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THE DALLAS CRAFTSMAN IS SUBSCRIBED FOR BY MANY MEMBERS OF ORGANIZED LABOR
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Sen. Oscar H. Mauzy Delegate
To Transportation Forum
Reilly Printing Co., 1710 South
Harwood Street. 428-8385 428-8386
jetports, aviation, traffic safety,
highways and bus transportation.
Wilson C. Druggs, general man-
ager of the Dallas Transit Sys-
tem, is a speaker at the session on
bus transportation. Other speak-
ers include New Jersey Sen. Har-
rison A. Williams, Undersecretary
of Transportation James Beggs,
New York Transportation Com-
The overall bill, which contains
provisions dealing with Medicare,
Medicaid as well as the level of
000, Biemiller said it was a step
in the right direction but that it
ought to move to $15,000 as urged
by the AFL-CIO to finance broad-
It is with the deepest of regrets
we report the death of Bro. N. C.
what a great organization it is
today.
There is a probability that only
a few of the young members of
today has taken the time, or put
out the energy to seek out the
following bit of information.
gressivity of the tax.”
He urged also that general rev-
enue funds be introduced into the
systems on a regular scheduled
basis to remove an increasingly
unfair burden on low and midde-
income workers.
House bill changes in the Medi-
caid program "cause us great con-
cern,” he said, especially repeal
of the provision in the present law
that states must have comprehen-
sive Medicaid programs by 1977.
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Many Thousands of AFL-CIO Members in this County Depend on The Dallas Craftsman for Their News
(PATTERN FOR
SOCIAL SECURITY)
Some 30 years after the ITU
Fraternal Benefit was inaugurated
(the first such program under-
taken by a labor union), the U. S.
government adopted the Social
Ice establishments or domestic
workers.
But, Goldfinger stressed, the
AFL-CIO also urges that the fed-
eral wage-hour law coverage be
extended to some 2.5 million em-
ployees of state and local govern-
ments, many of whom are among
the nation’s "low-wage poor, or
working poor.”
He rejected the contention that
improvement of the wage-hour
law would eliminate many of the
jobs now held by teenagers and
marginal workers.
“There are always outcries from
some reactionary types in the
country that an increase of the
minimum wage is going to cause
disaster ... a rise in unemploy-
ment,” he said. But, he noted, the
government’s own studies of the
impact of FLSA improvements
since 1938 show otherwise. He said
that; both Democratic and Repub-
lican Secretaries of Labor, report-
see MINIMUM WAGE, page 4
At the next meeting of Brick-
layers Local No. 5, October 6,
they will hold a special election
to fill the office of business agent,
which was made vacant by the
resignation of Bro. Cook.
Be sure you bring your due book
on election night, the by-laws
states anyone over 60 days in
arrears will not be allowed to vote.
Pres. Green informed me that
cards would be checked and any-
one found delinquent would not
vote.
Bro. Green checked the ledger
last week and found there were
some 80 members that would
be three months behind Oct. 1,
and subject to being dropped.
This also means you have been
out of benefits since Sept 1, and
if any thing happened to you your
benefits would not be payable. That
is the IU Constitution, and brother
they mean business.
We still have a lot of members
out of work. It looks like work
is going to pick up some before
long, but not enough. To make
the picture worse, it looks like
the mayor has decided not to
build the City Hall, after spend-
ing millions for the land, and how
much for architectural fees, one-
two-three-million ? Does anybody
know I would like to.
care for several days. He has been
in ill health for several years.
Prior to his illness he was a very
active member and leaves a host
of friends that mourn his death.
Services were set for Wednesday
afternoon at Restland. His mem-
bership was continuous from 1936.
Under accidents, sickness and
deaths there were unusual large
number of members reported on.
Bro. E. M. Hooten and Geo. Olsen,
in Veterans doing as well as could
be expected may go home soon.
Bro. Raymond Brown cleared out
Tuesday morning to go to Phoenix,
Arizona, where his daughter-in-
law, Mrs. Virgil Matthews is in
serious condition. Bro. Ray Reyn-
olds still in East Town Hospital
with heart attack. Bro. Randolph
Tomlinson in Methodist for diag-
nosis. We have not been out to
see him. We will try to give a
report on him next week. Bro.
Roy L Reed now at home after
two weeks in Oak Cliff Medical
Hospital.
The first year apprentice class
attended last Mondays meeting in
a body which well nigh filled the
hall. They are a fine class of
young men and we feel that it is
going to be one of the outstand-
ing classes we have had in our
apprentice program.
Work seems to be picking up
some, however, it may be due to
the large number of men working
at the fair grounds and will not
help much as they will be through
by the time the fair opens.
We are having to return many
checks that are sent in for dues.
Members not sure of the amount
owed should call our office before
sending in checks. Call RI 2-9134.
We will be glad to check ledger
and give you correct amount.
State Sen. Oscar H. Mauzy
is official Texas delegate to the
first annual legislative transporta-
tion forum being held this week
in New York City.
policy that there will be periodic
increases in addition to those re-
lated to rising living costs.”
The AFL-CIO supported the
House bill on increasing benefits
payable to widows, computing
benefits for men on working years
up to 62 instead of 65, and increas-
ing the amount of exempt earn-
ings to $2,000.
On Medicare the federation
called for the reimbursement to
beneficiaries for money spent for
prescription drugs, 80 percent of
which are out-of-pocket costs to
the elderly.
It urged again including the dis-
abled under the Medicare law and
dropping the supplemental medical
insurance premium. The AFL-CIO
asked that the government use
revenue funds to cover one-half
the cost of the program. The
premium has increased nearly 80
per cent in four years from $3
per month to $5.30 per month.
Noting the House bill’s increase
of the wage base on which social
Sen Mauzy, who represents
Southwest Dallas County in the
state senate, was named by Lt.
Gov. Ben Barnes to attend the
conference, sponsored by the New
York joint legislative committee
on transportation.
The conference is dealing with
such areas as mass rail transit.
benefits and other provisions,
“falls far short of making a major
impact on the economic problems
faced by social security benefic-
iaries,” he said.
The House-passed measure was
the second step of social security
benefit increases voted by the 91st
Congress. A first-stage 15 percent
across-the-board increase covering
22.6 million persons now on the
rolls took effect Jan. 1, 1970.
Biemiller noted that in testify-
ing before the House Committee
the AFL-CIO had urged a 20 per-
cent increase for 1970 with an ad-
ditional 20 percent increase in two
years.
“Current inflation has made that
goal impossible,” he said, "since
the 15 percent increase is supple-
mented only by the 5 percent in
the House bill We urge passage of
an immediate 10 percent increase
and an additional 20 percent ef-
fective Jan. 1, 1972.”
Commenting on the cost-of-liv-
ing escalator voted by the House
to adjust benefits annually if there
were a 3 percent indrease in
Meany Hits Hijacking as
Assault on Society
The latest wave of plane hijack-
ing "is a blow against all human
decency,” AFL-CO Pres. George
Meany said in a telegram to Chair-
man Charles Zimmerman of the
Jewish Labor Committee.
Any government which “incites
or tolerates” such acts "shares the
guilt of the criminals” who en-
danger the lives of defenseless
passengers and crewmen, Meany
said in a telegram read at a prayer
meeting in Hammarskjold Plaza at
the United Nations headquarters
in New York City.
"We condemn the latest wave
of Arab hijacking and call upon
our government to speed the lib-
eration of all the entrapped men,
women and children,” Meany said.
He urged the United States to act
in concert with all other govern-
ments which have regard for basic
human decency to prevent the re-
currence of such monstrous ter-
roristic crimes.”
Air piracy attacks "the very
foundations of all civilized socie-
ties,” Meany stressed.
Security Program. Social Security
operates on principles, particularly
as to funding, that are very simi-
lar to those of the ITU Fraternal
Benefit. Like the Union’s Pension
Fund, Social Security functions
as a revolving fund. Current
benefits are paid from purrent
payroll deductions — Current in-
come. .
One of the main differences be-
tween the two is that administra-
tive costs of Social Security are
paid from revenues. On the othr
hand, more than 100 percent of
the ITU Old Age Pension Benefit
assessment is returned to the
membership. Not only is every
penny collected, plus interest,
placed into the FUND, but the
entire cost of administration is
paid from the ITU General Fund
— not the PENSION FUND!
Since the first ITU Age Pension
benefit was paid in 1908, $311,417,-
883 or more, has been paid to
qualified veteran ITU members.
In 1909, there were 542 members
on the pension roll and the Pen-
sion Benefit Fund was $58,530. As
of June 20, 1970 there was ap-
proximately 16,072 members or
more on the roll and the Fund
balance was $9,440,551.22. More
than $316 million has been chan-
neled into the Fund in the form
of assessments in addition to over
$5 million interest earned by the
Fund — and all of this since 1908.
So, apprentices of you intend
to make a career of the printing
industry, why not put a little time
into finding out more about your
see TYPOS page 4
time, year-round ” and the “ut-
terly low wages of the worker”
is the major cause of that poverty.
He said that among the 17 mil-
lion workers who should be added
to FLSA protections are farm
workers, employees of smaller re-
tail stores, restaurants and serv-
_ Increase in Social Security
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To Restore Gains of Lowest-Paid
er benefits and lessen the “re-
Washington. — The AFL-CIO’s
top economist called for major
overhaul of the federal wage-hour
Hamner, 78, who died last Mon- law to restore the gain America’s
day morning in Baylor Hospital | lowest-paid workers made in 1966
where he had been in intensive but have since lost to inflation.
A minimum wage of “at least
$2 an hour” and coverage under
the Fair Labor Standards Act for
an additional 17 million of the na-
tion’s lowest-paid workers are "ab-
solutely necessary . . . now,” de-
clared Nat Goldfinger, director of
the AFL-CIO Dept, of Research,
in a network radio interview. He
added that reduction of the stand-
ard work-week and raising the
overtime penalty from time and
one-half to double time, as the
AFL-CIO has also urged, would
open new job opportunities and
help meet the problems of the
working poor.
Questioned by reporters on La-
bor News Conference, Goldfinger
pointed out that ‘ according to the
Census Bureau’s own figures, more
than half of the poor in this coun-
try are in families where the head
of the family is employed full-
JOHN C. GESFORD
So often I hear the remark,
"Oh, he is a pensioner, why
shouldn’t he move over and give
the younger members a chance.”
This, is well and good up to a
point. As we all know, or should,
those members who are pensioners
now, were the boys of yesterday
who laid the plans, built the
bridges and brought the Interna-
tional Typographical Union to
missioner Theodore W. Parker,
and Dr. Robert Hess, director of
the highway safety research in-
stitute at the University of
Michigan.
Office Union Scores Two
Victories in Bank Drive
New York. — The Office and
Professional Employees backed by
the AFL-CIO in a nationwide drive
to offer the benefits of organiza-
tion to bank employees, has scored
two initial victories in the states
of Missouri and Washington.
OPEIU Pres. Howard Coughlin
said the union won National Labor
Relations Board elections by a
3-1 margin in a 45-member unit
at the First Federal Savings &
Loan Association, Vancouver,
Wash., and by nearly 2-1 among
81 employees of North County
Bank & Trust Co., in Jennings,
Mo., a St. Louis suburb.
OPEIU has numerous bank cam-
paigns under way, Coughlin said.
Ffty-Seventh Year, No. 18 DALLAS, TEXAS, OCTOBER 2, 1970
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