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THE UN IGN PRESS-COURIER.
Thursday, May 11, 1939.
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Patton Courier, Established Oct. 1893 with four more blows which they gre far as protection in the Labor Rela- all qualified applicants for deputy ap- | But it may be that with conditions as
Union Press, Established May, 1935 | delivering. Little by little, law by | tion law is concerned. pointments and may not appoint any | they are, there won't be much of a
law, labor in the last thirty years has | . le : flurry until after the election. Reason: {
Sn : oo | 4 Another amendment to the La- |of them until the list has been posted We wonder if some of the folks Who There are so many who want jobs
been achieving its objectives in the | por Relations Law, restricting the | i ake’ s 5 ris y ; 4
State Legislature, Until 1937. this pr [Job Ye , 8 We | tien ays. Any deputy sneritf must like to take a crack at John L. Lewis who have been promised jobs, and who
Combined with PATTON COURIER | ©'d'¢ Lesisiature. oni 1 hihi pro-. eligibility of persons who may be |, ’e been ; ici ) because of the miners’ tie-up, ever won't get any jobs—because there are
gress had been painfully gradual but| officers of a labor union. Which is aave been a resicent of the county at stop to think that prosperity in this not nearly enough to go around—that
Pibyish 'd Eyery Thaursiay by Thos two years ago the Democratic legisla- | t5 be assumed means anyone can | least two years before his appoint- section hinges mostly i whether the the vote-getting policy of the James
A, Uwens, 723 Fi venue | ture handed out every piece of legisla : ven | ment, must never have been convict. Miners are making good wages or not. administration will likely be to do no-
ton, Pa, and Entered as second class Ro dome or Se kn Des F hi s ‘ 2 represent labor but the laboring man lod i Che srienm 7 : . Tony fot Generally the complaints come from thing much until after the fall election. Wi
ail Bader May hJs06, at ne post. ion emanded by labor and added a _ himself. [e of any crime an ust not, within the very folks who have to rely to Regardless of what Is done a rather Cc
OHioe BL Nip Bi unget few extra measures. The present leg- * Tne workmen's Compensation Bill, ive Years have acted in any capacity ' a great extent on what the miner has disrupted and at present factional th
of March 3, \ islature, controlled by Republicans, which passed the Republican House as a private police officer offices in a to spend but who are unwilling to Democratic party in Cambria County in
F. P. CAMMARATA, Business Mgr. | has turned the story around. In fact, [100 to 51, restores many of the b labor dispute. This put the “kibosh” on ' have the patience the miner has to as- may have excellent opportunity of of
We ig NS : ‘ » » restore any > pay- | sure » continuati 5 union, & oping g 5 se jobs
THOS. A. OWENS wren JEAIGOP | the House has mapped a definite Pro= ve tae irdeim 1 b ay | imported thugs who came into strike- Sire the continuation of his union, and coping most of the court house jobs Bo
i : 5 Iales awedly i ol ment rates for injured workmen which sreas. and Is ft : his wage and hour protection. lin the fall, because the Republicans th
Subscription, $2 Yearly in Advance. gram to sb lavor, avowe iy to bal- prevailed before the 1937 law and re- |X eas oh is one of the most desirable ° “easily” promised a hundred times the
Advertising Rates on Application. ance the issues between capital, whom | 400s nearly all the payments allowed {labor protection laws of all. If the American Chamber of Com- , more than they can hope to deliver in
The endeavor of the Union Presse the G. O. P. reaally Fepresents and the by the present statute. The bill is ex- Introduced by Representative C. | merce really spoke for American | last fall's campaign, a
Courier is to sincerely and honestly | Men and women of the rank and file pected to cut insurance rates for em- | Frank Gillan, Republican fruit grow- | Business, then the resolutions ad- | : ce : a
represent Trade Union Workers in { who voted them into the law making ployers by fifty per cent-but labor er the proposed amendment to the opted by this organization at Wash- | LAST ALTOONA CIVIL WAR
efiorts to obtain economic freedom | Body. yr 2 Hy savor | may A . ington would have to be written | VETERAN ANSWERS TAPS 9,
through organizations as advocated ” loses in its compensation. anti-injunction law permits courts to down as a calamitly for the country, | o_o in
by the CIO and AFL, and we solicit three hard blows in the 1abor | ne van Angburg bill is a direct | issue restraining orders against | is the opinion of the Pittsburgh | Altoona. —Robin Rhom, 90, the last :
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the support of trade unions Mates. smashing program were struck last 10. 4 the CIO. A CIO affiliate, the | Strikers in any case where a law has | Tress. For, if American business, surviving Civil War Veteran living in Fir
y lal for publication must be au week when the House approved a | ~ : | 3 1. :. | as a whole were as blackly, hopeless- . . : mo
ized by the organization it repre- : . y : State, County and Municipal Workers, been violated or where the strike is | ly reactionary as these resolutions | Altoona, died last Friday of heart dis- St.
sents and signed by the President new Workmen's Compensation bill, {of Ameries. cluims ; ives , ‘a breach of a valid labor agreement. g ot: ; i ad. | ease. He had lived most of his life in
retary. and bear the seal veil. the Van Allsb bill ripni , ms a majority of the | 8 | make it appear, the Roosevelt ad ; 3 2 (
«lid secretary, b passed u e Yan Alishury bil ripping |a0m relier administration employees | The present law bans strike injunc- | ministration could claim itself jus- | Beeb where he owned mines and came ula
The Union Press-Courier gives its. out civil service for 4,000 employees affected by the ripper. If the Senate | tions unless the injunction seeker | tified in fighting business to a toona from Salt Lake City last for
advertisers the advantage of: the of the relief administration, and up- | ror Tomes srnrrta oie | ea " : ooo | knock-out. year. dos
combined circulation of the two | _.. polities coiabliched by the 1937 and Governor James approve this mea- | €an prove substantial and irrepar ° He was born in Huntingdon, enlisted edi
largest circulated weeklies a Cam- oe Ro tn : & sure, these employees can be fired | able injury to property. | What the Chamber demanded was, | in Company F, 19th Regiment, Penn- fist
ja County s a reader cov. | Labor Relations Law. it ; ; ! , 1 ne) : ami 2 Se Tvania Coviley : :
oO a lse.5 oa ae Here ure the four additional meas. summarily and undoubtedly will be, Over in the State Senate there's an- ' jn effect, death for the Whole New sylvania Cavalry, in 1364, and served by
“\ajor mining towns. ; ee ACCILIONAT CAS" “replaced by non-union employees. In other measure pending which unions, Deal. Directly or indirectly it con- Until the eng of the war. rep
vg ures for action before the House this g,.4 the theory behind the whole mat- | row enjoy and have long favored, up | demned practically every Roosevelt A sister survies. of
week: ter is one to create a lot of jobs for for repeal. In 1933, the people of the Before relist ig policy. 2a 3s - —— he
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LABOR GETS A 1. Repeal of the 1937 law forbid- 'G. 0. P. workers without regard to un- | state by majority vote, amended the Dt oof an A n 2 ou Too
: ding peace officers to accept pay ion affiliation, capability or reason. [state constitution to eliminate the tax which now requires a minimum wage cat
GOLDBRICK | from a private citizen or corporation In passing the Peale amendment Qualification for voting. Senator Wood- | in interstate industry of $11 for a 44- ] cap
| and setting up an airtight system | (; the Labor Relations Act, the Ward, Philadelphia Republican, has in- | our week—on the grounds of im- . E
The policy of this newspaper is one, | to prevent deputy sheriffs from in- : ge "x ew a dof resell romncing | Practicability.” Most business men of mal
ed +3 { 1 ti SESE ap That House voted 120 to 55, to outlaw | troduced a J Sint resolution proposing this great free-thinking nation simply ag
to the best of our ability, to foster or- terra ng Strike Haney ers, io ia from the benefits of the law any em- |2 new constitutional amendment to re- | ont agree with the Chamber. rec
ganized labor movements, and for this| is a striking blow at labor. It is a ployees who participated in an “jl- |Store the suffrage qualification. His . | ley
reason we have been led to follow the | blow that even any Republican at | jesal strike initely | resolution is up for final passage this Whatever its failures and faults, of 1
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Democratic party in this state—believ- | heart laboring man or woman can permit employers to publicly voice | Week. To become effective, however, the New Deal represents a necessary Rar
: at only thr gh it has labor had | hardly stomach with reason. It can | their views . fae the Woodward resoluti ot Bnd effort to save this country from a Men's Heavy enr.
ing that only through it has Lz a 5g ia eir views towards unions or the € Woodward resolution must pass the | gjtnation for which business was in : LR pn The
any hope for betterment of its condi- again make the old 1927 situation issues in a labor dispute. Here we |Legislature at this session and again! a large measure to blame. Intelli- || WORK SHIRTS 49c and
tions—and how true this appears to| fact in Cambria or other counties. | pave something that is intended de- |at the 1941 session and thereafter be | gent businessmen know that the ef- Men’s Heavy Bett
be the case—in view of conditions and | It is what the Republicans want to finitely and specifically favor the | approved by a majority of the state's fo unis ore Sdminisieailon a | WORK PANTS 08¢c LaF
2 ings arrist since , give — and apparantly are giving, teins Iv other, will have to contmue, at | BAAN Lr : ue
happenings at Harrisburg, since 1s i. k s craft policy of the AFL. | voters. they want is that it shall be made to || Men’s Heavy NV
have the “breaker boy” Governor and abor. : But here's something tne miners of | So far, the above is what is hap- | succeed. The tragedy for business =F cons owy Mrs
a host of Republican reactionary as- 2. Amendment of the 1937 anli- Cambria county should particularly | pening to labor in the assembly | and for the New Deal is that bitter- | WORK SHOES smersnne $1.48 Rob
semblymen that were swept into of-| labor injunction law to broaden the “view with alarm.” Repeal of the com- | halls at Harrisburg—and there may gniers on hoih sides have gaado |] Mens DRESS SOX... oye Mrs
toe 4 : ast hi ; bs [ 3 : | * | each other into excesses that thwar Y . 4
fice in the election last fall grounds on which courts may 1SSu€ | pany-paid deputy sheriff law, propos- | be more to come. On top of all this | the recovery effort. The United | GRIFFIN’S WHITE I
To some extent, perhaps, labor can | restraining orders against strikers. ed by Representative Edwin A. Lee,| there will be an extra session of the States Chamber of Commerce cer- || SHOE POLISH. ie a
blame itself for what is mow hap- | Which means of course, that unfrine- |qf Philadelphia, a manufacturer by the | legislature next fall, to devise ways | tainly can’t be representative of all | Men’s Double Overalls 98¢ O'N¢
pening. A bitter primary fight in | dly courts can interpret labor diffi- | way, will abolish one of labor's most | and means of additional taxation— | ©f American business. If it were, we M J St Hat Dear o
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the Democratic party without any calties by issuing injunctions ag- |precious objectives. For years com- | and it is pretty generally presumed | would cease 45 be Amerieass | iid ra ats 69¢ ton
doubt, caused wany organized men ainst Workers, as was the Sam. fre- |pany-paid deputy sheriffs routed | that the G. O. P. legislators is head- They're getting more and more jit- | of E
and women in this county and in quenily in the good ou days” of strikes under cover of government au- | ing for inauguration of a sales tax. |tery day by day. Who? The Republi- | 9 Teor
this state to vote Republican. And | Republican rule in this state. thority. As a result, labor was finally | It is their “old love.” It is the tax | cans, who are expecting jobs. We don’t oe S Wor
those who did so, well now have 3. Amendment of the Labor Re- [successful in jamming through at the | that takes off the rich and puts onto | know wes. Hele Seni mons of fom Sma
reason to regret it. And the worst is | lations Law to prohibit Union Of- [last session a law which forbade this | the poor. And labor is poor, So aS ae Dar Geo:
yet to come. ficials from sitting on the Labor | head-smashing practice and made it | its up to you, dear reader, to decide | the stage where the grumbling is get- Cut-Rate Store 2 ;
Having handed organized labor three | Board and completely re-defining |virtually impossible for sheriffs to get | for yourself, whether labor is being ting outside their own ranks, and in i
severe kicks in last week's session, the | the policy of the law. Which means any special depuites on the strike- | given a GOLD BRICK. It won't |SOMe cases there are already threats a :
State House of Representatives has ag- | that lobor would lose not only its |scenes, Under the present law, the | require much thinking to arrive at a Yaw BL hy Hl cisin, he Barnesboro, Pa. Dum
ain returned to Harrisburg this week} pants, but its underwear as well, so |Sheriff must post publicly a list of | decision. wait until after the assembly adjourns. i wa
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