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Patton Courier, Established Oct. 1893
Union Press, Established May, 1935
THE UNION PRESS
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ton, Pa., and Entered as second class
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represent Trade Union Workers in
efforts to obtain econdmic freedom ||
through organizations as advocated |
by the CIO and AFL, and we solicit |
the support of trade unions. Mater-
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The Union Press-Courier gives its
advertisers the advantage of the
combined circulation of the two
largest circulated weeklies in Cam-
bria County and has a reader cov-
erage that blankets Patton and the
major mining towns.
Drivers Union No. 110, A. F. of L.
ceems to be having trouble with the |
United Mine Workers. It was'nt so
many years ago that Drivers Local
110, when they were trying to stren-
gthen their union, had no qualms
about asking support of the United
Mine Workers in furthering their
cause. But, today, Drivers Local 110,
have shown their colors by giving
support to a movement that would
support the Progressive Miners in
Johnstown, Now Drivers Local 110
is on a “spot”, and it is a spot of
their own leaders’ making. Why any
local in this section would flaunt |
the very friends who made the local |
is a mystery. It certainly is'nt good
business on the part of the leader- |
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ship, and it brings misery to the
rank and file of their union, as well
as to the employers who have sign-
as to the employers who have sign- |
ed up with Local 110. |
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The Pennsyivania Liquor Control
Board after laying off some of the em-
ployees, is now said to be preparing
to cut salaries of a number of mana-
gers, assistants and clerks through a
“reclassification” of stores. Some of
the clerks may be reduced from $1200
to $1020 a year. And may we suggest
that $1020 a year is not enough for a
going institution such as the State Li-
quor Stores to pay its help in this mod- |
ern day and age, and if such is the
plan of the James administration—and |
it seems to be such not only in liquor
stores, but also in other departments—
then Pennsylvania can well bow its,
proud head in shame, as a cheap la- |
bor advocate. Under a system put in at
the end of 1938, the salaries of store
managers and assistants are fixed ac-
cording to the amount of business
done at the stores. The Liquor Board
Unit of the State, County and Muni-
cipal Workers of America complain
wages were not granted when sales
increased in 1937 but preparations
were made to lower them when sales
fell off in 1938.
PING.
WHILE.
' matters any better.
i cratic or Republican in its inception
Some complants against dogs has
been manifest in Patton. Some’‘of these |
dogs doubtless have tags. This is the
spring gardening season, and your dog
has no particular business running at
large. If he does Wlamage to your
neighbors’ property or gardens, you
are to blame and should be held re-|
sponsible, There may be dog. owners
in Patton who have canines they don't
particularly want but because of
sentiment, won't dispose of them. Bur-|
gess Jacobs tells us that a word to the
policeman, will cause the dog to be
disposed of. But making information
against your neighbor because of his
dog isn't a very courteous move ei-
ther. If you take care of your dog's
business, other folks will try to. Keep
the dog under control.
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Pennsylvania State Store employ-
ees already get less money than the
men doing the same work in other
states, while salaries of Liquor
Board members in Pennsylvania are
the highest in the nation. Pennsylva-
nia should pay its employees decent
wages. Cutting the “little fellow”
may be “economy”, but it’s not good
ethics, especially when the depart-
ment they work for is a going and a
paying proposition to the state. Or-
ganized in civil service under the
Pinchot administration, the Liquor
Control Board employees have been
outside the circle of politics. There
are just as many Republicans as
Democrats in the personnel of em-
ployees. We hope the James admin-
istration won't make the store sys-
tem a place for political job seek-
ers—and demoralize the high stand-
ard of liquor selling in this state.
The House now is busy legislating
to take away the appointive jobs of
elected members of the state, in
attempting to take 280 jobs of mer-
cantile appraisers, and state assist-
ants to county registers over the
state—and may get away with it.
But they should keep their hands
off the Liquor Stores.
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We stand corrected. A couple of weeks
ago this column rather sarcastically
commented on the issuing of so-called
| ‘loot” packages to the members of the
present Legislature at Harrisburg. Of
course, we were prone to blame it on
the James ‘economy.” Now we find
that the authorization of the “loot”
packages at this session of the state’s
law-makers was made by the previous
administration. But that does'nt make
Whether Demo-
the taxpayers still have to foot the
bill and the Republicans ove:
years and years of time did have “loot”
packages, and did foster them, and it
was not until
Gifford Pinchot that they were abol.
ished and they should again be
| abolished. Legislators are elected to
serve the people not to receive
gifts of toilet articles — which they
award themselves.
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Particularly and rather explicitly
are the miners of this state opposed
to Major Lynn G. Adams as head of
the State Motor Police. The Demo-
cratic members of the State Senate
have so far refused to confirm the
appointment of Adams. But Gover-
nor James says that “Adams will ul-
timately serve as commissioner of
police.” Well, that’s that. But it
won’t help the Republicans gather
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{ Some folks perhaps rather rightly
| are assuming that all is not well with
| the rank and file of the Republican
party in Cambria County. Particularly
is the rather conspicuous absence of
jobs causing more than a ripple in
the lake. In fact, when the good old
Johnstown Tribune every once in af
| while commissions Pete Pumper-
knickle of Ebensburg to write some
of his “fifth story” court house pro-
paganda on county politics for their
editorial page. Mr. Pumperknickle des-
| cribes that all is harmony — that af-
| ter the legislature adjourns jobs will
be forthcoming, and that all good Re-
publicans should continue to be pa-
| tience personified. But the same old
bogey still will exist. There won't be-
gin to be enougb jobs to go around.
Too, it is not unlikely that some of
the faithful may be asked to wait un-
til after the fall election before the
gravy train arrives.
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One has only to read the daily
news papers, as well as a lot of the
magazine articles these days to “as-
sure himself that there is a combin-
ed and concerted effort on the. part
of big business to handicap and to
attempt to break labor unions. Col-
umns of matter, that need not even
have to be read between the lines
give that advocation. And the Am-
erican Federation of Labor to a
great extent is doing the bidding of
the arch-enemies of labor. We won-
der what history of the labor move-
ment of today, written twenty years
from now, will record. It’s not likely
that it will be anything the AFL
can be proud of.
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Having completed its hearings on
| revisions of the Neutrality Act, the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
down at Washington is now engaged
in a difficult and delicate task of fra-
ming a law that will help keep this
country out of war. Of course there is
no legislation, however carefully
drawn, that can absolutely accomplish
this. Powerful resources for defense
are a deterrant to would-be aggressors.
We seem to be creating those resour-
ces. But because of them, let it be
hoped that they will remain just for
that thought alone. There are still a
lot of us who remember 1917, and
there are still a lot of us who don’t
believe it is to any advantage of ours
to try and iron out though loss of life
to youthful Americans just what the
boundary lines in a lot of European
countries should be. They have a war
about every 20 years over there any-
way, and surely Uncle Sam has lear-
ned that besides the lives he offers
and the money he loses, he will al-
ways be holding the bag for gains
that his allies may have that concern
our citizens not at all.
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Here’s another one! The state gov-
ernment may have to pay $1,200,000
by following Governor James’ plan
to abandon construction of a maxi-
mum security prison, Mt. Gretna. If
the contract is abandoned it is be-
leived that the costs of paying off
the contractors would have to be |!
provided from state funds, as the
| General State Authority won’t have
| any federal grants to help. After all,
the federal government isn’t going
| to pay out money for something it
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The present session of the legislature |
And the Republicans promised voters
the moon and the stars, and did'nt
even imagine how they might be ob-
tained.
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Are all the AFL in accord with Bill
Green and his Tory stand on revision
had not been under way long when it| of the Wagner Act? Emphatically not!
was made clear that Republicans were | In New York City last Friday night
not going to make good on most of | more than 600 delegates of both the
their campaign pledges regarding fi- | AFL and CIO unions adopted a reso-
nances, particularly taxation. That, of | lution opposing “without qualification
course, has caused concern within the! all changes whatsoever” in the Wagner
Republican reservation but the lead-| Labor Relations Act, at a special con-
ers hold to the hope that the people | ference held by the two groups. The
will take the view that the pledges| Rev. John P. Bolnad, head of the New
were made in good faith and the party | York State Labor Relations Board,
cannot make good on them because of | pleaded for five years operation of the
inadequate knowledge of the state’s |
finances. That there was no intention
to deceive is proRably true but the|the New York Industrial Council of
lesson brought home to politicians is| the CIO feared “there’ll be bloodshed
that hereafter before they make sweep-| in the South if the Act is abolished
ing promises, they should take time|or wrecked,” since miners and other
to learn whether there would be even’ recently organized workers there “are
a remote chance of redeeming them. not going to give up all they have
Act before any amendments were con-
sidered. Alan Hayward, chairman ot
gained in the last two years without
a fight.”
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At this same meeting of both bran-
ches of Labor in New York City, El-
mer Brown, vice president of the
New York Typographical Union No.
6, (Printer’s Union) AFL, challen-
ged William Green's right to speak
for AFL members in demanding
amendment of the Wagner Act. Mr.
Brown urged “tight unity” of all.
8,000,000 organized workers “under
our banner.” Even if AFL leadership
has apparantly crawled into bed with
Wall Street, ils rank and file has not
done that.
More than 100 persons attended the
annual gathering of the Northern
Cambria and Ebensburg Kiwanis
Clubs last Monday evening in the Eb-
ensburg Golf Club.
The affair was in the nature of a
dinner-dance, with favors being dis-
tributed to the guests. Cards also were
played. {