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San Francisco, Calif.—The two
independent radio stations of this
city, KYA and KSFO, are back
on the air after a,three-day strike
by the American Federation of
Radio Artists (AFL). A com
promise settlement was won pro
viding an 18-month contract, ret
roactive to last January 1 and
guaranteeing no discrimination
against strikers.
The new agreement provides
wage scales for announcers rang
ing from $67.50 to $77.50 a week,
with a further $2.50 weekly raise
o*i October 1. Former salaries
were from $55 to $60.
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HOUSE 0VEHWHELMM61Y
REJECTS PLUTO RESTORE
LABOR DEPT. SLASHES
Washington, D. C.— Efforts by
its Appropriations Committee to
restore important reduct'ons were
overwhelmingly defeated by the
House when it approved a bill
carrying only $1,155,686,780 for
the Labor Department, the Fed
eral Security Agency and related
activities. - * ~~
The vote was 343 to 39.
Brushing as'de complaints by
the Democratic wing, which ac
cused the Republican side of the
House of “false economy," a well
organized majority sustained the
committee reductions of $77,825,
320 from President .Truman’s
budget requests.
A Flash of *3,327,300 in tunds
for the Bureau of Labor Statis
tics had been recommended pre
viously, and an amendment pro
viding for an addition cut of $1,
000,000 was voted.
Appirival of the measure fol
lowed the defeat, 212 to 160, of
a motion to return the bill to
committee with instructions to
increase specified appropriations?
The appropriations measure, as
it was forwarded to the .Senate,
-provides funds of $89,864,200' for
operation of the Labor Depart
ment in the fiscal year beginning
July 1, which is $12,714,600 less
than requested by the President,
and $899,178,112 for the Federal
Security Agency, or $61,123,420
less than budget estimates.
The measure also would provide
$4,481,900 for the National Labor
Relations Board, or $3,960,300 less
than requested; $746,000 for the
National Mediation Board, or
$37,300 below requests, and $801,
330,000 for the Railroad Retire
ment Board.
The center of the controversy
was the $698,400 cut in the Labor
Department Conciliation Service’s
plea for- $2,678,400. This reduc
tion would eliminate the positions
of Edgar L. Warren, Conciliation
Director, and seme 100 other of
ficials and emplwes. Mr. War
ren had been accused of once hav
ing been associated with two
Communist - front organizations,
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and it was on this basis that his
foes in the House pressed for the
reduction in funds for his service.
The House rejected by a voice
vote an amendment to restore the
reduction in the funds, acting de
spite contentions that the reduc
tion would wipe out the Concilia
tion Service as an effective im
plement in settling labor disputes
and that the elimination of the
jobs of Mr. Warren and the others
was an invasion by the legisla
tive branch of the field of the ex
ecutive.
In rapid order the House re
jected 14 other amendments by
voice or teller votes ranging from
147—53 to 150—113.
The 150-113 tally came on an
amendment to increase by $2,
208,286 the appropriation for the
United States Employment Serv
!6e with most of the’ proposed, in
crease earmarked for assisting
war veterans in obtaining jobs.
The committee had cut USES re
quests by $3,906,700 with the ex
planation that adequate funds for
veteran placement services would
be available to the Veterans Ad
ministration.
One rejected amendment would
have eliminated the entire appro
priati^for the NLRB.
All of the rest were aimed at
restoring, wholly or in part, cuts
recommended by the committee.
They would have increased ap
propriations for hospital construc
tion, vocational rehabilitation, the
NLRB, child labor atndy and a
number of other activities.
MINE TRAGEDY DECRIED
BY AFL CHIEF GREEN
Washington, D. C.—Deep sym
pathy for the victims of the ap
palling tragedy marked by the
Centralia, III., mine explosions
and for the workers’ families was
expressed in a message by AFL
President William Green to Ed
ward Auberry, Secretdky of the
United Mine Workers’ local there.
‘ At- the same time Mr. Green
expressed hope that a thorough
investigation of the disaster “will
disclose who, because of negli
gence or otherwise, is responsi
ble,” and that those found at
fault will be punished properly.
Mr. Green said he was in full
accord with the decision of^the
United Mine Workers (AFL) to
observe Holy Week as a full pe
riod of mourning for the 111
members who died in the gas
filled pit and for their families.
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Statement of Manley R. Dunaway
Candidate
For Mayor
Of Charlotte
Your Vote
WiU Be
Appreciated
April 22, 1947.
My pre-election statement to the voters of Charlotte is merely a
plea for the exercise of their common sense, that is why I did not
conduct an expensive campaign.
My platform is simple because it conforms to the needs of our
City and its future welfare. I do not believe it is necessary to go out
side to get talent to run our City for $16,000 a year.
I am unalterably opposed to the establishment of the ABC stores
in this City or in any City. There are many existing abuses, but the
tragedy of alcohol can not be corrected by making its sale legal.
Our City, which is “bursting at the seams,” needs more than any
thing else, an eight-lane super highway, beginning at the Remount
Road and Wilkinson Boulevard and crossing the York and Pmeville
Roads, entering Sharon Lane and following the old road bed between
Oakhurst and Hickory Grove through entering Route 29 near the
junction of Salisbury and Concord highway. Coming along with the
highway, we should direct our thoughts toward the building of a spiral
storage building for parking cars in the uptown area. For these two
projects the Federal Government should supply the money to the State,
and the’County can then borrow the money from the State for these
punweesjuid ftIgQ reptoce “talk” and “petty politics” with a constructive
program for the establishment of additional recreation facilities (white
and colored) for the mutual benefit of our younger element and for the
welfare of our City. Above all, I pledge to the voters a business ad
ministration, favoring no one in particular, and with only one purpose
—that of making Charlotte the best City in the South.
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TRUMAN ORDERS, CHECKUP
AND RELEASE OF SUBVER
SIVE FEDERAL EMPLOYEES
Washington, D. C. -Orders for
a most thorough examination of
present and prospective employes
of the executive branch of the
Federal Government, coupled with
a demand Jhat any such workers
found to be disloyal to the
American form of government be
discharged at once have been is
sued by President Truman.
The screening process will be
carried out by the Federal Bureau
of Invstigation and is expected to
^pver 2,000,000 employes at a cost
of some $25,000,000 or more.
Membership in or “sympathetic
association” with any “foreign or
domestic group designated by the
Attorney General as “totalitarian,
Fascist, Communist or subversive"
are among the hew grounds laid
down for prompt discharge of an
employe or rejection of a job ap
plicant.
The order, which took the Cap
itol by surprise, came as welcome
news to members of AFL Gov
ernment unions which had long
advocated the far-reaching purge
of subversive elements from Fed
eral payrolls. -
The reaction on Capitol Hill was
immediate and highly commenda
tory of the President’s move. • Con
gressional leaders began immedi
ate steps to lay the foundation
for whatever legal backing may
be required to implement Mr.
Truman’s order.
In directing the dismissal of all
Federal employesa whenever “rea
sonable grounds” exist to doubt
their loyalty, Mr. Truman ordered
the names of all workers to be
checked against FBI records.
He also ordered a "master in
dex” of all persons whose loyalty
has been investigated since Sep-|
tember 1, 1939, and called for
compilation of a single list of all
subversive organisations.
Members of the House Appro
priations Commitee and the- Com
mittee on Un-American Activities
—both of which have been spear
heading: the congressional drive
against Government workers with
questionable background—saw in
the presidential action a vindi
cation of their position. 1
The Presdent issued an execu
tive order setting up complete
machinery for elimination of Fed
eral employes regarded as disloy
al, adopting the unanimous rec
ommndations of his temporary
commission on employe loyalty.
This commission, which reported
February 20, found that existing
Federal security procedures do
not "furnish adequate protection
against the employment or the
continuance in employment of dis
loyal or subversive persons."
"Although the loyalty of by far
the overwhelming majority of all
Government employes is beyond
question," the President said, “the
presence within the Government
of any disloyal or subversive per
son constitutes a threat to our
democratic processes.”
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IMPORTANT GAINS
REPORTED BY AFL
IN TORONTO DRIVE
Washington, D. C.—Important
gains in the organising campaign
of the American Federation of
Labor in Toronto, Canada, were
detailed in a report by Max Fed
erman, chairman of the campaign
there, to AFL President William
Green.
The report showed that jewelry
workers employed by Coro Ltd.,
one of the largest such plants in
the British Empire, voted three
to one to recognise the Metal
polishers International (AFL) as
their bargaining agent, the union
also selected by workers in the
Bond A Boyd plant. Similar suc
cesses were reported in other in
dustries.
Acknowledging the report, Mr.
Green said:
“I congratulate you and your
associates most highly upon the
success which has met your or
ganising activities among the
costume jewelry workers, the cork
and insulation plant, cleaners and
dyers and in other fields. Please
accept my thanks for this excel*
lent service you have rendered,
not only to the workers of your
locality but to the American Fed
eration of Labor as well.”
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