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Capital Transit Union
Gives Testimony on
Instructor Pay Rise
Employes of the Capital Transit
Co. today presented testimony to
back up their request that instruc
tors in streetcar and bus operation
be given an increase in pay. In
structors now get 10 cents an hour
in addition to the base pay, and the
employes’ union wants to raise it to
25 cents.
The testimony was presented be
fore the arbitration board at the
Raleigh Hotel which is hearing the
issues in the dispute over wages and
working conditions in a new con- i
tract to replace the one which ex- |
pired June 30.
The union—Division 689 of the I
AFL Amalgamated Association of
Street, Electric Railway and Motor
Coach Employes—put William C.
Klotz, 1339 South Carolina avenue,
on the stand. He has been a com
pany employe for 12 years.
Responsible for Money.
Mr. Klotz said instructors are
personally responsible for money
handled by students, and that stu
dents now are broken in on more
different types of equipment than
in former years. He said, however,
the instructors’ pay differential has
not been increased since 1943.
One of the difficulties is Dupont
Circle, he said.
"Dupont Circle is confusing even
to instructors,” he declared. He said
that students fifst are taken to!
Isolated sections and later intoj
downtown traffic, usually operating:
a ivi i»vu ncciw] wiuiuui
passengers.
Eli L. Oliver, who is directing the
union’s case before the Arbitration
Board, placed on record the rates1
given instructors In other cities. j
The exihibt showed that instructors!
In Los Angeles get a differential;
of *2 a day. The rate of A. B. & W.
Transit Co. here is 15 cents ani
hour and in Richmond and Norfolk
12 cents. ]
Night Differential Discussed.
Bonuses for nightwork also were >
discussed. Mr. Oliver contended the
union’s request for a nightwork dif- j
ferential, in addition to a 35 per cent
basic wage increase for the 4.000 em
ployes, is based on national practice
as well as that of other Washington
utilities.
He said the Potomac Electric
Power Co. pays 4 cents an hour more
for work between 4 p.m. and mid
night and 6 cents more between!
midnight and 8 a.m. The Washing- j
ton Gas Light Co., he said, pays a
5-cent night shift bonus for work
between noon and 8 p.m. and a 10
eent differential for work between
8 p.m. and 4 a.m.
Capital Transit, he said, already!
gives 8 hours' pay for six hours'
work on track repair after mid
night.
The transit company employes j
anfc asking a differential of 5 cents!
an hour for work after 4 p.m. and
10 cents an hour for work between
midnight and 8ai.
- Some Get Differential.
Under the present contract me-;
ehanfcs and maintenance workers1
receive 2 cents per hour differential!
Oil tne 4 p.m. to midnight smtt, ana
4 cents per hour from midnight
to 8 a m. Operating employes, ex
cept those running "owl cars,” re
ceive no premium or differential.
The additional pay for night work
is asked on top of the 35 per cent'
general pay raise. i-sj
The transit company has asked'
the Arbitration Board to elim
inate the night shift differential 1
for mechanical employes.
The board expects to hold no hear
ings tomorrow, but will resume Fri
day. Union leaders indicated they
probably will get to their arguments
on the general pay raise on Friday.
When the transit union finishes
presentation of its case the company
plans to cross-examine union wit
nesses and then present its own
position.
_Toft
(Continued From First Page.)
Pennock, president of the Old Age
Pension Union, called a Communist
front organization.
Representative Jones, on hand to
greet Senator Taft, rode with the1
Tafts in their automobile.
Senator Taft suffered a painful in
jury almost at the moment of his ar
rival in Seattle. A door of the auto
mobile in which he was to head a
parade to the Olympic Hotel was
slammed by accident injuring the
Senator's left hand. He took it with
out a murmur, wrapped a handker
chief around his bleeding hand and
went on his way.
At the hotel, a Seattle surgeon,
Dr. Donald T. Hall, husband of a
niece of Senator Taft, took six
stitches in the Senator's hand. Three
hours later the Senator appeared on
tifne—at the Republican rally in the
auditorium and went through his
planned address, vigorously brush-1
ing aside all efforts of hecklers
Dlanted in the hall.
He insisted on entering the audi
torium by the picketed front door. I
although the police originally led j
him to a back door. At the con-!
elusion of his speech, Senator and!
Mrs. Taft held a reception on the'
stage where they greeted most of;
the 2,000 men and women who had
jammed the hall.
Having turned his fire on the i
opponents of the Taft-Hartley lawi
in his most important and compre-;
hensive labor -speech to date last
night, Senator Taft as a noon meet-1
ing today with the Seattle Rotary
Club singled out the "Truman high
taxes” and Government spending
for criticism. He told his' audience;
that the President's vetoes of two
Republican tax reduction bills at
the last session of Congress was in
terferring with the maintenance of
a higher standard of living in this
country.
‘‘We take away money from the
great mass of the people either di
rectly or indirectly,” he said, ‘‘which
they might spend to improve their
own standard of living.
"The Republican action in passing
a tax reduction bill and attempting
to reduce expenditures presents a
vital difference in philosophy from
the President's action in vetoing the
two tax bills. The inevitable effect
of maintaining high taxes is to en
courage higher prices.
“I could see very- clearly in Con
gress the moment the President
vetoed the tax bill, there was a let- J
up in enthusiasm for reducing ex-j
penses—‘There's the money coming
into the Treasury: Why not spend
It?’
"The New Deal philosophy was to
•olve every problem by handing more
power and more money to some Fed
eral bureau. For years this policy
SEATTLE.—TAFTS HAND INJURED—Senator Taft, Republican,
of Ohio (above) looks at his bandaged hand, which required
six stitches after it was caught in an automobile door here late
yesterday. •—AP Wirephoto.
produced deficits. Today it is
producing high taxes and high
prices,” the Ohioan declared.
He enumerated things which
should be done to solve the price
problem, among them, limitation of
exports, the reduction of domestic
consumption of scarce commodities,
discouragement of unnecessary
profits and unnecessary wage in
creases. I
“But fundamentally,” he con
cluded, “the most important step
is to reduce Government expenses
and taxes.”
Mrs. Taft spoke brieblv at last
night's rally, when she was intro
duced. her first public utterance
since the Taft wing began thank
ing the Seattle people for their
welcome. Mrs. Taft said smilingly
that it had been “somewhat blzaare”
referring to the pickets.
“I thought some of them were half
hearted, and some even smiled, and
I thought they might be Republic- ■
ans.” she said.
Mrs. Taft is addressing a noon
meeting of the Women's Republican
Clubs of King County today. To
night, Senator Taft is to be guest
of honor at a dinner given by the
Seattle Bar Association.
Often Interrupted.
He was repeatedly interrupted last;
[llglll/ fjy UUUh Ul UlC ucuiunoua
tions, but in every case the boos
were drowned out by the cheers of
the great mass of the audience.
Under orders, for these demon
strations are staged with military
precision, the hecklers in the aud
ience rose and marched out of the
hall when Senator Taft was well
launched in his defense of the labor
law. Only about 50 marched out
and their seats were quickly taken
by persons w’ho had been standing.
It was Senator Taft's baptism of
real heckling. The demonstrations
in Los Angeles and San Francisco
were mild in comparison. .
The demonstrations were planned
ay Jerry Tyler, executive secretary
af the Seattle CIO Council, who an
nounced that no attempt would be
made to interfere with Senator
Taft's actions or his right to speak.
“We only want to let him know
we don’t like him,’’ Mr. Tyler said.
The AFL, except for an independ
ent union, held aloof from the dem
anstations. Dave Beck, head of the
powerful Teamsters’ Union, would
nave none of them.
Throughout his address last night
Senator Taft stood forth as the
iefender of the individual union
member and nonunion worker
against arbitrary and despotic labor
leaders.
“Labor leaders,” he said, “became
>0 powerful that they dominated
[heir own men.” And again; “It is
fair to say that for the first time (in
[he new law), Congress has inter
ested itself in protecting the liber
ties of the individual workman.
Curb on Power Cited.
“What has really upset some of
the union leaders is not the enslave
ment of their men, but the very rea
sonable restraints on their hitherto
unrestrained and arbitrary power
over both men and the public,”
Senator Taft insisted.
The violent propaganda of the
labor unions against the new law,
Senator Taft continued, shows they
either do nott know what is in the
law or the leaders are “deliberately
deceiving” their members.
Senator Taft recited the develop
ment of Federal labor legislation
which, until the passage of the Taft
Hartley bill, had finally placed tre
mendous power in the hand^ of labor
leaders.
"When arbitrary power is granted
to any one'," he said, "sooner or later
it will be used.”
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Protests
(Continued From First Page.)
would familiarize the members of
your organization with these rules
and request their co-operation.”
Wender Approves Action.
Mr. Christiansen said he had sent
the letter with the approval of
Harry S. Wender, chairman of the
board.
At the same time, he said, a spe
cial request had been made to the
Dahlgren T<rrace Association for a
full report of the meeting that has
drawn the protests.
No further action will be taken,
however, he said, until the matter
is “fully discussed” at the next meet
ing of the Recreation Board on
October 14.
The rule quoted in the letter. Mr.
Christiansen said, has been in effect
since the old Community Center De
partment was organized under the
Board of Education in 1924.
Rule in New Regulations.
When the Recreation Board in
herited the responsibilities of the
Community Center Department in
1942, he said, the rule was carried
over into the new' regulations.
William Hitt, executive secretary
of TVicfrirt. WAAf7P saiH t.nHav
a repreesntative of that organiza
tion would attend the Otcober 14
board meeting.
The only disciplinary action open
to the board if it desired to enforce
the rules in the Dahlgren case would
be to deny the permit now held by
the association allowing it to hold
egiht meetings in the school a year.
Highways
<Continued From First Page.l
up the Maryland side of the Poto
mac river.
Improvement of Fourth street
N.W. is designed to correct a similar
bottleneck where the street, an im
portant traffic artery to the north
ern residential section, passes be
tween Howard University and the
McMillan reservoir.
Capt. Whitehurst said he did not
know how Federal and District
funds in the fiscal year 1949 would
be apportioned among the Highway
uiiuge, xv succi nuu xyupuuo l-ic
projects. That, he said, would de
pend on the speed with which work
progressed, adding he believed
spending at Dupont Circle would be
at an approximate rate of $200,000 a
month after work begins next
spring.
Streetcars will be passing under
Dupont Circle by the sumer of 1949,
the highway director predicted.
Automobile traffic on Connecticut
avenue will have to continue to fight
its way around the circle a little
longer than that, he said.
The Increased estimate in the de
partment's operating costs for 1949,
Capt. Whitehurst explained, was the
result of a move to acquire the
services of 12 new engineers and
engineering aides for work in field
parties.
' The department originally asked
for 17 such additional employes in
its budget estimate for the current
fiscal year but the request w>as with
drawn. The money now sought for
12 new employes represents a re
submission of part of the original
request, Capt, Whitehurst said.
Eventually, he added. 36 such new
employes will be needed.
Judge Scott Pledges
Crackdown on Drunks
To Start Next Week
A crackdown on drunks with
imposition of maximum penalties on
repeaters will start “next week,”
Municipal Court Judge Armond W.
Scott has announced.
The announcement followed a
veiled warning by the jurist on
Monday, when he pointed out that,
under the law, he could impose
higher sentences on intoxication
repeaters.
The full penalties are scaled from j
$100 fines and 30 days in jail for!
first offenders to $500 fines and six
months for third-time repeaters.
Nearly 40 in Parade.
Nearly 40 persons, of whom about
90 per cent have previous drunk
records, yesterday paraded before
the judge, who began showing signs
of irritation before the procession
ended.
When one man, who had been in
court twice in the past month, stood
up for sentencing Judge Scott ex
ploded.
“A man like you had just as well
be locked up,” he declared. “Appar
ently there is only one way to stop
you habitual drunkards, and that is
to send you to jail.”
See* Institution Need.
“If we had an institution where
you people might be rehabilitated, it
would be a vast relief. But we
haven’t one.”
“Beginning next W'eek I’m going
Stan acuuui& icpeaieia away ior
the winter. At least that way you
won't be able to get near liquor. It
is a tragic solution perhaps, but you
people have to be stopped for your
own good.”
Of 10 chronic repeaters jailed yes
terday after failing to pay fines, two
were sentenced to 60 days, one 50
days, five 30 days and two 25 days.
Masons fo Give 33d Degree
To Class of 170 Candidates
By th« Associated Press
CINCINNATI, Sept, 24.,-The
Northern Jurisdiction’s Supreme
Council of 33d degree Masons pre-;
pared today for the highlight of its!
135th annual meeting—the confer
ring of the 33d degree on a class
of 170 candidates.
For the first time in the history
of the jurisdiction a father and a
son will receive the honor at the
same ceremony.
They are Harry W. de Bruin. In
dustrialist of Columbus, Ohio and his
son Harry W. de Bruin, Akron at
torney. The "degrees are to be
awarded for separate instances of
distinguished service.
Among the other candidates are:
Julius P. Hlie, former mayor of
Milwaukee and former Governor
Straugher, Pittsburgh: Dr. Cornelius
Edwards Clark, Portlartd minister,
and Judge William H. Naugher,
Pittsburgh.
PracHanf Truman rorfar^an n-n o
made an emeritus honorary mem
ber of the Northern Jurisdiction.
Masons were urged, by Dr. Mel
vin M. Johnson of Boston, sovereign
grand commander of the council,
to study how Communism, Fascism
and Socialism compare with de
mocracy.
Senator Reed Opposes
New Loan to Britain
By th« Associated Pres*
KANSAS CITY, Sept.'24.—Senator
Reed, Republican, of Kansas called
aid to Britain “fantastic" when “its
miners won't even mine coal" and
expressed opposition yesterday to
another loan at present.
Senator Reed said in an interview
he would not vote “another cent"
for aid until Great Britain “puts its
economic house, including labor, in
order.”
He will be one of an 11-man Sen
ate Appropriations Committee that
will sail October 8 from New York
to visit Paris, Vienna, Germany,
Italy, Greece, Turkey and Great
Britain.
“It’s fantastic sending Great
Britain money, shipping it food and
other commodities when its miners
won't ' even mine coal,” he said.
Volunteer Fire Groups
To Hold Fall Festival
The Morningside Volunteer Fire
Department and its Ladies Auxiliary
will hold a three-day fall festival
beginning Friday.
Games, pie and cake sales and a
chicken or ham dinner at 2 p.m.
Sunday at the firehouse, 5600 Suit
land road, will climax the benefit,
Miss Jean I. Doe, publicity chairman,
announced. .
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May Be Sent to Japan .
The United States still has on Its
hands 295 Peruvian-Japanese sent
here for safekeeping during the war.
Peru has refused so far .to take
them back. Unless Peru will per
mit them to return soon, the State
Department said yesterday, this
Government will have to deport
them to Japan.
The 295 have been cleared of any
suspicion that they were ^nemy
agents or dangerous aliens. They
were sent here as part of a co-opera
tive inter-American program for in
ternment of Japanese who might be
bad security risks. In all. 1,832
Japanese were brought here from
Peru. Of the total, 1,438 have been
sent to Japan, 79 returned to Peru
and 20 died.
Some of the remaining 295 are
interned at a camp in Crystal City,
Tex., and others at Seabrook Farms
in Bridgeton, N. J„ where they work
in a canning factory.
No Newsprint Increase
Until '49 or '50 Seen
•y the Associated Pres*
The Commerce Department says
that “no substantial increase in j
supply” of newsprint seems likely!
until 1949 or 1950.
But for most other grades of
paper and paperboard, it said last
night, the situation has “greatly
improved” in recent months and
"should continue to ease" as further!
new capacity comes into production
this year and next.
The big program as regards paper
in general is a shortage of railroad
boxcars to deliver the goods, the!
department said, but on newsprint
it added:
“Reports from all parts of the
country indicate that the newsprint!
supply still remains far short of
demand. Prices quoted on such
small lots as can be picked up from j
time to time are greatly above con- j
tract prices or the nominal market!
price.” '
The department said North Amer- !
ican production of newsprint was 8:
per cent greater during the first!
seven months of this year than in i
the corresponding period last year,!
Canada setting the pace with a 9
per cent increase.
United States production, It said,
increased 5 per cent due to “im
provements in existing equipment,
more efficient operation and the
reconversion of a number of small
machines back to newsprint produc
tion.”
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■the American Shortline Railroad
Association and 139 'of its members
were on record in District Court to
day with 43 of the Nation’s major
railroads in protesting the Interstate
Commerce Commission's new plan
to raise- freight car rentals from
$1.50 to $2 a day.
The shortline railroads entered the
controversy in District Court yester
day as an intervening complainant
in the suit filed by the major rail
roads Monday to enjoin the ICC
from putting the new rates in effect.
The new rates would fall with
"special severity” on the shortline
roads, their co-r.plaint asserted, be
cause they own relatively few freight
cars and unlike ihe major roads
would have no opportunity to le
cover the per diem charge. The
new order "indiscriminately penal
ises” the short lines and ‘‘indis
criminately rewards” the major lines I
the suit said. 4-'1 T ’
U. N. Council to Meet
t
On Trieste Deadlock
ly Asieciated Prtil
LAKE SUCCESS, Sept. 24.—The
United Nations Security Council was
called together today in an effort
to break the long deadlock over the
choice of a governor to rule the
troubled free territory of Treiste.
A subcommittee has submitted
three possible choices: Theodore
Broch, Mayor of Narvik, Norway;
Joaquin Fernandez, former Foreign
Minister of Chile, and Auguste
Buisseret of Belgium.
Britain pressed for selection of
Mr. Broch—a man who won her
friendship during the war by smug
gling live British Tommies in coffins
through Narvik’s streets past Nazi
lines to safety.
The United States thus far has
taken no position on who should .
get the Job, one of major import
ance because of the governor’s
broad powers and the tense feelings
between the Italian and Yugoslav
inhabitants of Trieste.
The post was created a year ago
at. the New York meeting of the
Council of Foreign Ministers. Under
the plan then, the big powers agreed
to attempt to reach agreement
among themselves on a candidate
ouvuiib xii o aajuc laic
Security Council.
Unable to get together, they
dumped the problem into a sub
committee's lap with instructions
to submit a slate of candidates for
council election. Today's meeting
was closed to the press.
'Robin Hood' Meat Theft
Nets Man 30-Day Term
By the Associated Press
BALTIMORE, Sept. 24. — High
prices and the tradition of Robin
Hood failed to get William Best out
of a 30-day jail sentence after he
stole $3.50 worth of meat from a
butcher’s stall.
Pleading guilty to taking a smoked
shoulder from a market here, the
55-year-old man explained that "a
lot of people ‘are hungry" and he
had planned to give every one who
needed it a sandwich.
1st Armored Reunion Set
Former enlisted men and officers,
of the 1st Armored Division will
hold a reunion at 7:30 o’clock tonight ‘
at the Meadowbrook recreation area
in Rock Creek Park, near Beach
drive and the East-West highway.
Plans for a permanent organization
will be discussed at the outing.
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