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CHICAGO CLERGY LINE UP for peace. Aboard Council of Amer
can-Soviet Friendship float at State-Madison corner are (L. to R.)
Father Clarence Parker, St. Marks Episcopal; Rev. James M. Roys
ton, Union Baptist Church; Rev. Wm. Baird, Essex Community
Church; Rev. Ralph Bushee, Educational director, Chicago chapter.
Tombstone float shows up
to spur peace 'roll call'
A tombstone and the figure
of Death will appear in neigh
borhood shopping centers
throughout Chicago in the next
two weeks, to dramatize the
fight for peace.
The float, displaying the
slogans "Prevent Atomic War”
and "Sign lip for Peace” is part
of a petition drive sponsored by
Chicago Council of American
Soviet Friendship.
Thousands of dowmtown shop
pers and office workers saw it
this week when it appeared
briefly at the corner of State
and Madison streets. There, a
group of ministers and rabbis
signed the seven-foot Roll Call
for Peace featured on the float
in the name of thousands of Chi
cago churchgoers.
The scroll is a replica of peti
tions being circulated by the
Council which call for peaceful
negotiations with the Soviet
Union to settle our differences.
They will be presented to Presi
dent Truman at his inaugura
tion.
Mundt-Nixon proposal is
'code for thieves'—says CRC
NEW YORK <FP)—The “new
code of procedure'’ proposed by
Reps. Karl Mundt (R, S.D.) and
Richard Nixon (R. Calif.) is
a..o,her smokescreen designed to
obscure the basic evil of the
House un-American activities
committee, the Civil Rights Con
gress charged here.
“Just as a code for thieves
does not end the crime of burg
lary,’’ CRC Natl., Director Len
Goldsmith declared, “a proce
dural code by the committee
will not prevent it from con
tinuing to usurp basic American
constitutional rights or stop it
from acting as a ‘thought po
lice.’ ”
Goldsmith said the “cynical
hypocrisy” of the proposals is
exposed by their authors’ com
ment that the opportunity of!
witnesses to make a written or -
oral statement at the end of!
hearings should be denied "to
those who stand on their consti
tutional grounds of self-incrimi
nation and refuse to aid the com-!
mittee in securing information, 1
or those v ho arrogantly defy the '
authority of congressman to ask ;
them pertinent questions.”
"In other words,” Goldsmith
said, "They propose to deny
even their half-hearted pro
cedural gestures to all witnesses
who believe that the Bill of
Rights is a living reality which
protects them from the tyranny
of the committee.”
UOPWA to confer on stepped
up white collar campaign
NEW YORK (FP)—Plans for
an expanded organizing drive
among white collar workers will
be made at a national confer
ence of union leaders called here
for Jan. 8-9 by the United Of
fice & Professional Workers
(CIO).
The UOPWA was one of the
unions accused by CIO Poes.
Philip Murray at the national
CIO convention of failing to or
Women's Congress
will meet here
Congress of American Women, j
Chicago chapter, will hold its
third annual meeting at Hull
House Jan. 23, President Rheua
Pearce announced this week.
Reports will be presented by
some of the American delegates
to the Second International Con
gress of Women recently held
in Budapest. Katherine Fromer,
chairman of CAW’s Child Care
and Education commission, will
outline plans for a drive to ob
tain state aid to nursery schools.
ganize the unorganized. Murray
demanded that UOPWA Pres.
James Durkin and other leaders
of the union resign and indicated
that the national CIO might set
up its own white collar organ
izing committee or charter a
new union.
Expected to attend the con
ference are several hundred lo
cal union leaders from all over
the country, representing com
mercial, social service, technical
and scientific, news distribution,
direct mail, screen, radio, pub
lishing and allied fields.
Meetings of members of the
union’s insurance division will
be held later to discuss the drive
to retain bargaining rights with
the Prudential and Metropolitan
insurance companies.
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P.P. county meeting
Curtis MacDougall, the Northwestern University jour
, nalism professor who ran for U.S. Senator on the Progres
I sive ticket in Illinois last November, will keynote the
I Progressive's Cook County legislative convention Sunday,
Jan. 9.
George Cermak. the party's
county chairman, wilt gavel the
I all-day session to rrder prompt
Fly at i i a.m. in
! Temple Hall,
, 330 S. Marsh
| field Ave.
^ Wiliam Mil
J ler, state direc
t o r, announced
that conference
planners had
omitted sched
uling any major
MacDougall speeches, in
order to make sure the several
hundred delegates representing
; ward and township organiza
1 tions would be able to partici
pate fully in a “rank-and-file
Hot debates arr expected as ;
the delegates try to narrow the
field of legislative issues to de
cide the single campaign on
convention.”
which the county's Progressive
Party will center main attention
in coming months.
Sharp differences of opinion
have developed over whether
repeal of the sales tax should be
the primary campaign. A state
constitutional convention and
enactment of a state FEPC are
among other issues that have
been suggested for placement at
the top of the legislative agenda
for Illinois Progressives.
Sidney Ordower, newly ap
pointed legislative director, will
present the legislative commit
tee’s report, while Miller will
offer the administrative report.
Bernard Lucas, int’l rep., CIO
Longshoremen and Warehouse
men, will report for the trade
union committee, and Fred
Plashne will give the nationali
ties council report.
COMEDIAN Jack Benny, carry
ing his "cheapskate" gag into
March of Dimes campaign,
opens gigantic safe containing
10 pennies he had hoarded to
contribute to the furd.
IFL rapped in
charter fight
A Decatur Democrat who
helped lead the 1947 fight for
revision of Illinois’ outmoded
constitution this week criticized
President Reuben Soderstrom of
the Illinois Federation of Labor
for opposing efforts to call a
constitutional convention.
Soderstrom recently mailed a
letter to members of the state
legislature, declaring that the
IFL opposes a new constitution
because it may mean elimination
of gains made by labor in re
cent years.
But State Sen. Paul Ferguson
said he doubts that rank and file
workers in Illinois AFL unions
agree with Soderstrom on this.
The Decatur representative said
Soderstrom is as “truly reflect
ing” Illinois labor’s attitude in
opposing a new state charter as
he was in “supporting Gov.
Dwight H. Green for re-elec
tion.”
40-hour week now—
Rail unions insist
The "delayed-action” 40-hour
week recommended by Presi
dent Truman's fact -finding
board will be used “as a starting
point for negotiations'’ with the
nation's railroads, spokesmen
for the 16 non-operating railway
unions announced in Chicago
this week,
?
The board's decision, which
provides for a 40-hour week for
1,000,000 workers beginning
next Sept. 1 plus an immediate
seven-cent wage hike, was
neither accepted nor rejected by
the unions. George E. Leighty,
head of the unions’ general
negotiating committee, said
negotiations will be resumed
Jan. 5 with the board's plr«si “as
a basis for satisfactory settle
ment.”
Meanwhile, Negro workers on
dining cars and Pullmans were
saddled with a 50-hour week as
a result of the board’s Jim Crow
ruling. Some 25,000 Negroes
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were singled out for discrimina
tory treatment despite the
board’s announcement that the
40 basic work hours per week is
the prevailing practice in Amer
ican industry,’’ and “should not
be withheld any longer from the
railroad industry.’’
BI.AME AFL LEADERS
Daniel Benjamin, eastern vice
president of the Dining Car and
Railroad Foodworkers Union,
disclosed that the speed-up in
dining car departments “is a
galloping development in our
craft.” Benjamin laid direct re
sponsibility for denial of the 40
hour week to Negro railroad
employees on leaders of the AFL
Dining Car Joint Council, part
of the AFL Hotel and Restau
rant International.
Biggest block to acceptance of
the presidential board’s findings
is the demand by the 16 non
operating unions that the 40
hour begin now, instead of Sept^
1, 1949. The eight-hour, five-day
week has been in effect for all
other interstate workers since
passage of the Fair Labor Stand
ards Act in 1938.
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