i % TEXTILE WORKERS GET PENSION IN WINNSBORO 4 ATLANTA, GA. — The first company paid pension agreement in any South Carolina textile plant was signed in July by the United States Rubber Company and the United Textile Workers of America, A. F. of L., and covers 1500 wage earners at the Winnsboro plant. The new pact provides for $100 a month minimu.a pension-includ ing social seem Ity benefits—for employees who reach the age of 65 and have 25 or more years of service. Employees with 20 years service at the age of 65 will receive $80.00 a month min imum pension including social security. a A minimum disability pension of $60 a month is provided after 20 years service for those who become totally disabled. The insurance, feature provides for company paid life insurance in the amount of $2,000 for all employees. An additional $1,000 may be purchased by the em ployees at their own cost. The company formerly paid for life insurance in the amount of $1,000 for men, and $500 for women. The agreement was arrived at after several weeks of negotia tions between the U. S. Rubber Company and the UTWA-AFL at Winnsboro. It is estimated that there are now about 250 Winnsboro em ployees with twenty to fifty years of service according to M. ~A. Kirkland, plant manager. The collective bargaining agree ment between the UTWA-AFL and the U. S. Rubber Company on wages and conditions of em ployment had been renewed on July 1, 1950, for a two-year pe riod. The pension and insurance plan becomes effective August 1, 1960. LEADING PUBLICATION TO FEATURE 60MPERS An article entitled “Samutd Com per*: Little Giant of Labor” will appear in the December iasue of The Reader’s Digest, which will reach its 12 million readers November 24th. The article, written by Victor Riesel, well-known labor colunm ' ist, is a warm tribute to the j founder and first president, of the i American Federation of Labor. 1 Unlike most articles in the Read er’s Digest, “Samuel Gompers: little Giant of Labor” is not a reprint. It was commissioned by The Digest in connection with the Gompers Centennial. In informing the AFL’s Samuel Gompkrs Centennial Committee that the article was to appear, Burt MacBride, a senior editor of Reader’s Digest said: “Gompers was not only a great labor leader, but a fine patriot, and we are happy to publish Victor Riesel’s fine article in tri bute to Gompers’ memory.” The article will later appear in Reader’s Digest’s foreign lan guage editions. BLOODSHED BOXSCORE Killed Nov. 3 thru Nov. «... 21 Injured Nov. 3 thru Nov. I 195 Killed thro Nov. I this year 895 Killed thru Nov. 6. 1949 . 791 Injured thru Nov. 9, 1959 19,299 Injured thru Nov. 2, 1949 9.124 Paul t. Porter, just named assistant Administrator for Program of the Economic Cooperation Administration, Is shown address ing the I Oth Pan-Heltenic Labor Congress in Greece. He is former Chief of the ECA Mission to Greece. Picketing Against Non-Union Sub-Contractors Ruled Legal In one of the most promising decisions ever made under the Taft-Hartley Act, the United States Circuit Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia ruled Sep tember 1 that when the Denver Building and Construction Trades Council and two of its affiliated unions (Local 68 of the Electri cians and Local 3 of the Plumb er#^ picket a project in protest ui • the errpleymant of a non-w» ion electrical sub-contractor, they were acting legally under the Taft-Hartley Act. The NRLB had decided that the picketing constituted an illegal secondary boycott. The case arose in 1848 w hen a j general contractor, Doose and Lintner, let the electrical sub contract on a commercial building to Gould and Preisner, non-union contractors. The project was picketed, and all of the • men. working on the job, with the ex- j ception of the non-union employes of Gould and Preisner, walked off. The picket had carried a placard stating that the job was unfair to the Denver Building and Construction Trades Council, and the job was shut down for some two weeks and work re sumed only when union electri cians were hired. The Court in its opinion sand that they would not work for the contractor if he did business with Gould and Preisner. Instead, they said they would not work with non-union men and would not work on the job to which the contractor brought the subcon tractor with non-union men. The Court continued: “We think in fact that the ■ picketing must be considered as ; against Doose and Lintner andj Gould and Preisner — insepara bly; and that its object was to > bring the job to a standstill until the non-union electricians were replaced. “The job was said to be ‘un fair.* The contractor cannot sep arate itself from the conditions' there so as to make the action by the Council against it second ary; nor can the subcontractor. “O^ly by ceasing to work for Doose and Lintner could petition ers’ members avoid working with Gould and Peisner’s non-uhion men. . . . They said, in effect, ‘we will not work with non-union men, and therefore we will not work for you at the place to which you Wing Gould and Peis ner with non-union men.' We think this action of petitioners was of a primary character even if petitioners envisaged it might result in a cessation of work on the particular job by Gould and Peisner.** Thic decision is directljr con trary to one handed down sev eral months ago by the Court of Appeals of New York. In that case the *Court found Local 501 of the IBEW guilty of secondary \ boycott because it picketed a res- * idence under construction when a non-union electrical subcon tractor was brought on the job. In that ease, also, men employed by other contractors left the job. An attempt "Is being made to ap peal this decision to the Supreme Court. If the Supreme Court up holds the decision in the Denver Building Trades case, it will be possible again for building trades men to refuse to work with non union men. These two decisions of two United States Courts of Appeals, directly contrary on exactly the same issue and the same set of facts, point up the fact again that the Taft-Hartley Act is the greatest piece of legalistic con fusion which has ever been placed on the statute books. Even the authors of the act, Senator Taft, Congressman Hartley, and their co-worker, Senator Ball, could never agree on what it meant, and it is abundantly clear that neither the lawyers for labor nor for management can advise on how to proceed under the act so that we can properly protect ourselves and avoid expensive, litigation and damage actions. COMMUNISM IS TREASON WOKE UP AMERICA! By J. EDGAR HOOVER, Director, F. B. L Mr. Hoover addressing the Re tail Clerks International Associa tion in New York City, had the following to say about the ‘Reds.”: ‘‘The times demand candid and forthright words. S ^Communists have been and are today at work within the very gates of America. There are few walks in American life which they do not traverse. Their allegiance is to Moscow; their hopes are spurred by the writings of Marx and Lenin, not Jefferson, Madison and Lincoln; expediency and deceit, not toler ance and brotherhood. Atheist materialism is their idol; the de struction of the God of our fath ers’ their goal. Wherever they may be. they have ia comftion one diabolic ambition; to weaken and to eventually destroy Amer ican democracy by stealth and cunning. Theirs is an organiza tion built and supported by dis honor, deceit and tryanny and a deliberate policy of falsehood. They know that as long as the ideals of common endeavor, mu tual respect and tolerance remain alive they can never bring to fruition the Communist World revolution That is why Com unist consider America their Number One Enemy. A strong America, materially and spirit ually, is a constant beacon of light, buoying the hopes and as pirations of millittts of men, women, and children crashed un der the yoke of Communist tyr anny which today controls the destinies of one-third of the peo ples of the world.” “The thought of a Soviet Un ited States is at once revolting to every right thinking Ameri can. We have seen the Com munist at work and have ob served the application of their principles sufficiently to" know what would happen here if they succeeded in the attainment of their objectives. If every Ameri can faced the reality of what the fulfillment of the’ Communist' ob jective would mean to him — he would be inspired to work hard er to protect and preserve the individual liberty and freedom which is part and parcel of our American way of life.** “The struggle for the preser vation of - oar freedom places a duty on every man, woman, and Deaf, speechless, self-supporting, Hezeklah J. Lewis. 49, a printer, shown at work in the composing room of the Washington, D. C.. Star, where he has been employed since 1942. Although born deaf and speechless, Lewis has been a printer for U years, says em ployers have been always willing to hire him when convinced he could do the wcrk, Deaf And Dnmb, He Has Been - — A Printer For The Past 33 Years WASHINGTON. —’ (LPA) — Hezekiah J. Lewis, printer, is a living example of the fact that the physically handicapped can be useful members of • society. Born deaf and speechless, he has been a printer since he was 16. He is now 49. Lewis, a member of Columbia Typographical local No. 101, has worked in Washington since 1940. Born in Pansey, Ala., he left his farm home, worked for a while, returned to school, was graduat ed from Gallaudet college in 1920, then held printing jobs in St. Louis, Chicago, Tampa, New York, and during the depression all around the country. He got his apprentice training in Tampa, and became a journeyman there. Union locals helped him get jobs, he said. Employers have always treated him fairly when they were shown he could do the work. A continuing campaign is waged by the U. S. Department of Labor to persuade industry to employ the physically handicap ped. Unions are interested be cause they want to make sure that any of their members who are handicapped or who become handicapped either at work or at home, are given an opportunity to continue to be self-supporting. Plumbers Issue Training Book For Apprentices A new and better kind of train ing for apprentices in the plumb ing industry is being developed as a result of the co-operative efforts of the National Associa tion of Master Plumbers and the child in the Nation to do his bit in order that this Government of the people, for the people, and by the people shall continue to flourish. If each of us does hia duty,, the outcome is certain. Al mighty God, The Supreme Archi tect, will give us strength, wis dom, and guidance.to triumph against the onrush of Red Fas cism and Atheistic Communism.” I I SO*y|fi*OAf IT MAY-OR MAY NOT-BE POLIO * CALL YOUR nOCTOR PROMPTLY THE NA! N 0 A T HERE ARE SYMPTOMS OF POLIO listed by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. They may—or may not—mean polio. Call your doctor and then, if help is needed, contact your local chapter of the National Foundation. When polio is around, these precautions are recom mended: Keep children with their own friends and away from people they have not been with right along. Don't become exhausted through work or hard play. Dont stay in cold water too long or sit around in wet clothes. Avoid becoming chilled. Always wash hands before eating. s* United Association of Journey men and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Indus try. The effect of the new program will be to provide the industry with a supply of well-trained la bor resulting from a comprehen sive training program. To the public it will mean better work manship and lower costa result ing froma a greater output per man hour. Nucleus of the program is a seven-volume textbook entitled “Plumbing Apprentice Training.’’ The textbook was prepared under the direction of a joint commit tee of master plumhers and jour* neymen at a cost of more than I ISO,000. The goal of the committee was to give the plumbing industry an outstanding educational medium of its own for the promotion of nation-wide standardization in the training of apprentices. Outstanding feature of the text is its method of instruction. Wordy' descriptive matter has been eliminated. Averaging three photographs of drawings to a page, the textbook consists of thought-provoking questions, the answers to which are not found in the book but only in classroom discussion. This type of instruc tion eliminates the dull lecture and the haphazard learn-at-home routines. Instead there will be class room questions and an swers with all sessions conduct ed by qualified instructors famil iar with iall phases of plumbing and the basic principles of teach ing. MISSISSIPPI AFL RE-ELECTS HINES Blioti Miss. —The Mississippi Federation of Labor re-elected William Hines, Hattiesburg, pres ident and chose Jackson for the 1951 convention. A. M. Lefeve, Gulfport, was chosen first vice president; T. G. Beckham, Jackson, secretary - treasurer, and G. A. Smith, Laur el, chaplain. AFL LABOR'S .MONTHLY SUR VEY SAYS ADDITIONAL WORKERS BE NEEDED TO FILL DEMANDS OF ARMED FORCES AND NEEDS OF IN DUSTRY. The American Federation of Labor’s Monthly Survey predicts ;hat 2.8 million additional work ers .will be needed by next Juna 10 to All demands of the U. S. armed forces and industry. The Survey estimated the re quirements at 1.6 million for the irmed forces and 1.3 million in dustrial workers. It saw the job thus: “We must increase our military strength and supplement that of friendly democratic powers for as long as is required to build a peaceful world—perhaps 10 years or more. I “Production guidance should be accomplished by voluntary poli cies and controls, avoiding a strait-jacket which would destroy freedom.” Meanwhile Chairman W. Stuart Symington of the / National Se curity Resources Board said that over-all wage and price controls are not necessary in the coun-. try’s present stage of what he called “gray mobilisation.” Mr. Symington said that pres ent indirect controls, such as credit curbs and priorities over itarce materials, be given “a good trial run.” The U. S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Employment Security predicted that the nation’s total labor force—armed forces as well as all men and women working or seeking work—can be expanded to 70,000,000 if the need arises. Using April 1950 as a base month, the bureau said the total force on that date could be in creased by 6,600,000 to a total of 69,100,000. This would be accomplished through recruitment of workers from the ranks of housewives, older workers, physically handi capped men and women and oth er workers who are not now working or seeking employment. The bureau said the survey showed that while the nation has ample supplies of manpower to man defense plants and military establishments and provide for moving the strength of the armed forces to the current goal of 3, 000,000, manpower shortages would develop in the event the country had to mobilise its man power according to the pattern of Wortd War II. On the question of whether thj nation has the manpower to meet dtrr ""ds arisl at fi oas-tha dsfssss program, the bureau said tho necessary men and women for the armed forces expansion and de fense production can be found among the millions of persona who are now employed, the un employed, and from potential workers now outside the labor force. But while manpower is avail able, the bureau said the task of getting the right men and wom en into the right places would be difficult and complicated. The wise consumer buys Un ion Isabel merchandise. Smokey Says: Lux* here possum’- imi* Has m*s| throuch wa