The Dallas Craftsman (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, August 7, 1970 Page: 1 of 4
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Erhard and Goodell
Honored at Luncheon
Fred W. Erhard, Regional Di- were received from all over the
Women in Labor Force
Grow to 30.5 Million
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Demand the AFL-CIO Label
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Health Plan Urged to
Check Runaway Costs
Pilots Threaten to Shun
Airports Near Obstructions
New Right-to-Work
Move Killed in Louisiana
country, including wires from Con-
gressmen Cabell and Collins. Each
were presented with a beautiful,
engraved watch from their staff.
nearly 90 percent were married
and living with their husbands.
Among the others, 22 percent were
single, 8 percent widowed, 6 per-
cent divorced and 5 percent were
married but not living with their
husbands.
The largest single occupation
group of employed women last
year was the clerical workers. This
came to nearly 10 million, with
3.4 million working as stenogra-
phers, typists and secretaries.
The next two largest groups
were the service workers, 4.7 mil-
lion and operatives, 4.5 million.
Another 4 million women were em-
ployed in professional and techni-
cal fields, including 1.6 million
teachers and about 1 million in
medicine and health work.
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CARPENTERS' LOCAL
UNION NO. 198
CHARLES HENDERSON
Financial Secretary
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BOOKBINDERS
Local No 67
PAT COSTIN, President
Dallas Typographical
Union No. 173
JOHN a GESFORD, Chalrman
Joint Apprenticeship Committee
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— Many Thousands of AFL-CIO Members in this County Depend on The Dallas Craftsman for Their News
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gress that includes the certifica-
tion of airports.
“The big job now is to obtain
industry agreement on the certi-
fication rules and implement pro-
cedures to eliminate airport de-
ficiency,’’ Ruby added.
The forum also urged Congress
to approve the financing for the
development of a supersonic trans-
port plane. It said in a resolution
that the United States was in dan-
ger of losing its leadership in the
development of aircraft because of
the dominance of Anglo-French
and Russian SST programs.
Four persons were honored by
the ALFA for their contributions
to air safety. They are Capt Lee
Hines of Atlanta, Capt Amadeo
Castro Almanza of Mexico, Stew-
ardess Elizabeth Montgomery of
Washington, D. C., and aviation
writer Robert Sterling.
Hines, a regional vice president
of ALFA, was cited for his efforts
in promoting improved safety in
airport design and operation.
Miss Montgomery was selected
for her work on stewardess safety
committees, accident investigation
and aircraft evaluation commit-
tees.
Sterling was honored “for his
selfless contributions in the inter-
est of air safety through his books,
articles and speeches . . . for the
betterment of both passenger and
crew safety."
Castro received a special award
for his efforts to improve air
safety facilities in Mexico to bene-
fit all pilots operating in that
country.
SUBSCRIBED FOR BY MANY MEMBERS OF ORGANIZED LABOR
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Bro. L. E. Thorpe, Jr., was in
our office last week and reported
the death of his father, Bro. L E.
Thorpe, Sr., on July 24. He passed
away in Corsicana, Texas, with in-
terment in a local cemetary. We
expressed our regrets in not hav-
ing known of his death and did
not have anyone from the office
at his services. Bro. Thorpe was
initiated in the Galveston LU 526
in 1941 and placed his member-
ship in our local in 1959.
At last Monday's meeting the
local set up committees for the
Labor Day Picnic at Sokel Hall,
the same place it was held last
year. We will have more informa-
see CARPENTERS, page 2
Washington. — Women workers
in the nation’s labor force totaled
30.5 million last year, an increase
of 1.3 million from 1968, the Wom-
en’s Bureau of the Labor Dept, re-
ported.
Women represented 38 percent
of all the workers in-the labor
force. And 43 percent of the na-
tion’s women 16 years of age and
older were holding down jobs.
Of the 40.9 million women who
were not a part of the labor force,
32.5 million were not working be-
cause of home responsibilities, the
bureau said in its newly updated
publication, Background Facts on
Women Workers in the United
States.
The study included summary
data on age, martial status, edu-
cational attainment, occupations,
earnings and unemployment of
women workers.
Earnings of women continue to
lag behind the wages of men. In
1968, the last year for which full
statistics were available, the me-
dian earnings of women who were
employed fulltime the year-around,
were 84,457. This was only 58 per-
cent of the 87,664 median earnings
for full time men workers.
The report also noted that while
20 percent of the women workers
received less than 83,000 a year
in 1968, only 8 percent of the men
workers were in this wage bracket
At the upper end of the scale, only
3 percent of the women and 28
percent of the men earned $10,000
or more in 1968.
Of the 29.9 million women work-
ers age 16 and older in March 1969,
Messrs. Erhard and Goodell have
indicated they will continue to
work in the field of apprentice-
ship after their retirement They
have both worked very closely with
labor during these 36 years. As
recognition of his close association
with them, the Texas State Pipe
Trades presented Mr Erhard with
a beautiful plaque at the luncheon.
Don Garner, Apprentice Training
Specialist, Texas A & M Univer-
sity, made the presentation.
D las Craftsman
rector, and Jake Goodell, Deputy
Regional Director, of the Bureau
of Apprenticeship and Training,
U. S. Department of Labor, were
honored at a luncheon on the oc-
casion of their retirement, effective
July 31, 1970. 130 selected friends
from industry, education, labor and
government attended the festivi-
ties honoring these two men on
completion of 36 years each with
the Federal Government
During their service in the gov-
ernment, they were successful in
promoting and developing appren-
ticeship opportunities for many
young people in the skilled trades.
Telegrams of congratulations
to absorb an increasing share of
the gross national product at the
present rate—nearly 7 percent to
30 years the rate of spending will
nearly double to 13.4 percent, she
said, adding:
“This is why I believe it is im-
perative to bring the nation’s
health delivery system under bud-
getary control as soon as possible.
The only questions that require
answers are whether the providers
of care and services could live
within the budget” proposed in her
bill, and whether the budget is
one under which the quality of
service would improve.
Mrs. Griffiths stressed her belief
that her bill, which has been
strongly endorsed by the AFL-CIO,
is the only bill now pending which
would “control costs effectively
and in a manner acceptable to all
concerned.”
The AFL-CIO Legislative Dept,
reported in a 1970 fact sheet on
the subject that benefits for health
services in the Griffiths measure
are “far more comprehensive than
those in any existing health plan
under collective bargaining or
Medicare.”
For the past few weeks, we have
attempted to refrain from publish-
ng our differences with our Broth-
er Unions within the Graphic Arts
field. We now feel, however, that
the truth should be brought out.
Maurice Honeycutt, Secretary-
Treasurer of the Dallas Allied
Printing Trades Council stated in
his article of July 31, 1970, to The
Dallas Craftsman, that the dispute
between Palette Printing Company
and Bookbinders Local No. 67 was
a jurisdictional matter. As an
officer of the Dallas Allied, we
feel that Mr. Honeycutt should
state facts. In the first place,
there has been no discussion at the
Allied meetings on lifting the label
at either Palette Printing Co. or
Powell Printing Co. The only dis-
cussion was on Palette Printing
Company at a Special Called Meet-
ing of the Allied, at which a dele-
gate from each of the unions in-
volved were present. This meet-
ing was held on July 13, 1970, and
at that time, a motion was made
and seconded and approved 100
see BOOKBINDERS, safe $
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In the last few weeks, numer-
ous changes have taken place in
the apprentice program. Darrell
Long at Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall
completed his Lessons in Printing
with a final grade of 98.8 and
is now on a situation on the ma-
chine side. John Sanchez of The
Dallas Morning News Chapel is
now a journeyman. He will attend
classes in Paste Makeup at the
ITU Training Center in Colorado
Springs, Colo. “Thanks to the
Junior Union for paying his fee
and expenses.” Douglas Antoine
TooShlelds also of the Dallas
Morning News Chapel completed
his Lessons in Printing and trans-
ferred to Journeyman July 28,
1970. Now on a situation at The
Dallas Morning News. Rubin Mc-
Coy at Dallas Linotyping com-
pleted her Lessons in Printing.
However, she has been granted an
extension so that she can learn
more about certain phases of the
trade she has been deprived of dur-
ing her study and training period.
Ralph Wayne Wendt Jr. of The
Dallas Morning News Chapel has
finished his Lessons in Printing
with a final average grade of 98.7
and will be transferred to Journey-
man as of August 31, 1970. Grover
Henderson of the Jaggars-Chiles-
Stovall Chapel is now working as
an operator apprentice and is
studying hard on the ITU Lessons
in Printing. As soon as he com-
pletes them and is declared a
see DALLAS TYPO, page 2
Washington.—The cost of medi-
cal care in America has reached
such astronomic proportions that
the nation cannot afford to delay
enactment of a health insurance
program any longer, Rep. Martha
W. Griffiths (D-Mich.) told Con-
gress.
“On the basis of current trends,”
she said, “failure to enact a na-
tional health insurance program
with effective control in the next
Congress can only mean further
increases in future costs.
“Certainly the vast majority of
Americans are ready for a change
in the system.”
Mrs. Griffiths announced that
health care costs are rising much
faster than taxable payrolls. There-
fore, she said, she plans to re-in-
troduce the bill she sponsored last
February. Twenty other legislators
from nine states later added their
names as co-spensors, and four
other members introduced identi-
cal bills.
“Because of shocking health cost
escalations,” she said in remarks
printed to the Congressional Rec-
ord, "T will reintroduce my nation-
al health insurance bill in the next
Congress.”
When she first began research-
ing the subject 18 months ago, the
cost of an acceptable health care
system was estimated at 7 per-
cent of covered payrolls. That
figure has since risen to 7.9 per-
cent
The Michigan congressman said
her new bill will contain some im-
provements over the old one. It
will provide for increased revenue
by raising the health insurance
tax rate from 7 percent of payroll
to 8 percent—3.5 percent from em-
ployers and an equal percentage
from federal revenues, leaving the
tax on employees at the proposed
1 percent rate.
Mrs. Griffiths declared she does
not believe Congress can afford
to let runaway costs and inade-
quate care go on much longer.
If health expenditures continue
Baton Rouge — Louisiana once
had a “right-to-work” law and a
committee of the legislature
agreed with the State AFL-CIO
that the mistake won’t be re-
peated.
The House Labor and Industry
Committee voted down a pro-
posal to ban union-shop agree-
ments by a 5-3 vote, thus killing
a “right-to-work” bill for the
second year in a row. Since the
union shop ban was repealed in
1956, the State AFL-CIO noted,
Louisiana has prospered along
with the state’s labor movement
and industrial growth “far ex-
ceeded” that of most states with
so-called "right-to-work” laws.
San Francisco.—The Air Line
Pilots have warned that their mem-
bers may soon refuse to service air
ports where hazardous obstruc-
tions pose a serious danger.
A resolution adopted by the
ALFA National Safety Commit-
tee called for the union to “investi-
gate the possibilities of modifying
existing service at any airport in
the nation where obstructions have
been built which totally Ignore the
ALFA’s established safety cri-
teria.”
Noting that tall buildings, tele-
vision towers and other obstruc-
tions are being erected near air-
ports, the ALPA expressed con-
cern that the wellbeing of airline
passengers is being sacrificed.
Many of the obstructions are being
allowed by officials of the Federal
Aviation Administration because
of political pressures in Washing-
ton, the union charged.
Improvements also are needed in
air traffic control facilities and air-
ports, ALPA Pres. Charles H.
Ruby told the 500 representatives
of ALPA pilots, stewards and
stewardesses attending the safety
forum.
Ruby said that commercial air-
lines will not be able to raise
money to buy new and larger air-
craft and necessary ground sup-
port facilities unless the nation's
air traffic control system and air-
ports are updated to handle the
new airplanes efficiently. He noted
that the ALPA has successfully
supported the passage of an air-
port improvement measure in Con-
Fifty-Seventh Year. No. 10 DALLAS, TEXAS, AUGUST 7, 1970
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