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Labor leaders meanwhile hailed
the succesful action against the in
junction, which many contended
violated the Norris LaGuardia
anti-injunction law. President An
thony Federoff of the Steel City
Industrial Union Council called the
withdrawal of the injunction “a
victory for the entire labor move
ment.
President John A. Metcalfe of
Local 601, United Electrical Radio
& Machine Workers, said his
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Story Murray
To Quit As CIO
Chief Is Denied
Washington^ FP)—A spokes
^^an for CIO President Philip Mur
ray has flatly denied a story car
ried by the Chicago Daily News
and other Knight-owned papers in
Detroit, Akron and Miami that he
“hopes to resign within the next
two months, as president of the
CIO.”
The story, written by Columnist
Edwin Lahey, one of Murray’s
closest personal friends and vet
eran labor reporter, was followed
by another in the New York Times
in which Louis Stark, the Times’
labor writer, said Murray “has not
\made up his mind whether he will
^retire” when the CIO holds its con
^Kentjon in Atlantic City, N. J, Nqy.
Lahey wrote his article on the
eve of his departure for England
where he will study the effects of
the British labor government on
the British labor movement.
The Lahey article predicted
Murray “will remain as president
of the United Steelworkers.
“In this position he will lead the
"CIO fight for wage increases next
winter, help defend the CIO
against the expected raids of the
AFL and other hostile forces and
carry on his own fight for what
s’he considers sound principals of
i American trade unionism,” Lahey
...wrote.
Strikers Tighten
Lines As Company
Rejects Demands
work.
Joint action by AFt and CIO
unions, including sympathy walk
outs by 3,400 AFL streetcar oper
ators, 2,000 CIO steelworkers and
3,000 electrical workers, plus
threats of a general strike com
pelled the city to rescind the in
junction and to release IADLCE
President George L. Mueller from
a sentence of one year imprison
ment.
.Freed of the court threat, the
workers proceeded to strengthen
their lines as company officials
continued to reject demands for a
20 per cent wage increase, a mas
ter contract, union shop and a
profit-sharing plan. The company
offered instead a 5 per cent in
crease, improved vacal! *s JWd one
additional paid 1ioliddyi"‘i^’‘
It was reproted that only four
of the company’s employees re
ported for work Sept. 26 and the
(ity’s power output had dropped
38 per cent of normal. This hit
Particularly at department stores,
Office buildings and industrial es
tablishments, many of which were
compelled to close. Power was
available, however, for homes, hos
pitals and other institutions.
The picketing of streetcar ter
minals was expected to halt trolley
service entirely, as the streetcar
operators announced they would
respect the lines. Transportation
had already dropped to 25 per cent
of normal as a result of the walk
outs protesting the injunction.
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FREED QF INJUNCTION THREAT
i: WORKERS INSTALL PICKETLINES
THROUGHOUT CITY AND COUNTY
Pittsburgh (FP)—Striking members of the Independent
ssociation of Duquesne Light Co. Employees tightenec
their lines here Sept. 27 as all Pittsburgh labor celebratec
Its precedent-setting victory in forcing repeal of a city-ob
tained injunction against the strikers.
For the first time in their 3-day strike, the Duquesne
workers threw up picketlines throughout the city and county,
especially around trolley and bus barns. Hitherto such action
was restricted under terms of an injunction which the city
had obtained in an attempt to force the strikers to continue
Long Island
Rail Strike
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Another Month Of
Smooth Traveling
New York (FP) Last-minute
postponement of a threatened
strike Sept. 23 gave 150,000 daily
commuters on the Long Island rail
road another month of smooth
traveling.
A 30-day delay of the walkout,
three- hours before the zei J” hour
for the tieup, was voted by 350
trainmen and ticket collectors at a
membership meeting of Local
13044, District 50, United Mine
Workers. The vote was taken on
recommendation of District 50
President John Kmetz with whom
local leaders conferred for five
hours in Washington during the
day.
In acting to postpone their
strike for a second time, the LIRR
men bowed to a request of an
emergency Presidential fact-find
ing board which two
was granted a 30-day
its study in an effort
the long threatened
strike is now set for
Oct. 22, when the extension of the
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days earlier
extension of
to ward off
tieup. The
12:01 a. m.,
Porters To Seek
180-Hour Month
Chicago (FP)—The fifth bien
nal convention of the Brotherhood
of Sleeping Car Porters here un
animously reelected A. Philip
Randolph to his 21st year as presi
dent and also returned all other
officials to office.
In the union’s largest conven
tion in its history, more than 150
delegates representing some 100
local divisions in the U. S. and
Canada voted overwhelmingly to
campaign for a basic 180-hour
month in all classes of rail serv
ice instead of the present 240
hours. Randolph said delegates
agreed that in view of the in
creased mechanization of the rail
roads, a 240-hour month is much
too long for a porter to work.
Hawaiian Sugar Strikers Seek
Living Wage On Island Paradise
Honolulu, Hawaii (FP) A
shadow has long hung over the
island paradises of M^ui, Hawaii,
Kauai and Oahu. It is the shadow
of the sugar growers, members of
the Hawaiian Sugar Planters As
sociation. Today the 25,000 work
ers on the 33 plantationns
comprise the sugar industry
are fighting to roll back
shadow.
that
here
that
At midnight Sept. 1 the harvest
ing, culvation and grinding of
sugar cane came to a dead halt on
all four islands as Hawaiian, Japa
nese, Filipino, Chinese and Portu
guese workers, united under the
banner of the International Long
shoremen’s & Warehousemen’s
Union stopped work and shaped
up picketlines to back their de
mands for a 65 cent hourly mini
mum wage instead of their present
sub-40 cent, a 40-hour week, a
general I8M2 cents hourly wage in
crease and the union shop.
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An anniversary for any ocassion
calls for a celebration but certain
ly a 50th golden jubilee anniver
sary should find no stone unturned
in arranging fitting ceremonies to
mark the ocassion. This was the
opinion of the members of Local
Union 12 at their meeting Tuesday
evening when the matter was dis
cussed and plans formulated to
honor the ocassion on Nov. 23,
fifty years to the day a charter
was issued Local Union No. 12.
Special invitations have been is
sued to members of the Executive
24 Million Youngsters
n American Schools
Washington, D. C.—Approxi
mately 24,000,000 American
youngsters between the ages of 6
to 17 are attending school this fall,
it was estimated by the Census
Bureau. It predicted that, due to
the high birth rate in the early
stages of the war, this number will
be increased to 26,000,000 within
the next four years.
The sugar planters, eager to
break the back of the organized
labor movement on the Islands,
had for months rejected the work
ers’ demands. For months negotia
tions dragged on while the bosses
flatly denied most of the demands,
made a countdr-proposal on only
one issue—wages. They offered a
6 cents hourly increase with a
joker tied in that would have
meant wage cuts for many of the
men.
Union offers to comprise were
ignored. Instead the planters as
sociation plastered full-pags ads in
newspapers pleading proverty but
refused to put such a statement in
black and white for consiredation
in collective bargaining. Thej*
similarly refused to open negotia
tion meetings to the press and
public despite union invitations to
do so.
Hawaiian workers long have had
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Jiggermen Set Date For
Anniversary Celebration
WW
END OF AN ERA
HE
ARRANGING FITTING CEREMONIES
TO MARK THE OCCASION CHARTER
WAS ISSUED TO LOCAL UNION 12
Board and T. J. Duffy, legal coun
sel for the Ohio State Federation
of Labor and former president
of the National Brotherhood
Operative Potters.
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AFL UNION LABEL SHOW OPENS OCTOBER 29YEAR
EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1946
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Sebring Central
OOwjf ■■ISTS IvViRr
N^OlIllIllTTeCS
of
of
to
12
We are also looking forward
having former members of No.
who are now working through the
trade with us on that evening.
While it is impossible to extend a
personal invitation to each and
everyone due to their various
whereabouts, we take this means
of extending an invitaion for all
to be with us on November 23rd.
Reports from the various shop
committees indicate all committees
are functioning 100 per cent and
getting results. This is as it should
be if we are to advance the inter
ests of the trade. The old saying
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Canadian AFL
To Join WFTU
(FP)—The Cana
Labor Congress
Windsor, Ont.
dian Trades A
voted overyhelmingly here Sept. 26
to affiliate with the World Feder
ation of Trade Unions.
The action, coming in the clos
ing hours of the 61st TLC’s con
vention here, marked the high
point of the Canadian AFL’s re
volt against the policies of the U.
S. AFL leadership. Sweeping aside
previous arguments of the TLC’s
executive council that it lacked
sufficient funds to permit such
affiliation, speaker after speaker
supported a motion instructing the
council to “provide the necessary
financial and other arrangements
to consummate affiliation with the
WFTU.”
Throughout the entire debate
only two speakers opposed affilia-.
tion and recently reelected Presi
dent Percy Benpough declared
that “ail barriers (to affiliation)
can be removed.”
Delegate William Rigby of the
United Fishermen 4 Allied Work
ers called the vote a “test of our
independence” and said: “We have
the choice of lining up with the
world labor movement by affiliat
ing to the WFTU or remaining in
isolation with the
AFL.”
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Washington (FP)—Delegates to
|the WFTU executive bureau meet
ling here praised the new labor po
litical action film, Deadline For
Action, after a special showing for
(their benefit.
Britain’s Arthur Deakin, newly
(chosen provisional chairman of the
(WFTU, called the 40-minute docu
(mentary film “an excellent job.”
I
V. Lombardo Toledano, head of
(the Latin American Confederation
of Labor, immediately made in
(quiries on getting a Spanish
(language version for the millions
(of trade unionists in Mexico and
(other Central and South American
(countries affiliated to CTAL
to the WFTU.
Sebring, Ohio—At the regular witH Union Films to secure film
bi-weekly meeting of the Sebring footage of WFTU sessions and
Trades and Labor Council held last (delegates
Wednesday night in the council v s
chambers, President Hugh Da.ley for of do,u.
appointed five committees. Lentary showing the aims and po-
Philip Schroeder, John Hamilton (tentialities of the WFTU, history’s
i of
and William Berry were appointed (greatest international union
as the Legislative committee. Emil (unions.
Huber and James Conny were ap- ______________________
pointed as the Union Label com
mittee. Hamilton was also elected
to the Grievance committee along __
with Russell Barnett. Huber and (£e
Frank Housego were appointed to 1
attend the Alliance Central Labor
Council meetings and
kins was appointed as
Athletic committee.
J. M. Badertscher, Superinten-
mHoldauf
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WIN SUBSTANTIAL
(5601*1110 L6C1V6S
pairs to the McKinley High School)
roof. The expense of these repairs I New York (FP) The simmer
has been estimated at between |’n® New York truck strike flared
four and eight thousand dollars. Kto tbe/e*s a?a»n Sept. 26 as
The two mill levy is being put up Ed*’ard C’,^agulr^,’abor advlser
for a length of five years. AIto Mayor William O Dwyer, sharp
motion was made and carried that|’y accused holdout truck operators
the Council endorse the levy in the|°^ trying to w’hip up hysteria and
November election. |delay final settlement of the 26
______________________ I day dispute.
UITU’ITAT n UDTIKTT’IZWQ I Maguire’s accusation came after
DL rrALU itllN HSIVo (representatives of two large inter-
a
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WFTU Head
Lauds New
Labor Film
Will Seek U. S.
Union Support
and
for
made
Radio
Union
The film was
(United Electrical
(chine Workers by
cooperative group.
the
Ma-
Filma, a
film for
prospect
Another documentary
organized labor was in
(here as Union Films cameras trun
(ed on sessions of the WFTU board
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Labor newsman Herbert A.
(Klein, who was FP’s correspondent
|at the London world trade union
(conference February 1945, when
(foundations were laid for WFTU,
has been in Washington working
Washington working
IxROVIf l6S CO
Charles L. Sebring, sales man-
Smith Lar- lager of the Edwin M. Knowles
a one man I China Co. in Newell, has severed
I his connection with the Newell
a regular (firm and plans to devote his full
Local 44 reported
meeting and that the Sebring War (time to management of his citrus
Memorial committee set their next (business in Sebring, Fla.
meeting for Sunday, October 6 at Mr. Sebring came to the Edwin
3 p. m. in the City Hall. |M. Knowles plant from the Li-
Local 192 reported that commit- |moges China Co. in Sebring after
tee members are still investigating (selling his interests there in 1940.
a piece work basis for operation. |"e P^ans to maintain his home in
The Alliance Central Labor |East Liverpool as a summer resi
Union reported the opening of a |dence, spending the winter in
plumbers school as soon as a cap-1 Florida in active charge of his
able instructor can be found. They Petrus groves.
also reported the organization of Direction of the sales at the Ed
Alliance truck drivers. The Alli-|win M- Knowles company will be
ance drivers also desire that Se-|hand,ed by a sales Policy commit
bring drivers organize. |tee company officials said.
state trucking associations, which
WAP 17 DA1QF (have refused to accept settlement
W ALilS Iv/Alolli (terms that have sent 58 per cent
Buffalo—The AFL International |of the 15,000 striking teamsters
Typographical Union here recently (back to work, threatened to call
won a new wage agreement grant- (upon Gov. Thomas E. Dewey to
ing weekly increases of $12 and (intervene.
$13 for printers on all newspapers. Maguire’s statement was in re-
This new contract provides the (sponse* to a wire to O’Dwyer from
$12 raise for day shift workers and (Adelizzi warning that if he did not
the $13 for night shifters, retro- |act within 24 hours to break the
active to August 19. This boost (strike deadlock, the employers
raises printers to $74 for
shifts, $78 for night work
for the “lobster” shift.
the day I would call on Dewey to act over
and $82 I the mayor’s head. O’Dwyer turned
I
the wire over to Maguire, whom
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Brotherhood Will Feature-it.....-Jr
Huntington Park, Calif.—The
joint annual picnic of the Wallace
China Company and employees of
the plant affiliated with Local
Union 201, N. B. of O. P. held
recently at Streamland Park, was
very much a success. The weather
was perfect for the day’s outing
and quite a large number were on
hand to join in the festivities.
The day’s program went over in
fine style with nary a hitch to mar
the ocassion. This was due in no
small part to the able committee
which planned the affair headed
by O. L. “Fat” Sullivan as chair
man and including Roy Beatty,
representing the Wallace China
Company, assisted by Margaret
Dowd, secretary Gladys Vanness,
Clara Hall, Mrs. Baker, Bernice
Brockett, Mrs. O’Shea, Bea Me
Gowan, Pete Easley, Felix Zubra
nick, Gilbert O’Shea,
erow, Benny Cohen and
Burchett.
Truck Owners Foment
’Hysferia,’ City Official Charges
MEMBER
INTERNATIONAL LABOR
NEWS SERVICE
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Ware-Making Method At
St. Louis Labor Exhibition
Bill
he appointed several days earlier
to head up the new city division
of labor relations.
Adelizzi’s wire claimed that 75
per cent of the city’s trucks were
idle in the strike by locals 802,
282, and 816, International Broth
erhood of Teamsters, and charged
that dangerous food shortages ex
isted.
Maguire replied that “it is im
portant ... to correct the will
fully erroneous impression your
telegram was designed to create.
The fact is that necessary food,
medical and other essential sup
plies are monng into the city in
increasing volume.”
He cited a police report which
included union estimates that 76
per cent of New York’s trucking
companies involved in the strike
were back in operation and 58 per
cent
The
of the drivers back to work,
companies were those which
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$2.00 PER
PRES. DUFFY, THIRD VICE PRESIDENT
OF ULTD SPONSORING SHOW EXTENDS
INVITATION TO MANUFACTURERS
President James M. Duffy announced this week that
preparations are going forward for labor’s greatest Union
Label and Industrial Exhibition, to be held in the new Muni
cipal Auditorium in St. Louis, Oct. 29 to Nov. 3rd.
The show which is designed primarily to focus national
attention on the purchase of Union Label merchandise and
to enable the consumer to actually visualize the best in every
thing that bears the Union Label, is sponsored by the Union
Label Trades Department of the American Federation of
Labor.
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President James M. Duffy who is third Vice President of
the Union Label Trades Depart-*-
ment, has extended an invitation
to all firms having contracts with
the National Brotherhood of Oper
ative Potters to join with the
Brotherhood in sponsoring an ex
hibit at the show. It will afford
the manufacturers an opportunity
to show American consumers that
union-made goods are superior in
quality and workmanship.
Manufacturers have a great deal
at stake in the relation of consum
ers’ income to their spending.
There is no market that affords a
greater amount of purchasing
power than the union-earned
money of ten million members of
labor unions and women’s auxilia
ries—together with the members
of their families and friends—who
create a vast Union Label-con
scious army of buyers.
The Brotherhood exhibit as in
former years will be a demonstra
tion of practical ‘potting.’ Trades
men displaying thdir skill at the
show will include representatives
from the jiggering, casting, throw
ing and decorating branches of the
trade.
Commenting further on the ex
hibition and the possibilities of the
show as a medium of advertising
the products of union potters,
President Duffy said:
“Fair employers have come to
realize the economic value of the
union market. As labor unionists
we are obligated to loyal manu
facturers who recognize our
unions. We cannot expect indus
try to accept collective bargain
ing agreements and then refuse to
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Streamland Park Scene Of
Wallace China Co» Picnic
FIRM JOINS W ITH EMPLOYEES
IN ANNUAL OUTING ON COAST
“BUCKEYE POOLERS” DEFEATED
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mutual
ing on the progress and
cooperation between the firm and
their employees during the past
year, after which Mr. Kenneth
Woods responded by expressing
his appreciation to the employees.
Remarks were made by other ex
ecutives of the company, consist
ing of Mr. Wallace Wood, Mr. Roy
Beatty and Mr. Atkinson.
We are very sorry Second Vice
President Frank Hull and Organ
izer George Pace-could not be with
us for the occasion, but both
brothers were called out of town
on official business. Foreman Al
Kohl was also among the missing
as he is away on his vacation.
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$5,080 Taken In
Pottery Thefts
At Palestine
With
Drew
was
emcee
duties
Bro. Andy McGowan
of the day and handled his
in fine style. Chairman Sullivan
gave on interesting talk, comment-
East Palestine, Ohio—An esti
mated $5,080 in cash was taken by
burglars who looted the W. S.
George Pottery and China Novel
ties Company plants early Monday
morning.
Safes located in the main office
of both plants were smashed open
and drawers rifled in the search
for cash. George pottery officials
estimated their loss at $5,000,
while $80 was taken at the novelty
shop.
Entrance was gained to second-*
story offices of the George pottery
through, apparently after the
thieves had climbed upon the plant
roof.
After prying open a window, the
robbers jimmied the door of a
large safe in the main office, then
forced open smaller drawers where
cash was kept.
The theft was discovered at 2 a.
m. by Carl Lotze, night watchman,
who in turn notified plant offi
cials.
Valuable papers were found
strewn over the office floor, while
tax stamps and other records were
discovered later along the Penn
sylvania railroad tracks near the
plant. I V
Plant officials said nothing but
cash had been taken.
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'Mr