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VOL. XLIII, NO. 20
Part-Time Worker
Can't Quit And
Collect Benefits
Columbus, Ohio—An individual
who quits his job because it only
provides him with part-time em
ployment can not be said to have
quit for just cause and is there
fore not eligible for unemployment
benefits, the Unemployment Com
pensation Board of Review ruled
today.
The Board’s unanimous decision
came in the case of a Cincinnati
truck driver who left his job be
cause he was only getting on the
average of two days work a week.
In making its decisiofi, the Board
pointed out that “the prime objec
tive of the unemployment compen
sation act is to stabilize employ
ment.” The hardship of having only
a few days work each week, the
Board said, “was certainly not al
leviated” by the worker’s quitting
his job and becoming totally un
employed.
The Board also pointed out that
“a partially unemployed indivi
dual”—which the truck driver was
—“is entitled to retain the first $2
of his earning jn any week without
affecting the amount of his unem
ployment compensation.” By quit
ting his job, the Board stated, tWe
worker not only lost this advantage
over total unemployment but also
“deprived himself of an opportun
ity to work the days that work
was available.”
The Board cited the Ohio JLaw
which states that “no individual
may serve a waiting period or be
paid benefits for the duration of
any period with respect to which
(he) voluntarily quit his work
without just cause in connection
with his work.” In denying the
claimant benefits, the Board added
that, had the latter stayed with his
part-time job, he would have had
“ample time to search for other
work.”
..Steel Industry
Antics Hit
Wall St. Weekly
The paper declared “the public
has been treated in the Headlines
to the spectacle of one steel com
pany president after another get
ting up on his feet to impugn the
motivations of the members of the
board and complain abdut the pro
ceedings in a manner that must
cause howls of joy at union head
quarters.”
In fact, the business journal
says fearfully, “for the managers
to have tantrums in public life like
a group of maladjusted children
can only strengthen the hand of
those enemies of the steel industry
who are striving for its national
ization.” I
librarian, a* f. of
^A. F. OF L. BUILDING
WASHINGTON, D. C.
MEMBER
INTERNATIONAL LABOR
NEWS SERVICE
in-
1 New York (LPA)—The steel
dustry “remains unloved” and is
guilty of “bad public relations” in
its antics before the Presidential
fact-finding board in the steel wage
and pension dispute.
That’s not the word of the Unit
ed Steelworkers, but of the influ
ential Wall Street paper—Barron’s
Nat’l Business & Financial Weekly.
British Union Congress
Backs Up Government
Bridlington, England (LPA)
^Greatest applause from delegates
at the British Trades Union Con
gress’ 81st conference here was
given to Prime Minister Clement
Atlee, who appealed to the dele
gates for greater production ef
forts in the nation’s financial crisis
which, the Prime Minister said,
“would have faced any govern
ment.”
Atlee charged that those who
hate Britain’s labor government
are trying “to make bad blood be
tween Great Britain and the US.”
He expressed approval of Presi
dent Truman’s expressions of sym
pathy with the plight of Britain.
Earlier, delegates had adminis
tered a whole series of trouncings
Lo the Communist delegates. Start
ing off belligerently with boos at
Sir Will Lawther’s opening ad
dress as chairman, the Communist
line delegates were much milder
when they agreed to withdraw a
resolution calling for ending com
pulsory arbitration in labor dis
putes. Instead, all agreed on a
study of relations between unions
and nationalized industries.
Lawther, miner’s union leader,
paid high tribute to the Marshall
plan in opening the TUC confer
ence. While praising “the generous
cooperation of the US,” he also
pointed to the “tremendous and
sustained endeavors” of British
workers as a big factor in Bri-
T.x-mv tvahudc DAinrv it TTi.il-
NLRB Ruling Narrows Pattern
For Disputes Over Jurisdiction
Washington, (LPA) A Nat’l
Labor Relations Board trial exam
iner has found two AFL building
trades unions guilty of engaging in
jurisdictional strikes in violation of
the Taft-Hartley act.
The board announced that this
was the first ruling by a trial ex
aminer on the section of the act
forbidding jurisdictional strikes
and boycotts as unfair labor prac
tices. The ruling could be inter
preted as setting a pattern within
which unions would have to oper
ate.
The ruling grew out of charges
brought by the Int’l Ass’n of Ma
chinists, independent, against the
Los Angeles Building & Construc
tion Trades Council and the Mill
wright & Machinery Erectors
Union, Local 1607, an affiliate of
the AFL Carpenters.
The IAM said that two machin
ists were forced to quit work on a
power plant near Los Angeles by a
strike of 650 AFL craftsmen who
claimed the machinists’ jobs be
longed to the millwrights.
The machinists were employed
by Westinghouse Electric to install
a steam-turbine generator. Pre
viously, the five-man NLRB had
ruled that Westinghouse could not
be forced to give the machinists’
jobs to the millwrights union, such
a ruling being necessary before a
charge of unfair practice through
illegal boycott or jurisdictional
strike can be prosecuted,
this point that the trial
entered the picture.
L2D0I*
It was at
examiner
his decis­
The trial examiner in
ion found that both the trades
council and the millwright union
were guilty of having engaged in
jurisdictional strikes and of having
induced employes both of Westing
house and other employers on the
job to engage in such strikes.
He recommended that such
strikes cease, and his recommenda
tion had the force of an NLRB
order enforceable in a US Court
of Appeals unless contested within
20 days.
Overall
25 per
exports
tain’s production drive,
production, he said, was
cent above pre-war, and
nearly 50 percent higher.
Recalling that the TUC last met
in Bridlington the weekend World
War II broke out on the continent,
Lawther reminded his hearers that
British C6mmunists, because of the
Nazi-Soviet pact, then did their
best to cripple the anti-Nazi war
effort.
Delegates passed resolutions up
holding the Labor government’s
measure to stabilize the British
economy, approving the Marshall
plan, and okaying withdrawal from
the World Federation of Trade
Unions. The last action was by a
five-to-one vote.
Harry Bates, one of the US fra
ternal delegates representing the
AFL, was enthusiastically receiv
ed by the delegates. He assured
them that this country will not
move into a major depression.
Membership in the TUC has
reached a record-breaking total of
almost 8,000,000. There are some
900 delegates at the conference,
coming from 187 unions.
DORTu
vOb
v
IfHleS
taUHVI WVMIW exports, enabling
vein I II CT US"
Pension Bargaining! ~T
Washington (LPA)—An employ-1
IIDUf I
DnSS NfllilCll
17,000 member local now on strike|HA3Sl
against the B. F. Goodrich Co. He|
nounced.
at Bri-
Lashing out vigorously
tish Communists and their sabot
age of the recovery effort, he was
greeted by boos from a small sec
tion of the audience, but these
were immediately drowned out by
thunderous applause.
“I intend to resume in Dayton
Taft Addresses Workers!*11
On The Company
’s Timefc
Cleveland (LPA)—Having told wa1^ each year” 1
his story to business men at
plant in Chardon and the Johnson
Rubber Company in Middlefield. He
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UNION LEADERS AT UN PARLEY—n
Paul L. Phillips (left) pre- (federation emphasized that underlthroughout the trade who are
sdent of the International Brotherhood of Paper• Makers-A FL, and prevailing conditions a continued1
Bart Tidland, the union’s research director, are in the US delegation at |r ..
the United Nations Scientific Conference on the Conservation & Utiliza-|lrn?rov®mfJlt ,n e
tion of Resources. The earphones are for English translation of foreign- larls °f the workers in SwedenL
lamruaire speeches.
(could not be achieved by means of| LI UIawLAma,
■higher incomes, but only on thel
Worker
A
a kltb
Slje iPoltevs Herald
.^''l
Stockholm (ILNS).—The govern-
EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO, (THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER) 15, 1949
Iniunes
That’s what the Nat’l Labor Re-1 |be praised too highly. In addition,
lations Board said in a ruling I Washington, D. C.—Work-injury |the able bargaining committee ne
signed by all five members order-Irates in manufacturing and non- lgotiated 6 paid holidays, a gradu
ing the Tide Water Associated Oil (manufacturing declined duringla£gd y@arly bonus, a group hospi-1,.
Co. to bargain with the Employes 11948, according to final summaries luiization and accident insurance |J
Ass’n, Inc., an independent union, (released here by the Labor De-lpLjj)^ and a general wage increase,
on the exact terms of the com-Ipartment’s Bureau of Labor Statiz-lrhis latter gain takes the form of
pany’s retirement allowance planltics.
for workers at the firms ^ayonnej The average ....
N. J., refinery. -X.t ,.iV pte. for all-manufacturing indr lhour on piece work ten antes.
Labor men in Washington wond-|tries decreased 8.5 percent, from I The
ered whether the barons of steel I18*® injuries per million man-hours (liberal paid vacation provisions
would read the decision, or wheth- (worked in 1947 to 17.2 in 1948. De- land company-wide seniority affect
er the chiefs of the automobile and (creases were reported for 14 of 22 ljng tbe two Camfield plants in
coal industries would give it a look, (mining classifications and for 15 (Grand Haven. UAW-AFL Seventh
This is the first decision of its 1°^ 40 other nonmanufacturing in-lpegjonai Representative George
kind in the oil industry, but it isldustries. (Murphy, who assisted the local bar
the fourth such pension decision! Although the frequency of worklgajnjng committee, characterized
which the board has issued. Thepnjup*te decreased,. the relativeLbe
trial examiner knocked down Tide (proportion, of fatalities and perma
Water’s attempt to use a clause in Inent disabilities increased. As a re-1
the union contract giving the com-lsu^ the average number of days
pany “exclusive functions” on re-B08^ manufacturing rose
tiring employes as a bar against111
to
talking pensions. I Noteworthy decreases in inJur^e8 lg^a VIA
The examiner said that this occurred in the lumber group of- «yilrA Qa
clause did not constitute a waiver (industries. The frequency rate forIVtl IAV VI 41 VVi
by the union of the right to de-|the »roup as a whole dropped from
mand that the company bargainI86 8 to 58.6. Logging and sawmills I
on pensions and he was upheld by b»till had the highest frequency Workers is legally free to call a
L?b?rJ Local Union No. 195l
I I IW I Icess. Many difficulties remain how-1 Idied in 1906.
Pres. McKenzie
ing body of the Swedish Federa-I
Ition of Labor, in which all thel Local Union 195 met in regular
member trade unions are repre-| session September 7th with Presi
I sen ted, has decided to rocommendldent Mildred McKenzie in the
to the unions that they prolong ex-[chair. President McKenzie was our
isting collective agreements forldelegate to the West Virginia Fed
I another period. A similar reconn-1 eration of Labor Convention and
mendation was made one year agoJshe gave the members a report re
and it was also observed by thelgarding the proceedings of the
unions. The decision now taken, I Convention. President McKenzie
however, is not to be regarded aslwas elected Vice President of Dis
final until the farmers, salaried I trict No. 1 of the West Virginia
I employees, and other groups in thel State Federation of Labor,
same definite way express them, An memberg should check
selves in favor rf cooperation, to
I their due8 and if
ensure stability the country s you ure in arrears ghould at_
economy. As soon as their respec-|Und our next meeting and uke
tive positions have been madeth|g all important matter.
clear, the labor federation will hold Union 195 extendg get
another meeting. (well wishes to all our member on
resolution a year ago Chelthe sick list and all
p1’*1 to ‘ts economy, is still of thelsigned a new contract with the PfACnnrifv
tj
er must bargain on pensions “in
the absence of a specific waiver of Itype of union security and the ac
the union’s right to bargain.
BLS ReDOrT SOVS
e ’_______________ (tries—that for logging was theltime now. The only requirement is Icroachments and continued ag
Ihighest of any industry surveyed. Ithat Ford be given five days’ Igression of totalitarian Russia and
Daaa
Oustandingly low injury rateslnotice.
UIimF Iwere reported in 1948 by the syn-l The Michigan State Mediation Ision.”
Ithetic-rubber industry, 1.7. Of the (Board last week lifted a 30-day I “Yes, Britain desperately needs
Tmaa Inonmanufacturing industries stud-(limit on the auto union’s right to lour aid,” the declaration said. “But
IwvWI VwV la" I I Ulla Ijed, the transportation group show-Istrike after Ford and UAW jointly (America desperately needs the sta
led the most improvement in injury- (submitted a day-to-day contract Ibility and prosperity of Britain as
Akron (LPA)—George Bass has Ifrequency rates. (extension agreement on which they Ithe key to all western Europe serv
been named Secretary-Treasurer of I lhave been operating. The agree-1ing as„a buttress of democracy and
United Rubber Workers to fill thel-- Iment, the board said, made it pos- [peace.”
unexpired term of the late Charles II HI Al) RAIHIUIIIV
Union, Company
Boast Relationship I|V°k
KfilflllOIISIIID
-ww.w.-w.
iso, it asserted inai
|the “excellent workmanship of the
[trade unionists had helped greatly
W'X 1
luncheon here before the “Smaller “W® ha* fai™e88 ™1,1 strive for
Business of America, Inc,” Senator
P® the
lsible to waive the
E. Lanning. VlllVIlf WIII|*IIIIJ [limit of the Bonine-Tripp law. [outside our country which could so
Bass is president of Local 5, When Michigan Ford workers [dangerously undermine our own
was appointed to his new post by| p. np. Rpmnap |to one that they would walk out [Hence, for our own sake, as well
President H. R. Lloyd and unan-L “J1™ i necessary to back up their de-|as for the sake of the British peo
imously approved by the executive ft/s^^orite rs and the man-|mands for a $100 monthly retire- |ple to-whomour ^atio_njisj closest^
board.
... ....
“I shall continue to take part
the negotiations with the B.
Goodrich Co., until our strike
successfully concluded,” Bass an-i
.4.it
J™"*
I ___________
Robert A. Taft celebrated his 60thl*n&8 and tha^the final conJrac^^[function.”
birthday as “Be Kind to Workers!*® a*ove the average trend of Terming
and Farmers” day. He toured|Iabor c°»d,tons. The union a d|of self-defense,” U
neighboring Lake and Geauga|manag®ment official? know taMaim of the Catholic church was to [conflagration.”
counties, visited two factories, had| gr*®^ance8 of (eliminate the “apparent contradic-| To help the British people
luncheon in an old cheese factory,! aF®
SEP 191949
you find
membersill
AaL AlllU Kvl S|
Ibasis of an increased production.I■ lof Can i»jn, N. J., his daughters placing a w? th oh the grave of Peter
lThi« veer’s statement takes notell A A al llfmo KiireQ lJ- McGu re, father of Labor Day, Arlington Cemetery, Pennsauken
-SJTIh
LvUal If HIS rllSl
of the fact that the government’s governor McGuire, one of the founders of the Amer: an Fed- ration of
■attempts to prevent further pncelBII wK iLabor, originated the idea of a national holiday for lau~r, formally voted
Irises have been crowned with suc-lf||| UI||J|| vIlUU Iby Congress in IS U. McGuire, a close associate of Samuel Gompers,
ever, the federation adds A boostl Grand Havenj Mich (ILNS)._----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
AamU DaIiioa P°rt aU. Products whi.ch are essen- mobile Workerg of America haJ/lrL UTg^S AIG rtf DriTain Ifl VrlSISf
|a 5 cents boost for day workers I
I
a (no
in jury-i requeue y land an increase of 15 cents an I .„
1
vc.ivb*1*
83 1948.. Inlllv wwOl RCl S VQll
Sweden to im-Local 671 of the AFL United Auto-Aid In CriCIC*
(utmost importance. ftS Icamfield Manufacturing Co., estab- lOSpClITy nOIQS IvfSy iv VWWV
llishing the first union shop agree-1 By ARNOLD BEICHMAN
Iment in the area. I ^ew York.—The full force and
I Companies in the Grand Haven [influence of the American Feder
(region had thus far presented a|atiOn of Labor has been placed
(solid wall of opposition to this Lquarely behind the British Labor
pype of^union security, and the ac- (government in its current nego
e ‘Itiations with the United States.
complishment of Local 6T1 cannot
The American Federation of La
bor took this step through the Free
Trade Union Committee because
“in the interest of human freedom,
Iworld peace and prosperity—with
flout which our own democracy,
Iwell-being and security can have
Detroit (LPA) United Auto (“neither Europe, nor Asia, nor
v. ...~ ......................... *___ (Africa nor the Americas can be
Irates of all manufacturing indus- [strike at the Ford Motor Co. any[secure against the further en-
Iits
wr indicated seven [weak and bankrupt Britain would,
in ^11 TnealC1327|i^ necessary to~back "up their de-|as for the sake of the British peo
foMXUXdS man-
boosting the sales of the com-[ |pseudo-left—the totalitarian Com-
JZn w i XI1 urged
n, ®U-?“ lunions will
R008
now the community center of Park-|about?t’J^n.lon ftn^ c®!**Pany haY® [in favor of “a superior unity.” The|AFL committee suggested the fol
man, and then covered the farming|been barRain,n collectively for tjme j8 conductive to such [lowing 10-point program:
communities. [years.______ ,_______ |a development, the Pope said, be-1 Immediate dollar assistance
His first stops of the day were at [cause thru the experience of war [through the International Mone
the Chardon Rubber Company|
AFL ChDinic&l Workers |tbe
|iir* XTa„, Wowa "Rnnet
I™111 rvage
dwsi
did it up brown. He went through Binghampton, N. Y.—Ansco di- Vatican spokesmen stressed the [American and British defense sys
each plant, shook hands, asked [vision of General Aniline & Film [importance of the message and [terns dollar allotments to various
questions. At the Johnson plant [Corp, granted 1,500 production [pointed out that the Pope was in |ERP countries to be turned over to
production stopped while the Sen-[workers represented by the AFL [no way opposing organized labor [Britain which in turn would de
ator addressed the entire plant [international Chemical Workers [but was condemning the econfimic [liver essential.commodities to those
personnel in a store room. P. S. [Union a 5-cent hourly pay increase [conditions that made defensive [countries^ lifting^of restrictions by
Both plants are unorganized. [under a new contract.
organization necessary.
TRIBUTE TO FATHER OF LABOR DAY—Mrs. Kathryn Caya,
Township, N. J. With her is Elmer H. Wene, Democratic candidate for
sound foundation—we of organ­
hzed labor will do our utmost to
I have our country aid Britain in her
(immediate plight and in the long
I range solution of her basic econ
lomic problems.”
I The statement issued by Matt
Ihew Woll, AFL vice president,
[came as the negotiations between
Ithe British and American govern
Iments started in Washington with
Ithe arrival of Foreign Minister
I Cripps, Chancellor of the Exche
quer. They were meeting with Sec
retary of State Dean Acheson and
(Secretary of the Treasury John W.
I Snyder.
I The AFL made it clear that un
lless Britain is aided in this crisis
world-wide agencies of subver-
30-day strike “We know of no other factor
a strike vote under the law,[prosperity as an impoverished,
EX"
retoe-
.gement th. Barlow A
Manufacturing Company decided Pegotiations nave Deen continuing i Britain unon
they ought to teU the town about “LUhSXr whom ^ma^hea^ buX K
let Meanwhile, UAW has announced fallen at this critical juncture of
.. Meanwnne, law nas announced
that a contract termination notice history..”
lwin filed with the
tomorrow morning. With the full 1^“J®1 |Corp. next week. Union officials! “inveterate isolationists and rock
weight of the International Union at2nlestimate that Chrysler workers I ribbed reactionaries of the right
behind us, and with the solidarity others Problems and.work,to-|wil| vote between 78% and 95% who have led in the attack against
of our members, I am confident we ni*AUo ft^ass^ tet k f«v«r of a strike’ B?£Sh 8°.ve.r"ment a"d PeoPle
ahnll win the strike” (solution.
Chrysler! Lashing out vigorously at the
|the AFL pointed out that this
I
“SllDeriOT Unity”*
group is “playing into the hands
l°f the reactionary forces on the
Rome (LPA)—In a radio mess-1munists who are nothing but agents
'looked for-|age Congress of German |and lackeys of Russian imperial
to negotiations |catholiCs at Bochum, Pope Pius|ism. This attempted anti-British
German workers to (propaganda only serves anti-demo
the day when labor Icratic forces that are feverishly
be able to “cease to (seeking to create economic chaos,
Ito bring on social and political col-
unions “organizations (lapse in the free countries and to
he said that thelfan the flames of another global
between capital and labor” [achieve worldwide prosperity the
“contrasts of clesses heve been [tery Fund U. S. acceleration of its
(mostly eased and men have ap-[stockpiling program of strategic
|proached closer to each other.” [commodities closer integration of
MaIcIc KaV
and
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Ta
Airline Foremen
May Organize,
Rail Board Rules
Washington (LPA)—A preced
ent-making decision sustaining the
right of foremen in air transport
to organize and bargain collective
ly has been issued by theNational
Mediation Board, which administ
ers the Railway Labor Act. That
act governs both the and
railroads.
The ruling—a victory for the In
ternational Association of Machin
ists—was issued in a case involving
foremen on the Northwest Airlines.
The board ruled that 57 employes
who are in supervisor jobs have
the right to union representation.
Unlike the Taft-Hartley act, the
Railway Labor act makes it fully
legal for subordinate officials to
organize—and the board classified
the 57 in that capacity. It ordered
an election to determine whether
or not they want the IAM as their
bargaining agency. The decision
opens the way for organization of
foremen on other airlines.
I Ernest Bevin and Sir Stafford
THEY COUNT VOTES,
NOT OPINIONS
Washington (LPA)—On elec­
tion day, it’s your vote that counts,
not your opinion.
That’s the theme of the Regis
tration Manual just issued by the
Political Action Committee.
The manual is an attractively
gotten up booklet which tells you
just how to go about organizing
your area for the 1950 Congress
ional elections. Main idea is to
establish a card index of your ward
or precinct, and then see to it that
every man and woman eligible to
vote registers—and votes.
Th“ aim is to transform opinions
into vdles. Votes are what they
add up when the polls close.
'White Collar
Rule Change:
Washington (LPA)—That ages
old custom of calling a $45-a-week
office worker an “executive” and
refusing to pay him overtime had
another setback this week, when
Wages-Hour Administrator Will
iam McComb announced proposed
changes in the “executive” and
“professional” and other such ex
emptions from the federal wage
hour law.
Production workers who’ve been
upgraded to jobs as checkers, load
ers, and inspectors also have been
the victims of employers who call
them “administrative” workers and
refuse to pay them overtime.
The regulations, which affect 2,
500,000 men and women, will
change the salary level at which
an employer can cut.
“Executive” employes are defined
as those who spend at least 80%
of their time in managerial func
tions. To be exempt from the over
time-after-40-hours regulation, an
executive employe would have to
earn at least $55 a week. Now, the
cutoff of overtime begins with $30
a-week workers.
“Administrative” employes are
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OFF1CIAL ORGAN 4
NATIONAL BROTHERHOOD
OF OPERATIVE POTTERS
sit
ft
$2.00 PER YEAR
Prompt Service Of
Group Insurance
Pleases Member
Another letter was received at
Headquarters recently regarding
the prompt, courteous service a
member, insured under our N. B.
of O. P. Group Insurance plan, re
ceived when ''he found it necessary
to f- a claim for disability and^
hospitalization benefits.
The following is the letter re
ceived from Peggy Tarbett, mem
her of Local Union 70, Minerva,
Oa.o:
118 Bonnieview Ave.
Minerva, Ohio.
August 24, 1949
Mr. James M. Duffy, President
National Brotherhood of Operative*
Potters
East Liverpool, Ohio.
Dear Sir:
I am a decal girl employed at the
Cronin China Con pany, Minerva,
Ohio, and a member of Local
Union No. 70.
I became ill with arthritis on
April 1, 1949 and the N. B. O. P.
Group Insurance paid me in full
for 13 weeks disability benefits. I
was also in the hot-p: tai for 14 days
and I received my hospital bene
fits within two days after I mailed
my bill to the Francis P. White 1
Agency.
I wish to thank the members of
Local No. 70 and all who made it
possible for me to belong to the in
surance. The service rendered me
was most prompt and courteous.
Sincerely,
Peggy Tarbett
Protest Grows On
U. S. Use Of Non
Union Greenbacks
Wasl Tr.gton.—Govemr-nt agen
cies responsible for printa.g United
States cutr ncy on nonunion paper
have been asked to take “correc
tive steps” immediately by Sena
tor James E. Murray of Montana.
Mr. Murray was the fifth Sena
tor to demand an end of nonunion
money. Similar demands were voic
ed previously by Senator Claude
Pepper of Florida, Hubert H.
Humphrey of Minnesota, Paul H.
Douglas of Illinois and Matthew
M. Neely of West Virginia.
“I was shocked,” Mr. Murray
said, “to learn from The Paper
Maker that United States cur
rency is printed on paper made by
nonunion workers.
“I thought it was established be
yond any doubt that the political
and economic health of this coun
try requires strong labor unions.
This fundamental principle has
long been recognized by the Demo
cratic party and was the basis of
the Wagner act passed in 1935.
“It was therefore with consider
able amazement that I learned
that the federal government itself,
through its purchases, was follow
ing a practice which threatens
trade union organization.
“I hope that the government
agencies responsible for this prac
tice will immediately take the nec
essary corrective steps and that in
the future their purchasing prac
tice will be designed to encourage
rather than to discourage trade
union organization.”
Use of nonunion paper in all
currency was disclosed early this
year by The Paper Maker, publish
ed by the AFL’s International Bro
therhood of Paper Makers.
Overtime
Are Planned
defined as those doing “office or
nonmanual field work directly re
lated to management policies or
general business operations of em
ployer or employer’s customers”
for at least 80% of their work
time. The cutoff of overtime be
gins above $75 a week, instead of
the present $200 a month salary.
A “professional” worker is des
cribed as a man or woman “having
as his primary duty (a) work re
quiring knowledge of an advanced
type in a field of science or learn
ing, or (b) must perform original
work in an artistic field,” for at
least 60% of the working time.
Cutoff of overtime would begin at
$75 a week instead of the present
$200 a month.
The new regulations, which are
part of what was urged by United
Electrical Workers in their petition
which started the changes, are now
subject to appeals by labor and
management representatives for a
30-day period. At the end of this
time, the Wage-Hour Administra
tor must decide whether to put
them into effect, hold further hear
ings, or modify them.