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LIU THAN PIVl SI CON 05 TO 90, ANO jOC HAS BAR lev OPENED HIS IVES. HI IS OAZGO .. UNABLg TO MOVI. . ■ Widows Get Benefit Checks From Miner’s Welfare Fund — Scranton, Pa.—First payments to survivors of anthracite mine J fatalities were made from the ■ health and welfare fund estab lished in the watte contract be tween producer# and the United' Mine Workers, AFL. Checks for St.000 were pre sented 18 widow# whose husbands died in two mine explosions earl ier this year. Five widows unable to attend the ceremony will get THE COMMERCIAL NATIONAL BANK Charlotte, N. C. L ~rv rB tD,c their checks tomorrow. The payments resulted from the January 15 blast at Plymouth’s Notthingham Colliery and the \pril 10 explosion at the Ex eter Panzitta workings. Fifteen men died at Plymouth and 19 at Exeter. Michael J. Kosik, pres'dc^t r1*' the I'MVV d'strict, presented the checks and told the widows that they were “but a fraction of what the United Mine Workers Uulor would like to give you.” “The funds v?ere craned through a levy of 5 cents a ton paid to the union by the v panies who employed ‘ycur hus bands,” he said. “This very fund has been at tacked in the press, on the tndio and in both Houses of Congress. We say that it is one of the greatest things that the mine is union ever accomplished.” A FRIENDLY CHURCH PRITCHARD MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH 1117 South Boulevard Sunday School 9:46 a. m. I Worship Services 11:P0 a. m. 8:00 p. m. Traintn* Union 6:30 p. m. I Dr. William Harrison Williama, Pastor I^sioop cooi7^ on twohorlng nights ^CHELSEA O ATTIC FANS A > ■11 antoy cool il#ap>n« and ■nt ifimnii throu*hout tna ■ummtf whtn you inatall ■ CHEL SEA Attic Fan. Tha»a tiUnt *arv ant* draw in cool nifht air »"d aahouat hot, ttufiy air. accuomlaiad in daytima hour*. through aw* window* or louvar*. ONEC0M ELITE CHANGE OF AIR EVERY MiNUTE THROUGH OUT THE ENTIRE HOUSE. We hove in stock for immediote delivery fons to meet your own individed ventilation problems. Coll on us for estimates on com plete instollotion including oil eorpentry work. Cosy T«rm« Pay As Low As $500 For MofiHi DIAL 1-5749 AFL 1947 Convention Calendar (Following is a list of conven lions scheduled for this year by National and International Un- ( ions and State Federations of La bor under the banner of the American Federation of Labor.: This list is not, complete. Addi tion will be announced later.) June 23—Michigan State Fed eration of Labor—Marquette. June 26—South Carolina State Federation of Labor—Greenville. June 30—Texas State Federa 1 on of Labor—Dallas. July 2—-^National Brotherhood Operative Potters—Chicago. July 8—International Associa tion of Longshoremen—New York : City. July 14—Washington State Fed- ■ t ration of Labor—Seattle. July 4—Int. Assn, of Protective Retail Clerks—San. Francisco. July 14—Bro. Locomotive Fire men and Enginemen—San Fran daco. July 21 — International Union | Stove Mounters—Kalamazoo. July 21—Int. Stereotypers and . Electrotypers—Montreal, Can. '■ July 28—Railroad Yardmasters ( of America—Portland, Oregon. *Aug—Nevada State Federation I of Labor—Ely. Aug. 4—California State Feder ation of Labor—San Diego. Aug. 5—Iowa State Federation of Labor—Keokuk. Aug. 11—North Carolina State Federation of Labor—Wilmington. Aug. J1 — United Garment Workers of America — Oshkosh, Wis. Aug. 11—Int. Bro. Teamsters, Chauffeurs—San Francisco. Aug. 16 — International Typo graphical Union—Cleveland, Ohio. Aug. 18 — Interntional Photo Engravers Union—Chicago, III. Aug. 18—Wisconsin, State Fed eration of Labor—Green Bay. Aug. 18—Utah State Federa non ol Labor—Provo. Sept 8—Amal. Ass’n Street and Electric Ry.—Los Angeles. Sept 8—International Chemical Worker*—Washington, D. C. Sept. 8—Nebraska State Fed eration of Labor—Hastings. Sept. 8—Kentucky State Feder ation of Labor—Bowling Green. Sept. 9—Connecticut State Fed eration of Labor—Undecided. Sept. 9—United Ass’n Plum bers and Steamfitters—Undecided. Sept. 11—Oklahoma State Fed eration of Labor—McAlester. Sept. 11—Arizona State Fed eration of Labor—Tucson. Sept. 12 — Int. Union Wood, Wire and Metal Lathers — Los Angles. Sept. 15—Ohio State Federation II Pays To Trade With DOGGETT LUMBER CO. 211 E. Park Av*. PIhmm 817* of Labor—Cincinnati. Sept. 16—Int. Bro. Pulp, Sul phite and Paper Mill Wks.—Mil waukee. Sept, .16—Minnesota State Fed eraton of Labor—Ribbing. Sept. 16—Brotherhood Railroad Trainmen—Miami Beach, Fla. Sept. 20—New Hampshire State Federation of Labor—Concord. Sept. 20—American Wire Weav ers Protective Assn’—New York City. Sept.-^Mssissippi State Federa tion of Labor—Jackson. Sept. 22—Illinois State Feder at:on of Labor—Peoria. Sept. 25—-West Virginia State Federation of Labor—Charleston. Sept. 29 — Metal ^Trades De partment—San Francisco. Oct. 1—Building and Construc May 1 — - Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor — Harris burg. May 2—Kansas State Federa tion of Labor—Wichita. May 6—Wall Paper Craftsmen and Workers—New York. May 5—International Coopers’ Union—Cincinnati. May 5—Tennessee State Fed eration of Labor—Johnson City. May 11—Virginia State Federa tion of Labor—Richmond. May 12—Brothel hood of Rail way Clerks—Cincinnati, tion Trades Dept.—San Francisco. Oct. 2—New Mexico State Fed eration of Labor—Carlsbad. Oct. 3 — Union Label Trades Department—San Francisco. •Oct.—Railway Mail Associa tion—Jacksonville, Fla. Oct. 6—International Asbestos Workers—Undecided. Oct. 20—Commercial Telegraph ers Union—Los Angeles. Nov. 17—International Auto mobile Workers—Milwaukee. Dec. 6—International Bill Post ers—Chicago. •Date not definitely set. BILL PROPOSED TO UP MINIMUM WAGE Washington, D. C. — Senator Pepper, on behalf of 10 other Senators, introduced a bill to raise the minimum legal wage for workers in interstate com merce from 40 cents an hour to 65 cents immediately, to 70 cents at the end of one year and to 75 cents a year later. Coauthors include Senators Wagner, Murray, Chavez, Green, Magnuson, Myers, Taylor, Lon ger, Morse and Elbert D. Thomas. Pepper said in a statement the proposed bill “carried out the sug gestion of President Truman that the minimum wage under the Fair Labor Standards Act be raised to ‘at least 65 cents an hour* when he signed the portal to portal pay bill. “In our opinion,” the statement continued, “the ultimate minimum ivage of 75 cents under our bill irould bring economically defense less workers, who are grossly mderpaid a step closer to a de cent American standard of liv ing." Congressmen McCormack and Madden introduced a companion bill in the House. The home—your home—is the bulwark of the nati' ju AFL PROPOSES WORLD LA BOR ACTION TO FACILITATE RECOVERY AND THE PEACE Urging world labor action to bring about economic recovery and lasting peace, Matthew Woll, AFL vice-president and chairman of the Federation’s international lelations committee, made public a program calling for the estab lishment in all countries of labor organizations free of government domination. Such organizations, according to the AFL program, would co-ope rate in fighting starvation in all parts of the world, in speeding up the reconstruction of world production and exchange and in securing a “just and enduring world peace.” , . Mr. Woll maintained that the World Federation of Trade Un ions offered no basis for such a program of co-operation because it was “manipulated and domi nated by the Russian Govern ment, through its agencies, stooges and satellites.” The AFL vice-president ridi culed the notion that the Soviet unions could lie outvoted in the WFTU by the representatives o! the Congress of Industrial Or ganizations and the British Trades Union Congress. He said Com munists and their sympathizers were most active in determining the foreign policy of the CIO, although he specifically excluded Philip Murray, national CIO pres ident, from sharing the Commun ist viewpoint. In any case, Mr. Woll added, Russia and its satel lite nations could outvote the CIO and the British on any issue in which a contest arose. He made it plain that the AFL was not proposing the organiza tion at this time of a counter movement to the WFTU. He said the federation would circulate its program abroad in the hope that free trade union groups would gain sufficient strength to work out a basis for co-operation on a world-wide scale without the domination of any government. WORKERS LEAGUE ADDS VOICE TO VETO CLAMOR New York City. — A warning that the major provisions of th^ Taft-Hartley labor bill “would ef fectively destroy the foundations of established industrial relations patterns in America” was sound ed here by the Rev. Donald Har rington, national chairman of the Workers -Defense League. “If the President should sign the bill,” Mr. Harrington de clared, “within 12 months or less over 60 per cent of the existing labor and management contracts of a closed and union shop char acter could be destroyed or ca pitulated into a legal maze from which few union shops could re cover." “This bill,” he declared, “while claiming to 'equalize' bargaining power between unions and man agement, actually ties the unions in new forms of government con trol. It would consolidate some of the most reactionary practices of recent decades still insisted upon by that minority of reac tionary industrialists who through the NAM have lobbied so care fully and effectively for this leg islation.” Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. 201 Earn Sixth Street Phone 3-6CX4 The Labor Journal is a Choice Advertising; Medium Send in Your Subscription Today. We Need Your Support. 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