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r AND DIXIE FARM NEWS VOL. XXII; NO. 7 CHARLOTTE. N. C. THURSDAY. JUNE 2*. 1*52 SaUcriptioa Prim 12.0# Pm T«r Manufacturers Refuse AFL Recognition (Special Correspondence> Chicago. — Subscribers to fash ion magazines, such as Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, would probably recognize the designation “Jewels by Bogo” as assurance of the finest in costume jewelry. The women who have been promenading in front of the Spear Novelty Co. offices jost west of Chicago's Loop don’t | wear such spangles often. They only make them. They are striking for recogni tion of their union. Jewelry Work ers Local No. 4, AFL. They are employes of the Spear Company.1 which manufactures the Bogoff line. According to William Lennon. | business manager of the union, the average wage of the 60 work ers is 86 cents an hour. Many j of them have been working for 1 76 cents, the lowest permitted ! under the Fair Labor Standerds I Act. ’ . When the union organized the ! workers, Henry Bogoff, head of the firm, told them to get certifi cation from the NLRB, but then refused to go along with a con sent election, according to Len non. By delaying the NLRB elec tion for several months, Len non believes, the management hopes to build up a large force of temporary seasonal employes who would be less incline** £ for a union than the old-tin ert. ; The old-timers were easy to or ganize, Lennon said. Except for a half-hour for lunch they had no rest periods, though 90 per cent of them are women. Last year, Bogoff gave them their week’s vacation during the week of July 4, so a paid holiday sort of got lost. MILLIONAIRE'S BILL SLAMMED BY BUTTON New York.—Labor unions are not the only group which is op posed to the “millionaire’s amend- , *nent” which would limit taxes to 25 per cent of income. An official of the Allied Stores Corporation, Ralph Button, told a convention of the Controllers Con gress here that the amendment would result in increased sales and nuisance taxes. Button urged the Congress, a division of the National Retail Dry Goods Association, to take a stand against the measure. AFL Convention Calendar (Following is a list of conventions scheduled for the remainder of this year by National and International Unions and State Federations of Labor under the banner of the American Federation of Labor.) Date. 1952 Organisation Place June 23 Glass Bottle Blowers’ Assn., etc. ____ Cincinnati, Ohio June 23 Amal. Meat Cutters A Butchers, etc.San Francisco, Cal. June 23 Natl. Bro. of Operative Potters ._...Chicago, 111. June 23 Texas State Federation of Labor. . Amarrillo, Texas June 26 South Carolina State Fed. of Labor.... Columbia, S. C. July * Radio A Television Directors Guild_ New York City July 14 Inti. Brotherhood of' Bookbinders ..... St. Louis, Mo. July 14 New York State Federation of Labor.Rochester, N. Y. July 14 Washington State Fed. of Labor . Tacoma. Wash. Aug. 4 Inti. Alliance of Theatrical, etc..Minneapolis, Minn. Aug. 11 Massachusetts State Fed. of Labor Boston, Mass. Aug. 11 North Carolina State Fed. of Labor ..Durham, N. C. Aug. 11 Inti. Assn, of Fire Fighters........... Seattle, Wash. Aug. 11 United Garment Workers of America .-.Minneapolis, Minn. Aug. 11 Ohio State Federation of Labor . Cincinnati, Ohio Aug. 12 Women’s Inti. Union Label League.Youngstown, Ohio Aug. 16 International Typographical Union__ Cincinnati, Ohio Aug.* Nevada State Federation of Labor Las Vegas, Nev, Aug. 18 Wisconson State Fed. of Labor . Wausau, Wis. Aug. 18 Utah State Federation of Labor.Salt Lake City, U. Aug. 18 Trades and Labor Cong, of Canada ..:. Winnipeg, Can. Aug. 18 American Federation of Teachers .4 Syracuse, N. Y. Aug. 18 The Natl. Assn. Special Del., etc.. St. Louis, Mo, Aug. 18 Bro. of Railroad Signalmen of Amer. Los Angeles, Calif. Aug. IS Inti. Photo Engravers Union of N. A. Cleveland, Ohio Aug. 18 Natl. Fed. of Post Office Clerks . St Paul, Minn. Aug. 19 Montana State Federation of Labor Missoula, Mont. Aug. 25 California State Federation of Labor Santa Barbara, Cal. Aug. 25 Amer. Fed. of Government Employes San Francisco, Cal. Aug. 31 North Dakota State Fed. of Labor .Grand Forks, N. D. Sept. 1 Natl. Association Letter Carriers .. New York. N. Y. Sept. 2 Inti. Assn. Heat and Frost, etc-Los Angeles, Calif. Sept. 8 Metal Trades Department ... New York, N. Y. Sept. 8 Inti. Stereotypers and Elec., etc-Atlantic City, N. J. Sept. 8 International Union Chemical Workers —. Chicago, 111. Sept. 9 Indiana State Federation of Labor--Evansville, Ind. Sept. 10 Building and Construction Trades —...... New York City Sept. 12 Union Label Trades Department.«....New York City Sept. 13 American Wire Weavers Pro. Assn. .. New York City Sept. 16 Inti. Alliance of Bill Posters, etc.. Minneapolis, Minn. Sept. 16 Cigarmakers’s Inti. Union of America- New York City Sept. 16 Inti. Association of Machiinsts ..........— Kansas City, Mo. Sept. 16 Railway Patrolmen's Int. Union ...—....—... New York City Sept. 16 Tobacco Workers Int. Union —„. Rochester, N. Y. ‘ Sept. 20 New Hamhspire State Fed. of Labor..—. Keene, N. H. Sept. 21 Natl. Assn. Postal Supervisors. Pittsburgh, Pa. Oct. 2 Wyoming State Fed. of Labor Casper, Wyo. Oct. 2 Westi Virginia State Fed. of Labor Wheeling, W. Va. Oct. 2 Air Line Dispatchers Assn. .. Chicago, III. Oct. 6 Minnesota State Fed. of Labor.. Minneapolis, Minn. .Oct. 6 Mississippi State Fed. of , Labor ..Meridian, Miss. | Oct. 6 . Kentucky State Fed. of Labor . Owensboro, Ky. Oct. 9 New Mexico State Fed. of Labor. Roswell, N. Mex. .Oct. 9 Oklahoma State Fed. of Labor Bartlesville, Okla. (Vt. 13 Inti. Union of Lathers. Wood, etc. Houston, Tex. Oct, 13 Illinois State Federation of Labor ..Peoria, 111. ; Oct. 13 Inti. Bro. of Teamsters, Chauf., etc. Los Angles, Calif.; Oct. 14 Connecticut State Fed. of Labor Undecided | Oct. 19 Commercial Telegraphers Union .Vancouver, B. C. Oct. 20 United Cement, Lime and Gypsum, etc. Long Beach, Calif. Oct. 20 Air Line Pilots Association Chicago, 111. Oct. 27 Bricklayers Masons and Plasterers Minnepolis, Minn. Oct. 27 Inti. Assn. Bridge and Structural, etc. St. Louis, Mo. Nov. * Natl. Assn. Master Mechanics, etc. Washington, D. C. Nov. 10 American Fed. of Grain. Millers Buffalo, N. Y. Nov. • Florida State Federation of Labor Orlando, Fla. j Date not definitely set. JACK GLEASON WILL BECOME HONORARY MEMBER OF UNION Detroit, Mich.—Jackie Gleason, television star of the “Calvacade of Stars," will become an honor nr? men»b»r of the AFT. Amalga mated Association of Street, Elec tric Railway andd Motor Coach Employes of America, it was announced by A. L. Spradlin*?, international president. The presentation will be made on Gleason’s June 0 program, seen and heard over the Dumont Network at 10 P. M., EDT, each Friday, in recognition of his < portrayal of Ralph Kramden, bus driver husband of his “Honey mooners" routine. PAY PROBLEM INVESTIGATED Labor Department officials are investigating reports that con tractors have violated and cir cumvented the Davis-Bacon Act by paying learners’ wages In stead of prevailing wages to em ployes at Fort Leonard Wood and Camp Crowder. Sen. Thomas C. Hennings, Jr., (D., Mo.), took up the matter with the department. Pot Your Dollars to Work for... • KIGGER PAY • FAIR TAXIS • FAIR PRICIS • SOCIAL SICURITY • BCTTSR SCHOOLS • BITTKR MALTH • TAFT-HARTLSY RIPKAL • STRONOSR U. S. A. Help Elect a Friendly Congress Give $!• LABOR'S LEAGUE for POLITICAL EDUCATION ' Senate Softens Controls, putates WSB CVs^em anticontroflf rampage, :he Senate voted to wreck the Wage Stabilization Board, soften a rice controls, cut off rent con trols at an early date and wipe >ut allocation of scarce materials. As this edition went to press, the Senate was still considering further amendment to the De fense Production Act, including >ne by Sen. Burnet R. Maybank (D., S. C.) which would place labor in a strait-jacket in case sf Presidential seizure of an in iustry. The familiar Senate coalition }f Dixiecrats and reactionary Re publicans defeated Paul Douglas’ (D., 111.) attempt to continue the Wage Stabilization Board’s au thority to handle non-wage mat ters in labor-management dis putes. This authority is support ed by organized labor. The vote was 56 to 26, with 18 Democrats and 38 Republicans voting against the measure. Twenty-live Democrats and one Republjcan supported it. Douglas' proposal was an amendment to one by Irving Ives (R., N. Y.), which the Senate ap proved and which continued the tripartite make-up of the WSB’s jurisdiction to wages. Disputes Varied Douglas pointed out that labor disputes generally are not con fined solely to wages. They also involve, he said, questions of sen iority, union shop, and a variety of other non-economic problems. Ives’s proposal, Dauglas told his colleagues, "would sseaa that the President could Bead wage issuee to tie Wage Stabilisation Board if both parties csqpsetsd. but tbs hoard could net deal with sea wage or noureamneratioa aspects of the dispute, which weald have to he settled in souse ether way.** "What we want,” Douglas con tinued, "is some machinery with which to obtain uninterrupted production in a period of national emergency, with justice to both sides and with the co-operation of both sides.” W8B Works OJ£. Hubert Humphrey (D, Minn.) pointed out that the WSB has worked in 34 cases, and said its record "is better than that of most Senators.” The Senate also voted to lift price controls on perishable fruits nd vegetables. The immediate ef fect Was an order by the Office of Price Stabilization lifting all controls from idtrce potatoes. The "spuds” then became avail able at most markets but at high er than the former ceiling prices. An amendment by Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (Ed.. Ill) to kill rent controls was defeated, but he later won adoption of another amendment ending rent controls on February 28. Shouts for Common Sense Shouting “we must use common sense,” Democratic Majority Lead er McFarland succeeded in beat ing off moves by Dirksen and by j Sen Bricker (R., Ohio) to lift all wage and price controls. The Senate, however, adopted an amendment bjr Sen. Homer Ferguson (R„ Mich.) lifting all price and allocation controls on any imported scarce materials in cases where domestic production exceeds the amount necessary for ’ defense purposes. Administration leaders discov ered the effect of this amendment would make allocation of almost all scarce materials impossible. They said it trill result in “hog ging” of copper and aluminum supplies by the auto industry, while small business will be un able to obtain such metals for civilian production. FIREMEN MAP POLITICAL PLAN Chicago.—Failure to take ad vantage at this time of the op portunity for registering and vot ing “may mean the end of our economic freedom,” President An thony Mats of the Brotherhood of Fireman and Oilers told 200 international and local represen tatives at a rally. The meeting went on record fur vigorous political action by labor to block new antiunion legislation. Mata said the forces of reac tion are "running rampant.” "They are particularly danger ous,” he declared, “because they will stop at nothing to defeat those who have sought to improve the lot of the common man. That is why they are directing much of their attack at labor unions, j which have been instrumental not only in improving conditions of | labor but in electing to office men who are friendly to labor. “That is why we must keep our union strong and continue to elect the right man to Congress snd to other important offices.” DEEP CONVICTION Testifying on H.R. 542# which would net up a system, of armed forces reserves, George D. Riley, member of the AFL national leg islative committee, said; "We have the deep.mr-vkJWm that unless the type tk safety Valve such as we suggest is la* eluded in the legislation for put* ting reservists in their proper slots, all phases of mobilization considered, that not only will the omission have to be corrected later, but we who are not overly blessed with manpower, skilled or otherwise, to fight a blitz war, will be daring the fates. “This easily could be the dif ference between victory and de feat or at best delayed victory.** LOOK FOR THE LABEL When shopping always look for the union label. It tolls you that you are getting a good product carefully made by union men and , tf viiii u» x ui i ciiuo/mimii) wuu luajr uuiu tuc balance of power in the Republican National Convention, is playing a coy game. After having dinner with Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in New York and being subjected to Ike’s “charm” for three solid hours, the governor told reporters he does not have any preference for the GOP nomination “at this time.” Pennsylvania’s political boss said an at tempt would be made to have the key 70-vote delegation From his state uiriled when the roll is called on the nomina tion. Meanwhile, the delegates will be given opportunities o meet both with Eisenhower and his chief rival Sen. Robert Alfonso Taft, of Ohio. The Republicans of the state < voted overwhelmingly in a recent Presidential preference primary, 1 but apparently that has little 1 bearing on the final decision. , It this writing, it appears that, neither the Eisenhower nor the j Taft forces have a chance of winning the nomination on the first ballot without Pennsylvania support. Gov. Fine at one time was a close friend of Sen. James H. Duff, who is one of Elsenhow- f er’s leading backers, but they | have drifted apart in the past two years. The Grundy political ma- J chine in the state, dominated by the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association, favors Taft. ISSUES VS. DELEGATES Meanwhile, with the convention ! only a few weeks away, both the Taft and Eisenhower camps were maneuvering for an all-out fight over contested delegations in 6 Southern states. Taft offered to compromise in order to avoid a floor fight but Eisenhower reject ed the suggestion. His forces charge the Taft managers “stole” the Texas delegation. Taft's compromise was couched in the phrase “we’ll give in where our case is weak, if they’ll give in where their case is wank.” Whan Eisenhower refused to have any part of such a deal, Taft respond ed “they’d rather have the issue than the delegates.” WAIT AND SEE GAME In the Democratic camp, most of the activity came from W. Avereli Harriman, who toured back and forth across the country and made several radio and tele vision appearances in quest of delegates. Sen Elates Kefauver still held the lead in the number of committed delegates but was far short of a majority. Demo cratic political leaders are ob viously playing a wait-and-see game, pending the outcome of the GOP Convention. JI BILL PASSED The House passed a new GI ‘Bill of Rights" for members of he armed forces who have served luring the Korean emergency. It illows them free schooling, loan ruarantees for homes, social se •urity credits and mustering-out pay for veterans in military duty sfter June 27, 1960. CONGRESS SPURRED A combination of a scorching heat wave in Washington with the imminence of the national po litical conventions had the effect of spurring Congress to a swuter pace in the drive toward adjourn ment by early next month. If agreement can be worked out on new controls legislation, the mili tary appropriations bills and a few other controversial measures, the lawmakers will be away winging for Chicago and their re election campaigns. CONTRACT NULLIFIED The Supreme Court acted in a case which involved Negro rail road employes. By a* 6-to-3 de cision, the court nullified a 1946 contract between the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the Prison Railroad on the gTound J&at it threatened Negro train porters "with loss of their jobs because they are not white and for no other reason.” Justice Black read the majority ruling with which Chief Justice Vinson and Justices Minton and Reed dis sented. Newport, Ky.~One of the new Newpoit Housing Commission projects will be called The Peter G. Noll Homes. This will be in memory of the lets executive board member and 4th regional director of the United Automo bile Workers, APL. More than any other emblem the Union Label insures security for America. On Guard THIS VERY l i CAN HELP Dtrt* AMERICA OUR KI&* At tH* OUTPOSTS]
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