PAGE FOUR Patton Courier, Established Oct. 1893 Union Press, Established May, 19356 THE UNION PRESS Combined with PATTON COURIER Published Every Thursday by Thos. A. Owens, 723 Fifth Avenue, Pat- ton, Pa, and Entered as second class mail matter May 7, 1936, at the post- office at Patton, Pa., under the Act of March 3, 1879. F. P. CAMMARATA, Business Mgr. THOS. A. OWENS Editor Subscription, $2 Yearly in Advance. Advertising Rates on Application. The endeavor of the Union Press- Courier is to sincerely and honestly represent Trade Union Workers in efiorts to obtain econemic freedom through organizations as advocated by the CIO and AFL, and we solicit the support of trade uniens. Mater- jal for publication must be author- ized by the organization it repre- sents and signed by the Presiaent and secretary, and bear the seal. 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. age RANDOM THOUGHT Around a long, gree-covered table in New York's Hotel Biltmore last Saturday a group of hard men from the soft coal country—operators ana union officers— put their signatures to « new contract, that for two years will regulate the terms of employment in the northern and a many of the south- ern mines. For the bulk of the buurm- inous industry again was working on Monday, following a stoppage that fol- lowed “the expiration of the old con- tract at the end of March. ° The settlement, although not yet quite complete, will assure an ade- quate supply of coal It will end the shortage that threatened the con- tinued operation of railroads, fac- tories and public utilities, a threat so dangerous that it brought Pres- ident Roosevelt into the picture, when last week he warned the ne- gotiators to resolve their differences speedily. He did not make any def- inite threat of action in the event that they failed. In the background, however, were recollections of Pres- ident Theodore Roosevelt's role dur- ing the six months’ coal strike of 1902, when, by threatening to send .troops into Pennsylvania’s anthra- cite region, he forced the operators to come to terms with the men. ° The main point at issue last week was settled in favor of the United Mine Workers Union. The union gained a “union shop,” meaning that all manu- al laborers in and around the mines covered by contract must become mem- bers of the U. M. W. of A. if they are not members already. Southern oper- ators, including those of Kentucy's “bloody Harlan” county, with its his- tory of anti-union intimidation, re- signed Saturday from the Appalachian conference of employers rather than concede the union shop. Governor Chandler of Kentucky (Thank good- ness he was not elected to the U. S. Senate) has send national guardsmen in to help the operators. other sec- 15 of the south, however, many of ng s rators are sig parate ag- 1wenis with in niners. ° The UMWA was especially in- sistent on gaining a union shop clause this year because of fear of the Progressive Miners Union, an A. F. of L. affilidte, which is strong in a small fraction of the Illinois coal fields, would attempt to extend its sway. The UMWA is the corner- stone of the Congress of Industial Organizations. A successful drive against the union might have had an ill effect on the CIO. But such a drive, happily, has been forstalled by the terms of the contract and the CIO has gained a firm foundation to press for a union shop in the au- tomobile, steel and other industries organized by CIO unions. ° Aside from introduction of the shop clause, the new bituminous coal con- tract was identical with the old one: It continued the seven hour day and the five day week. It continued the basic wage of $6 for “day” workers in the northern fields. The day workers —drivers, brakemen, drillers, track- men, wiremen, fimbermen, bottom ca- gers—are concerned with transpota- tion, maintenance and other functions of mine operations. The men who ac- tualy “get” the coal at the “face” are paid by tonnage. Their rate varies from $1 a ton for pick mining, where the coal is broken down and loaded entirely by hand, down to around ten cents, where cutting machines are us- ed. The tonnage rate is higher in “low coal” in which the seam is not thick enough for a man to stand up straight, than in “high coal”. It also varies from district to district. The entire tonnage rate structure, set forth is a complica- ted structure. o The coal “trouble” in our district is over for the next two years. That John L. Lewis and his miners won, is cause for gratification. To those who have been condemining Lew- is, there should be criticism, and we have had those. If the miners had lost the battle, they would not have been working any sooner. But the troubles that could have been ahead for all of us in this section would have been manifold. We all have —or we all should have—reason to rejoice, crack. That will be good news to the . Republicans, or at least some of them, I who want jobs. But it is possible, too, | that when the legislature adjourns the , Republican state administration may | decide it is better politics not to break the job jam until after the fall elect- | ion. And that can happen—at least to | a great degree | ° And speaking of the state legisla- i ture, which does hope to adjourn this month, but quite likely won't get it accomplished till June, so far as we can see it will go home with + so few important lanws enacted that | the story can be told in a few para- | graphs. About all that really will be accomplished will be a continu- ance of the Earle “emergency” tax program. There have been scores of bills covering almost every pos- sible legislative subject, but they are on the road to abandonment. . Which, too, reminds us, that the Van Aldsburg bill, ripping out civil service for 4000 employees of the state relief administration will be pickled in the Senate. The bill passed the house last week after a long fight featured by a Democratic filibuster. Which is gooa news to the general public. The rip- per bill was without merit, and simply was a move to make political jobs for the “faithful.” | thod * Cambria county’s new DPA board has finally been confirmed by the state senate, followng Senator John J. Haluska's withdrawal of objec- tions. Senator Haluska, in with- drawing his request that compensa- tion be refused, said that he did not want to be responsible for a break- down in relief in Cambria county, and stated that his reasons for hold- ing up the appointments of Gover- nor James were because the Cam- bria County Board did not contain representatives of labor and because the “newer nationalities” were not represented among the nominees. The Earle administration made the same mistake when the first DPA Board was named, Haluska said, but rectified it at the last special sess- ion by appointing three relief board members who represented the two groups. ® And so, the new Cambria county DPA Board can now go to work. The seven members will be composed of Evan B. Lloyd of Johnstown; Mrs. Mary M. Hayes of Westmont; Dr. Da- vid M. Bantley, of Moxham; A. L. Hunt, of Cresson; Dr. John Allen Mur- ray, of Patton; A. A. Dietrich, of Nan- ty-Glo, and Dr. Charles E. Overberger of Barnesboro. ° With the Bill of Assemblyman Rose of Johnstown calling for one less judge in Cambria county, and with suggested amendments to make it ineffective until 1941, the old contention is still being put forth by the Johnstown Democrat, as to whether this county needs four jur- ists or not, We'll bet all the sitting judges know we don’t even though they may not publicly admit it. But that’s something that you couldn't blame a judge for admitting. ° Last Sunday was an ideal motoring day, and the through highways were crowded with cars. Monday's papers THE UNION PRESS-COURIER. gold rush in the west—have taken | on the “ghost” aspect. . | Time was, in some of these strictly | mining communities when a man had a hard time finding a job unless he! and his family lived in a company | house. However, in late years, the coal | companies haven't ben building suffi- | cient houses to take care of the em- ployees, and the day of the good road and the automobile, brings a man’s employment near him even though he | lives miles away. Hence, houses are in demand always in Patton, Carroll- town and other places that have no mines strictly of their own. The hous- ing problem to accommodate the coal mines stretch out far and wide from the actual scene of operations in this day and age. UNION BATTLES Here are some slants on the CIO battlefronts, as written by Len De- Caux, editor of the CIO News: The miners have again proved them- selves the backbone of the American labor movement. Their successful re- sistance to the coal lock-out should prove a turning point for the whole labor and progressive cause. Compelled to battle on many fronts at the same time—against an open | shop drive in industry, against a cam- paign to destroy the Wagner act, and against hostile court decisions, as in SAVE $$$ ON A GOOD USED CAR at MAIN ST. GARAGE UNTIL SUMMER IS HERE. TEED USED CAR NOW AT THE MAIN STREET GARAG WILL SAVE—AND GET A BETTER CAR, TOO! TAKE A REAL VACATION THIS YEAR. TRAVEL BY AUTO. BUT DON’T WAIT PRICES ARE HIGHER THEN! BUY YOUR GUARAN- Thursday. May 18, 1939. E, CARROLLTOWN. YOU the Apex case—labor has recently had all the disadvantages of being on the defensive. But in stopping the open shop of- fensive, the United Mine Workers of America have furnished protection to €very genuine union in the country. With its base thus safeguarded, labor can advance once more to new gains. : The Wagner act hearings already indicate that the big business foes of the act and the AFL craft leaders al- lied with them are finding it their turn to be on the defensive. And last Bring your Used mer Driving! BIG ALLOWANCE! ing BIG TRADE-IN ALLOWANCES on All Used Cars for A LIMITED TIME ONLY! BUY NOW: and enjoy A NEW CAR for Sum- Car to Us! We are offer. week saw an attempt by some of the AFL leaders to run to cover, after a letter from Gilbert H. Montague to Colby N. Chester, head of General Foods, and general chairman of the @ National Association of Manufacturers, became public. Montague, a corporation lawyer who has been associated with both the N. A. M. and the U. S. Chamber of Com- merce, reveals in this letter that even ® before the Houston AFL convention he was confidentially supplying AFL counsel Joseph Padway with material on the labor act; and that during the convention he responded to his “hurr; calls for additional legal memos phi é 19% 2m Fone data” 1936 FORD DE LUX Montague then states that Padway 1936 Chevrolet Green Mas x 4 = had asked him “confidentially to : ally to pre- pare for him draft amendments of the ter Town Sedan $365 act,” covering some points on which he had received instructions from the ® AFL executive council. This exposure and the knowledge that even more damaging evidence was in CIO hands threw panic into the AFL headquarters camp. On the eve of an executive council @ meeting, at which they feared the re- volt of the AFL membership against the amendments might find expression Padway and John P. Frey sougnt and held conferences with the labor board in the hope of working out a backstairs ® deal to save their faces. 1937 Chevrolet DeLuxe C. Sedan $525 1937 Chevrolet Master T Sedan $425 1935 Ford Coupe 1936 Chevrolet Black Mas- ter Town Sedan ...... $375 SOME REAL 1936 Pontiac 4-Door Sport Sedan $465 1936 Ford Coupe (Radio 1936 Dodge 114 ton and Heater) $325 e crowded with accident tales. In of the practically fool proof me- | in constructing cars, and in ig »f all the curbing legislation on speedy I >kless drivers in Pennsylvania, The CIO was not consulted on this maneuver and immediately denounced any such attempt to “barter away la- bor’s interests” in private conferences. “If the AFL representatives want to 1936 Ford DeLuxe Coupe, at -- $325 CARROLLTOWN man can not legislate any con- ne brain of a of fellows | al the wheers of these modern *fool- | roof” cars. As usual, the Patton Aerie, Fra- ternal Order of Eagles, attracted a large crowd to their annual Moth- ers’ Day Program last Sunday af- ternoon, and the services and pro- gram were fitting. Speakers includ- ed Judge Arthur A. Nelson, of Eb- ensburg, Rev. James A. Turner, the Pastor of the Methodist Church oi Patton, and Fev, Father Stephen A Loya, of Portage, supply pastor of the local Greek Catholic church. Particularly fitting, too, is it that the Eagles do hold these Mothers’ Day observances, for the idea that brought the first Mothers’ Day ob- servance was conceived in the mind of a member of the Eagles and the Fraternity added greatly in creation of its national observance. ° Anything of a curious nature will bring publicity. It may be the first chap who conceived the idea of gulp- ing goldfish, or it may be something more serious, if not so offensive. This week Patton is getting publicity on a matter that may later prove to be a serious problem—a burning coal mine that is endangering the surface of the land, has erupted through a public road, and may later erupt or cavein at points where damage may result to property—chiefly that of the Patton Clay Manufacturing Co. All the more interesting is the problem of how to cope with the situation—and so far no method has been suggested that is deemed practical. ° While Patton has no major min- ing developments at present, al- though coal deposits here are by no means worked out and a come- back will be staged some day—it is fact that many of our working population depend entirely on the mining industry. This week this fea- ture is again evidenced, when men leave at various periods throughout the day to work on various mining shifts in other communities. Colver, tops the list. Revloc, Bakerton, Bar- nesboro, St. Benedict, and Marstel- lar—all have Patton miners in their workings. Patton still is essentially ® The word is out that when the state legislature adjourns the job jam will a mining twon—and perhaps it will continue to be such when some of the others, like the evidences of the back water,” said CIO counsel Lee | Pressman, “let them do so before the Senate Committee, where the publ can be fully advised of the w hole t uation and where matters can be ad- Justed through the Democratic ma- chinery which Congress provides.” In connection with the Apex case, labor's enemies are also showing al- arm at the campaign launched by the CIO for amendment of the Sherman anti-trust act, so that it may be used, LOOK AT THESE VALUES! 1937 CHEVROLET TOURING SEDAN— Here is a real bargain for you! Equipped with a radio and heater, in fine condition, and $475 must be seen to be appreciated 1931 Chevrolet 6-wheel Sport Coupe ...$95 1928 Chevrolet Coach $35 An outstanding value for the price we ask. Come and seeit .. . 1936 Chevrolet 114 ton 157 in. WB, U. Lic. $350 1934 Chevrolet 114 ton, 131 in, WB, T Lic. Express with canopy top 1933 Chevrolet 115 ton 131 in. WB, T. Lic. $180 1927 Dodge 1 ton Truck, at $25 MAIN SI. GARAGE $245 E TOWN SEDAN— 5325 TRUCK VALUES! $245 U. License, 160 in. W. B. . PENNA. LAN hiicibnd |} $38,000 TO BE SPENT HASTINGS MAN GIVEN A as it was intended, against business monopolies and not against labor, The verdict of more than $700,000 damages against the Philadelphia Hos- lery Workers in the Apex case, is shocking the whole movement into g realization that such mis-applications of the Sherman anti-trust act are a threat to every union in the country, So the CIO has had to set up a committee and to launch a nation wide campaign, both to support the hosiery workers in appealing this vicious ver- dict and to seek amendment of the Sherman act so that it may not again be used for union breaking purposes. The big business press has gone to great lengths to confuse the issue thus raised. In so doing it shows its fear that labor with its base now protected in industry, will not be content mere- ly with preserving present conditions, but is strong enough to go forward or- ganizing new industries and in de- manding a real legislative square deal. CRIES OF BABY SAVE FOUR FROM FLAMES The cries of six months’ old Jacquel- ine Fargo, last Friday were credited with saving the lives of four members of the family of Rev. and Mrs. R. A. Fargo, as fire destroyed the six room house occupied by the minister's fam- ily at Vintondale. Rev. Fargo was awakened shortly after 12:30 o'clock by cries of his granddaughter, Jacqueline Fargo. He found the house filled with smoke, and the minister, his wife and their dau- ghter, Barbara, escaped from the buil- ding in their night clothing. The in- fant was also carried from the burn- ing structure. Within a short time after the Fargo family had escaped the house was a mas sof flames and was beyond saving when the Vintondale Volunteer Fire Company arrived. STIFF SENTENCE AT RE.- QUEST OF PRESECUTOR Complying with the recommendation of District Attorney Stephens Mayer that maximum sentences be imposed on Graynor Withers, because of his criminal record, Judge McCann on Monday afternoon sentenced the 37 year old Hastings man to serve from 5 to 10 years in the Western peniten- tiary on a burglarly charge and one and one-half to thre years in the same institution on an aggravated assault and battery charge, and that the sen- tences run consecutively. Withers pleaded guilty to having en- tered the store of George Huether in Hastings early in the morning of April 2. He was surprised by the owner af- ter taking $3.50 from the cash regis- ter. Confronted by Huether, Withers hit the former on the head with a flashlight, stunning him. Hutther’'s as- sailant then told him that if he divul- ged anything that transpired he would kill him. Huether ignored the warning and notified the state police. Withers first became entangled with the law in this county in 1930 when he was sentenced to serve four years in the county jail on charges of break- ing, entering and larceny. He served 11 months. Again in December, 1932, he was sentenced to serve one to two years in the county jail on similar charges and was released at the end of 8 months. In December, 1935, With- ers was sentenced in Richmond, Va., to serve five years in the Virginia state penitentiary on charges of possessing burglar’s tools and attempting to com- mit a felony. He was released from the Virginia institution last December and returned to Hastings. Efficiency in potato peeling is the Some butterflies give off scents dis- tasteful to birds—their chief enemies. advantage of a new variety of potato which has shallow eyes and uniformly smooth surface. ON REPAIR OF 37 MILES OF ROAD IN CAMBRIA More that $38,000 will be expended | by the State Highway Department in repairing and reconditioning roads in Cambria county during the summer, Thomas L. Altemus, county superin- tendent of road maintenance, announ- ced last week. Included in the program will be 37.88 miles of highway on 23 routes. To be used in the work will the second Cambria district in 1936, and again in 1930. He graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1912 and was admitted to the Cam- bria County bar in 1914. He has prac- ticed before the State Superior and Supreme Courts and the U. S. District Court. During the campaign last fall he served as chairman of the Cambria County Republican speakers’ commit- tee. Mr. and Mrs. Evans will reside in Harrisburg. be 5,473 tons of stone for base, and 108,620 galons of asphalt and tar for | surfacing. Among the roads to be constructed will be route 11072 between Coupon and Ashville where 33,628 pounds of calcium chloride will be used. This road was built as an experimental highway two years ago and the use of calsium chloride as a road substance was introduced in the county. It is said by highway engineers that the new method has been successful and the present work will be done on the surface of the: present stretch which has already been treated with calcium chloride. To be resurfaced with this treatment will be 2.34 miles of road. The estimated cost is 6.75. | Route 11086, Patton to Carrolltown | i road, 2.17 miles in length, is also listed for resurfacing. An estimated 6,109 gal- ' lons of asphalt or tar and 356 tons of i stone will be required on this stretch. i The estimated cost is $2,225. TOM EVANS IS NAMED A LAW ASSISTANT Appointed last week by Attorney General Claude T. Reno to be a legal assistant in the state highway depart- ment, Attorney Thomas C. Evans of Ebensburg began his duties at Harris- burg on Monday. He will receive an annual salary of $3,000. Attorney Evans is a former member of the legislature, being elected from a JOE'S CUT-RATE STORE SPECIAL SALE! Men’s Heavy WORK SHIRTS..............49¢ Men’s Heavy WORK PANTS... Men’s Heavy WORK SHOES Mens DRESS SOX...............5e GRIFFIN’S WHITE SHOE POLISH...............9Q¢ Men’s Double Overalls........ 98¢ Men's Straw Hats... 69¢ ’ Joe's Cut-Rate Store Barnesboro, Pa. Pr mm ha Trad ot frat fk bu of cde
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