A GENERAL NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS or ORGANIZED LABOR IN CENTRAL Recognized and Endors- ed by More Than Fifty Local Uniens and Cen- tral Bodies Over Cam- bria County and Ad- jacent Mining Areas. PENNSYLVANIA. AN ATTAINMENT OF THE LARGEST GENERAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. ton Courier, Est: Our Shop Is Equipped to Po Job Printing of All Kinds. Nothing Too Large or Too Small We Cater Especially to Local Union Printing. iblished Oct., 1893, VOL. 45. NO. 26 ( CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AREA. THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1939 NO CONTRACT 25 South PATT y Ses Ave p NOT IN SIGHT AT THIS STAGE | However, Despite AFL Attacks, | Committees Are Stiil in Sess- | ions in New York. : AFL-CIO PEACE | | Seven men who hoid the power to | decide the future course of unions with | a membership of 7,750,000 workers, met in a smoke-filled conference room on | Tuesday night in another attempt reunite the Congress of Industrial Or- ganizations and the American Federa- tion of Labor. The meeting was the first since Mar. 24 and the seventh President | g Roosevelt personally urged the two or- | ganizations to compose differences | which have kept them apart for the last three years. Although was since the last session may have plicated the peace picture, neither would comment when they entered conference room. Two hours later, C. I. O. represen- | tatives left the meting and held a 15- | minute private caucus. Then the re- entered the conference room, still without comment. At midnight the ned and announced again at 8:30 o'clock Wednesday night. | «+ “We have no other announcement to make,” John L. Lewis, head of the C. I. O. delegation said. WAGNER ACT HEARINGS TO STA BY APRIL 11th Washington Hearings pro- | posed amendments to the Wagner Act | were ordered by the Senate Labor! Committee for April 11. The order came. after a delay of | almost a month, during which CIO! and AFL unions and other progress- ive groups bombarded the committee | and for postponement of the hearings. Last week the Natl. Association Manufacturers and Prs. Green of AFL the front pages with most identical demands for immediate hearings and for drastic revisions de- signed to cripple the Act. Senator Thomas, Committee chairman, show- ed reporters a pile of wires received from the NAM and from Chambers of Commerce, indicating a concerted employer pressure campaign for quick hearings and sudden death to the Wagner Act. Now that hearings are set, AFL unions opposing the plan to kill the Act will have to step up and fight to save it to a faster tempo than ever. Efforts should be made to line up progressives outside of the organ- ized labor movement to join in the campaign. The hearings start Senate Office Bldg., C. Wires should be Elbert D. Thomas, Committee on Education demanding that the Act be left alone. Similar messages should go to Sen- ators and Representatives from local districts. The fight to defend labor's Magna Charta has entered its second phase. | Labor protests have delayed the Tory offensive against the Act this far. A redoubled protest will be needed to save it again. | MORE AL IEN \S SEEK CITIZENSHIP PAPERS to since incidents com- side | the believed 1T conferees adjour they would meet on of the | took al- CIO and April 11 in the Washington, D. sent to Senator chairman, Senate and Labor, Washington.—Applications for nat-| uralization by alien residents in the | United States have shown a big in-| crease during the past year, James L. Houghteling, Commissioner of Immi- gration, recently told a House approp- riations sub-committee. There are two | major reasons for this increase. One was the action of Congress last year in | excluding aliens from WPA employ- | ment. The other is the fact that in| some states old age assistance benefits are confined to American citizens. The Immigration Service is now naturalizing about 165,000 aliens an- nually. Last year only 67,000 aliens | were admitted to permanent residence. | Thus the number of unnaturalized res- | ident aliens is decreasing. As of June 20, 1938, Commissioner Houghteling es- | timates that the alien population in the | United States was about 3,800,000. | A declaration of intention must be filed at least two years before the | grant of naturalization papers. Five | years residence is required before an | alien can win citizenship. Naturaliza- | tion is granted only to those of good | character who pass educational tests. | Many aliens find it advantageous to | achieve American citizenship to pro- | tect property interests in Europe. Nearly 60,000 applications for verifi- cation of arrival, one of the initial steps | | toward naturalization, are now on file. i changes | bill | Inc, COMPENSATION LAW RE- VISION GOAL IN HOUSE Harrisburg — Legislation to the Workmen's Compensation was introduced in both th House on Monday night. Senator John H. Dent (D.-Westm land) submitted a bill he said overcome objections the State preme Court found in clause of 1937 law which were declared stitutional. Dent's measure in compensation only the actu ly wages if an injured worke less than $12 a week. He revise r= would Su- the | suggested urged { moval of a clause which gligence by an employer er was hurt and accepted as any remarks of an within 12 hours after Dent proposed rippin: Wn the old act which mz r liable for injuries to misrepresented his age who was violating the lav of employment. H move a provision allowing 1 to represent a claimant in a referee or compensatior The Senator did in payment amendments. Representative Henry Jefferson) submited to increase the maximum fitsfrom $15 to $18 a week $6,500 to $7,500 for total dis: suggested repeal of the o disease supplement which h posed unwarranted burd coal industr when tions not sched 10 PATTON EAGLES PLAN ACTIVITIES DURING MONTH 5. cndorsed action fore the public as unfair to organized Entertainment on Saturday | = Act of 1939, i by | Elbert | feaeral sidies to firms which refuse to pledge | : * | observance “RETAIL CLERKS BROADSIDE AT STRIKE-BREAKERS Washington The Senate Liberties a mighty broadside at the | strikebreaking industry. The “Oppre ive Labor filed in the upper Senators Robert LaFollette Thomas, calls for outlawi industrial munitions, labor strikebreakers and pri- forces against organized Practices ng use of agents, 2 police would bar more than ship-operating it of or addition nent contracts loans govern- of the Act. Heavy penal- HAVE MEETING AT BARNESBORO | Several Questions of Importance r Ev-1 ening of This Week; Class In-| itiation Late in April. rie No. 1244 plann Apri Sat Patton ae der of Eagles, have ns for the month of first, be held on this April 8th, ladies 11 ta are invit ted to entertainment week, so their wi of them brir Yodeling Cowboys This aggrega the Rambling stage, on are and radio stars feature WWSW and WJAS, and t ment includes Comedy, ing, Yodeling and R get, the is from urday night of this we On Sunday afternoon, 2 :36 P. M. there will be tiation in the Aerie Home tory ceremony will be in ch Patton Aerie Degree team an members of the aerie sented with veteran buttor A representative of th rie will be present as the aker, and a big time is looked on to in local Eagledom. There will be lunch and entertainment after the ting. 9 t time ing. ira a mee. OWNERS OF REILLY SHAFT MOVE TO DISMANTLE MINE The Reilly Shaft Spangler, for at ! more than 20 years one of the leading in Northern Cam- the “ghost” mining operations bria County has joined list of abandoned mines. Inactive for the last six months, Reilly Shaft is being dismantled, John | E. Reilly of Spangler announced Mine cars, pumps, motors and all machinery will be brought to the sur- | face and stored. Everything will be removed from the mine with the ex- ception of elevator cages, Reilly disclosed. Reilly Shaft, owned and operated by Joseph H. Reilly Coal Company, was opened in 1916 by Joseph H. ana John E. Reilly. The former resides in Philadelphia. Normally between 125 and 140 men were employed. With pumping machinery to be stor- ed above ground a “water problem’ | will develop for any such time as it might be decided to reopen the mine. Owners of the mine said that while a considerable supply of coal remains Reilly Shaft has been an unprofitable operation for some time. WALLACE SHERBINE DIES AT WILMORE Wallace Sherbine, 71, postmaster at Wilmore for the past 50 years, and one of Cambria county's most promi- nent residents, died last Thursday at his home of pneumonia. He had been | ill for about ten days. Er i 1 appeal from | member for | 1 dra | sented to the Industrial Store "| tiations May | | | lack, | | | | feld; Artimese Capello, { Grezier, Local 27, | Price, local 115, Emeigh; C. H. Reams, | | local 177, NuMine; Come Before Monthly Gath- ering of Body. the Employes The regular monthly meeting of United Retail and Wholesale )1 America, held in the Moose Temple >arnesbaro, recently, drew gales from thirteen retail and whole- locals in central and western Pennsylvania. Several firms were placed on the the Me 1 Employes Unfair List, namely offman’s Ice Cream Company and and Deg aning Company of Indiana, 1 fole€ rresboro Ross 1tano, and 10 advertise them be- labor. Several questions of discussed. A request from Mine Workers that mployes action upon { the Teamsters’ Union for 1g and assisting the Progressive movement in Johnstown and g the United Mine Work- The council instruct- ntatives the Retail Local were United the assist in 0 0 picket lines. their repre L nited Mine Workers and if necessary, not handle any article a driver of No. 110. mmittee was elected to hear a American Store Company Clerks who have .00 fine for each not answering a strike call 1 February 3, 1939. The committee se- lected to hear the appeal is composed of Francis Feighner and Florence Ital- icno of Ebensburg and Kenneth Graz- Colver. The U. R. cil elected ea 10 assist thc delivered Ac n a ei of & W. E. of A. Joint Coun- the following Committee to up a new agreement to be pre- Nego- will open the latter part of to replace contracts expiring on June 30. The committee, which will assist International Vice President El- mer A. Barger, will be: Local 27, E 2S bensburg; Colver; Aldine Rennie, lo- Arthur McCall, lo- John Fresh, local J. K. Merritts, local 183, Dixonville; James Dunlop, local 182. Rossiter; Jennie Patterson, local 184, McIntyre; C. C. Coy, local 203, Wa- terman; George Byrne, local 191, Er- nest; Jessie Miller, local 124, Ehren- local 1027, of Nanty-Glo; and Frances Androchock, local 27, Lilly. All members and locals are urged to consult any of the elected committee with any proposed changes in the pres- ent agreement. A special committee meeting will be called within two to draft the proposed contract. More than 60 delegates attended The next Joint Council meeting will be held in the Moore Hotel in Indiana on April 25th ,at 7:30 o’clock. Plans were made to establish head- quarters at central points to sign up truck drivers into the Retail and the Wholesale Employes. Headquarters are to be announced at a later date. In the meantime all truckers interested are weeks to draft the proposed contract. O. Box, 756, Spangler, Penna. TEACHERS SEEK TO RETAIN TENURE LAW cal 115, Marstellar; call 126, Gallitzin; 1027, Nanty-Glo; More than seventy-five teachers re- presenting ten school districts in Cam- bria and Somerset counties, heard Sen- ator John J. Haluska and Assemblyman Albert J, O'Connor explain school le- gislation which is pending in Harris- burg, at a rally held in the Lilly High School last Friday evening. Civil | Committee on Monday fired | entire | house | and $10,000. | sub- | dele- | importance | t en- | Meade Retal- | Kenneth | Margaret | | of Ebensburg, | ana ties are provided for those who break | the law. Significant is the fact rights of workers are not only pro-| tected by the Committee's proposal, but that violators face heavy penalties for violations. If the act is passed, it will be to the economic interest of em- | ployers to help preserve civil liberties. | “This bill is several decades over- | due,” the two Senators declared in joint statement as they filed their pro- posals. “On complaints made, and the finding of past governmental in- vestigations in the 40 years, such bill should have ntroduced long ago.” that civil a on last been a FIRST-AID MEET WILL BE STAGED AT EBENSBURG | tion” : Monday night. i without MEASURES ARE INTRODUCED Harrisburg — Eight bills designe d | to help the coal industry, including one | to create a $30,000,000 “Pennsylvania Anthracite Reconstruction Corpora- were presented in the House on Members of the special Republican committee which conducted a recess study of coal problems sponsored the | measures which would: 1—Create the “Reconstruction Cor- poration.” 2—Require state licensing of an- | thracite and bituminous mines. | 3—Establish a “Pennsylvania An- thiracite Control Board” to standardize | quality and sizes and control produc- | tion without price-fixing. 4-—License breakers or plants. 5—Require that be accompanied by gin” those preparation | all coal shipments | “certificates of ori- | and provide heavy penalties for who possess or transport coal | such certificates. 6—Appropriate $200,000 to the at- torney general, to be spent on fighting for reduction of coal transportation charges; half the money to be used for | | the benefit of bituminous and half for | I anthracite. | State Championship Competition | Will Again Be Feature of the Cambria County Fair. first-aid | the bitu- | at Ebens- The state championship competition among teams of minous fields will be burg this year. An annual feature the County Fair, overtures had been made to transfer the finals of the state meet to South Park, Allegheny county, but a delegation of Cambria, Somerset and India mine officials returned Sat- urday from Pittsburgh with “the ba- con” in the form of guarantee from the State Department of that | this outstanding event would not 08 | lost to Cambria county this year. 1 neeting Friday afternoon at | Bureau of Mines headquar- arrangements were hold series of sectional contests en- rants to the state meet at Ebensburg in September. Richard Maize, Union- town mine inspector, presided at the meeting f Secre f Mines, Roy D. or of the chairman of the region, The general committee that mi trations be for each of staged Cambria (0) na Tinie Mines ters, made to a to as representative tary John Ira Thomas Joseph, Johr district, of Ser xth recommend- n de pro- con- ed mons gram tests. In addition to Inspector delegation which attended burgh meeting included: L Crouse, general superintendent Monroe 11 Company, Revloc; Ale exander Jack, general superintendent of the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Corpora- tion, Cresson; C. P. Brinton, engineer for the Barnes and Tucker Coal Com- pany, Barnesboro; Walter Van Court, Koppers Coal Company, Sonman; J V. Berry, safety director, Industrial Collieries Corporation; William La-| mont, secretary of the general commit- tee and sectional chairman for this area; Ira P. Bradley, C. A. Hughes Co.; William H. Filer, st: and a and Somerset county representatives. WPA QUOTA FOR AREA TO BE CUT 1.000 IN MONTH rescue ana include the ne section the 3114 its Joseph Of number of Indi- operators’ The employment ‘quota for Works Progress Administration Area 11 has been cut from 15,100 to 14,100 for the month of April, according to word re- ceived on Monday afternoon by John S. Ginter, head of the local four-county officg, from State WPA Administrator E. C. Smith Jr. The reduction in working forces is to be effected by this Saturday, it was sald. A checkup revealed that few more than 600 persons will be affected, however, because the pre- sent working force totals 14,727. The number of persons to be dismissed in | publican, | committee on mines and mining. | Ings thereon. We welcome suggestions | | and dealers. ois A. McSparran, Former state mine inspector | | than $2,000,000 to carry out work of the Bureau | Animal Industry in the eradication of each county will be in direct ratio to the numbers now employed. Ginter said that most dismissals will | be made from highway units opera- | ting under the WPA. He added that | particular efforts will be made to weed out inefficient and incompetent | | | { motor code be workers during the present retrench- ment. | — | Death of Infant. Wayne John McGonegal, of Elsworth and Lillian (Kirsch) Mec- Gonegal of Carrolltown, died last Thursday at th eparental home. Sur- viving are the parents and a brother, William, infant son A tablespoon of cold water auded to egg whites before they are whip- ped will increase the quality. ! stores to close this S “These bills are not in final form,” | said Representative E. Kent Kane. Re- McKean, chairman of the | “There will doubtless be public hear laborers, t ransporters irom i We are not for price-fix- | operators, ng lected all such proposals” GRANGE FAVORS o LARGE SUM FOR CATTLE TESTING imme Ag. culture Head, Principal Spe- i it Carrolitown, tary and a Pennsylvania ] al >ulture naster nnsylvania the speaker at inty Pomona arran’s theme was “The Place. Farm Organization in A Demo- ’ and he gave a resume of some > outstanding accomplishments of which he served for ten master He urgd that the be used m the desires the matters government. The Grange, he said, embraces the whole family in its membership and advised the organ- on continue by co-operative buying, to bring benefits to far fami- | lies grange as Gran press as a of farmers in of to | moved to The Grange went on record in favor of adoption of a constitutional amend- | ment to make it possible to levy a| graduated income tax in Pennsylvania. Members of the grange expressed | the belief that any appropriation less would be insufficient of | Diseases of Cattle in conjunction with the federal government. Resolutions | were adopted calling upon the state | legislature to appropriate that sum. Another resolution favored a three- year probationary period for teachers of all school districts. The Grange opposed any move at | this time to scrap the Milk Control | Board unless some other means is| provided to stabilize the milk indus- try. A resolution opposed the Public Ser-' vice Commission regulation which | prevents farmers from hauling a nel- | ghbor’s milk without taking out a cer- tificate of public convenience, which adds to the expense of such deliveries | and another resolution asked that the amended so that vehi- | cles that are not required to have a li- | license need not be inspected. LIQUOR STORES TO CLOSE Harrisburg — The Liquor Control Board on Monday ordered managers | of all but a few metropolitan liquor | Saturday night at| 9 p. m. instead of the usual 11 p. m. | closing before a holiday. 3 The board also reminded om EARLY Faster customers the stores would be closed all day Good Friday, holiday. The earlier closing is to permit em- rloyes to quit earlier, a legal | ence of representat asserted on the general public and have for industry unions, and recognition of vanced ainst the union shop proposal but voted | ag {union and coal parties to | dle SUBSCRIPTION, $2.00 PER YEAR YET BETWEEN MINERS AND OPERATORS CIVIL LIBERTIES COMMIT1EE FIRES |“** MINERS WANT ELIMINATION OF PENALTY TEXTS Murray Reports UMWA Have Dropped Demand For Closed Shop. Optimism Is Still Pre- valent, New York Eight negotiators, after reporting disagreement over a new wage and hour contract for the sus- | pended bituminous coal indu were | ordered on Tue sday to resume their efforts, with full power to recommend settlement. The deadlock of the negotiators came after three weeks of futile effort was reported to the joint confer- ives of the Appala- cian management and labor, and as 338,000 miners who stopped work Mon- day xiwusly awaiting word. Philip Murray, vice president of the United Mine Workers of America, told the conference the “miners’ final pro- position” was renewal of the old ag- reement for two years and elimination stry, a | of the penalty clause for illegal strikes. the elimination of the penalty clauses from district agree- ments was the stumbling block. He the operators had said “no” 26 proposals the union had made improvements in working con- Murray said to | ditions. ty He the the other said miners, to protect ainst raids” by suggested a union shop f the U. M. W. bargaining ag the ag had of ency. ad- S the re exclusive ji ported operators not a “single argument” ag ainst it in the said they wanted Ie subcommittee, and the penalty clause to nain in the contracts. The penalty each dis in the are included tween which conference what, rict aj the acian differ some call f fir t each miner f the t mpanies Aj of each The but $1 t terms in to $2 Xr *S who and V for lock- outs. He issue.” “The Uni Worl are not but ation of insisting 2 shu a forthright dema f the pe Murr: Mur p k ciause or 1a4ly claus 1d. addressed confer- Robison, Cleve- chairman, reported and said the whole hands of the the j« Walter the ence af land oper: the dis matter s back in the gave the union's pic- ition the conference re- lunch, without wo The afternoon minutes as nan for the recommit the whe eight negotiators with the r from session Charles operators, le matter thority earliest tors only five i O'Neill, spokesy to the to bring back its report at > moment. O'Neill made no reply to Murray and without comment Robison called for a vote under the unit rule. Both miners and operators voted “aye” and the conference adjourned to await the further report of the subcommittee. Compensation Sought Inability of operators and union miners to reach an agreement on a new wage-hour contract may turn the enforced idleness of Pennsylvania's bi- tuminous miners into a “holiday” with pay—if it lasts long enough. For the first time since the United Mine Workers adopted the “no con- tract, no work” code, its members are in a legal position to soften the econ- { omic blows of an extended period of idleness with benefits provided by the unemployment compensation law. Miners were reported descending by | hundreds on branch offices of the State Unemployment Compensation Division. Thomas V. Hayes, in charge of the State Unemployment Compensation Di- vision, disclosed a request from 500 miners at Vintondale. Hayes said he would go to Vintondale in answer to the request At a number of Western Pennsylva- nia division headquarters emergency staffs were pressed into service to han- the applications. H~ves revealed that in the event other requests were filed on behalf of larg bers in any of the Cambria Co 1ing towns field workers of th would visit the affected Whether the miners v receive benefits from t pensation act hinged on t the deadloeked New Yo The impasse must la until 24 before the miners cr employment eonopensatic parley April
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