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Teamsters Obtain Group Insurance Policies In South BLS CONSUMERS’ PRICE IN DEX AT PEAK; SETS NEW HIGH FOR THIRD MONTH Washington. D. C.—The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that it* consumers’ price index, com puted as cf August 15, hit a new high for the third consecu tive month. The index steed at 160.3 per cent of tbe 1935-39 average. 11.2 per cent above a year ago, 20.3 per cent above June, 1946, and C2.6 per cent over August, 1939, level. (By way of explanation, the BLS consumers' price index, gen erally measures prices paid each month by middle-income fami lies, for quantities of selected goods, rents and services which those families actually purchased in the period 1934-36. The items priced amounted to about. 70 per cent of the expenditures made by city families with an average income of $1,524 in the period 1934-36.) A rise of 1.8 per cent in re tail prices of foods was the chief contributor to the increase in the total index. The usual seasonal increase for the period covered by the survey is about 0.3 per cent. Preliminary figures for the period up to September 16 show a further actual rise of from 3 tq 4 per cent, as against a nor mal seasonal increase of 1.3 per cent. Food prices new' represent more than 43 per cent of the total index. Residential rents continued to rise under the modified rent con trols of the Housing and Rent Act. In the 7 large Sties’ sur veyed in August, 12 per cent of the tenants had their rents in creased during the preceding month. On the average, rents increased by 1.1' per cent between July and August. Average rent increases from early spimg to August ranged from 0.4 per sent in Washington, D. C.,' to 4.2 per cent in Memphis and 6.4 per cent in Birmingham. t The one bright spot in the in dex was the lower prices record ed for some housefumishings in cluding living . room furniture, tedding, radios and curtains. This decline was partially offset, how ever, , by rising prices for refrig erators, washing machines, and stoves. Montgomery, Ala.—Members of Local Mt5 of the Teamsters In ternationa) Union obtained gteup life insurance coverage under the master policy negotiated between the Southern Conference of Team sters and the Occidental Life In surance Company of California. Under the terms cf the policy each individual member of the union in pood standing received insurance coverage in the amount of $500. The idea of a master polity covering all teamster groups in the Southern Conference stemmed from a survey e.f insurance i y terns used by the various lc-cah in the South. The survey showed a great need for standardization to effect financial savings while increasing the insurance cover age available for union membe r'. Aj committee which conduct*’'! the survey recommended that ■ i forts be made to achieve su< h standardization and undertook to discuss the matter with several >t the large private insurance com panies. me unnorrq plan aucpted « basically, simple. It provides that each local union within the 12 southern states has the privilege of entering into a contract v h the insurance company for wh. ' ever amount of insurance pro tection it desires to obtain toe its members. The master policy provides >• following: Regardless of age or phys'isl condition, each active member tf the union shall receive an :mli vidual insurance certificate. All members of the .union ' ■ good standing are immediately' covered and remain covered ;i*i long as they maintain tier standing. Each member, when ar I I dropping out of the union, has H e privilege of fonverting his pol icy to an individual policy offer ed by the company without the necessity of taking any medh ;\l examination. A member becoming totally disabled before reaching the age of 60 has his insurance continued as long as he remains disabled. DESSER GETS POST WITH ARBITRATION GROUP New! York City—The American Arbitration Association arne. ted the appointment of Abraharl A. Desser as the new’director-ct its Labor-Management Division. Mr. Desser served as a 'i : • r AFL organizer and was at • time with the Internationa! Lad es Garment Workers in the ! r >"c capacity. Prior to h's recent ar pointment by. ,the American Ar bitration Association, he was n charge of collective bargain p research for the National Jod trial Conference Board. Send in Your Subscription Today. We Need Your Suppo -i.-j-ij For Indigestion, Sour Stomach and Gas, Take NA-CO TABLETS MONET BACK GUARANTEE . SELWYN CUT RATE DRUG STORE NEXT TO POST OPT1CE ....<•>* - ... MONEY FIRST SECOND & THIRD AUTO LOANS $50.00 Up ANY MAKE - ANY MODEL Royal Auto Finance Company 618 S. Tryon St. Phone 3 0164 “KNOW THE ICE CREAM YOU EAT' OUR PLEDGE OF QUALITY ON EACH PACKAGE PET DAIRY PRODUCTS CORP. MARCH or LABOR T COOT OF GOVERNMENT IN THE US. IS-^BOUT FIFTY billion dollars Yearly - INCLUDING FEDERAL,STATE, AND MUNICIFHL AGENCIES. PRIOR TO WORLD \NfRff me COST WAS ABOUTTENfllLUON. IJPMILE LIVING COSTS WERE RISING ALMOST 50% IN1HE U.S 8E]U'c£> 1937 AND l»47.CANfOA HELD THE INCREASE “JO 26* t j AOCidemt Rate rdr house wives is MUCH HIGHER THAN! FOR WOMEN WORKERS. The union label is your guide id UNOM-MAD6 HEADWEAR- THE BEST VALUES. LOOK FORTH»S UNtOJ LABEL UNDER THE SWEAT BAM> OE THE NEXT MAT TOU 8UY. UN Group Acts On Trade Union Rights __ I Lake Success, N. Y.—The po •it'on- taken by the American Federation of Labor was upheld by a 31-to-5 vote of the United Nations General Assembly’s So cial, Humanitarian, and Cultural Committee approving a resolu tion calling for the preparation of -world-wide principled on trade union rights. The resolution, adopted over the objections of the Soviet-domi tated states, endorsed the action 'akir by the International Labor Conference last July when it de rided to prepare one or more •nt*/-national treaties on trade inion rights and report on them to the Economic and Social Coun cil. The AFL strongly supported • he activities of the ILO and thj/.ugh its representative, the late Robert J. Watt, American -o,-leers delegate to the Inter i.aticnal Labor Conference, par .• ipated in the formulation and Hi mate passage by the confer • it of the resolutions on free ili rof assoi ration. Consideration the matter by ’«> ILO, acting as a specialized 1 cy of the* United Nations, • . e following the submission to ti., UN by the World Federation rf Trade Unions of a request for action on trade union guaranties. The AFL countered with its own plan for trade union rights which included action by the ILO. Thus the action by the UN committee in approving the ILO's decision was a complete victory for the AFL and represented a rebuff fi r the WFTU wVch is unaer the domination of Soviet Russia. Approval of the resolution, which was prepared by a 15-na tion subcommittee, was given alter the committee members had voted to reject a series of Yugo slav. Czechoslovak and Argen tine amendments. Supported by the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia sought to delete any endorsement or approval of the proposed ILO principles, contend ing, first, that not ail the nation* had agreed to accept these prin ciples and, second, that the Gen eral Assembly was not being ajiked to adopt these principles at the'present time. Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugo slavia and the Soviet Union argued that the WFTU should be mentioned since that organiza tion had originally asked the Economic and Social Council to take action on trade union guar antees. Referring the matter to the ILO conference, the delegates contended, had by-passed the WFTU. Objecting to this view, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, United States delegate, held that if the WFTU were mentioned specifi cally, all other labor organs, such as the American Federation of Labor, also should be included. As the specialized agency of the United Nations, the ILO repre sents all labor groups, she add ed. In opposition. Valerian A. Zo rin, Soviet Union delegate, ar gued that the ILO principles would set forth the rights of | employers and workers' groups alike. It is the labor groups. I not the owners, that need a voice, he declared. HEALTH INSURANCE AID TO FAMILIES OF MEMBERS OF; AFL'S UPHOLSTERS UNION Philadelphia.— Hospital insur ance was extended to the. wives of members of the Upholsterers' International Union, AFL, and their children between the ages of three months and 18 years as an added benefit to contracts with more than 1200 firms.y Extension of the UIU Social Security Program, as the health and death insurance for covered members is called, provides for hospital benefits of $4 a day for a maximum of 31 days for each disability and up to 10 days for| maternity cases. A further expansion of the program was envisioned at head quarters of the union here by Pres:der.t Sul B. Hoffmann, who i praised the co-operation of em ployers in consenting to the wid ening of lienefits and of the mem liership in keeping down the loss ratio. Under the program, employers contribute three per cent of the wages earned by members under contract, with no added charge lieing made for the increased benefits. The plan, which the union seeks tc extend to all firms under con tract with it, ♦provides for death lienefits of $5<H) three months after Lieing put into effect and 'jiit)00 after one year. In case of illness or accident, covered memliers receive 61 per cent of their wages. w'*h medi cal, surgical and hospital care also paid for. - | The progr tin f. s»t was tut: ir effect in Philadelphia in May, ?y44, covering 1000 members of an upholsterers’ local. Since then the casket, canvas, decorative and related industries employing mem bers of the union. 56 AFL UNIONS FILED I DATA UNDER LABOR LAW j Washington, D. C— Fifty-six ! international unions affiliated ' with the AFL and 2,054 other | | AFL affiliated unions were in- I eluded in a list released by the I Secretary of Labor of unions | which have filed organizational and financial reports under the ( Taft-Hartley law. The list of filings as of the j close of business on October 22 j covered a total of 2,995 unions. ( ZANDER CALLS FOR CC-OPS TO ACT AS A DISCIPLINARY FORCE (Continued From Page 1) it expresses a socal point of through, in all the work it does view, it has a social conscience which is in line with ours. “So I offer to you that if we could build this movement—and we can. the little people in our movement can build it here—we would have a new force, a new power. We would have aroused a sleeping giant and enlisted hint in dur cause if we would but d > that job. “I give you this brief descrip tion of power which ts available to us, the power of our seven and a half million members as buyers of the goods of this coun try. the power W'hich We have as purchasers and consumers. I of fer you that power because of its disciplinary force, because it can help us in carving out parts of the power which has stood against us in Congress and in the state legislatures of the country. “What we need is membership support, the purchasing - power support, thea investment-of-funds support, membership - participal tion support. We need that kind of support in every community if the country, and then we will have put ourselves in a position to employ this force, along with bur trade union power, to take action against those who have been so successful in their acts against us.” FEDERAL JOBS DECLINE AGAIN IN SEPTEMBER Washington. D. C.—Federal em ployment in the United ^States declined 16,995 persons to a total of 1,766,650 during the month of September. t Lower employment rolls were reported by over half of the fed eral agehcies. The Department of the Army was the only govern ment agency to report any size able increase in its staff. The downward trend during September was a continuation of a gradual drop in employment registered over the past 12 months. During that period fed eral payrolls have decreased by 352,333 employes. GALVIN. BAKERY WORKERS OFFICER DIES IN AIR CRASH New York City.—William A. Galvin, vice-president of the AFL’s Bakery and Confectionery Workers Union and president of the Biscuit and Cracker Work ers Union, Local 405, was a pas senger on the ill-fated United Airlines transport plane which crashed ahd burned near Bryce Canyon, Utah. Mr. Galvin,’ 40, was en rout* home to Manhas&et, Long Island, after, attending the, AFL conven tion held in San Francisco. HOTEL WORKERS UNION SETS UP AXTI-'REIV UNIT New York City. — Delegate^ from 175 locals of the AFI/s- Ho tel anil Restaurant Employes ami Bartenders Union decided to set up a permanent organization to combat what they termed Com munist domination of some lo cals. The new group, to he known as the Official Second Oistrict Conference, is to operate by ed ucational, legal and organization al means, it was announced a_t the end of a two-day meeting of delegates. The district includes J New York, Pennsylvania, Dela- j ware. New Jersey, Maryland and the District of Columbia. A FI/ RETAIL FOOD CLERKS RATIFY NEW AGREEMENT Los Angeles. Calif.— Food mar ket workers of Local 770, Retail Clerks International Association (AFL) approved a new 20-month contract here providing pay raises of |2.50 a week and an additional 50 cents weekly each time the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistic! cost-of-living index goes up one point. * The new contract, which wifi increase members’ purchasing power by $1,300,000 annually, covers 10,000 of the local’s 15, 000 membership. The new pact will run until September, 1949. JOB OPENINGS INCREASE New York City. An increase in the number of job openings in New York State for the month of September was reported by Edward Corsi, State Industrial Commissioner. Mr. Corsi said an 18 per cent increase in calls by employers for workers and a 10 per cent drop in the number of job seek ers applying to the New York State Employment Service wero favorable aspects of the employ ment situation during the month as compared with the situation existing in August. A FRIENDLY CHURCH PRITCHARD MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH 1117 Sooth Boulevard Sunday School 1:41 a. a. Worahip Services 11:00 a. in. 8:00 p. m. Training Uniaa 6:30 p. m. Dr. William Harrison Williams, Pastor I MaMMaMMWMSa 1 SHOES For Men and Young Men IN ALL THE NEW FALL STYLES . . G1LMER-M00RE COMPANY 121) South Tryon Street For home use or Christmas giving Light In Weight DOWN FILLED COMFORT 19.95 Added warmth without weight, in this down filled comfort, covered with rayon taffeta. Size 72 x 84 in colon of rose, green or blue. 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