Labor Messenger (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, December 25, 1942 Page: 4 of 24
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ONLY OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER IN HOUSTON
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XMAS GREETINGS TO ORGANIZED LABOR
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XMAS GREETINGS TO ORGANIZED LABOR
Season’s Greetings
HARRY H. HEDGES & SONS
XMAS GREETINGS
PAVING CONTRACTORS
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3110 Navigation Blvd.
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THE LABOR MESSENGER—ORGANIZED LABOR’S
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Friday, December 25,1942
It is better to try to bear the in.
we have, than to anticipate those
that never come—Rochefoucauld.
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Mrs. Monroe Hopkins
Presents
The Hilda Morgan
Tent Show
Every Night at 8 o’Clock
6200 Harrisburg Blvd.
This ad will admit one body Free
any night if accompanied by
one paid adult ticket. —
XMAS GREETINGS
TO OUR FRIENDS OF ORGANIZED LABOR
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TOP OFF YOUR CHRISTMAS DINNER
WITH AMERICA’S FAVORITE
DESSERT
XMAS GREETINGS
TO OUR FRIENDS OF ORGANIZED LABOR
XMAS GREETINGS
TO OUR FRIENDS OF ORGANIZED LABOR
FINGER FURNITURE COMPANY
1801 San Jacinto p 6171
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Labor Knows Score;
Dictators Must Fall
SEASON’S GREETINGS
TO OUR FRIENDS OF ORGANIZED LABOR
JACKSON SCHOOL OF WELDING
H. MEYERS, Manager
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Agnes Macphail
Predicts Food
It is said that a prisoner is the
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vention. The leading citizen would
not hear to the journalist going to
a hotel, but insisted that he stay in
his home. After having a rather
eventful evening in and around the
convention, the visitor was some-
what shaky at breakfast. Later in
the day, seeing his hostess ad
wanting to say something gracious,
he meant to declare:
“Mrs. Jones, the preserves you
served for breakfast were the best
I've seen in many days.” But what
his tongue uttered was:
“Mrs. Jones, the preserves you
served for breakfast had certainly
seen better days.”
This was too much and the owner
of the horse and his friends offered
All wagers were promptly
called by the runner’s associate.
The only stipulation was that the
man.was to be allowed to select
the “track.”
When the board called hearings
■ on the cases, the “Little Flower”
I refused to appear and sent no rep-
resentatives. That drew fire from
, Wayne L. Morse, board member,
who charged the mayor’s action in
shunning the hearing “does not
contribute to domestic morale” and
“is not clever gymnastics, but a
bad slip," Chairman William H.
Davis concurred.
“Little Flower’s Jibe
In Manhattan, LaGuardia retort-
ed he had made his position known
in advance and he jibed at the
board with the crack that “the
props, lines and staging” at the
board’s hearing “were not even
clever acting, but hammish.”
LaGuardia also came forth with
a petition signed by 79 mayors pro-
testing against WLB “invasion” of
their sovereignty, but union chiefs
replied that the mayors were try-
ing to make local government “the
last stronghold of anti-unionism.”
The board finally disposed of the
“hot potato” question by ruling it
had no power to intervene in state
and municipal disputes.
Few men are as lucky as they
seem, or as unlucky as they think
they are.
This up-bidding is only the begin-
ning of inflation. As prices rise,
workers demand more pay. Manu-
facturers of goods bid up wages to
get the men they need. This in-
creases as more men go into the
armed forces. And to pay these
wages, manufacturers raise prices.
Farmers, losing workers to the
services and to the manufacturers,
raise wages. They raise wages if
they are sure they can get higher
prices. If they aren’t sure, they
close their farms and go to work in
factories. That makes farm produce
scarcer. The scarcer farm produce
is, the higher prices go.
History has a lesson here: in ev-
ROLLE-JEWETT & BECK
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The board was confronted with
the first major challenge to its jur-
isdiction. It came from fiery Mayor
LaGuardian of New York and the
burgomasters of many other cities.
The clash arose after unions of
municipal workers in New York
Newark, and Omaha, Neb., appealed
to the War Labor Board to sustain
their wage demands for wage in-
creases, which were turned down
by local authorities. In New York
2. Price ceilings for foods, goods
and rents.
3. Stabilization of wages and
salaries.
4. Stabilization of agricultural
prices.
5. Increased savings through
buying of war bonds.
6. Rationing of scarce goods to
insure fair distribution.
7. Discouragements of the use of
encouragement of the payment of
debt. *
A program of heavy taxation has
been approved by the Congress. The
public is buying war bonds. Ceilings
have been put on prices of most
articles, limitations have been put
on credit and installment buying
and rationing is well under way. By
the President’s order of October 5,
stabilization of wages and salaries
was begun. Wages and salaries
were set at September 15 levels,
with provisions for adjustments in
certain cases, and a ceiling of S25 -
000 put on salaries.
Passing laws and making regu-
lations may be enough in a dicta-
torship. But this is a democracy.
Those brakes will hold only if the
people put weight and pressure be-
hind them. Subsequent articles will
explain why.
"HA"AMA"——
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I Give You
TEXAS
By BOYCE HOUSE
JAMES BUTE CO.
A man whom I have known and
respected for a long time disagreed
with an observation of mine and
wrote a sharp comment. He left
himself wide open for a reply—but
I didn’t write it. What’s the use of
winning an argument and losing a
friend ?
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Maritime Commission
Takes Steps to End
Shipyard Accidents
‘Active steps are being taken by
the Maritime Commission to end
the causes of accidents in shipyards
as a result of studies made by two
safety experts, Dr. Philip Drinker
of Harvard College and John M.
Roche of the National Safety Coun-
cil, who reported that hazards of
improper supervision and poor
“housekeeping” or excessive clut-
tering endangers the lives of thou-
sands of employes in numerous
shipyards.
In order to secure a complete ac-
count of each accident and thus be
able to eliminate its cause, the
Commission experts have devised a
simple form requiring only check
marks for the use of yardofficials
in reporting accidents. '
Detective Agency
Employe's Under -
Wage-Hour Law
Dallas, Texas.—On the basis of a
new U. S. Circuit court decree, re-
gional administrators of the Wage
and Hour Law today prepared to
enforce the statute’s provisions for
all detective agency employes who
guard plants engaged in interstate
commerce, even though the detec-
tive agency is a local concern not
in interstate commerce itself.
The Circuit Court reversed a de-
cision of the U. S. District Court in
Houston, which had held that such
employes were engaged in a service
establishment and thus exempt.
Irrespective of who is the em-
ployer, the higher court held, “if
the work of the employe has such a
close and immediate connection
with the process of production for
(interstate) commerce as to be an
Given a 10-yard start, would you
orno paman, could outrun a horse
Office of War
Information
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today is making things for war. In
addition, we must help feed, clothe
and equip our allies in Africa, Asia,
Australia and other places—no
matter who they are and where
they are. The first half of our why,
then, is less material than we want.
Meanwhile, more Americans are
working, at better wages, than ever
before. They have the power—dol-
lars—to buy more than ever before.
So the second half of our why is
more buying power.
Less goods, plus more buying
power, produce inflation. People
with more money than they have
had before will bid up prices of
scarce articles. That tendency pro-
duces inflation. In gold-rush days
hungry Alaskans with large bags of
gold bid up the price of ham and
eggs to $50 a plate.
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ery period of inflation, wages have
never kept up with prices. And, of
course, pension payments, insur-
ance returns and interest revenue
remain where they were.
Inflation is a dizzy ride. No time
to take it when there’s a life-and-
death war on.
The government, therefore, wants
economic stabilization. How it
hopes to bring that about is no
secret. There are seven controls—
seven brakes on the inflation roller
coaster. President Roosevelt ex-
plained them to Congress last April
28. The seven main controls are:
1. Heavy taxation to pay war
costs and reduce spending by every
person.
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Some of our state officials have
had much to say about “Washing-
ton bureaucrats."
.. Well, I see by the papers that
the Austin bureaucrats may not
have a “white Christmas,” but at
least they are going to have a five-
day Christmas, at the expense of
theupeople of Texas and in the
middle of a war for our national
existence.
Of course, these are not bureau-
crats. away off somewhere like
Washington; they are right down
here in Texas in the very capital
byjding where the critics of the
Washington bureaucrats" have
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The entire party then went out
to a field and there the athlete
stepped off the course—50 yards
° ng,.with a big post set up at the
ndkthe race to be to the post and
With a 10-pace start, the sprinter
was overtaken before he had gone
thirty yards, but, when he reached
the turning point, he whirled and
came tearing back, whereas the un-
th inking rider, not slowing down,
went far beyond the post and, by
the time he could check his horse
wheel and start back, the man had
crossed the finish line!
Shortage in Canada ningmricsnitborkpnysthetwin
Toronto, Ont-Agnes Macphail topreserve our social gains, Un-
V.7 long time * member of the pe. Secretary of War Robert E.
Federal House of Commons from P atterson.declared in a radio broad-
an Ontario constituency, predictscast on the fourth anniversary of
Canada will face a definit fodthesenactment of the Fair Labor
shortage if the war lasts two years Standards„Act. ,
more. I . Labor," Mr. Patterson said, “has
gThe reason, she declared in • to defeat
goverhment dods nd knswtatwthe I "American labor la now engaged
handle the farm problem in.P; roving to the world that free
«y . p em. labor can out-produce slave labor
bov froze farm labor after the every time, and make no miltake
boys had gone into the army. It about it, that proof will be one of
the outstanding achievements of
this war and will be recorded later
in history as one of the causes of
the dictator’s downfall.” •
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Labor Board
Forced to
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was recently given the army and
navy.
Meanwhile, the board, while
granting wage increases in a num-
ber of cases, ordered a curb on
“cost of living” clauses in union
agreements. It ruled that auto-
matic adjustments of pay because)
of increased living costs cannot ex-
ceed the “Little Steel formula” of
15 per cent over the level of Janu-
ary 1, 1941.
Challenged by LaGuardia
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Neither did a lot of other folks.
A stranger in town boasted of
his speed of a few years back when
(he said) he was a dash man in
college. At last, he climaxed his
claims with the statement that he
was still plenty fast enough to out-
runaswift horse owned by one of vy avcal autnorties. In New York
Offeredeners. Not only that, but he the dispute involved 32,000 subway
offered to wear a pair of Justin workers. S"ay
cowboy boots while doing it!
do something—if they wanted to
war plant workers. Nor the taQ
payers.
if we have state employes in the
Austin bureaus who can be spared
for five days, that is prima facie
evidence that they could be spared
entirely and could go to work at
something that would help win the
war; and, at the same time, the ex-
pense of state government could be
reduced and thereby enough money
would be saved to stop cutting the
old age assistance checks a dollar
each per month.
Let’s hear something about An.
tin bureaucrats for a change. I
pause for a reply.
A staff correspondent for one .
the city dailies went to a Wea
Texas town to write up a big con-
froze farm implements, apparently
--- to make sure that there could not
be increased food production.
Dh 2 “Spokesmen for' the farmers
warned the government two years
ago that a crisis was coming,” she
concluded, “but Minister of Agri-
culture Gardiner would not listen.”
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essential part of it, such an em-
ploye is engaged in the production
of goods for (interstate) commerce
I within the meaning of the Act”
The ruling, first appellate deci-
sion on the question of independent
watchmen, will be applicable in a
number of pending cases, said re-
gional Wage-Hour attorneys. The
company involved in this case was
MeCane-Sondock Detective Agency
of Houston, which had 34 employes
guarding 59 clients engaged in in-
I terstate commerce.
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