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THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1939 spay pgm pe SUBSCRIPTION, $2.00 PER YEAR CIO VIEWS UPON MINE MEETING NEW LEGISLATION ~~ PLANS MADE AT IN STATE GIVEN A CONFERENCE Phillips Disapproves of Nineteen Lay Groundwork for District Bills, and Gives His Support | pijrgt-Aid Meet at Courthouse to Ten Others, | Friday Last. nc— : [ Harrisburg —The state CIO's organ-| pjane for the district first aid meet ization’s first official comment on la- | to be held this summer in the Central bor legislation pending in the General Bituminous district were discussed at Assembly was issued on Saturday by , meeting held last Friday afternoon John A. Phillips, president of the Penn. ;p the court house at Ebensburg, at- sylvania Industrial Union Council. | tended by four mine inspectors ang The CIO federation expressed mild- | representatives of 14 coal companies. ly phrased opposition to 19 bills, espec- | In the absence of Roy Joseph, mine sally four Republican sponsored pro- | inspector of the eighth district, who posals to revise drastically the 1937 la- | was in Pittsburgh attending a meeting bor relations act, and approval of ten, | of the general committee in charge of including the Woodward Senate pro-| the district meets, Walter C. Fancourt posal to put all state employees on | of the Sonman Shaft Coal Co., pre- merit tenure by constitutional amend- | sided. ment. | The committe decided to fix the en- | Phillips said the pending labor re-| trance fee for each team at $10.00, the lations amendments collectively would | same as was charged last year. No de- nullify the law, prevent organization! cision was made as to where the dis- of legitimate labor unions, defeat gen-! trict meeting will be held. It was held uine collective bargaining and estab-| in Spangler last year. The time for lish the “unheard of” precedent of giv-| holding the meet will be decided by ng a state Labor and Industry De- | the general committee. It is expected partment head, appointed by the Gov-! that 60 teams will be selected at five ernor, the power to approve or disap- district meets will participate in the prove regulations of a State Labor Re- state finals to be held at the Cambria lations Board. { County Fair in Ebensburg on Satur- The SLRB amendments were in-| day, September 9. dorsed by Lewis G. Hines, labor and The next meeting of the District industry Deartment head, formerly a Committee will be held in the court high official of the American Federa-! house on Friday of this week. tion of Labor, which has suggested a Companies represented at last Fri- model state labor relations law speci- | day's meeting included Monroe Coal fically denying jurisdiction in that Company, Heisley (Coal Company, the ! sphere of state regulation to a labor Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Corpora- commissioner department. | tion; Ebensburg Coal Company, Bar- The four bills to amend the act were M¢S and Tucker Company; Berwind- | sponsored by Representatives Sidney | Vhite Coal Mining Company; Sterling J. Peale, Sullivan County; Gaylord Coal Company; Wilmore Coal Com- Carpenter, Pike; and Walter R. Sloan, Pany, Wilmore Coal Company River- Fulton, all members of the G. O. P.!| 8! house majority. Kerr, Inc.; Johnstown Coal and Coke Peale proposed adding to the act a| Cv; Moshannon Smithey Coal Com- definition of “current labor dispute”: Pany and Madera Hill Coal Company. as one continuing “until the employer! Mine inspectors present were Will- has been able to resume production in iam H. Filer, Ebensburg Richard Geo- volume sufficient to fill orders as sch-|1ge, Altoona; Michael Thomas, Wind- ais customers.” | The Central Bituminous District is Phillips and his council interpreted | composed of Cambria, Somerset, Blair, that as ending disputes when strike- Huntingdon, Centre, Tioga, Sullivan breakers operate a plant. Another pro-| and parts of Lycoming and Clearfield vision of the Peale bill requiring of-! counties. ficers of collective bargaining units to! — be United States citizens, the majority | NORTH COUNTY BOY employed in the plant affected, as pre- COTITQ ; sy « 7 venting organization of legitimate la-| SCOUTS AMONG WORLDS | FAIR SELECTIVE GROUP | | | | ecduled, or to give normal service to! ber and Dennis Keenan, Barneshoro, James F. Dewey, of the U. S. De-| strikes or lockouts in violation of ag- | ber unions and defeating “the present genuine collective bargaining.” Another Peale bill, pending in the Thirty-five boy scouts and three | House Labor Committee was even leaders have been selected to repre- | more ominus, according to the CIO or-| Sent the provisional troop of the | ganization. “The bill would destroy the | Admiral E. Peary Council of Cambria | public policy of the state act and be County, as guests of the New York | contrary to the general welfare,” the| World's Fair during the week of May | CIO labor bulletin said. It adds to the I to 15th. The boys will camp on the | section giving workers the right fo] HO Sounds, and will be tendered a | bzrgain collectively the specification iii agus: fhe hight before de- thar such negotiations be “free from bored om Y bus, for New York Num- interference from any source.” [ ong the thirty-five scouts se- : ... | lected are the following from northern | Another amendment in the bill | Cambria County: Thomas 2.06 | would extend protection to employers Jr, and Fred J Fees Te. Lois yes, by adding this section: “It shall not be! Carrolltown Troop No. 71: William | an unfair labor practice for an em-! Harris, Jr., Donald Foreman and Jack ployer to express opinions with re-! Foreman, of Bakerton Troop, No. 79: | spect to any matter in interest to em- { and John Whalen, of Troop 75, Spang. | ployees or to the public, providing ler, > such expressions are not accompanied — by acts or discrimination or threats.” lw ' SEAT : The Carpenter bill would revise the | WOULD ol EN DAMS : g “policy” preamble of the act to lay the | TO PUBLIC FISHING blame for much of the labor dissension ! ‘0 “unwarranted” activities of labor: Harrisburg — Water reservoirs | union leaders and prohibit Labor Re-| would become Icaas Walton preserves | lations Board members from serving as | if a bill introduced in the Senate be- | union officials or being connected with | came law. any business or commercial enterprise.| Sponsored by Senator John H, Dent, The Sloan bill would give Hines the, Democrat, Westmoreland, the bill} power to accept or reject board regu-| would permit fishing in reservoirs un- | lations and cut the $9,000 a year sal-| der rules formulated by the board of | aries of the board members. It would | Fish Commissioners with the consent | fix the chairman’s salary at $7,500, the | of the Sanitry Water Board. other two at $7,000. Levi G. Lichliter, | —— ee Somerset, is the present chairman. Pat- | Yai Se rick G. Fagan, Pittsburgh, an official Gets DPA Position. ot the United Mine Workers, is the | cther incumbent. A vacancy was cre- Noel Smorto of Barnesboro has been ated in January when Governor Ar-|aPPointed junior county resources in- thur H. James withdrew from the | vestigator for the Department of Pub- state senate the nomination of J. Dress | i¢ Assistance in Cambria County, it} o 1a%, s | Was announced last Monday by Ed-| Pannell, Harrisburg attorney. It ha ward R. Golob, DPA executive direc. net been filled. ! oh Pending senate bills indorsed by the | 2% oe Dien pays an annual sal- CIO group included those to: Limit | Wet working time of nurses to 44 hours al week; out law use of noxious gases in labor disputes; allow relief recipi- ents to own up to $300 worth of home E furnishings; put the state highway da) 07 Dox 12 Some te under a pro- partment maintenance employees on a! , yearly wage basis instead of hourly; establish a Civil Service Board of Re- view in the state liquor board set-up; | permit third class cities to put all em- | Ebensburg — Word has been recei- ployees on civil service; allow state | yeq here of the wedding in Jackson- employees to accumulate sick leaves ville Florida, on Easter Sunday after- Smorto will serve as assistant of James L. Carney, senior county re- sources “investigator. The Barnesboro resident has been serving in the jun- Kittell- Wilkinson and vacations. | noon of Miss Bernardine Kittell, — ne - | daughter of the late Attorney and Mrs. Passes Bar Exams. | M. D. Kittell of Ebensburg and Char- Arnold Smorto of Barnesboro was’ les E. Wilkinson, also of Ebensburg. one of 88 successful candidates from The ceremony was performed at the 182, who took the bar examinations Immaculate Conception Church in conducted by the state board of Law Jacksonville. Mrs. Wilkinson is a gra- examiners in Philadelphia, Saturday. | duate of the University of Pittsburgh. side Coal Company; Peale, Peacock & | | ees are again in direct negotiations, tion whether he believed agreement | CARPUSHINGIS LOCAL YOUNG 7 AIRED BY STATE | MAN ORDAINED g COMMISSIONERS INTO MINISTRY Probable European Power Lineup A 3 / ® ' Bb Potentially anti-Hit|er, o 4 | Cambria County Miners Testify Rev. Paul Rowland Formally Be- (U7) neutralized | Before the Bituminous Study comes Fully Recognized Mem- BB Fascist Rowers | Group at Harrisburg, | ber of Methodist Clergy. f mission, headed by Senator John J. | Creek, Pa, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rich- Haluska, of Patton, sifted testimony of | ard Rowland of this place was, on 7 RP | operators and miners on Tuesday at Sunday, April 16th, ordained into the | Harrisburg, preparatory to authorizing ministry of the Methodist Church, at i ge commendations rae the annual conference of that denomin- | Solving sary | ation held at York, Pa. Visiting him | ing in the industry. av : a cross-section yf sharply conflic. | {or the ordination service Sunday were 7 mie ing testimony was heard by the com- | DiS Wife, Mrs. Paul Rowland of James ry , 3 7 The Bituminous Coal Study Com- | 7 | Rev. Paul C. Rowland, of James black Sea 7 /| | mittee at a public hearing Monday | Creek, Pa., his parents, Mr. and Mrs. 1 | when operators contended abolishment | Richard Rowland, and his brother, of car pushing would be “ruinous” | Robert L. Rowland, all of Patton. and mine union workers urged elim- | Rev. Rowland has been a member | ination of the “back-breaking” prac- | ©¢f the Methodist Conference for the | past several years and has preached \ | tice through greater production and (ll | reduced compensation costs. | at charges at Allegheny Circuit, Rid- OA Regardless of the attitude of the | dlesburg, White Pine and his present XA | commission, Haluska said, he would | destination at James Creek, Pa. | introduce a bill in the current legisla-| An upright and trustworthy boy, an German aggression. Although Great Britain and France alone of the | . | Salliac?! am : " : : in 1937, to abolish car-pushing by man| man, Paul Rowland won the respect allies iorazrenlly aligned against the _Rome-Berlin axis, democ- | power. “Since both the operators and | of all who knew him during his early racies won tentative Soidaricy agreements with Poland, Rumania and miners are agreed there is an evil in! life in Patton, and knowing him as Greece, the latter a direct result of Mussolini s Albanian coup. Turkey car pushing,” he said, “I am hopeful | we do, the editor of ihe Prese-Courior | v the commission will agree with me and | joins with his famil d ““ ’” 7. : & muy an many Hal members of the stop Hitler” group. Yugoslavia, Hungary, Bul- recommend legislation to abolish it, | friends—and they are everybody in garia and the Baltic nations have been neutralized by Germany and Operators maintained cost of in- Patton—in wishing him a long, happy Italy, who count on Spain as an ally in any future European war. | stallation devices to operate the coal | and successful ministerial career, cars would be “absolutely prohibitive” | COAL CONFEREES WILL PERMIT AID tt" 2 EVE, momo abvaens — | | | | Map shows r yi - | : 2p shows current status of European powers forced by Italo ture similar to the one he sponsored | exemplary youth, and a sterling young | | and Soviet Russia, noncommittal at present, are also considered poten- business. FROM GOVERNMENT IN AN EFFORT mind oe city overs BITUMINOUS MiNES up production and paying lower com- : ; : : T R F | EV F DEADLOCK F RO P pensation for frequent accidents re- | Urging that immediate Setion be ta- ‘ sulting from car pushing. and pleaded ken so hat the mines nay be Yeopen- me a nie i the move was vital to protect the lives o% ond the miners fotmm BNL at New York.—Federal mediation has The formula Dewey suggested to the and health of the bituminous coal tango) a OY or been accepted by the representatives embattled soft coal negotiators wasn't | Workers. } dent | op Blas Oy 3 > : g os Sa [dent of the UMWA, and Charles O'- of the United Mine Workers of Ameri- formally discussed, but the general’ No further public hearings will be | Neill, of the operators’ group, in con- ca, and bituminous operators’ repre- presumption was that it dealt directly | held, Haluska said, and the Commis- Krone on the agreement in Now York sentatives, who for more than five with the one great issue that has kept | Sion will meet in Pittsburgh within 2] of his thought. He suggested that the weeks have sought in vain to agree up- ; the two sides apart so long—the issue ow weeks to fromulate its recommen- | miners return to work and that terms on a new labor contract and thus re-| of the penalty clause operative in dis- ions. i . i cpen the idle soft coal mines of the trict contracts. | The ution representatives aghed for] am mabe eight state-Appalachian area. This provision levies fines against | abolition of the hand cars used in: that in this manner all wo 1d gai : | hauling coal from the place of mining | =o rione would logs. H no a gan § . ] j ya : 1, { w se. He offere is partment of Labor intervened in be- reements and its elimination has been | to the face. Among them were George | services for anything he might be able half of Secretary Perkins, at the same | insistently demanded by Mr. Lewis | Humphries of Johnstown. 84 years of | to de. Also, he suggested thot any time emphasizing, however, that he and as insistently refused by the oper- | 22¢; Joseph Jones of the St. Benedict b> ¢ entered into between the op held no brief from the White House it- ators. | Local Union, and Robert Hill of Nan | fing force: ia Lo ros idler inl self. He talked with both delegations, | Dewey characterized his seperate | ty-Glo. They said car pushing repre- | provision which would provide ® that announced “both sides have accepted, talks with both delegations as simply | sented “the most difficult labor per- 4% : : : | : i Sl ; work would not cease in the mines | an exchange of ideas, and to the ques-| formed in the mines” and that if what | recent oani his } it involved was adequately presented | WReR an Agreement expires, his pro. {to the public, general opinion would | Position Being thei 5 Slause - the pi g leklv ee + reements c ake it mandat Workers have started its preliminary| “There is always such a prospect.” quickly force its abandonment. | both id dma 4 Inanae ory oF ISCusSions Wh cite srators! Directly affected. i s bitumi sar-| W. A. Jones, Altoona, representin oir sides to continue negotiations, discussions with anthracite operators Directly affected in the bituminous ar yd Pp g while the men are at work, after the for a new contract to replace one ex- ea are some 338,000 miners. the operators, said the matter was one | Cras : 1 Sie We ii € i expiration of an agreement. If an ag- me as mediator” and the dired confer- At the same time the United Mine ' was near he commented merely: ving Av over between! Traditionally 2. § 01 gotia- | for negotiation between the UMW and p piring April 30th, to cover between | Traditionally, the soft coal negotia for atic 2! 3 4 resment were not reached withn oy 100,000 and 125,000 hard coal Pennsyl- | tors have not welcomed outside inter- € operators at wage conferences an : Si . vania miners ® | vention, and their acceptance of Dew- | Dot a problem for legislative action, | °F 90 days, then either side would be RNa Ho hi aceer a ' at liberty to take such action as they Thus, amid growing complaints of | ey’s services thus was taken to indicate | and insisted that abolishment of car coal shortages attributed to the Appal-! they felt their own resources for com- | Pushing would force many companies achian shut down, substantially the promise substantially exhausted. | to the wall, suspend their operations see fit. Any agreement made, however, | would be retroactive so that neither sid would suffer during the period the entire coal industry was represented at! Meanwhile miners in the region are | and throw men out of work. Other op- id pr : i the labor conference table. John L.|not working. In Pennsylvania they will Sraiors representatives present voiced | 38reement Was het in force. Lewis, head of the UMWA, has threat- | shortly be receiving unemployment | the same opinion. DTTC. Co > c 5 ened directly and indirectly to call al relief. This is a factor in the favor of | TTT Teens PIC KE I'S STOF PING J a strike in the entire industry unless | the mine workers that they have not | MINING STUDENTS ARE TRUCKS IN A MOV E a bituminous settlement come soon. | enjoyed in other strike periods. { GUESTS AT BANQUET | AGAINST A. F. OF L. SIGN MET DIST | BARNES nl MEN anid % . el Truck drivers, members of Johns- ASSION VETHODISY r [BARN BOO § IRF MEX 7 | (Students of the mining classes at| town Local, No. 110, have been made CLERGY IN ALT OONA T'O BU ILD C OMM L NIT Y | Spangler supervised by James Logan | the object of a retaliation move on the DISTRICT AT YORK | HOUSE FOR TOWN |and his son, Lawrence Logan, enjoyed | part of the United Mine Workers, ss | — |2 banquet Selurdy evening in the | who. stationed pictkets this week in r . ; Sl Bhai: ave a community | £rendon Hotel, Spangler. Over 60 the vicinity of Windber and Central York — Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes| Barnesboro will have a community | students attended the affair in addi- City, Somerset county, and have been 7 ON 2 P i ts | building y wi art this wool . last Monday announced appointments | building. Work will start this week Onision to many prominent on ore | grin pe Peta. To oreen anc pastoral changes in the Central, the construction of a new building tad. soit 20a] istry. Sneak.) bon Se ¢ 3 ia Conference of the Meth hich will be 1 i in the B nected with the coal industry. Speak- | sfiliated with the Johnstown Local Pennsylvania Conference of the M | which will be located in the Barnes ers were Dennis Keenan, toastmaster: of the AFL, and while no acts of vio- odist Episcopal Church. | boro Park. According to plans and to Fatrick F. Nairn, Wiliam Lamont, Ww. | lence have as yet been reported. some Pastoral changes inciuded: | specifications submitted by George R. B. Wardrop, and James Logan. drivers are experincing difficulty in k . ro toh EARRF arneshnr ’ rotor - . 1 * a a; i Altoona District, G. H. Ketterer, dis- | Brown, Barnesboro contractor, and Entertainment was provided by | making deliveries. It is said that the trict superintendent; Alexandna, J.| approved by a meeting of the citizens Miss Charlotte Reiger, vocalist, ac-| move on the part of the miners is in W. McMorris; Altoona, Broad Avenue, | in the Barnesboro fire hall recently, ccinpanied by Mrs. Lawrence Logan. | retaliation for the acceptance of mem- W. W. Bribaker; Barnesboro, C. J. | the structure will be 62 by 120 feet in Other vocal numbers were offered by | bers of the newly created Progressive Switzler; Dudley, M. D. Long; Glen! size. | Llewellyn Jones and Josepn Hayes, ac- | Miners’ Union, by officials of the Hope and Madera, T. R. Gibson; Has- | A gymnasium and kitchen will be | companied by Mrs. Adam Wilkin- | Johnstown Truckers Local, No. 110, tings, A. C. Tray; Houtzdale, W. M.|},cated on the main floor and in the !shaw. Miss Mary Simpson of the | the miners seeing no need for any dual Kepler; Newton Hamilton, W. A. Sny- | basement provisions will be made for | Simpson studios presented Lila Jean | movement in mining unions in this der; Pine Grove Mills, John Meloy showers, rest rooms, a large recreation- | and Jackie Roberts in dance numbers | section of the country. (supply); Ramey and Blanburg, D. ai room and furnace room. Brick and |and Rita Shonberg in acrobatics. It) In some sections of Somerset coun- L. Long; Senellsbarg, R. A nox tile will be used. lis planned to make the banquet an ty large number of miners’ pickets are v a in; 3 3 107" - 5 3 3 ing i tas ; The community building project Sf event, in evidence. ¥ A 3 d (s ly. | being sponsore y members of the Ali Buh € © Lovers) re Sa IY Company. 2 AND HER DUDE BOLT FROM DEMOCRATS Tr aox err | RANGERS” WILL APPEAR | THREATENED BY LEAGUE CARROLLTOWN UNITS TEACHERS TO MEET | AT NICKTOWN, APRIL 27| Boston, Mass.—Labor’s Non-Partisan | | ORGANIZE NEW CORPS AT EBENSBURG FOR League was called upon the other QQ 3 “Ha and Her Dude Rangers,” ra. | ight by Eli Oliver, its national execu- Carrolltown — Organization of a ADDRESS BY BETTS dio Ppy of Station. WHI Croan tive secretary, to be so politically or- drum and bugle corps of members of ; . | burg, will appear for a round and | 8anized by 1940 that it could back its The Carrolltown American Legion A special meeting of Cambria square dance and floor show at St. cwn candidates should the Democrat- Post and the Carrolltown Volunteer | County school teachers will be held at| Nicholas’ Hall, Nicktown, on Thursday, | ic Party name a man such as “Vice Fire Company was effected at a meet-|2 P. m. Saturday, April 29, in the April 27, at 8:00 P. M. | President Garner.” ing held here recently. The members, courthouse at Ebensburg, has — This Radio Gang is known to thous- “We stand ready to support either of the corps held their first rehearsal | @pnounced by Miss Jean Davidson, | onq4s of listeners in this section and party that will give us a progressive last wek at the Flinn Music Store| teacher at the Tioga Street School, | their appearance in person at St. Nich- | candidate,” he told the League's Mas- in Johnstown. William G. Flinn has Westmont, 14 Piosiven; pt the coon. | olas Hall is sure to offer all who at- | sachusetts branch in convention, “but been elected Sree Tie sorps. J en eae STS Frou which is spo | tend, a good time. ! we know that the only real fight for The new corps will make its firs ’ a progressive candidate will be at the public appearance in Carrolitown on| Guest speaker will be Dr. Emmett STATE PLACES 2100 iS wlan : Memorial Day. A. Betts, director of the reading cli- IN PRIVATE INDUSTRY Card of Thanks nic at Pennsylvania State College and . | author of several books. A forum per- : Doughnut Snacks {1d will be held after his address, ar- Harrisburg.—The State Employ- May I, in this manner, thank the re in | 1angements for which were made by | ment Service placed 2100 persons in many friends and neighbors, who so Tc use up doughnuts, split them in| nice Sara Jones, assistant superinten- | private industry during the week end- kindly assisted me in any way, during half and spread them with a blend of | dent of Cambria County schools. ing March 31, Labor and Industry Sec- my recent bereavement, the illness and orange marlamade and cottage cheese.| Included on the program will be retary Lewis Hines, said Saturday. death of my moth Mary Dietrick: Tost several minutes and serve hot for several vocal solos by Joseph Boes, The number of placements was an! for the floral offerings spirituel bou- luncheon or supper dessert, or with supervisor of music in the Lower increase of 16 per cent over those of quets, and use of ec at the funeral a hot beverage for a snack. Yoder Township Schools, the perceding week. —MTrs. Bertha Buck.
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