The Houston Labor Journal (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, April 12, 1957 Page: 1 of 8
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See OIL FIRMS. Page 8
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Church Leader Backs
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Union's Closed Shop
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sibility to join a labor union.
fields of religion and labor.
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How Giant Oil Firms Get Out
Of Paying Millions in Taxes
cent by Standard Oil of Cali- ( -
Re-Elect Reuther Should Do Their Part
Management Man
Represents Labor
On The T. E. C.
Beck
the
fight for the shorter work week
in the nation's giant automobile
Standard of New Jersey and
10 per cent by Socony Mobil
Oil Co., Inc.
This is not all of the foreign
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Interesting Comparison
"Right-to-work" laws do not
guarantee the right to work to
Is Anyone Too
Old To Vote?
Special to The Journal
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ments in kind. "Specifically, as plants. General Motors, Ford
See REUTHER, Page 8 and Chrysler.
they want ‘to use the club's
golf course than they must pay
to enjoy that privilege and the
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HOUSTON, TEXAS. FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1957
Special to The Journal anyone, he said, a common
IORI WORTH, April 12— claim among those who favor
Workers have a moral respon-
LEARNING THE LANGUAGE — Carlos Lopez, the former Argentine who is now
making Houston his home, sits at the dining table with his family studying a Spanish-
English dictionary. Next to Carlos is Ana Maria, 7, Mrs. Lopes. and Juan Carlos, 11. Carlos
is a printer and was working on the Buenos Aires Herald when Dictator Juan Peron was
overthrown in a revolution and fled the country. He has applied for membership in Houston
Typographical Union Local 87.
O'Mahony (D-Wyo.) by F. A.
Davies, chairman of Aramco's
was here to participate in
or anyone else to take UAW won’t light the fuse be-
Fifth Amendment,” and fore next January. Ramsey, of Washington,
The firm is owned 30 per
Reuther replied with com-
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The speaker was
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CIO.”
The Federation, in conven-
tion here last June, adopted a
merger agreement with the
State CTO Council but post-
who was
oil cartels in the strife-torn
Middle East, is the chief source
of revenue of King Saud Ibn,
its $281 million net profit last fornia, the Texas Company,
ed on foreign operations. Gulf
Oil, with profits running to
1 the hundreds of millions, also
profits enjoyed by these com-
panies. j cil last week had also agreed
Standard Oil had a record on a name for the merge d or-
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net profit of $800 million last
year and company officials es-
the “wreck’'
April 12—Walter Reuther, the
fiery little red-headed labor
leader, was re-elected head of
the United Automobile Workers
Union (AFL-CIO) this week.
The election of Reuther by
acclamation came after the
•rem '‘8s.- em j ' win - ~‘ ' ■
He said he now heartily president got his battle plan
agrees with Reuther that it is for the four-day work week be-
“highly improper for Dave yond the talk stage. But the ,
western Baptist
Seminary.
non-love notes.
Senator McCarthy sent a
wire to Reuther in which he
said Reuther was “a clumsy
practitioner of the double
standard of morality.” He based
this theory on what he said
was Reuther's change of view
on the Fifth Amendment.
He Agrees
He said all this forced him
to “conclude that your two
says a noted writer in the
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the Arabian American Oil
Company, which holds exclu-
Meet Separately,
Then Together
In State Capital
Come August 1 and the
Texas State Federation of
Labor (AFL) and the Texas
State CIO Council will be
married.
Or that's the hope of of-
ficials of the two organiza-
tions who have set up mer-
ger conventions in Austin
। on July 30.
Announcement of an agree-
| ment between the two labor
groups was made in Austin last
। week after the two organiza-
i tions reached accord on a time
and place.
Plan Separate Meetings
The Federation and the CIO
Council will meet in separate
conventions on Monday, July
29, and they then will meet
for a merger convention start-
' ing July 30.
Choice of the July date was
made necessary by the lack of
available dales earlier in the
summer, officials explained.
Official call for the conven-
tion will go out at least 60 days
( prior to the convention date.
Agree on Name
year.
Confirmed by Davies
The fact was confirmed be-
fore the Senate committee,
headed by Sen. Joseph C.
tiinate three-fourths of this
sum- $600 million—was earn-
Head of UAW
Special to The Journal
ATLANTIC CITY, N.
However, Judge Morris held sively the fabulously rich ..u...
this ban applied "only to in- petroleum concession in Saudi Who“tokFld"pltd‛Cadiiiacs
mates of prisons and poor- Arabia. This firm paid no back with him. p
houses,” I United States income taxes on
From Walter to Joe:
Phooey Upon Yooey!
Special to The Journal (years in Moscow and attend-
WASHINGTON, April 12— ance to Communist seminars
Joe McCarthy and Walter Reu- affected your moral standards.”
ther have begun to exchange, Comments in Kind
OKLAHOMA CITY, April 12
—A shocking suit to take not paying a single penny in
away voting rights from per- ' taxes on their hundreds of
sons who receive old age as- ] millions of dollars of profits
sistance was tossed out here by ; from foreign holdings is being
District Judge Glen O. Morris. I told before a Senate oil inves-
The suit was brought by a tigation.
local businessman, Gordon I "__ . __: • . •
Hines, who claimed the state1 One of the cases in point is
constitution barred voting by
those on relief rolls.
said that this should apply to The UAW convention voted
questions about union funds as to hold a special convention
much as to questions about next January to draft plans to
Organized labor in Texas got
a raw deal this week when the
appointment of R. F. Newman
to the Texas Employment
Commission was confirmed by
the Senate.
Newman, former personnel
director of the Alamo Plant in
Borger, a company owned by
Phillips Petroleum Co., was ap-
pointed to the Commission by
out-going Gov. Allan Shivers
in January, just before he left
office.
Criticized by AFL-CIO
He was appointed as the rep-
resentative of labor on the
three-man board, but represent-
atives of the State AFL and
CIO have roundly criticized his
qualifications as a represent-
ative of labor.
The commission is made up
of three members, with the
chairman delegated to repre-
sent the public and the other
two to represent management
and employes.
Jerry Holleman, executive
secretary of the Texas State
Federation of Labo , -and Fred
Schmidt, executive secretary of.
the Texas State CIO Council,1
issued a joint statement pro-1
testing Newman's confirmation
to the $13,600-a-year job.
Worked for Oil Firm
Newman served for about 17
years, the two labor spokes-
See NEWMAN, Page 8
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Declaring that union mem-
, bens are entitled to a closed
shop, he drew an interesting
comparison between the work-
shop and a country golf course.
, Citizens of the community
two-day workshop at South, are not required to join the
country club, he said, but if
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