The Dallas Craftsman (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, August 7, 1970 Page: 4 of 4
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August 7, 1970
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IUD Presses Congress]
MAURICE HONEYCUTT
On Job Safety Bill
where there is an imminent danger
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ATTEND
UNION WATER-MARKED PAPER AND ENVELOPES
CHURCH SUNDAY
CARRIED IN STOCK
Telephone
JOE A. IRWIN
428-8385
A UNION
PRINTING PRESSMAN
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The union meeting was fairly
attended Sunday. We adjourned
about 3:30.
A. D. Covin of Houston was a
visitor at the meeting. He made
a very interesting talk on his ac-
tivities as Chairman of the Hous-
ton Post His talk was well re-
ceived by the members present.
Three changes of laws will go
to referendum the third Wednes-
day in August. These laws concern
union attendance, six months bar
on subs, apprentices voting after
two years of membership.
All of our officers, with the ex-
ception of me are in Buffalo at-
tending the Convention. They have
called several times and made re-
ports. Bob Campbell is on the Ap-
peal Committee and George Reid is
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The Dallas Craftsman reaches
more members of organized labor
than any other medium.
The July 8th meeting was held
in the home of Martha Murfree
The door prize was won by Betty
Johnson.
Our next meeting will be held
at Sammy’s off of Centeral Ex-
pressway, August 10. The time is
7 p.m. This is to be dutch. Hope
to see everyone there.
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on the Officers Reports. I can’t
find out what committee J. T.
Blackmor is on.
All members should make plans
for the recognition dinner to be
held at the Adolphus Hotel on the
23rd.
It looks like John Travis will
start living in Dallas again. He
was at the union meeting Sunday.
Bill Young is back at work after
a sick spell. Bill is chairman of
the Dallas Morning News Chapel.
David Cason is the proud papa
of a baby girl. This makes David
a quorum for a chapel meeting.
M. K Banner still works now
and then at the Dallas Morning
News. He is looking good.
Henry Rice, Wall Street Printer,
does photography work and is a
basketball referee on the side. He
is very good at all these things.
We have four matters pending
before the joint standing commit-
tee. It looks like this will be a full
time job for rthese men.
I was glad to see John Grimes
at the meeting Sunday.
The mother of Booker T. Bos-
tick passed away this week. Our
deepest sympathy is now offered.
The remarks that I made con-
cerning the activities of the Allied
Trades Council last week was
strictly my personal opinion and
not as an officer of the Printing
Trades Council There seemed to
be some misunderstanding on this
matter.
Sam Clark is certainly putting
forth an effort to be a good chair-
man of the Times Herald Chapel.
We are certainly missing Wal-
lace Reilly and John Conley at
the union meetings. However, they
are excused. Both of these men
have been very faithful for over
45 years.
It certainly looks like Tyler
Typos have taken over the Dallas
News make-up.
Reilly Printing Co., 1710 South
Harwood, 428-8385 - 428-8388, is a
100% Union Shop. Why not
patronize a Union Shop?
poured into Washington on a barn-
storming tour of congressmen's of-
fices asking for the right to have
a safe and healthy place to work.
The program was part of a two-
day briefing session by the AFL
C16 Industrial Union Dept., on the
fight for passage of a strong occu-
pational safety and health bill.
The 750 union delegates to the
conference came from 34 states,
30 international unions and six
AFL-CIO state bodies.
Their immediate effort centered
on raising enough congressional
support to dislodge the bill from
the House Rules Committee, where
it has been bottled up since the
House Labor Committee approved
the measure late in June.
The legislation, sponsored by
Rep. Dominick V. Daniels (D-N.J.),
would give the Secretary of Labor
authority to set job safety and
health standards with strong pow-
ers to enforce them.
Opponents of the measure favor
a substantially weaker substitute.
Besides the Administration, the
opposition includes the Chamber
of Commerce, most House Repub-
licans and the National Associa-
tion of Manufacturers.
The object of labor’s drive is to
get the bill out of the Rules Com-
mittee and on the floor before the
House breaks for a three-week re-
cess starting Aug. 14.
Daniels told the IUD rally he is
hopeful of beating the Aug. 14
deadline, but warned that an all-
out effort must be engineered by
the bill’s union supporters.
He described his bill as being
strong, “but it is also fair and it
is reasonable."
The Chamber of Commerce and
NAM opposition, he charged, is
based on the fact that employers
will have to spend some money to
improve working conditions.
Many employers, he declared, are
more concerned with profits than
the safety of their workers, al-
though 14,500 workers are killed
annually by industrial accidents.
Occupational accidents and illness
every year disable another 2.5 mil-
lion, injure nearly 7 million and
cost the American economy almost
$8 billion, he pointed out
Rep. Peter Bommarito of the
Rubber Workers, who presided
as chairman of the IUD Occupa-
tional Health and Safety Commit-
tee, warned that opponents are
using every means possible to kill
the legislation.
He said the Daniels bill is needed
to bring order to the hodge-podge
of ineffective state laws covering
health and safety standards on
the job.
Among other things, the bill
provides:
* Full authority for the Secrer-
tary of Labor to set occupational
health and safety standards and to
enforce the law with penalties
against violators.
* The right of the Secretary of
Labor to shut down a plant or in-
Washington. — Trade unionists , dustrial
from all sections of the country t. - —
to the workers.
* The right of employee repre-
sentatives to accompany safety in-
spectors and receive copies of their ,
reports.
* Development of health stand- i
ards by the Secretary of Health,
Education and Welfare on various 1
toxic materials used on the job.
Weakness in the substitute bill
proposed by the Administration
were described by IUD Adminis-
trative Dir. Jacob Clayman and
Jack Sheehan, legislative director
of the Steelworkers. Although vari-
ous versions of these proposals al-
ready have been voted down by
the House Labor Committee, the
Chamber of Commerce is continu-
ing efforts to water down the Dan-
iels bill through amendments.
One of these proposals calls for
the Labor Secretary to refer viola-
tions to a new Occupational Safety
and Health Court that could make
enforcement difficult and clumsy.
Sen. Harrison A. Williams (D-
N.J.), who is sponsoring Senate
legislation similar to the Daniels
bill, told the labor representatives |
that there is an urgent need for
a federal law with "no-nonsense"
investigations of working facilities.
He noted that Congress passed
a coal mine safety law after a
major disaster in West Virginia—
which triggered intense public re-
action.
But since industrial accidents
are more common place, the public
is less aware of the need for strong
health and safety legislation, Wil-
liams observed. He called on trade
unionists to exert special effort
to inform the public on the issue.
Williams specifically cited the
need for standards on dust control
and noise, which he said cause ex-
tensive illness and disability of
workers.
AFL-CIO Legislative Dir, An-
drew J. Biemiller reminded the
delegates of the extreme tactics
being used by opponents to defeat
the Daniels measure.
He displayed a Chamber of Com-
merce publication claiming that
the "Daniels bill would allow
strikes with pay." The article, he
said, twisted the facts on the Dan-
iels bill provision that calls for
the five-day shutdown of a plant
when workers are faced with im-
minent danger.
process for five days
THE DALLAS CRAFTSMAN
/working CARDS
J CHECK YOUR
Boilermakers' Victory
Cracks No-Union County
Marion, N.C.—McDowell County
got its first union when employees
of Air Preheater Co. voted for
the Boilermakkers in a National
Labor Relations Board represen-
tation election. The vote, with
325 workers eligible, was 192 for
the union, 116 against
The plant is a subsidiary of
Combustion Engineering Co. An
in-plant organizing committee was
assisted by members of the Boil-
ermakers and AFL-CIO regional
staff. It won a majority after
two previous organizing attempts
had failed.
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