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AND DIXIE FARM NEWS m* VOL. XXII: NO. t CHARLOTTE, N. C„ JULY S. !»5i Prk* IlN Pw Ym* m Senate Group Approves Bill On Primaries A bill to encourage wider use of Presidential primaries by un derwriting their costs with fed eral funds was approved by the Senate Rules Committee. It is doubtful whether there will be time for action by the Senate and House unless Congress returns to work after the political conven tions. The bill provides' that the Fed eral government would reimburse the States at the rate of 20 cents Tor each vote cast toward the coat of conducting the primary elections. The committee esti mated that the cost probably would amount to $1.9 million on the basis of 9.5 million voters. States would be permitted to regulate the elections as they saw fit. They would decide, for instance, whether election results ! would be binding on delegates to the national nominating conven tions. States would agree to include on the primary ballot all Presi dential and Vice Presidential can didates- certified by the U. S. At torney General as aspirants for the nomination of a political party that received at least 10 minion votes in the last general election. Primaries would be held between February 1 and May 31. The measure is a revised -war-, sion 9i a biH introduced by Sen. Paul Douglas (D., 111.). Said Douglas: *. • “The 60 million ‘voteless’ citi zens of our nonprimary States are demanding their rightful ^ay in the nomination of their party’s Presidential nominee.” CITY ELECTRICIANS WIN INDUSTRY SCALE / St. Louis.—A 2-day work stop page by 120 city electricians and helpers, members of the AFL Bro therhood of Electrical Workers, ended with acceptance of propos als by the Civil Service Cojtmms sion to bring their hourly wages up to scales prevailing in private industry. They had objected to a pend ing wage bill which proposed a flat 3.7 per cent increase in pay for all city workers under civil service, contending they needed 9 per cent to bring their rate up to private industry levels. AFL Convention Calendar (Following is a list of conventions scheduled for the remainder of j this year by National and International Unions and State Federations of Labor under the banner of the American Federation of Labor.) ! Date. 1952 Organization Place July * Radio 4k 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. 1^ 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 W'sconson 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. 18 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. 3ept. 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, 10. 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 West 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. 8 New Mexico State Fed. of Labor. Roswell, N. Mex. Oct. 8 Oklahoma State Fed. of Labor.....Bartlesville, Okla. Oct. 13 Inti. Union of Lathers. Wood, etc.. Houston, Tax. Oct. 13 IHinois State Federation of Labor. Peoria, IU. Oct. 13 IntL 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. * Date not definitely set. OREGON STATE FED. DEFEATS POLITICAL PLAN Seaside, Ore.—The golden anni versary, convention of the Oregon State Federation of Labor de feated a resolution calling for a lational labor political party. Op ponents of the move said it would ;ost too much money and that if trade unions stuck together in supporting friendly candidates in both major parties they could get good legislation. Director James McDevitt of Labor's League for Political Edu cation praised Wayne Morse (R., Ore.) as one of ‘‘the most out standing members of the United States Senate for the courage he has demonstrated in voting and standing for the common man and woman.” McDevitt criticized Oregon’s other Senator, Guy Cordon (R.), as one who “has not once voted right, even by mistake.” The convention telegraphed Mr. Morse and Sen. Cordon to support President Truman’s veto of the bill giving states ownership of oil land beneath the marginal seas. It also endorsed immediate con struction of the Hell's Canyon Dam on the Snake River as a federal project. More than any other emblem the Union Label insures security for America. 1 Put Your Dollars to Work t U-I IfClp CfCW Republicans Ottered Progressive Plan CHICAGO.—The AFL offered i “natural” to the Republican National Convention—11 progres sive platform planks that could a ridge the party’s 20-year gap of political failure to victory in No vember. But while the GOP Resolutions Com mi tee members accorded an outwardly cordial reception to AFL President William Green, they showed little inclination to follow the constructive policies he reocm mended. Sensing this negative attitude, the AFL leader sternly warned; “No political party can survive in America which stands still or faces backward. Let the Repub lican party look forward. Let it forge an affirmative, progressive program. That is the only way it can once again attract the sup port and allegiance of the great masses of American voters.’* Backed up by a special Execu tive Council Committee—consist ing of Secretary-Treasurer George Meany, and Vice Presidents Mat thew Woll and Charles J. Mac Gowan—Mr. Green presented to the Republican platform makers these major planks: 1. Replacement of the Taft Hartley Act, which has been “a complete failure" with a new la bor relations law that will be workable and fair to labor and employers. 1 Enactment of nn effective stabilization program. inclading tight price centrals and a tri | partite Wage Stabilization Board with full power to deal with aU disputes. 3. A strong and united foreign policy, backed up by a powerful defense program and full assist ance to allied free nations. 4. A biUion-dollar program of federal aid to education, financed by federal revenues from offshore oil. 5r A comprehensive housing program, including home con struction in defense areas, low eost housing for those with mod erate incomes and low-rent pub* Be housing for alum dwellers. Fair Tax Program A A fair tax program, with loopholes closed, limitations on excess profits and reduction of excise taxes and income taxse on .those in low brackets as soon as the defense emergency abates. } 7. Liberalization of social so* curitp benefits, enactment of dis ability benefits, inauguration of health insurance and coverage for 1 public employes who wish it. 8. A realistic nunnnnm wage of |r an hour. t. More authority and funds for the Labor DeparfcMbt. 10. Enactment of a Fair Em ployment Practices Law. 11. Legislation assuring better treatment of Federal government employes. Without mentioning Sen. Rob ert A. Taft by name, Mr. Green warned the Republican conven tion against the Senator’s strategy in Congress of collaboration with the Dixieersta. The AFL spokesman said: “Too often in the past 10 years, the Republican members of Con gress have allied themselwes with the Dhriecrats to stifle progres sive legislation. Such an alli ance will prove fatal to our pres ent 2-party systam and fatal to the Republican party’s hopes of victory. The Dbciecrats are a vanishing race, decadent, mori bund, and paralysed by their own prejudices.” TRUMAN ORDKtS EXEMPTION FOR INDUSTRY APPRENTICES President Truman ended dis crimination against young work ers by ordering the Selective Serv | ice System to exempt industrial apprentices temporarily from the draft. Although large numbers of eol | lege students are deferred from induction into the armed services, ' young men who are learning skills in industry had not been similarly j exempted. The President’s action, in ef fect, approved recommendations made by President James Brown : low of the AFL Metal Trades De ) partment to the Federal Commit tee on Apprenticeship. Mr. Truman pointed out that his order does net permit exemp tion of just say worker frost se lective service. Rther, he said, it provides a “more orderly basis for granting temporary defer ments which local beards have customarily extended Qualified' in dividuals.” At tbs anme?thne, the President acted to defer farm workers in order to raairiUin necessary food production. He pointed out that 6 million workers left farms in the last four years for military services and industrial jobs. Maj. Gen. Lewis Herahey, Se lective Service director, supple mented Mr. Truman’s order with regulations which the President said will “provide an orderly flow of machinists, mechanics and DIVIDENDS UP 10 PER CENT " ■, % s Dividends of corporations issu ing: public reports jumped 10 per cent in May over the amount paid out in May 1961, the Commerce Department reported. For the first 6 months of 1962, cash dividends increased 0 per cent qm. the .total in the panne period Of last year. Both manufacturing and non manufacturing groups increased their dividends, iwth the non manufacturing firms paying out 25 per cent more in the January May period 1952 than during the same months of 1951. LOOK FOR THE LABEL - When shopping always'leek for the union label. It toils yen that you are getting a goad product carefully made hy union men. and other skilled workers for both the military and civilian needs of the nation.” “Too little, too late and too oestly to the American people,” a a thumbnail description of the n«w controls law passed by Con gress and, reluctantly signed by President Truman. One provision in the new law, exempting processed fruits and vegetables from price ceilings, will alone increase the nation's food bill by 11 per cent, it was officially estimated. The Wage Stabilization Board was stripped of practically all its powers and left a hollow shell. Rent controls were ordered killed after Jane SO. unless lo calities specifically request con tinuation. The President was “requested” by Congress to invoke Taft-Hart ley,. injunctions against the steel strike Wage and price controls were continued to next April 30, bet new profit-guarantee provision* for retailors voted into the law will force price ceilings still high* er if inflationary pressures con- 1 tinua. Sen. Capehart Right—For Once Only authority for priorities and allocation of scarce materi als was continued for a full year. “This bill controls neither prices nor wages,” said Sen. Ho- ' mer Capehart (R., Ind.)— and for once he was right. But it could have been worse.. The joint Senate-House Confer ence Committee, working all night fsT wfifp "Into shape an ac ceptable compromise before the June 80 deadline, killed some of the worst provisions of the orig inal bilT adopted by the House. One* such provision which was buried,, the TMle amendment, cated materials. Another would have killed rent controls immedi ately. OW Tlgfcwr *9f thought on Capi tol H® speculated that the Hearn never expTHdd those provisions to become law but voted them mere ly so members would find it i earner to obtain big business cam paign contributions this fhlL Under the new taw, the Wage Stabilisation Board was limited solely to sn “advisory" status on disputes over wages. While it retains its tripartite character, members of the WSB are subject to Senate confirmation. All pow er to deal with nonmonetary la* bor- management disputes waa taken away from the board. It ean render advisory opinions in w age disputes only when the par* ties at issue or the government nsk them. “The board shall have no ]«• risdktien in any labor dispute,” the new law says, “or with re* 'pert to any issue involved there in." Thee law specifically directs that disputes be left to the juris diction of the Federal Mediation ind Conciliation Service. At its last meeting in Boston, the AFI> Executive Council flat ly warned that wage stabilisation would founder if the WSB was deprived of authority to consider and act upon disputes. NINE WRONG VOTES Henry Telle, author of the rail* amendment to eliminate jrice controls, has voted consist ently against measures supported iy labor and other liberal groups. Lest year, for instance, Telle vas listed as having voted wrong >n all 9 key votes which Labor's League for Political Education wed as a guide to judge the rec >rds of Congressmen. Telle, whose biography in the Congressional Directory says he s “an educator in economics and. political science,” has represented l rural Republican district im northeastern Iowa since 1399. STUDENTS ENTERTAINED BY MADISON WORKERS Madison, Wis.—Danish dents visiting the United States for iuneheon at a for dinner in the homes m Madirm ' * of the American fid ef State. County and. Mu nicipal Employes introduced the guests at the luncheon La. the Park Hotel, and led the round table discussion which followed. Tim Madison Federation ef La* hor sponsored the project. MACHINIST ELECTED ' TO EDUCATION POST Redondo Beach, Calif.—By a whopping majority, Join L. Fry, seccreary-treasurer of Machinists District Lodge 720, was re-elected to the board of education govern ing high schools here end in Her mans and Manhattan Beaches. On Guard THIS IS THE VERY OASJ YOU AMD I CAN DO TO ■WEEP bEFENb ' t* WM6 /TkoMt>£V£Ay
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