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2700 Delegates Seated At
IBEW Annual Convention
Miami, Fla. (LPA)—The AFL4^---------------------------------
Int’l Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers—the union that started
out 51 years ago with 286 members
in eight locals, and now has nearly
a million members in locals from
coast to eoast—opened its 24th con
vention here. Oct. 16. From every
state and from provinces through
out Canada, approximately 2700
delegates were coming to map out
future business for the union,
whose membership has increased
20 percent since the last conven
tion two years ago.
The business agenda included
consideration of some changes in
the union’s laws an intensified or
ganizing campaign in the telephone
industry* demand for full protec
tion of the benefits and rights Of
members going into military ser-i
vices and proposed revisions in
the IBEW pension system (under
which retiring workers get $50
monthly from the union in addition
to their other pensions.)
Among those slated to address
the delegates were AFL President
William Green* Labor Secretary
Maurice J. Tobin National Secur
ity Resources Board chief W.
Stuart Symington president of the
Union Electric Co. of Missouri, /.
W. McAfee.
Reviewing the IBEW’s progress,
tlnion President Dan Tracy said
conspicuous gains have been made
•in government service, radio and
television, electrical manufacturing,
railroads, utilities, and construc
tion. He said that since the Rural
Electrification Administration has
now covered workers on power line
construction with the prevailing
minimum wage, the union’s bitter
Jispute with REA has been straigh
tened out to a large degree. Tracy
noted that REA also advised rural
electric cooperatives operating on
government loans to “pursue sound
labor relations” and assure em
ployes “the right to organize and
Jzargain collectively.”
Discussing the IBEW’s position
on the nation’s railroads, Tracy
said the winning of the 40-hour
week last year with 48-hour pay
phis a 7-cent hourly increase was
“beyond contradiction one of the
outstanding achievements in the
history of the railroad industry.”
He also noted advances on the rails
with regard to pensions and sick
benefits. He said railroad pension
and unemployment insurance sys
tems held first place in American
Industry.
Tracy hlMtatj, “shameful profit
eering” by many business elements.
“Selflessness is prated but not
practiced,” he said. “Economic ad
vantage is sought through political
maneuvers. Reactionary politicians
are speaking with the voice of
Jacob but their hands are the hands
of Esau.” Because of this, he de-1
dared, “organized labor has been
compelled to intensify its efforts
and activities in the political field
while defending the conditions for
Jibe wage earners economically.”
IBEW Secretary J. Scott Milne
reported “Our early statements
showed no assets—only debts. To
day we own a fine headquarters
|uilding we have ample funds to
carry out our aims and purposes,
and we have a growing pension and
death benefit fund for the aid of
all. We have come far through the
years we shall go farther in the
years ahead.”
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Last-Minute Offer
Averts Strike
Of JMtone Workers
Newark, N. J. (LPA) Four
hours before a walkout of 11,000
Jersey phone workers, the Bell
System agreed to a wage increase
of $2 to $3. The settlement was
reached at 2 A. M., Oct. 6, after a
12-hour session between negotia
tors for Division 35, Communica
tions Workers, company officials
and state mediators.
The Bell System had won a vic
tory in the State Supreme Court
only four days earlier, when the
court knocked out a $2.50 award
made by an arbitration board. The
board, acting under the state’s util
ity anti-strike law, had made the
award last April, but the company
had appealed, attacking both the
award and the constitutionality of
the law. A lower
for the union.
court had ruled
the Bell System
$2.50 award in
But even while
was fighting the
New Jersey, 61,300 telephone work
ers belonging to independent unions
in New York had received increases
of $2 to $5 from New York Bell.
The union took a strike vote last
spring, in a dispute going back to
May 1949, but remained on the job,
under the state law, and the Bell
facilities were technically seized
by the state.
The arbitration board had also
granted a modified union shop, but
the Supreme Court had ruled that
the board had no such authority,
and the matter must be negotiated.
In August CWA President
Joseph Beirne appeared before a
Senate labor sub-committee with
detailed evidence of the Bell Sys
tem’s arrti-labor attitude. He point
ed out that Bell refused to bargain
system-wide, asserting that each
Bell company makes its own labor
policies, but that Bell officials had
to admit that all such decisions
were deferred back to American
Telephone and Telegraph, the par
ent cohnpany, so that negotiations
became a farce.
The union points out that
A.T.&T. attitude toward regional
independent unions is much more
conciliatory. As evidence they cite
an offer of 12 cents to the inde
pendents in New York state while
offering the installation men only
8 cents.
Of the court ruling declaring
that the arbitration board had no
power to grant a union shop, the
international’s publication, CWA
Newsletter, said: “It is obvious
that such status cannot be achiev
ed short of a voluntary gesture by
a utility employer, almost incon
ceivable in the case of a Bell com
pany." The publication said the rul
ing “shows the utter fallacy of all
compulsory arbitration laws, which,
in the ultimate, deprive the worker
of his only real economic strength.
Favorable rulings from arbitration
boards can be contested by wealthy
employers and infinitum in the
courts. Such a law, in the face of
an obdurate employer, can Serve
only to create a lawyer’s paradise.”
The New Jersey law was hailed
by Gov. Alfred M. Driscoll as pro-i
rnoting industrial peace while as
suring a fair deal to the worker.
The New Jersey court ruling, said
the CWA, “has completely blasted!
this claim.” i
Michigan Bell Makes Wage Offer
Detroit (LPA)—Michigan Bell
has offered wage boosts of $3 to $5
to Division 15, CWA. The price is
an 18-month contract with no wage
reopening.
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WASHINGTON and BROADWAY EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO
OFFICERS:
JOHN J. PURINTON, President ALWYN C. PURINTON, Secretary
CHAS. W. HENDERSHOT, Vice President
iOS. M. BLAZER, Treasurer W. E. DUNLAP, Jr., Attorney
MARSHALL PLAN BALLOON CONTEST-XJuldren at the Berlin
Industrial Exhibition get set to release gas-filled balloons, which will
carry greetings from them to people all over Europe. Finders are asked
to send hack the postcard attached to the balloon. The ones that travel
the farthest will win valuable prizes for both finder and sender.
News and Views ....
Coffee, for the past year or so,
has been a subject of inexhaustible
talk in many an American house
hold. Most of the bewilderment can
be traced back to the erratic be
havior of prices and the confusion
situation. Yet the consuming public
and particularly the housewife, will
do well to guard against scare
stories and misleading newspaper
reports.
The coffee situation of 195Q is
essentially that of rectifying a long
drawn-out cycle of economic in
justice and distress. It must be
viewed in the context of a 20-year
struggle for bare survival and the
fact that now, for the first time in
nearly a generation, coffee con
sumption has outstripped produc
tion. And so, before reaching con
clusions, these facts are worth re
membering:
Our neighbors to the south
furnish 95 percent of the
world’s coffee supply, with
Brazil alone contributing
roughly 50 percent and Costa
Rica 20 percent. 65 percent of
the Lation America coffee crop
goes into the North American
market, thift confirming “once
again the partiality of the Am
erican people for coffee by a
significant margin.
Three opt of 4 Americans
drink coffee as part of their
daily diet. The average citizen,
it has been estimated, con
sumes 2 cups of coffee daily in
the summer and 3 cups in the
winter. Daily consumption in
the U. S. in the summer of
1950 amounted to 248,000,000
cups a day, an increase of
20,000,000 aver the consump
tion of 1949.
What, in the face of this over
whelming demand, is done to as
sure an adequate supply of coffee
under economically advantageous
conditions?
To Americans the answer seems
simple. All that is needed is a mar
ket price allowing the grower a
fair return on capital investment,
land, etc., and paying labor an ade
quate wage for the work perform
ed. Only by being assured of equit
able returns can mankind, whether
in Latin America or elsewhere, be
persuaded to make capital avail
able, improve and extend soil cul
tivation, and step up productoin in
tune with increasing consumption.
This is precisely what happened
after the first World War. Coffee
consumption grew by leaps and
bounds. Prices were high coffee
growers were encouraged to ex
pand. But before this expansion
could be translated into financial
gains, the depression of the late
’20s struck. The bottom dropped
out of the market. It was hard to
sell coffee at any price. Hundreds
of millions of pounds were literally
thrown away and destroyed.
For many years the consumer
has benefited from a coffee glut
which forced prices down to an
economically unsound and socially
unjustifiable level. Now, with the
vast surplus exhausted, the age-old
law of supply and demand has
again found their natural level.
Beyond these economics are fac
tors with which the public is but
little acquainted.
How many of us know that the
growing and processing of coffee
is done almost exclusively by man
ual labor?
That a coffee tree, after 8 years
of back-breaking labor, yields only
10 pounds of the greenbeans, or
about 1 Vie pounds of the roasted
product?
That millions of Latin Ameri
cans and their families depend on
coffee for their livelihood and econ
omic security?
By ALEXANDER S. LIPSETT (An ILNS Feature)
b--------------------
That coffee, aside from being an
economic foundation stone of the
Americas, sets the pace of progress
and living standards throughout
Latin America
And that coffee, as the main
staple of Latin American exports,
enables their peoples to buy man
ufactured goods they so much want
and need?
Much of the confusion underly
ing the coffee picture, it seems tff
me, stems from the lack of know
ledge of these basic economic and
human factors. They also illustrate
the immense role of that product
in the political, economic and social
realities of the Americas and its
significance as an economic link
and symbol of political solidarity
among the republics of the West
ern Hemisphere.
In recognizing a healthy and
prosperous coffee trade as an in
dispensable means of intercontin
ental friendship, economic progress
and higher living standards of the
countries of Latin America, Ameri
can labor helps its fellow workers
down south to achieve their aims.
They Got Him, But
NLRB Orders Man
Rehired, Back Pay
Tampa, Fla. (LPA)—Iewis G.
Burnside, truck driver, left his
motor running for a short time
while he stopped at a roadside^
stand for a soft drink, and he
hadn’t checked his gas supply that
morning. So the Tampa Sand &
Material Co. fired him without
notice for “negligence.” That was
Sept. 9, 1948. His union, the United
Stone & Allied Products Workers,
went to the National Labor Rela
tions Board.
The hearing before a trial ex
aminer disclosed that no driver had
ever been fired for a similar of
fense that Burnside had run out
of gas twice before without being
criticized that he was regarded
by his superiors as a competent
driver who took care of the equip
ment that back in June 1948 the
superintendent had threatened
fire Burnside if he could “get any
thing on him” that after Burnside
was fired, the superintendent ad
mitted he had “been after Burnside
a long time and finally got him.”
Actually, Burnside’s sin was that
he was active in the union. Since
Jan. 26, 1948, the bosses had been
questioning employes about the
union, had warned them against
joining, had threatened them, ami
finally fired Burnside.
It was not until July 1950 that
the trial examiner made his report,
finding for the union. The com
pany appealed. And it was not un
til Oct. 13, 1950, that the board up
held the examiner, and ordered the
company to rehire Burnside, and
make good his lost pay.
THE POTTERS HERALD, EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO
took
that
In other words, the' case
two years to settle, under
Taft-Hartley act.
JAVITS WINS AWARD FOR
CIVIL KIGHTS STAND
New York (LPA)—Rep. Jacob
K. Javits, Republican-Liberal of
this city, was awarded a citation
Oct. 6 for his “outstanding record"
in the struggle for civil rights for
all. The citation was signed by D.
Ward Nichols, Presiding Bishop of
the African Methodist-Episcopal
Church. Dr. Walter P. Offutt, Jr.,
church secretary of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, made the pre
sentation in the Great Hall of the
College of the City of New York.
Big RdgiStratidn Brightens
Labor's Political Chances
Top national interest was in the
Ohio campaign where labor-backed
Democrat Joe Ferguson was pitted
against labor’s arch enemy-, Sen.
Robert (Mr. Republican) Taft,
sponsor of the hated law which
bears his name. Labor was solidly
opposed to Taft. The AFL, CIO,
Machinists,- Mine Workers, and
Rail Brotherhoods were linked in a
hardworking organization seeking
his defeat. Meanwhile, registration
was up nearly 7 percent in a seven
county sample, and it was hoped
that it might be at an all-time
high. Taft was campaigning fran
tically, implying that the drive
against him was being run by Com
munists. Many saw desperation in
Taft’s tactics, but labor was inten
sifying its efforts to get out the
vote on election day.
In Indiana registration was so
heavy that incumbent Republican
Sep. Homer Capehart was making
ar} extra strong appeal for labor
support—knowing full well that if
he won he never would have to de
Byer. In Indianapolis, registration
was a good 15,000 ahead of 1948
and it was believed the increase
was fairly typical. Capehart’s
Democratic opponent is Alex
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In Illinois, Democratic Sen.
Congressional campaign reachedl
[its closing vyecks, nobody Could pre
dict thp results with confidence.
However, in areas where registra
tion was high, Democratic hopes
were even higher for Democratic
victories frequently flow from big
turnouts.
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Organized labor was by no means
hitched exclusively to the Demo
cratic party, but it wax true that
labor’s hopes also were running
high. For where registration was
up—as in Ohio and Indiana—was
where labor was exerting its ut
most to Unhorse Republican Sena
tors and eteeb Democrats. But reg
istered voters would still have to
go to the polls Nov. 7 to make their
preferences felt.
In general, Democrats in key
areas were running on the party’s
New Deal-Fair Deal record, call
ing for Taft-Hartley repeal and
Hacking other unrealized aspira
tions of the 1948 platform. In gen
eral the Republicans were crying
“throw the rascals outa” and bas
ing their arguments on foggy
charges of Communism in govern
ment. The Republicans seem un
moved by the fact that Sen. Joe
McCarthy had yet to prove a single
one of his accusations. If they
echoed McCarthy often enough and
loud enough they could frighten
the voters, they apparently believ
ed. The GOP also identified the
Fair Deal with “creeping social
ism” but didn’t dare demand re
peal of such things as social secur
ity. And there was more than a
trace of isolationism in much Re
publican campaigning. As of mid
October, here’s how key contests
shaped up.
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Scott Lucas, majority leader on the
Senate floor, faced a strong battle
against former Rep. Everett Dirk
sen, who bore the blessing of the
super-reactionary Chicago Tribune.
Lucas Was pointing out that Dirk
sen was essentially an isolationist
who “has fought all the liberal leg
islation designed to help Illinois
farmers and working men.” Lucas,
who is backed by labor, was also
saying that Dirksen “wants to
stand pat, where McKinley stood in
1900.”
In Colorado, I5emocratic Hep.
John Carroll had labor’s backing in
his drive to oust Republican incum
bent Semi. Eugene Milliken. The
Colorado Labor Advocate, crack
Denver labor paper, lowered the
boom on ‘^Glittering Gene” regular
ly. In the House, Carrojl was a
sponsor of mu*h Jabor-supported
legislation. Just before Congress
shut up shop to campaign, Carroll
was one of the leaders of the last
minute fight for the excess profits
tax this year which the CIO and
AFL were demanding.
In California, Rep. Helen Gah
agan Douglas, a staunch liberal and
a Democrat, was waging a -strong
fight against Rep. Richard Nixon
for the Senate seat vacated by
Sheridan Downey. At the same
Jimmy Roosevelt was running as a
Democrat for governor against the
incumbent Republican Earl War
ren. Mrs. Douglas was backed by
labor and was given a fair chance
to whip Nixon, whose chief claim
to fame was that he unearthed the
dirt of Alger Hiss.*Jimmy seemed
to have less chance against War
ren, partly because of the state’s
cross-filing system. Registration is
above the five million mark, how
ever, with the Democrats holding
a three-to-two preponderance, and
many recalled that Warren was un
able to put California in the Repu
blican camp in 1948 when he was
Dewey’s running mate.
In Oregon, Republican Sen.
Wayne Morse, one of labor’s best
friends in Congress, looked like a
shoo-in. His Democratic opponent,
Howard Latourette, was getting
virtually no support from the
Democratic party’s national organ
ization and none at all from labor.
Both the AFL and CIO endorsed
Morse.
In New York, political develop
ments were confused and spectacu
lar. Sen. Herbert Lehman, working
for re-election as a Democrat-Lib
eral, had the support of all labor.
A veteran vote-getter (although a
freshman in the Senate), Lehman
was expected to win despite the
fact that Tom Dewey decided to
ruh for re-election as Governor, de
spite the fact that Acting Mayor
Impelliteri of New York City had
chosen to make the Mayoralty race
a three-cornered contest, and de
spite the big town’s police scandal.
You'll like an electric range for the same
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Electric ranges cook without flame or soot.
Kitchen air stays cool and fresh because an
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makes heat without gobbling up oxygen
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Millions have switched to electric cooking
just as millions turned from old-fashioned
lighting years ago. Unexcelled safety and
cleanliness are two big reasons—any woman
who cooks electrically can tell you many
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new •lectric ranges at his show room now.
n* OHIO POWER
Whether Gov. Dewey’s withdrawal
from the presidential campaign of
1952 and designation of Dwight
Eisenhower as his choice for the
White House could affect this
year’s voting was beyond knowing.
In Pennsylvania, labor’s pros
pects were dimmer. However, there
still remained a chance that labor
backed Democratic Sen. Francis
Myers could squeeze through
against his Republican opponent,
Gov. James H. Duff. The big city
vote might tell the story. In Phil
adelphia, registration was about
what it was in 1948, but in Pitts
burgh an extra 40,000 had regist
ered. However, the total Republi
can registration was far in front
of th'e Democratic figure. Mean
while, Myers was fighting hard,
might be helped by the vote on
local issues.
All in all, organized labor was
backing candidates for 25 Senate
seats outside the south. Only Re
publicans were Morse and Sen.
George D. Aiken of Vermont. Other
Democrats than those mentioned
were:
Emmett Kelly in New Hampshire
(although Republican Sen. Charles
W. Tobey was reported to have
some labor support) Sen. Carl
Hayden in Arizona Sen. Brien Mc
Mahon and Sen. William Benton in
Connecticut Claude J. Burtenshow
in Idaho Albert J.
Iowa Paul Aiken
Thomas C. Hennings
Sen. Pat McCarran
Harry O’Brien in North Dakota
John W. Pastore in Rhode Island
John A. Engel in South Dakota
Sen. Elbert D. Thomas in Utah
Sen. Warren G. Magnuson in Wash
ington Tom Fairchild in Wiscon
sin.
Loveland in
in Kansas
in Missouri
in Nevada
Maybe Hosiery
Wifi Cost Less
New York (LPA)—The Textile
Machine Works and the Berkshire
Knitting Mills, both of Wyomiss
ing, Pa., have promised to behave
hereafter *and give other manufac
turers a chance. And maybe full
fashioned hosiery may cost less
now.
Textile produces over 85 percent
of all full-fashioned hosiery mach
ines in the US. Berkshire is the
largest manufacturer. The same
people control both. To avert com
petition, the two would buy up and
destroy second-h and machinery'
which could have been used to
make low-priced hose, according to
the government complaint in an
anti-trust suit filed Oct. 20, 1947.
Now an anti-trust consent judg
ment has been entered in US Dis
trict Court here against both firms
and two of their corporate officials,
John E. Livengood anti Ferdinand
K. Thum. The judgment ends the
practices whereby Textile favored
Berkshire, to the detriment of other
manufacturers.
Under the judgment, destruction
of second hand machinery is pro
hibited more than 2C0 patents and
patent applications must be lieens-
another reason why millions of women
are changing to Electric cooking...
Ho oilier cooking method
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Thursday, October 19, 1950
Steel Operations
Up As Union
Presents Demands
Cleveland (LPA)—As the Steel
workers presented wage demand
for 65,000 to Republic Steel Corp.,
third largest producer, the Ameri
can Iron & Steel Institute took the
opportunity to announce near-re
cord wage payments, and’ record
production.
Steel operations for the week
were scheduled to set a new all
time tinnage record for the third
consecutive week, with an output
of 1,959,600 tons. Operations were
at 101.6 percent of rated capacity.
The Institute reported August
wage payments boosted the indus
try’s payroll to a new peak of more
than $1J4 billions for the first eight
months of the year. It estimated
the August payroll at $206,623,000,
nearly $18,000,000 above July,
$31,000,000 above August 1949, and
only $500,000 below the March
1949 record. The Institute said
average weekly wages in July were
$67.83, and $8.62 above the weekly
average for workers in all manu
facturing.
William F. Donovan, USW direc
tor and chairman of the negotiat
ing committee for Republic work
ers, said he could not disclose the
wage demands. The company said
it was taking the demands “under
advisement”, that no further meet
ings were set pending the “study”,
but that “something” may be ann
ounced within a week. The Repub
lic plants are at Cleveland, Youngs
town, Warren, Canton and Massil
on, Ohio Buffalo, N. Y. Chicago,
and Gaddson, Ala.
LATE JOE PADWAY LAUDED
WAS AFL’s ATTORNEY
Madison, Wis. (LPA)—The late
Joseph Padway, for many years
attorney for the American Federa
tion of Labor, was the subject of a
moving eulogy by David Previant,
attorney for the United Auto
Workers-AFL. Reviant, speaking
before the Wisconsin Supreme
Court, termed Padway “an impass
ioned advocate of, and crusader for,
the rights of man.”
cd to any applicant Textile must
make its experimental facilities
available to all manufacturers on
a non-discriminatory basis Textile
must make its machinery available
to all others on the same basis as
to Berkshire officers of one com
pany cannot serve with the other.
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