The Houston Labor Journal (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, June 28, 1957 Page: 4 of 8
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Friday, June 2®. 1957
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Yes, there’s more Tomfoolery. The cost of living rose again in May—Hie ninth
straight month. And The Journal asks President Eisenhower: What happened to the
campaign pledge to do something about the high cost of living? We wonder if he
isn’t a little more worried about how to hit a LOW 70 than he is in your HIGH
grocery bill.—The Editor.
PUBLISHED SEMI-MONTHLY UNDER AUTHORITY OF
THE HOUSTON LABOR AND TRADES COUNCIL
BY THE
LABOR MESSENGER OF HOUSTON INC. PUBLISHING CO.
OFFICE OF PUBLICATION
A.F. of L. LABOR TEMPLE, 2501 CRAWFORD
TELEPHONE CA 7-1667
R. G. MILLER, President, R. F. ARTHUR, Vice President,
I. E. COWARD, Sec-Treas.; JOE A. FATTA, Chairman of Board
OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE BOARD
LABOR AND TRADES COUNCIL OF HOUSTON
President —
President -
Treasurer______
Reading Clerk _
Dear Oscar: Why Use City
Firemen To Fight A Strike?
Teamsters are on strike at a Houston concrete
company to gain recognition—a right granted them
under the Constitution and the laws of this country.
And the City of Houston, through its officials,
finds it propitious to send city firemen through the
Teamsters picket line to do work for the struck
plant.
-- - -We ask Mayor Oscar Holcombe: How come?
Maybe if city firemen were not sent through
picket lines to work for a struck firm, maybe the city
could find money to give the firemen the raise they
deserve. Eh, Oscar?
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Statistician___Mrs. Doria Baker
Sergeant-at-Arms G. A. Mullinax
Trustee________Alma Herring
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(Readers of the Houston Labor Journal art in tiled to
write letters to "Speak Your Piece.’ However, because of lack
of space, the editor requests that you keep them under a
20P'uorJL Lhe editor reserves the right to edit letters
ytbinphe hm,tr Address your letters to: 'Speak Your Piece,
the Houston Labor Journal, 2301 Crawford, Houston)
Friends of Labor
We saw an interesting story
in the San Diego (Cal.) La-
bor News this week. The
California Legislature, acting
on the program of the State
AFL, adopted a program in-
creasing unemployment in-
surance benefits to $40 a
i week and unemployment dis-
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
Any erroneous reflection
upon the character, standing
or reputation of any firm or
corporation which may appear
in the columns of The Labor
Anton Boron
R. F. Arthur
Quote of the Day
United Mine Workers
President John L. Lewis, tes-
tifying before a Senate labor
subcommittee:
“In most states there are
more bankers in jail than
coal miners.”
8-ea
No Joe Pool
Well, right won out in Wis-
consin. They didn't have a
Joe Pool to push through a
bill to change a law in the
middle of an election. So
Wisconsin has called for an
election in August to fill the
seat vacated by the death of
Sen. Joe McCarthy.
Wisconsin GOP wanted to
pass a special law so the
GOP governor could appoint
a senator.
ability insurance payments
to $50 a week.
And take a look at the ma-
jorities the bills got;
The unemployment bill
was passed 35 to 1 in the
Senate while the disability
measure got a unanimous 37-
0 approval.
We have only one com-
ment: All we need are more
friends in the Texas Legisla-
ture. And there’s only one
way to get them: Elect them.
And there is only one way
to elect them: Work, and
work and work. Give, and
give and give!
Wall Street has taken the
Eisenhower administration to
the wood shed. And believe
you me that’s news!
The Magazine of Wall
Street, a leading financial
publication, charges that the
administration is contributing
to inflation by violating the
very rules for “sound” fi-
nance it set up on taking of-
fice four years ago.
The Treasury has aban-
doned sound debt policies in
an effort to find funds in
“the tightest money market
since the banking crisis of
1933”, the current issue de-
clares.
The article points out that
President Eisenhower in his
first State of the Union mes-
sage pledged that he would
pursue a policy of long-term
debt financing “since too
much short-term debt is in-
flationary.”
“But, says the magazine, to
avoid competing for long-
term funds with the home
mortgage market, industry
and local government. the
Treasury debt managers have
reversed Eisenhower's ruling
and concentrated on borrow-
ing through short-term issues.
You know, when Wall
Street differs with the Re-
publican administration, it
makes you kind of wonder.
Somebody's out of tune and
we don't know who it is.
__G. E. Wood
____C. P. Price
. N. E. Coward
Joe A. Fatta
-L. Carl Price
Wall Street Spanks President;
You Wonder: Who's Right?
Support The Merger
100 Per Cent!
Last week it was the pleasure of your editor to attend
the meeting of the Houston Labor and Trades Council and
beer a report by the executive secretary of the State Fed-
eration, Jerry Holleman.
Brother Holleman's report touched on two things:
1. Progress—and non-progress—by organised labor
during the recent session of the legislature.
2. Details of the upcoming merger of the AFL-CIO in
Texas.
We gathered from Brother Holleman's report that there
is a great deal of misunderstanding—and misapprehension—
over the forthcoming merger. And we would like to make an
attempt to straighten a few things out.
For one thing, it looks like a great many labor mem-
bers are confused as to how the merger will affect them
and their locals. And we want to make these two points:
1. Your local's jurisdiction and autonomy will not be
affected in the least.
2. Your local w ill continue to operate just as it has in
the past
Nothing will be changed on the local level. The only
changes will be in the higher headquarters—that is, the
Houston Labor and Trades Council and the Houston Area
Industrial Union Council will merge on the county level.
And the State AFL and the State CIO will merge on ths
state level.
We eannot understand the fear that some have regarding
the loss of jurisdiction. Of course, no local wants to lose
jurisdiction. That means less work for their members.
But we have always had jurisdictional disputes. The
chances are that we will continue to have some.
BUT IT WILL BE EASIER TO IRON THEM OUT
WITH ONE HEADQUARTERS UNDER ONE ROOF THAN
WITH TWO HEADQUARTERS AND TWO SETS OF TOP
OFFICERS!
We would like to take this opportunity to urge labor
in Harris County, both AFL and CIO, to support the merger
100 per cent. Send your delegates to the merger conven-
tion with instructions to vote for the merger.
Brother Holleman said it looked as if the merger would
carry by about 65 to 35 per cent. But he made a strong point
when he said:
"There is strength in unity. And we would like to show
' the whole state that Texas labor is unified. We would like
to have 100 per cent approval of the merger."
So the Journal joins Brother Holleman in this plea:
Let's show the state that labor in Harris County is so closely
unified that to all intents and purposes we're already
merged. ♦
Let’s stick together and we will not fall.
And from Denver comes a
plea to union members not to
hide their light under a bas-
ket. Let all and sundry know
you are a union member.
Advertise it.
M. S. Ashley, president of
the Denver Stereotypers,
told the annual Southwest
Stereotypers conference that
they should tell their church
groups, their PT A meetings
and the man down the street
that they are union members.
‘Let them see that we are
good citizen* and loyal
Americans and so remove the
stigma that has fallen upon
organized labor.”
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THE HOUSTON LABOR JOURNAL
Journal will be gladly corrected upon its being brought to the
attention of the publishers.
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Entered as second-class matter March 16, 1928, at the Post
Office at Houston, Texas, Under the Act of March 3, 1878.
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