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f I Labor Taking Bigger Part In Chest Drives American Federation of Labor members are taking a growing part in the work of Community Chests and Councils, Mattaew Woll, AFL vice president, de clared at the Labor<Management Social Work Institute, at the De Witt Clinton Hotel, Albany, N. T. More than 40,000 AFL men and women are now serving on boards and committees of the chests and councils and Red Feather agencies, Woll said. He quoted a report of the Russel Sage Foundation which showed that “philanthropic giving in the U. S. in the last 20 years rose from $1.2 billion in 1929 to $4 billion in 1949, and the low-tn come groups contributed 60 pe cent of the total. Co-operation Theme “Families with a net Income under $3,000 a year,” he con tinued to quote, “contributed in 1943 more than 60 per cent of the total individual contributions, while 82 per cent of the total came from families with incomes below $5,000." Co-operation between labor and management in the work of the chests and councils was the theme of the institute, with Herman W. Steinkraus, president of the Bridgeport Brass Co., as the other ■p“ker- - v. V' W«n all that the AFL at eepted the invitation of joining with the chests and councils in 1*42, because “we realized that through their health, welfare, and recreational services, these agen cies either directly or indirectly, rendered a daily service to our members and their families, as well as to other citizens in the community.” Subjects of panels and talks in dicated the business of the insti tute They were, “Labor-Manage ment, Together We Build a Bet ter Community,” by Woll and Steinkraus; “Review of Our Year’s Progress Together in Health, Welfare and Recreation,” “Solving Problems Ourselves In Our Own Community," and “The Road Ahead for Labor, Manage ment and Social Work.” Among AFL men who took part in the sessions were Art Ryan, Welfare Federation of Los Angv les Area; -Hoy Taylor, United Foundation of Detroit; Stanley C. Elsis, AFL staff representative, United Community Defense Serv ices; Res Kennedy, associate di rector, AFL Labor Participation Dept„ Community Chests and Councils; Harold Hanover, secre tary-treasurer of the New York State Federation of Labor; Joseph Cercutti, president, Albany Cen tral Federation of Labor; Cyril C. Murphy, Community Fund ot Chicago; Frank Berry, Greater Toledo Community Chest; Ward Feitt, Community Chest of Alle gheny County, Pittsburgh; Walter Flanigan; Troy Central Federa tion of Labor; Peter J. Postma, president Joint Council 72, Team sters; John B. Ryan, Jr., Local 227, Inti. Chemical Workers Un ion; Edwin T. Graham, Albany Typographical Union; Charles T. Mirabile, Construction and Gen eral Laborers Local 190. Another institute was scheduled for June 7, at the Falmouth Ho tel, Portland, Me., sponsored by the Portland Community Chest, the Council of Social Agencies, and the Central Labor Union. i Among: the AFL men who will take part in this institute art Horace E. Howe, president, Cen tral Labor Union; Frank X. Smith, Moving Picture Machine Operators Union, Local 488; .Joseph V. Tobin, associate diree •tor. AFL Labor Participation Dept., Community Chests; Ed ward B. Geart, president, Local 7, Inti. Brotherhood of Telephone Workers; Louis Boudreau, IAM District 99; Joseph D. Meehan, Sr., Brotherhood of Realway Clerks; David Hastings, Team sters. The Milwaukee Journal paid editorial tribute to the recent institute in that city, saying that it showed an instance in which labor and management realized a joint responsibility. » Among the AFL members who took part in those sessions were Francis A. Henson, UAW-AFL; J. F. Frederick, general secre tary of the Federated Trades Council; Mrs. Sophia Holz, presi dent Local 9. Office Employes In ternational Union; Otto Jirikowic. Federated Trades Council; L. J. Wadsworth, regional director, Chicago. More than any other emblem the Union Label insures security [ "or America. Put Your Dollars to Work _i for... Help Elect a Friendly Congress Give $l°»° LABORS LEAGUE for POLITICAL EDUCATION On Guard i£tme L£A*T AH&l ►T ‘ kN DO TO XP DCFEMfc * “CRICK.' Clerical Unit Shipbuilders Vote For AFL Representation San Francisco workers in three plants were among the most im 1 portent of the reports on certifi | cations of elections by regional directors of the National Labor S Relations Board. A clerical unit of the Pacific Gas A Electric Co. in a run-off election voted for the AFL, IBEW, 1,327; for the UutUity Workers Union of America, CIO, 436. Shipbuilders Go AFL All inside and outside machin ists, machinists’ helpers and ap prentices at the shipyards of the Pacific Coast Shipbuilders and Ship Repairers voted I AM 684; against 26. All carpenters, shipwrights, joiners, boat-builders, marine millmen, and wood caulkers, their helpers and apprentices, were in volved for Anderson A Christo fsni et al. The San Francisco Bay Area Locals 1149 and 311b et al of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, AFL, got 969 votes; against 59. An election at the Corning Glass Works, Albion, Mich., re sulted Amer. Flint Gtss Workers’ Union 469; Fed, of Glass, Ceram ic A Silica Sandworkers of Amer ica, CIO, 188; neither 3. Other elections were certified to include General Electric Co., Uti •a, N. Y., production and main tenance employes, 1AM 116, IEU CIO, 106. Kwik-Mix Co, Port Washington, Wis., production and maintenance employes, I AM 8o; Inti. Assn. Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers, 13. U. S. Gypsum Co., Oakmont, Pa., production and maintenance employes, AFL Jnt. Bro. Paper Makers 110; against 17. Ckemieal Co. Vets Frontier Chemical Co., Denver City, Tex., production and main tenance employes, AFL Inti. Un ion of Operating Engineers, 32; against 10. Gardiner Lumber Co„ Gardiner, Oreg., production and mainte nance employee in the plywood dept. Carpenters 66; Plywood, Box Shook and Door, CIO, (2. Fit*patrick 4 Weller, Inc.. Sala manca and Kllicottville, N. Y. production and maintenance em ployee, Carpenters 49; against 20. Wood Newspaper Machinery Corp. Plainfield, N. J., machinists, toolmakers. specialists, outside erectors, blacksmiths, etc,. IAM 152; against It. Production and maintenance esiployes, IAM 3b: CIO Steelworkers 27. Pond Lily Co., New Haven, Conn., United Textile Workers, AFL, 59; CIO Textile Workers 46. Kennecott Copper Corp, Bing ham Canyon, Utah, office, clerical, plant clerical, warehouse and, technical employes, Office Em ployes Inti. 65; against 17. Orders to bargain collectively upon request and te cease and desist were issued in the case of Safeway Stores, Inc.. Boise. Ida ho. in connection with the Retail Clerks; J. D. Jewell. Inc., and i 20 employes, Gainesville. Ga., in connection with the Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen; the Louis ville Container Corp., Louisville, Ky., in connection with the UE. Whiting Corp., Spencer 4 Mor ris Div., Los Angles, in connec tion with the Boilermakers; King’s Trucking Co., and E. I. King Corp., Pawtucket, R. I., regarding the Bakery and Food Drivers; the Inti. Broadcasting Corp., Shreveport, La., regarding the IBEW as bargaining agent for its announcers. RALPH BELLAMY HEADS ACTORS EQUITY ASSN, j New York City. — Ralph Bel lamy was elected president of I Actors Equity Association, and ' AFL affiliate, at the annual meet in* Also Seans. elected 1st vice Maurice, president; Ray mond Massey, 2nd vice president; Fredrick O’Neal, 3d vice presi dent; Margalo Gillmore, 4th vice president; Paul Dullsell, treas urer, and John Effrat, recording secretary. UNION LABEL DISPLAY HELPS LUMBER COMPANY Memphis, Tenn. — One large lumber company learned through experience that the prominent dis play of the union label helps tell users of the quality of their product. E. L. Bruce Co., manufacturers of flooring lumber, originally at tached paper labels to boadHes. Then they included the union label in the marking wheel which cuts I the Arm name into every two feet on the back of the strips. Local APL officials and com pany technicians, after months of experimentation, developed last ■ spring a process of applying ink ! to the marking wheel so that the union label is more prominently j displayed. The company also fea tures the union label in its ad vertising copy. “We have found that the dis playing of the union label on our products,” said F. H. O’Connor, vice president, “is a valuable in- ! strument in conveying to the building industry and to the gen era) public the fact that our products meet the highest quality specification, and that the users : may expect to find the quality i consistent, day after day, and I year after year.” FILM COUNCIL FIGHTS PAY BAN Hollywood, Calif.—The Holly- j wood A FI, Film Council, com-! posed of AFL unions and guilds j representing more than 28,000 workers in the motion picture In dustry, called on all organised labor in California to help fight a threatened move to bar film workers from unemployment in surance when jobless, i The council pointed out that a special commission appointed by Gov. Earl Warren ie expected to recommend to the legislature changes in the wording of the | California Unemployment Insur • nare Act. | The film workers would net be , barred by name, bet by a change in the eligibility wording. Postmasters Plan Opposed By AFL The AFL went on record before the Senate Committee on Govern ment Organisation in opposition to Reorganisation Plan No. 2 which puts authority for the se lection of postmasters completely In the hands of the Postmaster General. George D. Riley, member of the AFL National Legislative Committee, told the group that opposition was in conformity with action of all postal unions af filiated with the AFL for the following reason: 1. The plan is vague and of fers no improvement over the present system. 2. The Ramspeck - O'Mahoney Act of 1938 purportedly put Post masters under Civil Service. If it did there is no need for furth er legislation effecting the same purpose. S. Tb p ee of the Port Office L • is to pat for mor postal inspectors practically exclusively in high executive anil administrative; jobs. 4. There is no pssuraace that career opearting postal employes will have recogition under this plan. 5. Plan Ko. 2 is submitted at a time when it is almost impos sible for the House to maotor a constitutional majority on thW proposal. The proponents appar ently are taking their chances that the Senate likewise will bO| handicapped . $. 'The Bureau of the Budget, the Hoover Commission and the Postmaster General have said that a Reorganisation Plan is sn impracticable method for ac complishing what the department through the White House now is attempting. 7. The Postmaster General* has pointsdly informed all postal em ployes that thsy must be on his “team.” When postmastorahips are shifted to unilateral action, it will bo no problem understand ing that with such personal poli tical machine, as contrasted with semi-political, all postmasters per sonally must be beholden to the PMG. Is this the kind of “re form” the Hoover Commission, the national administration, and the Congress we ready to em- j brace? With such a personal machine of nearly 22,000 any j man so-minded could win any and j all elections, Hatch Aet or no Hatch Act. Albany, N. Y.—The Now York State Labor's League for Politi cal Education stressed the im portance of trade unionists tak ing an active interest in the elec tion of state legislators as well as that of members of Congress. “The State Legislature.” it said in its letter to LLPS members, ‘determines many laws and pol icies affecting not only the unions as such but also the very wel fare of individual workers and their families. Determine Taxes “These state Senators and As semblymen determine the ques tion of taxation, both income and other taxes such as the real es tate tax on our homes, the tax on gasoline, fuel oil, liquor, and cigarettes. And in many cases, they allow a sales tax which is paid by workers in greatest pro portion.” The letter points out that the state legislators have made laws affecting the activities and func tions of unions. “They can improve or fewer standards of our unemployment compensation law, our workmen’s compensation law, and a multi tude of other laws affecting labor If they are so minded,” it con tinued. •Affect AU ef Us” “Ail at the thing* they do or fail to do affect all of us a* dti sens of New York State, and it is, therefore, of the utmost im portance that our union* collec tively, and our member* individ ually, take an active Interest in Who rtgwesenU them in the leg islature or the Congress. PRELATE BLASTS RENT “DECEIT' Boston.—Archbishop Richard S. Cushing of Boston charged that the end of rent controls “would effect a third of the population” and weaken America’s internal re sistance to Communism. He said an amendment to lift rent ceilings which the Senate is considering is an attempt to fool the people and the Congress of the U. 8 ” On the surface, Archplahop Cushing said, the amendment to de-control all communities unless they are “critical” ««rid seem “very sensible.” But, ha contin ued, the meaning of the word “critical" is “vary limited.” A city must show not only a housing shortage but a “substan tial immigration of defense work ers” before it can qualify as “critical.” More than any other emblem the Union Label insures security for America. RULES worn SAFI WALKING... 1. Carry or wear something white at night to help drivers see you. 2. Cross only at crosswalks. Keep to the right in the crosswalk. 3. Before crossing—look both ways. Be sure the way is clear before you cross. 4. Cross only on proper signal e & O. Watqh for turning cars. ji O. Never go into the roadway from be* tween parked cars. w Where there is no sidewalk, and it is necessary to walk in roadway, walk on left side, facing traffia -
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