driv-
er for the Continental Bus System, 1
since he has tubes till draining
from his side. 1
Telegraphers Meet
In Washington, DC
A general meeting of the na-
tional bargaining committee of the
Commercial Telegraphers Union
of North America win be held in
St. Louis on March 18, to com-
plete the agenda for negotiations
with the Western Union Telegraph
Company which will begin in May.
Members of the committee from
Dallas are Simon P. Oster, general
president of the Southwest Divis-
ion of the Union and C. M. Rich-
ards, general vice president and
secretary-treasurer.
Mr. Richards said this week that
a meeting was held in Washing-
ton. D. C., January 5-30, working
out preliminaries of the negotia-
his gas back on.
Later, the principal, of his school
to elect representatives to bargain "Chance Vought has taken its
for you; 2) the right to protest place with other aircraft manu-
unjust company actions; 3) the facturers in production perform-
right to file grievances on wages lance, backlog, and financial posi-
and working conditions; 4) all tion—there is no excuse this year
seniority rights — layoff, recall, why they cannot also take their
promotion, transfer; 5) guaran- place in their obligations to their
toed holidays and vacations; 6) employees.
protection if you are injured in “Yet, the only thing they offer
the shop; 7) the right to side their employees is some 30 chan-
leave for one year; 8) overtime Iges that would weaken the en-
for Saturday and Sunday, as forcement of the union contract
such; 9) $150.00 per month, umnand would take away many bene-
negotiated wages; 10) shift bonus; fits won over the years through
11) Call-in pay; 12) equal distri- collective bargaining, except for
bution of overtime; 13) guaranteed one thing—they would offer those
group insurance; 14) Jury duty employees with 25 years service,
pay; 15) most of all, the right a four-week vocation.
to" be an individual instead of just “We certainly hope that the
a cog in the company machine
On the 5th of February, the ne-
gotiating team of UAW Local 893
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place of residence and blew away
all his furniture, clothing and per-
sonal belongings, leaving only an
electric ice box intact.
A short time later he had to
undergo surgery for a cyst on his
lung. His group insurance policy
ran out about this time. In De-
cember at the union meeting, he
happened to tell one of the mem-
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