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Thursday, February H, 1012
Joint AFL-CIO Committee
Set Up To Settle Disputes
H? Lewis Plan
The AKI, named the following mem
bers: William !reen, CJeorge Meany.
secretary-treasurer Daniel .1. Tobin,
sixth vice-president.
The CIO named the following:
Philip Murray, It. J. Thomas, presi
dent, United Automobile Workers Ju
lius Emspak, secretary-treasurer,
United Electrical, Itudiu and Machine
Workers,
Alternates Also Named
The following alternates were named
on the board:
AFL Felix II. Knight, president,
Brotherhood of Ilailway Carmen (5.
M. Bugniazer, secret a ry-treasurer, In
ternational Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers Harry C. Bates, president,
Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers
Union.
CIO—Patrick T. Fagan, president of
District r», I'nited Mine Workers Emil
Itieve, president, Textile Workers
Union John C.reen, president, Indus
trial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding
Workers.
AFL Ready to Negotiate
Announcing nomination of the AFL
members. President Green expressed
regret that the '•internal situation in
the CIO" had caused its leaders to
close the door to immediate steps to
ward unity in the labor movement.
"The American Federation of La
bor," be said, "ever since the spli.t oc
curred has always stood ready to meet
with those who left us and to settle
differences. Our peace committee
stands ready to do so at any and all
times in the future."
President lloosevelt will lie a sev
enth member of .the joint board, which
CIO leaders recommended be called
Labor's Victory Board. It is expected
the board will have a broader purpose
than settlement of jurisdictional con
troversies and that it will deal with
the whole part of labor in the war ef
fort. In this connection, labor believes
that President lloosevelt intends to
give labor a larger voice in the formu
lation of policies a.nd programs. This
lias been repeatedly urg'Ml by all ele
ments in the labor movement.
Lewis Declines Invitation
When Lewis' unity proposal was
first suggested, in an identical letter
to Philip Murray and William (liwn,
Murray showed hostility to the pro
posal and wrote Lewis thai any action
for unity with the AFL would have
to come through the office of the CIO
president. However, lie invited Lewis
to attend a meeting of the CIO na
tional executive board in New York to
discuss the proposal.
Lewis, in a sharply worded letter to
Murray, declined the invitation and
pointed to provisions in the CIO con
stitution which he said gave the CIO
peace negotiating committee power to
resume meetings with the AFL peace
committee. The board rejected the
Lewis plan a.nd approved the plan sug
gested by President lloosevelt l'or la
bor peace without actual unity.
Job Insurance Benefits
Show Marked Decrease
New York City (ILNS). Steadily
increasing employment in defense in
dustries and resulting gains in workers'
buying power brought a decrease of
$31,000,000 in state unemployment in
surance payments during 11)41, the Di
vision of Placement and Unemploy
ment insurance, State Labor Depart
ment, reported.
Benefits to jobless New Yorkers in
1941 totaled $!).S,7!)X,000 but the 1!)41
total is not expected to exceed $07,
000,000. Full figures were not at hand
when the report was made.
Through the machinery of the State
Employment Service, the division found
jobs for rvrn.OOO persons in 1041, as
against 0."0 in 1040. Placements in
New York city rose from 171,000 in
1040 to ",00.000 in 1941.
As a further reflection of the im
proved economic situation in the last
twelve months, the state anticipates
an increase of $13,000,000 in payroll
tax collections for unemployment in
surance. Taxes for 1040 totaled $12i,
000,000.
The 1941 estimates is .$140.-
000,000.
The drop in job insurance benefits
has been accompanied by a decline in
homo and work relief expenditures,
which are now at the lowest point in
six years. A report made public by
Welfare Commissioner William Hodson
disclosed that the over-all outlay for
relief in this city had dropped nearly
$20,000,000
a month since the low point
Of
the depression in 1935.
HENS AID DEFENSE EFFORT
Washington, D. C.—Americans liens
increased their egg production last year
.1,, 40 billion to aid defense, the De
partment of Agriculture reports. Tin
biddies laid o per cent more than in
1940 and 4 per cent more than the
previous record year of HKJ0. They also
topped per-bird production marks the
rate of lay per bird was 5 per cent
over 1040 and 3 per cent higher than
the old record of 1SJ3&.
%Out
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—Little more is likely to be heard
of John L. Lewis' proposal for resumption of peace negotiations
between the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Indus
trial Organizations. Rebuffed by Lewis' own organization and
frowned on by the White House, the proposal was quickly over
shadowed by setting up of a joint AFL and CIO committee to pre
vent jurisdictional disputes between the two bodies during the war.
Creation of (lie joint committee, of
six 111011, was agreed oil by William
Green, AFL president, and Philip Mur
ray, CIO president, at separate con
ferences with I'resident lloosevelt.
Window'
Information On
Social Security
Social Security Board records ca.nnot
be used in preparing income tax re
turns for 1941, it was said today by
Glenn H. Pitlcngcr, manager of the
Youngstown, Ohio, field office of the
Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors In
surance.
'We have had numerous calls from
individuals who sought to use our rec
ords in connection with the filing of
income tax returns for 1941," Mr. Pitt
enger said.
"Our records are not posted for sev
eral months after the wages are earn
ed and will not be complete until some
time after tax returns are due from
individuals. Those who desire state
ments of their wages up .to the early
part of 1941 may obtain this informa
tion by using the wage record request
card which we will supply for this
purpose, but it is impossible for us to
provide currently or until the latter
part of 1042 any statement of earnings
including wages paid in 1941 in em
ployment covered by the Social Se
curity Act."
SUBMIT DISPUTE TO
U. S. LABOR BOARD
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—In re
sponse to the request of the National
War Labor Board, the Atlantic Fish
ermen's Union, AFL, agreed to operate
.the boats of the Federated Fishin:
Boats of New England and New York,
Inc., Boston, and submit final deter
initiation of their war risk insurance
dispute to the board.
The dispute, which involves 3,200
men engaged in catching fresh fish for
most of New England, arose over the
question of how the cost of war risk
insurance should be divided between
the fishermen and the companies. The
fishermen operate boats along tin
Atlantic secahoard ranging as far out
to sea as 150 miles and as far north
from Boston as Newfounded and Nova
§cotia.
The union's response was in reply to
a board telegram requesting the em
ployers to advance the premium foi
the agreed amount of insurance and
asking both parties to leave to .the
board final determination of the dis
pute together with the date on which
the board's award should become ef
fective. The telegram also asked for
immediate resumption of operations.
Many of the shops had been tied up
awaiting disposition of the dispute.
Agriculture Department
Increases Farm Output
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—In view
of the greatly increased demands for
American foods because of the nation's
entrance into the war, .the Department
of Agriculture has increased its 1942
production goals for pigs, corn for live
stock feed, oil-bearing crops, eggs, rice,
dry beans and vegetable crops for can
ning.
The department explained that since
the original goals were announced last
September, the United States had come
to be looked upon not only as .the
arsenal but the food store of thti
United Nations.
To meet those new demands* the de
partment said farmers would have to
produce as never before and put "every
acre of land, every hour of labor and
every bit of farm machinery, fertilizer
and other supplies to the use which
will best serve .the nation's wartime
needs."
Oliicials said crop loan programs
government purchases under lease-lend
and relief programs, and sales of gov
ernment-held feeds would be employed
to provide, in so far as was possible,
price incentives.
ALL WORN OUT!
"Dear Boss: I am tired. I'm quitting
this game
My head has gone dizzy—my back
has gone lame
My seat is all calloused, my hand's
paralyzed
From taking dictation. God help my
poor eyes!
I've finished the brief in the Worces
tershire case
—a sloppy memento of this awful
pace.
The writ of attachment was served
on the bank
Defendant just called and he thinks
it's a prank.
Miss Pewster was in and she asked
that you phone.
Your wife's raising hell—says she's
so much alone.
The stamps are all gone, and you
need a new chair
Your nails could stand trimming re
member your hair.
I cleaned out the bottles and cigaret
butts
You need a new steno for this one's
gone nuts.
—Author unknown.
Consumer Notes
Issued Weekly By Consumers'
Counsel Division, A. A. A.
Washington, D. C.
MAKE YOl'K VACUUM CLEANER
LAST LONGER
Here are some suggestions on how
to care for and use your vacuum clean
er more eff«*ctively, gathered by Con
sumers' Guide, publication of the Con
sumers' Counsel Division of the U. S.
Department, of Agriculture:
1. Pick up sharp bits of glass, pins,
or tacks which may damage your
cleaner before you run it over the rug.
2. Empty the dirt bag at least once
a week. Keep brush free of thread and
hairs.
3. Keep the cord out of the path
of the cleaner, llunnlng the cleaner
oyer the cord will injure the insula
lion.
4. Follow the manufacturer's in
structions about, oiling your cleaner.
Some have hermetically sealed motors
you never oil others need regular oil
ing.
). For effective cleaning, be sure
the nozzle Is adjusted at the projier
height above the rug. Manufacturer's
directions will tell you how. If you
have a rotary-brush type cleaner, ad
just it so that the bristle tips touch
the rug, for maximum cleaning effi
ciency.
0. Look into the possibilities of
sharing your vacuum with your neigh
bors to get the widest jiossible service
from the cleaners we now have.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
CALORIES AND VITAMINS
"Vitamins" and "calories" both refer
to food values, but are you sure what
each .term means? The Consumers
Counsel Division brings you these defi
nitions from Bureau of Home Econom
ics exjierts in the Department of Agri
culture.
Vitamins are extremely potent chem
ical compounds essential to health and
growth, occurring in minute quantities
in natural foods. Scientists working
with foods have discovered many dif
ferent vitamins, each of which is im
portant to the body. Some foods con
tain noticeable amounts of only one
vitamin others are rich in several.
You should eat sufficient amounts of
all vitamin-rich foods to get the vita
mins you need.
On the other band, calories are units
of measurement of the fuel or energy
value of foods. "High calorie" foods
are foods that the body uses as fuel
to give energy for muscular work.
Starches, sweets, and fats are "high
calorie" fowls.
Unless you're trying to reduce and
therefore avoiding the high calorii
foods that make fat when you're not
active enough to use up all .the energy
they furnish, you don't have to bother
much about calories, nutritionists say.
If you get the right amount of milk,
eggs, green leafy vegetables and yellow
fleshed fruits and vegetables to get
the vitamins you need for health, you'll
get enough calories for ordinary ac
tivities, too.
CONSUMER TIME
Would you like to know bow to save
soap at home and how to conserve fats
that might otherwise go to waste in
your kitchen'! Listen in on Consumer
Time, Saturday, February 14, at 12:l"t
p. m. East Standard Time. Consumer
reporters will give you some sugges
tions then. They'll also tell you what
discarded metals around your home you
should salvage for use in the war in
dustries, what metals can't be reclaim
ed.
Consumer ime, produced by the
Consumers' Counsel Division of the I
S. Department of Agriculture and pre
sented by Defense and non-Defense
agencies of the United States Govern
liieiit working for the cousunier, is a
regular weekly broadcast of informa
tion useful to consumers everywhere
You can hear it every Saturday at
12:15 p. in., Eastern Standard Tiim
over the lied Network of the National
Broadcasting Company.
WANTED—Good Milker, preferably
with experience in milk plant. Not
drinker. Address 3-C-217, care Aurora
Beacon News.
O V I S
THE POTTERS HERALD
Amendment To Bill
Is Anti-Union Move
National Federation For
Constitutional Liberties
Seeks Rejection
•Washington, D. C. HLNH).—Rejec
tion of a Dies amendment to a bill de
signed to tighten control of foreign
agents has lM*en asked by George
.Marshall, vice chairman of the Na
tional Federation for Constitutional
Liberties, in a letter addressed to Sen
ator Ilarley M. Kilgore, of West Vir
inia, chairman of a Senate conference
group api»ointed to consider the bill.
The original bill (Hit 5251J-S. 20(50),
n.ii administration-approved measure,
provides for the lalielllng and tiling of
foreign jnilitical propaganda, transfers
administration of the I legist rat ion Act
from the State Department to the De
partment of Justice, and increases the
penalty for violation of .the act. It
passed the House December 1!» with an
amendment by Representative Martin
Dies of Texas to the effect that:
"The term 'agent of a foreign prin
cipal' includes but is not limited to the
Communist Party of the I'nited States,
the German-American Bund, and the
KyfThauserbund."
Amendment field Dangerous
The Senate passed the bill without
such an amendment, and when con
ferees were appointed on Jan. 12, in
structed them to insist upon the Sen
ate version of the bill.
The amendment, Marshall declared
in his letter, "is both dangerous and
unconstitutional." He charged that th»j
debate "clearly indicates that Mr. Dies'
ultimate purpose in introducing this
amendment is to register as foreign
agents the members of organizations
and trade unions with which the Dies
Committee is in disagreement."
During the debate, Marshall pointed
out, Congressman Sam Hobbs, Ala
bama, opposed the amendment as be
ing unconstitutional, since it consti
tutes a bill of attainder. In addition,
he said, it "opens wide the door and
invites Congress to pass legislation
which would base its conviction not
upon sworn testimony in the courts of
the land, but upon ex parte hearings
before a legislative committee." Con
gressmen Halt on W. Sumners, Texas,
and Emanuel Celler, New York, also
opposed the amendment.
Labor Urged to Protest
Marshall declared that the federa
tion favors legislation to tighten con
trol over Axis agents, but that "th»
Dies amendment would contribute noth
ing toward this end."
The federation has urged labor,
farm, church, fraternal, and civic or
gani/.ations throughout the country to
express opposition J,o J.he Dies amend
ment.
ST. LOUIS UNION HEADS
TO BE TRIED FEBRUARY 7
St. Louis (ILNS).—Four officers of
.the local Hod Carriers' Union pleaded
innocent to charges of embezzlement of
$151,Sift in union funds and trial was
set for Feb. 17 by Circuit Judge Wil
liam J. Connor. The indicted officers
are Edward Hill, president of Local
42 Orville (iolden. secretary-treasurer,
and Paul H. Hulahan and Earl Jen
kins, business agents.
Judge Connor overruled motions to
quash the indictment, which was re
turned by a grand jury Nov. 28 after
more than a mouth's invesitgation of
the union's financial affaris. Clifton E.
Chaney, union sergeaut-at-anns, and
Charles Harnett, operator of a saloon
boneath the local's headquarters, plead
ed innocent to an indictment charging
them with perjury und .embezzlement
of $375. Their trial also was set for
Feb. 17.
STREET CAR UNION BUYS
$5(1,(10(1 IN DEFENSE BONDS
Chicago,"111.—Division 241, Ainalga
mated Association of Street, Electric
Ilailway and Motor Couch Employes
of America, unanimously adopted
resolution to purchase with .the funds
of the Division .$rn,(MM) of United States
Defense Bonds, in accordance with tin
recommendation of the executive board
N S U N
Straight From
Washington
By STEPHEN M. YOUNG
Congressman at Large, Ohio
Washington. Senator Robert Al
fdionso Taft, according to a Washing
ton newspaper said, "I would prefer
the levying of a payroll tax, iiossibly
of .ten jier cent, localise It would be
less inflationary Ui its effect than a
sales tax". He stated "A ten jter cent
payroll tax would bring in five billion
dollars". Of course, men whose wealth
has iieen inherited would prefer tax« s
d«*ducted from payrolls instead of in
creased income taxes in the higher
bra kets and other forms of taxation
Nothing conceived of could be as un
thinkable and atrocious as to deduct
ten ier cent from the pay em elope,
payrolls and salaries. This is taxing
the jioorest with a vengeance. Fortu
nately for ordinary folks, taxes must
originate in the House of Ilepresertfa
tives.
Some men of great inherited wealth
never overlook an opportunity to soak
the poor. If a payroll tax is adopted
the little fellow receiving $120, SI500,
and $20)0 a year would pay a tre
mendous tax. Senators, urging a pay
roll tax, if they had to forego their
inherited wealth and Senatorial salary
for a year and try living on $100 per
month, might conclude "it is better not
to know so much than to know so
much that is not so".
Daylight Saving
Clocks will be moved forward one
hour as a result of legislation passed
in Congress for daylight saving during
the war emergency. Opponents argued
that cows are delicately balanced
creatures who would yield less milk
now that Congress has disturbed their
hours. Also, that the dew would stay
on the grass just the same, but under
this new law, farmers could not work
their fields until ten o'clock in the
morning instead of nine. Congressman
Wadsworth stated, "While we are at
it, why don't we pass a bill to lower
the zero mark on thermometers some
thirty to thirty-five degrees, then we
would seldom have any zero weather.
Think of the woolen clothing and fuel
that could then be saved!"
This new daylight saving law ex
pi res six months after the war. The
purpose is to conserve fuel, heat and
light. Farmers generally will no doubt
work on present schedules. Moving
clocks forward one hour doesn't fool
the cows and chickens. The sun is
their clock.
Junk
More and more the Bureau of In
dustrial Conservation, headed by Les
sing J. Ilosenawkl. will exercise an
important function in connection with
the American drive for victory. Ros
enwald's job is to direct the conserva
tion o'f scrap iron, waste paper, old
rubber, rags, burlap bags and collect
these and other things as part of a
"national salvage for victory cam
paign." Let us hope that all junk heaps
of outmoded automobiles will soon bf
eliminated and these materials used
in our armament program.
Statesman
The 'statesmanship of Secretary Hull
stands out clearer than ever in view
of the Jap successes at Pearl Harbor
and in the Philippines. He knew that
the .Taps would sprinir at u« sooner ov
VALLEY
MOTOR
Wins Safeguard For
Workers Against
Disloyalty Charges
Washington, D. C. Attempts by
anti-labor bosses to oust active union
ists. on the pretext they are "subver
sive," were curbed under machinery
agreed upon by the Army and Navy,
after consultation with organized labor
Army and Navy officials have sweep
it^' |lowers to remove from defense in
dustries workers whose loyalty is
questioned. Until now, this authority
has b«*n exercised without any right
of ap|ieal. and complaints arose that
some employers were taking advantage
of the situation to pin the label of
"disloyalty" on unionists they wanted
to get rid of.
To stop such abuses, Assistant Sec
retary of Latior Dan W. Traey ar
ranged a conference between represen
tatives of the two agencies and of
labor, to work out procedures that
Would be fair to all parties.
As a result of this parley, a plan to
Safeguard workers from unfair dismis
sal was worked out, and a memoran
dum setting it forth was signed by
Under-Secretary of War Iloliert P. Pat
terson and Assistant Secretary of th*
Navy Italph A. Bard. It is to lie dis
tributed to local unions, employers and
military representatives at defense
plants.
Under its provisions, Army or Navy
agents may, after an adequate investi
gation, ask an employer to drop a sus
[ected employe, but this would be done
only after consultation with represen
tatives of Ixith lalKir and management.
In most instances, unions would lie
given the opi»ortunity to handle the re
moval themselves and arrange for
transfer of suspects to non-defense
work.
Liberties Union To File
Briefs In "Sedition" Cases
New York City (ILNS).—Permission
to file three more briefs as friend of
the court in apieals from the Okla
homa criminal syndicalism convictions
has lieen granted the American Civil
Liberties Union. The briefs covers the
cases of Alan Shaw. Eli Jaffe. and
Mrs. Ina Wood, all convicted of mem
bership in the Communist Party or
distribution of alleged subversive lit
erature, and sentenced to 10 years im
prisonment and $"1,000 fine. The union
has already filed a brief in .the case
of Ilohert Wood, previously convicted.
Eight more defendants await trial
under similar charges, which the union
has characterized as invoked in a man
ner to "abridge the defendants' right
to freedom of siieech and of the press
and deprive them of .their liberty with
out due process of low." The aprea]s
will be heard in the Oklahoma Crim
inal Court of Api»eals,
later, but he conducted delaying nego
tiations and relaxed the economic lo.v
cott permitting some exports to reach
Japan hoping .to prevent a war on two
fronts before we were ready. This sort
of conciliation has been sneered at and
condemned but Churchill, in his ad
dress before the joint session of Con
gress, said we should be thankful that
the Japs did not attack eighteen
In ACTIVE Service!
To the civilian army, all-out to back their light
ing men—motor bus travel has become a vital
necessity. It gets workers to jobs at decentral
ized projects farmers to markets teachers
and students to school reaching thousands
of communities served by no other public
transportation.
Our first concern is to operate at maximum
efficiency at all times. But we see no reason
why that cannot be accompanied by good
manners, courtesy and thoughtfulness to all
our passengers, and we will exert every effort
to have Valley Motor Transit Service in war
time reflect the same spirit of public service
that it did in times of peace.
Esn
PAGE F1VB
Are You
Trustworthy?
By RUTH TAYLOR
The treacherous attack of Japan
awakened the entire nation to the
calibre of our enimies. But we must not
allow this consciousness of their un
rust worthiness to destroy our faith in
all mankind.
Trust in each other is an essential
in community life. Our every a-t inch
day is an expression of faith. I won
der if you realize bow absolutely de
pendent we are, in our daily contacts,
ujKin the good faith of others, some
times unseen. We trust another person
every time we take a train or a sub
way, or a bus, step in an elevator,
drive our car, or even walk across the
street. We trust another almost every
time we transact any of the common
place acts of business. All day long,
in every act, we unconsciously put our
trust in those with whom we come in
contact without thinking or caring
what their class, race, creed, or color.
Man is civilized, when he trusts his
fellow man to have a sense of ethics
and resfHinsibility like unto his own—
to do his share, to keep his word. There
can be harmonious relations among
men only as .these relations are based
on sound and just foundations. When
we cannot trust, we cannot work to
gether. Only as we ourselves keep our
word and jiersonal integrity, can we
depend on the same attitude and ac
tion by others.
This is particularly true of labor
relations. Labor cannot exiiect fair
play unless it plays fair. Labor nn^t
prove that it can keep its pledged
word—then it can demand and confi
dently exjiect that those with whom it
deals will keep theirs.
Labor is and will be under attack
for some time to come. Self-?eeking
individuals have used the lalior move
ment as a cloak to cover the further
ance of their own ambitions. Organized
labor must constantly resell itself to
the public, and it must do so by l**ing
absolutely trustworthy. If the public
can le sold on the fact that the word
of Organized Labor is as
ghkI
as its
bond, then public opinion will back Or
ganized Lalior when the need a rises I
Rival Labor Bodies Agree
On N. Y. Defense Program
New York City (ILNS).—Joint com
mittees of memlers of the American
Federation of Lalmr and Congress of
Industrial Organizations to eo-operato
on civilian defense will be set up as
the result of a conferem-e attended by
Mayor La Guardia and leaders of the
rival labor organizations.
The program was agreed on after
Thomas J. Lyons, president of the
State Federation of Lalxir and some
other labor representatives had charg
ed that the Mayor and some of his
commissioners had given only cursory
attention to union plans for promoting
the civilian defense effort.
Without joining in criticism of the
attitude of the municipal administra
tian. other labor heads complained that
the city was nut taking full advantage
of the trained man power at its di
j»osal. and urged greater recognition
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