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Vol. 5 sc~Per Copy ARIZONA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER!,
Both Labor and the Public
Respect Veterans’ Picket
Lines At Palmer Plants
Not only members of organized
labor but representatives of other
business and industry are respect
ing veterans’ picket lines at the
Palmer Manufacturing Company,
Seventh Avenue and Jefferson,
Phoenix, according to reparts com
ing in to the Phoenix Central La
bor Council from the veterans
themselves.
The Palmer plant is engaged
principally in the manufacture of
evaporative coolers, but it does
other types of metal work, as well,
including repair of automotive
radiators, and the boycott spread
to that branch as well as to other
sections of the plant. Employes of
automobile repair shops, carrying
faulty radiators, when they see the
picket lines, are backing off and
turning away, the veterans say.
Veteran trainees under the GI
biil of rights walked out of the
Palmer plant ten days ago after
the management refused either to
give them the training to which
they were are entitled or to pay
them a living wage. At the height
of the dispute, Oscar Palmer, head
of the establishment left town to
attend a meeting of the National
Manufacturers Association in the
East.
The strike of the veterans at the
Palmer company has the whole
hearted support of the Phoenix
Building Trades Council and the
Phoenix Central Labor Council.
The secretary-treasurer of the Ari
zona State Federation of Labor
was authorized by these organiza
tions last week to request all mem
bers of the American Federation
of Labor to respect the veterans’
picket lines.
Union officials point to the sit
uation at the Palmer plant as a
good illustration of what would
happen to labor if the rattlesnake
"right-to-work” amendment to the
State constitution were adopted by
the people at the general election
this fall. The veterans at the
Palmer factory have the “right to
work.” It is guaranteed them by
the federal constitution and by di
rect legislation, as well. But in an
"open” shop like the Palmer plant,
the "right to work”, without union
support, becomes merely the right
to starve.
While Oscar Palmer journeys to
a meeting of the National Manu
facturing Association perhaps to
learn new means of crucifying la
bor the veterans for whom he
contracted with the federal gov
ernment to give technical training
are picketing his place because
they not only did not get the
training to which they are entitled
under the law, but he put them to
work doing janitor’s work and re
fused to pay them enough wages
on which to live.
If the Palmer plant had been
organized, with a union plant
agreement, officials point out, it
would have been a simple matter
for the unions to step*in and see
that the veterans got their just
dues. There would have been no
dissension, no suspension of busi
ness and no picket lines.
As it is, the Palmer situation is
similar to what would exist if the
misnamed "right-to-work” bill
were passed. In that event, every
employe, like the veterans at Pal
mer’s, would be "on his own.” If
the veterans at Palmer’s win their
fight for their rights, it will be
only with the assistance which the
labor unions under the circum
stances are able to give them thru
boycott action. Lacking a closed
shop contract, they can have no
other hope.
STATE COMMITTEE
CALLED TO MEET
Chairman D. A. Baldwin' has
announced that he has called a
meeting of state committeemen
of the Citizen s’ Committee
Against the Right to Starve for
next Sunday in Phoenix.
While Chairman Baldwin did
not so state, it is assumed that
an all-out drive against the
measure will be made during the
coming weeks before the elec
tion.
AM-VETS HIT "RIGHT"
TO WORK AMENDMENT
At the last meeting of the AM-Vets the following resolution was
adopted unanimously:
WHEREAS, all veterans of World War II who expect to make their
homes in Arizona are interested in the state's economy, and,
WHEREAS, practically all veterans of World War II are either
employers or employees, and are therefore vitally interested in Labor-
Management relations, and,
WHEREAS, the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the
State of Arizona which was initiated under the misleading title of “Vet
erans’ Right to Work” Amendment was not designated for the benefit
of the veterans; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, that the American Veterans of World War 11, Phoenix
Post No. 6 deplores the use of the word “Veteran” in connection with
this measure, and be it further
RESOLVED, that the American Veterans of World War 11, (Am-
Vets), Phoenix Post No. 6 go on record as opposing the adoption of the
so-called “Veterans Right-to-Work Bill”, and call upon all veterans to
do all in their power to defeat it at the polls on November sth.
ARIZON^aUN
...LABOR...
and the
...NEGRO...
Organized labor has been in the
forefront calling for state and
federal action to guarantee to Ne
groes equal civil rights and pro
tection from mob violence.
The National Maritime Union
added $5,000 to the rewards being
offered for arrest and conviction
of the lynchers of four Negroes at
Monroe, Georgia.
In the New England States, first
Boston, Massachusetts, and now
Providence, Rhode Island, • Negro
girls have been hired by the tele
phone companies.
A shipboard strike of members
of the Marine Cooks and Stewards
Association protested the discrimi
natory firing of a Negro third
mate aboard the vessel.
Ambrosio L. Roballo, Negro trus
tee of Local 848, was a delegate to
the International AFL Brother
hood Painters’ Conference in San
Francisco.
The National Urban League has
announced increased employment
of Negroes by department stores
for clerical jobs. Highest gains
have been made in New York, New
Jersey and Massachusetts.
The UAW-CIO is credited with
bringing about the employment of
Negroes by the South Gate plant
of General Motors in California.
Both a Negro-owned bank in
Washington, D. C., and a Negro
owned insurance company in Penn
sylvania have signed contracts with
CIO white collar workers unions.
In labor’s fight for a permanent
federal Fair Employment Practic's
Commission, the International La
dies Garment Workers Union has
said it with dollars —25,000 of them
to the National Council for a Per
manent FEPC.
Due to the consistent gains made
by the United Transport Service
Employees (CIO) Negro Red Caps,
once unpaid and unorganized, are
now eligible for benefits under the
Railroad Retirement Act. Willard
Townsend, a Negro, is president of
the union.
The National Urban League es
timates war-time migration of Ne
groes as follows: 25,000 to New
York, 50,000 to Chicago, 18,000 to
Cleveland, 65,000 to Detroit, 100,-
000 to Los Angeles, 14,000 to Port
land, 19,000 to San Francisco and
13,000 to Seattle.
The American Newspaper Guild
has enlisted the aid’ of the CIO
Committee to Abolish Discrimina
tion in its. fight to open the Con
gressional press galleries to Negro
newsmen.
Reversing previous policy, the
AFL stagehands union at its con
vention in Chicago voted to accord
full membership status and privi
leges to Negro members.
A new book, “The Brotherhood
of Sleeping Car Porters,” gives the
history of that organization. A.
Phillip Randolph, Negro fighter
for full rights for Negroes in the
AF L, is president of the Brother
hood.
“All thinking people must unite
in opposition to race discrimina
tion and in support of policy de
signed to birng all . . . the nejoy
ment of rights conferred upon all
citizens of the United States.” —
A F of L President William Green,
in message to NAACP.
VOTE 107—NO!
GI BIG BROTHERS ENTERTAIN. TEEN-AGERS
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NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.—The
Big Brothers Club, composed of
service men stationed at Camp Kil
mer, entertain the teen-agers of
this community every Friday even
ing at the Bayard Street USO. Ac
cording to Eric B. Chandler; USO
club director, the Big Brothers
Club, organized more than two
years ago, has been a vital influ
ence in curtailing juvenile delin
quency. The Ministers Alliance, lo
cal judges and the daily newspaper,
he asserts, have gratefully ac
claimed its community value.
Above, Big Brother S/Sgt. Percy
Toliver, Washington, D.C., enter
tains Holland Kelton, 17, Marian
Adams, 16, and Kenneth Kelton,
14, with an ever-popular card trick.
GLENDALE PEOPLE HEAR
LABOR'S PLEA ON LAW
TO DESTROY UNIONS
Labor’s campaign to defeat
the Right-to-Starve amendment
was, launched in earnest Satur
day" night, September 28, with a
rally in the Glendale City Park.
This rally marked the beginning
of a program to carry to people
on the streets in the various
towns of Arizona the true story
of this vicious attack upon or
ganized labor.
Tiney Stokes and his orches
tra, whose services were pro
vided without charge to the Citi
zens’ Committee by the Musi
cians Local No. 586 furnished a
background of musical enter
tainment. Arrangements for the
entertainment were made by
Jimmy Hart of the Musicians
Union.
Speakers against the Right-to-
Starve amendment were D. A.
Baldwin and Darrell Parker.
A crowd estimated at five
hundred listened attentively to
the speakers and showed repeat
ed apprecidaton for the musical
entertainment of Tiny Stokes.
The speakers emphasized the
fact that should this amendment
be adopted in Arizona it would
be particularly harmful to small
business men such as those of
Glendale whose sales depend al
most entirely upon working peo
ple who are their patrons. “De
struction of organized labor with
the wrecking of wage standards
would immediately be reflected
in less business for the small
merchant,” Mr. Baldwin stated.
The speaker also gave illustra
tions of starvation wages paid
by establishments where the
workers were unorganized and
predicted that with the adoption
of the misnamed Right-to-Work
amendment these conditions
would become general.
The response of the people of
Glendale to last Saturday’s rally
was so encouraging that the
Committee plans to present a
similar rally next Saturday night
in Buckeye.
MRS, BOETTIGER
WILL SPEAK AT
LABOR COUNCIL
President Ross Goodwin has
announced that Mrs. Anna
Roosevelt Boettiger, of 'the Ari
zona Times, will address the
Phoenix Central Labor Council
on Tuesday, Oct. 22.
Mrs. Boettiger will undoubt
edly talk on matters of interest
to labor, and will probably dis
cuss the so-called “Right” to
Work amendment. All dele
gates are urged to make ar
rangements now in order to be
able to attend this meeting.
VOTE 107—NO!
The youngsters also enjoy playing
ping pong while dances are a real
treat, especially when the Big Bro
thers bring along some of the men
from the Camp Kilmer band to
provide the music. USO standard
equipment is used for these parties
so the cost is nil even though many
evenings attract as many as 100
youngsters. Frequently, resident
alumni Big Brothers join* in the
fun. A number of the service men
say that they plan to organize teen
age parties in their community cen
ters when they return home. USO
will appeal for $19,000,000 this Fall
to maintain its activities for the
1,500,000 American men who will
then still be in uniform.
Highballs and Beer
Price Remain Same
Sellers of beer and liquors will
not be permiotted to taek a “mark
up” or make a profit of the in
crease in tax, as approved by the
recent session of the Arizona legis
lature to help finance the increase
in old age pensions, the district
Office of Price Administration
ruled yesterday.
The OPA said it was besieged
with inquiries yesterday from re
tailers, the majority of whom
wanted to add the new tax to their
wholesale price and then use their
cutsomary mark-up in figuring the
price to the consumers. This, OPA
ruled is “definitely illegal and the
tax must be carried straight across
the board.” As one OPA price
specialist explained, “the retailer
will not be permitted to enjoy a
profit on the new tax.”
The OPA further indicated that
while the increase in tax will
amount to 10 cents per quart, eight
cents per fifth and five cents for
every pint of liquor sold, the small
amount of tax involved will not
entitle the retailer to raise the
price of a 12 ounce bottle of beer.
The tax increase for the 12 ounce
bottle of beer will be about two
tenths of one cent, or not of suffi
cient amount to warrant a price
increase to the purchaser. For the
quart size bottle of beer, OPA in
cidated the retailer may hike his
price one half cent per quart.
OPA is not interested in the
prices of wines which are no longer
under price control.
LUMBER COMPANY
ORDERED TO SHOW
RECORDS TO OPA
An order instructing officials
of the Fish Lumber Company of
Mesa and Lakeside to make their
records available to Office of
Price Administration investiga
tors was handed down in U. S.
district court, Phoenix, this
week.
The order was the second of
its kind issued by the federal
court this week. Previously the
Southwest Lumber Company,
McNary, was ordered by the
court to make its records avail
able for OPA inspection.
sl.ll Seen As Average
Hourly Wage In August
Washington. (FP)— Prelimi
nary estimates for August show
that average hourly wages in man
ufacturing were sl.ll, or $44.61 a
week, the Bureau of Labor Statis
tics rported Sept. 25. Comparable
July figures were $1.09 hourly and
$43.35 a week.
Parker Blasts Anti-Labor
Proposal; Calls It a Sneak
Attack On People of State
sen. McFarland
INVITES J. A. KRUG
FOR CONFERENCE
Phoenix. (Special) Confer
ences which are expected to mean
more to the future irrigation,
reclamation and mining develop
men of Arizona than any action
taken in many years are to be held
during October, Senator Ernest
W. McFarland disclosed here to
day. The meetings will bring to
gether Secretary of Interior J. A.
Krug and a number of Arizona
groups interested in state prob
lems.
Arrangements for Interior Sec
retary Krug’s visit to Arizona were
made many weeks ago by Senator
McFarland in Washington, who in
discussions with the new, ener
getic cabinet official had detailed
problems of the State and how the
Federal Government might aid Ari
zona. Secretary Krug will arrive
in Boulder City, Nevada on Oc
tober 23rd where he will be met by
Senator McFarland. The occasion
will be the tenth anniversary cele
bration at the dam and Senator
MbFarland said that irrigation
needs of Arizona will be discussed
with the Secretary at that time.
Irrigation and reclamation prob
lems will be pointed out during
subsequent days during which the
Senator and the cabinet official
will inspect Davis Dam and the
Colorado River system of dams. A
night conference will be held on
October 24th at Davis Dam during
which Arizona reclamation author
ities will attend, Senator McFar
land said. Secretary Krug and
Senator McFarland will leave
Yuma on October 27th, flying
across the state to Clifton for an
inspection of the Morenci works
of the Phelps Dodge Corporation.
The following day the Secretary
will be back in Phoenix during
which a series of Conferences will
be held with- groups representing
Arizona irrigation, reclamation,
grazing and mining interests. All
of these activities fall under the
aegis of the Interior Department.
(5-Year-Old Woman
Gives Birth Te 27th
Child; Doing Nicely
Columbus, 0., Sept. 28. —A 65-
year-old Negro woman and the
day-old daughter she said was her
27th child were reported "doing
very nicely” last night at Univer
sity Hospital.
Dr. John Holzaepfel, hospital
resident physician, reported that
the elderly mother, Mrs. Mary
Jones, had shown him a family
Bible in which her own birth date,
1881, and that of her 27 offspring,
including six sets of twins, were
listed. Twenty-one, she said, are
living.
Oldest of the 27 children are 41-
year-old twin sons living in the
state of Washington, Mrs. Jones
told the doctor. They and 12 other
children were born to her during
her marriage with William Spratt,
who, she said, was killed in a mine
accident in Virginia in 1913.
Os 13 children to her second hus
band, William Jones, 60, a crane
operator, the last born previous to
the newly arrived daughter was a
girl in 1942.
Dr. Holzaepfel said he was at
tempting to locate marriage and
birth certificates so the births
could be documented for medical
annals.”
VOTE 107—NO!
Jail Pittsburgh Union
Leader In Power Strike
Pittsburg.—(FP)—A 1-year jail
sentence was slapped on a power
union leader and nine others faced
arrest Sept. 25 unless they called
off a utility strike which paralyzed
this industrial community.
The sentence was imposed on
Pres. George L. Mueller of the In
dependent Assn, of Duquesne Light
Co. Employes (unaffiliated) for
contempt of court on grounds that
he had called the strike in defi
ance of a temporary injunction
issued Sept. 9. The other nine men
summoned to appear in court are
the remaining members of the un
ion’s strike committee.
When news of Mueller’s convic
tion spread to a crowd of 1,000
strikers on the courthouse steps,
cries of “Put Lawrence (Mayor
David L. Lawrence) in jail” and
“Put Crowley in jail” were heard.
Non-Political
Most Good For
The Greatest
Number
In a talk broadcast over KPHO
Thursday night, Darrel Parker,
state director of the Citizens’ Com
mittee Against the Right to Work
Bill, took the gloves off in discus
sing this vicious proposed consti
tutional amendment, which, thru
its misleading claims of being a
veterans measure, has disrupted
the entire industrial relations of
the state, created hatred and ill
feeling among the people and
caused the economic conditions of
all workers to be seriously im
paired.
Mr. Parker’s address is given in
full:
Friends: I am here to suggest to
you that you should give your most
careful consideration to the merits
and demerits of this so-called
"Right - to - Work Amendment”
which will appear upon your bal
lot in November as Propositions
numbered 106 and 107. As I un
derstand the law of Arizona, every
initiative measure carries two
numbers, and in this particular
case those who vote for the amend
ment will mark the square oppo
site No. 106 and those who are op
posed to the amendment will mark
the square on the ballot opposite
No. 107.
As some of you may remember,
a Constitutional amendment was
proposed two years ago in Califor
nia, which was almost identical
with the amendment which will be
on your ballots in Arizona. The
people of California defeated this
Right-to-Work Amendment two
years ago by a vote of approxi
mately two to one. During the
campaign in California, the same
arguments were put forward by
the sponsors of the proposed
amendment as are now being pul
forward by the sponsors of th«
amendment in Arizona.
They proclaimed from the house
tops that they were friends of labor
and that their only purpose in
seeking the adoption of this
amendment was to enable any
worker to get a job or hold that
job free of any requirement that
he join a labor union or maintain
membership in a labor union.
The advocates of the amendment
in California, just as they are do
ing in Arizona, declared that the
amendment would not harm labor
in any way and that it would have
the wholesome effect of curtailing
the power of labor leaders, and
eliminating certain abuses which
they claimed labor to have com
mitted from time to time.
In California, they did not
have the effrontery to call the
measure a “Veterans’ Right-to-
Work Bill.” This veterans’ cam
flage which is being used in Ari
ona has not so far as I know
been resorted to in any other
state where attempts have been
made to secure the adoption of
such a law.
I am not contending that labor
unions are in all cases perfect in
(Continued on page 3)
MAN MUDERED IN
LOCAL NIGHT CLUB
William L. Balloon, 28, was
stabbed to death Sunday in My
Place, a buffet, 1233 East Wash
ington Street, and Lee Jack Ward,
26, 1139 East Jefferson Street, was
arrested as the killer.
Ward was quoted by police as
saying he has been jealous over
Balloon’s attentions to his wife, a
waitress in the buffet for the last
three months. Ward fled after
stabbing Balloon with a pocket
knife, but later surrendered to Bud
Henderson, sheriffs desk sergeant,
who took him to police headquar
ters.
Ward’s wife told investigators
she had known Balloon only cas
ually and said she could not under
stand what complaint her husband
had. Police said Balloon was seat
ed with Lola Lee Turner, 26, Ar
menda Williams, 24, and Edna
Belt, at a table in the buffet when
Ward entered and did the stabbing.
The angry workers referred to Leo
T. Crowley, president of the Stan
dard Gas & Electric Co. and the
Philadelphia Co., parent bodies of
the Duquesne Light Co.
In court, where the union lost
its request that the temporary in
junction be dissolved, Mueller told
the three judges that power to call
off the strike was vested only in
the union’s strike committee.
“Do you refuse to call off this
strike as far as any authority of
yours is concerned?” he was asked.
"I do,” Mueller said and he was
immediately cited for contempt.
The strike reduced streetcar
servce to 50% of normal and was
expected to make about 80,000
people idle as steel mills, factories,
stores and offices closed to con
serve power for vital community
services.