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Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—With
appointment of a Senate Labor Com
mittee subcommittee to draft a sub
stitute for the Case strike-control bill,
•"death of the measure, which organiz
ed labor has strenuously opposed, was
Seen as certain.
The Case bill, which passed the
Bouse Feb. 7, was recently denounced
fty President William Green of the
American Federation of Labor as
'Snonstrous" and "reflecting angry
fcatred of organized labor." He de
clared it would bring back slavery
4gnd the labor injunction and revive
the "hateful blacklist."
Death of the Case bill in the Senate
Labor Committee, unless there should
be a radical change of mind on the
part of the committee's members,
e&me when Chairman Thomas E. Mur
ray of Montana announced that it was
the opinion of the committee that no
"drastic" labor legislation should be
enacted now.
Liberal Group Named
Supporting the right to mass pic
keting as such, the civil liberties or
ganization said in a letter to Joseph
Curran, president of the Greater New
York CIO Council, that "some .of the
nn junctions have been prompted by
what we regard as excesses on the
part of striking unions who have de
nied access by mass picket lines, even
to the owners of properties, supervi
sors and non-striking employes."
The right to mass picketing and
right of free entry to a plant are not
in conflict, according to the letter,
""ind "in a number of strikes" arrange-
PHONES 4«-78
Appointment of Senate Committee Group
To Write Substitute Seen As Marking
End Of Drastic Case Measure
Senator Murray named himself
Strike Tactics of Some
Unions Held Inviting
Court, Police Excesses
New York City (ILNS).—Tactics of
Certain striking unions "invite" the
excesses of brutality and government
by injunction, the American Civil Lib
erties Union said in denouncing ex
cesses by the courts and police and
reiterating opposition to labor tactics
tfcat deny access to all comers at
strike-bound plants.
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^reen Denounces Bill As "Monstrous* and ^Ttefle^ctliiff
Angry Hatred of Organized Labor"
chairman of a group to write a sub
stitute measure. Other members in
clude Senators Pepper, Florida La
Follette, Wisconsin Morse, Washing
ton Ellender, Louisiana Tunnell,
Delaware, and Ball, Minnesota. A
majority of the subcommittee is lib
eral minded and probably oposed to
imposing harsh restrictions on labor
unions, as is proposed in the Case bill.
Naming of the subcommittee was
agreed to by the full committee at a
closed door session. It will consider
the House bill, sponsored by Repre
sentative Case of South Dakota and
a number of Senate labor measures
on which hearings have been held.
Senator Murray denied any attempt
to "pigeonhole" the Case bill and said
that he had offered to send the meas
ure to the Senate floor for action un
der a negative report but that other
Senators wanted no part of a law
which would "penalize or straight
jacket labor."
The subcommittee began work
March 6.
ments between labor and management
have been made to permit both.
It was noted as a matter of regret
that union leaders "in many instances
did not so- regulate picketing as to
avoid the consequences of a refusal
to accord the right of access to non
strikers." It was also regretted that
some courts went so far as to "pro
hibit mass picketing altogether."
Former Head of UMWA
District Dies at 75
Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (ILNS).Benjamin
McEnany, former president of Dis
trict 1, United Mine Workers of Am
erica, died at his home, here March
4 at the age of 75.
During the 1902 strike, McEnany
was one of John Mitchell's chief lieu
tenants. From 1904 to 1906 he held
the post of district auditor. In 1907,
he was elevated to the presidency for
a 2-year term. When he retired 9 years
ago, McEnany was coal inspector at
Ewen Colliery. Born in England, he
came to America 52 years ago.
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SENATE COMMITTEE
BACKS 65-CENT
MINIMUM PAY
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—The
Senate battle for an increase of min
imum wage rates under the Fair La
bor Standards (wage-hour) Act has
opened with reporting of a bill by
the Education and Labor Committee.
The committee's bill asks an imme
diate increase of the minimum wage
to 65 cents an hour, from the present
40 cents, and extension of overtime
coverage to "any employer whose busi
ness affects interstate commerce."
Senators Tunnell of Delaware and
Pepper of Florida, reporting for the
majority, insisted that an immediate
advance to at least 65 cents was im
perative.
NATIONAL INCOME JUMP CITED
"With a national income of $160,
000,000,000," they contended, "a 65
cent minimum wage yields the worker
at substandard wages a smaller pro
portion of the nation's increased
wealth than a 40-cent minimum yield
ed him with the $64,000,000,000 na
tional income in 1938. While national
income per capita has risen over 100
percent in 7 years (at least 75 percent
when adjusted for price changes), the
income of the underpaid has not raised
in anything like the same proportion."
The proposed bill broadens the cov
erage of the act to include seamen
so far as minimum wages are concern
ed but not as to overtime.
A minority report suggesting an
immediate rise to 55 cents and an ul
timate level of 60 cents was brought
in by 6 members who called the ma
jority proposals inflationary.
SMALLER RAISES URGED
Two Democratic Senators, Ellender
of Louisiana and Fulbright of Ark
ansas, joined with Republican Sena
tors Taft, Ohio Ball, Minnesota Don
nell, Missouri and Smith, New Jersey
in condemning the wage scale propos
ed by the majority and the clauses ex
panding coverage of the current act.
The dissenting Senators held that to
fix minimum wages beyond a point
sufficient to cover increased living
costs would "inevitably add tremend
ously to the already great inflation
ary pressures in the country."
They held that an immediate in
crease of 15 cents, which they pro
posed, was all the economy of the
country would absorb now. Their ulti
mate level of 60 cents at the end of
2 years, they maintained, was far
sounder than the graduated advances
proposed by the majority. In those, the
minimum of 65 cents would rise to 70
cents at the end of 2 years and to 75
cents at the end of 4 years.
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BUTLER COUNTY PRESS:
Strange Phenomenon
Gains For Upholsterers
In New Hampshire Plant
Keene, N. H. (ILNS).—Extensive
gains for employes of the Sprague
Carleton Co. were won by Local 366,
Upholsterers' International Union in
contract negotiations led by Inter
national Vice President Howard Litch
field, UIU representative in New Eng
land.
Among improvements in working
conditions achieved were a second
week's paid vacation for employes
with.5 years' service 3 paid holidays
and increases in minimum rates to
65 cents for men and 55 cents for
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HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, MARCH 15,1946 ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
women. Piece work rates also were
adjusted upward and day-work rates
set at 80 percent of average piece
work earnings.
UMW Secretary-Treasurer
Under John Mitchell Dies
Harrisburg, Pa. (ILNS).—John P.
Gallagher, former secretary-treasurer
of the United Mine Workers, died
here March 2 at the age of 69. He held
the office in the miners' union from
1898 until 1905, during which time
John Mitchell was its head.
Gallagher came to Harrisburg in
1905 as an employe of the Pennsyl
vania Department of Mines.
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Supreme Court Asked To
Approve Naturalization
Of Pacifists
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—The U.
S. Supreme Court is urged to declare
pacifists eligible for naturalization as
American citizens in a brief by the
American Civil Liberties Union sup
porting an appeal heard recently.
Signed by former Democratic presiden
tial candidate John W. Davis, among
others, the brief supports the appeal
of James Louis Girouard, Canadian
Seventh Day Adventist, who was re
fused citizenship by the Circuit Court
of Appeals in Boston in 1943, though
he had indicated he was willing to ac
cept non-combatant service in the
army.
The question of his eligibility re
volves around the meaning of the
oath required of all prospective citi
zens to "support and defend" the
United States. In cases 15 years ago
the U. S. Supreme Court by a series
of 5 to 4 decisions held that Congress
intended the oath to mean a willing
ness to bear arms. John W. Davis was
the leading counsel to present the
case for the pacifists.
The Civil Liberties Union urges the
Supreme Court to reverse its earlier
decision. It points out that substan
tially the same oath has been freely
taken by innumerable lawyers, civil
service employees, and public officials
who had conscientious scruples against
war.
The U. S. Civil Service Commission
has specifically held that the oath
may be taken by conscientious objec
tors, and it has been administered by
the army to thousands of conscientious
objectors serving as non-combatants
in World War II.
The ACLU also points out that Con
gress can hardly have intended the
oath to bar pacifists from citizenship
since a 1942 amendment to the natu
ralization law specifically extends
easier naturalization procedures to all
who served in the armed forces, in
cluding non-combatant conscientious
objectors. The court is reminded that
the American tradition of freedom
from discrimination on religious
grounds dictates that religious paci
fists not be excluded from citizen
ship.
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