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ANTILABOR SPY
BILL IS HAILED
BY CIO LEADER
John L. Lewis Says That It Is
Important That This Bill Be
Passed Without Delay.
Washington.—Laws to curb anti-la-
bor violence, industrial spying, mur-
der by company guards, and the build-
ing up of huge private arsenals by |
labor hating corporations, were urged
here by John L. Lewis in his testi- |
ROSS AT NANTY-GLO
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| State Treasurer Principal Speak-
er There Thursday Night.
|
State Treasurer F. Clair Ross of
[ Harrisburg, will be the principal spea-
| ker at a dinne rto be held at 6:30 on
| Thursday evening of this week in the
social hall of St. Mary's church at
| Nanty-Glo.
| The dinner is being arranged for the
| benefit of St. Mary's Parochial school
and will be followed by a dance and
entertainment.
{Judge A. A. Nelson of Ebensburg
| will be toastmaster. Among the other
speakers at the affair will be State
LABOR ACT GETS
CREDIT FOR GAIN
IN UNION FIELD
But Survey Discloses Other Fac-
tors Likewise Had Something
to Do With “New Spirit.”
tions Board, declared this week on the
ner Labor Relations Act went into ef-
fect there had been an extraordinary
Washington.—David J. Saposs, chief |
economist of the National Labor Rela- |
basis of a survey that since the Wag- |
PRINCE GALLITZIN
* CENTENARY-WILL
BE OBSERVED
| Loretto Will Commemorate 100
| Priest of Alleghenies.
One hundredth anniversary of the
served next May in Loretto with a
program that will stamp the celebra-
tion as one of the outstanding Catho-
lic activities ever held in the Unitea
Years Since Death of Pioneer |
death of Prince Gallitzin will be ob-
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CONGRESS AND
INDUSTRY GIVEN
BLAME FOR ILLS
CIO Rallies Forces At Washing-
ton This Week for New Organ.
ization Campaign.
Washington—John L. Lewis, rally-
ing his CIO forces for a new organiza-
Tuesday, denounced
industry, congress and the government
in general on the ground that they had
talied to cure economic ills which
mony before the Senate Labor Com-|genator John J. Haluska of Patton, As-
mittee on the LaFollette-Thomas OP-| semblymen M. C. Chervenak, Jr., Por-
pressive Labor Practices bill. !
“It is vitally important to labor and
the nation that this bill be passed with-
cut delay,” Lewis said.
“The principles it embodies have
been recognized by every worker and |
every fair minded citizen as necessary
to the continued existence of our dem-
ocracy. Such a law should have been
on the statute books years ago.”
The proposed bill, Lewis declared,
would restore basic rights to Ameri-
can workers that autocratic employers |
have consistently violated in their at-
tempts to crush unions.
“It will outlaw the labor spy, the
professional strikebreaker, the irre-
sponsible private army, the private ar- |
senals that American industry has re-
lied upon to deny collective bargaining
to its workers. It will remove a bur-
den of violence and a fear of repris-
als that hang over thousands of Am-
ericans in their attempts to organize
for the improvement of their working
and living conditions.”
Lewis pledged the support of the
CIO and pointed out that he spoke for
all labor and progr ives in praising
the bill and the work of the Senate
Civil Liberties Committee whose ex-
posures laid the groundwork for it.
“The forces this bill will deal with
are not only the enemies of labor or-
ganiztion. They are enemies of Dem- |
ocracy and of all government that is
not dedicated to their profit alone..
“I know that I am not speaking only
for the CIO when I urge the immedi-
ate passage of this bill. I know that I
am expressing the desires of every
man and woman in America who must
get a living by working for it, and
who must have the right to organize
freely and without fear in order to
make that living one fit for the Amer- |
ican people.”
CHILD LABOR ACTION
RENEWED BY GROUP
The decisions of the United States
Supreme Court in the cases involving
the validity of ratification of the Child
Labor Amendment by the States of
Kansas and Kentucky in 1937 clear the
way for renewed efforts to secure the
eight additional ratifications needed in
1938 and 1940, according to Courtney
Dinwiddie, general secretary of the
National Child Labor Committee.
The court upheld the validity of
ratification by Kansas and dismissed a
similar appeal from Kentucky upon
the ground that “after the Governor
of Kentucky had forwarded the certi-
fication of ratification of the amend-,
ment to the Secretary of State of the,
United States, it was no longer a con-
troversy susceptible of judicial deter-
mination.”
COLUMBUS KNIGHTS
ATTEND COMMUNION
SERVICE AT LORETTO!
More than 150 Knights of Columbus
affiliated with the Cambria county
councils, attended mass on Sunday
morning at the St. Francis College
Chapel at Loretto. Most Rev. Bishop
Richard T. Guilfoyle attended the mass
and was honor guest at the breakfast
held after the services.
Knights received Holy Communion
| tage; Dennis L. Westrick, Hastings; Al-
{ bert L. O'Connor, Loreto, and H. G.
| Andrews, Johnstown.
A musical program also has been |
| arranged for the dinner.
RED CROSS WORK
'In Cambria County Lauded at A!
lecent Meeting.
| “The past year has been one of mar-
ked service to Cambria County by the
American Red Cross.”
This statement was made by Miss
Anne L. Gallagher, executive secre-
tary of the Cambria County chapter of
the organization, at the annual dinner
{ held last Thursday night at the New
i Ebensburg Inn. More than 100 attend-
ed. Charles W. Davidson, chairman of
the chapter, acted as toastmaster. Miss
Elizabeth Brunner, assistant director,
volunteer service of the national of-
ganization, spoke of the different ty-
pes of services rendered and with the
aid of models showed the uniforms
worn in various phases of work. Rev.
Father William Griffin, director of
Catholic charities, diocese of Altoona,
offered the invocation.
Miss Gallagher pointed out that the
disaster relief committee has been re-
organized under the leadership of Per-
{ cy Blough and that it will in the fu-
, ture hold semi-annual meetings so as
i to be prepared for any emergency.
Owing to new legislation affecting
| veterans, the chapter, Miss Galagher
said, has found new opportunities to
| serve disabled men and widows, chil-
| dren and elderly persons in filing
| their claims with the Veterans’ admin-
| istration. The chapter has also assisted
| veterans in obtaining hospitalization.
| It has also given aid to men discharged
during the past year from the Nation's
| military and naval services.
| Dr. Arthur M. Stull, county superin-
tendent of schools, and many high sch-
ool principals became interested in the
home hygiene and care of the sich
“through efforts
man.” Standard course was given to
girls in the junior and senior classes
in the Cresson, Barnesboro, Carroll-
town, and Beaverdale high schools,
while junior courses were given to
| girls in the eighth grades at St. Bene-
dict and Bakerton.
PLAN FOR FIRST AID
MEET AT PHILIPSBURG
vania are preparing for the _central
Pennsylvania First Aid Meet
will be held on Saturday, July 29th, |
increase in the number and scope of
agreements made between employers
and employees.
States.
First announcement that the centen-
printing, at a speed ranging from 3,000 | breed “black reaction” and “Fascism.”
pieces an dup per hour. This press is| Declaring the “11,600,000 able bodied
completely automatic and will give us| workers” are unemployed, he said the
of Mrs. John Fore- |
While the extension of collective
bargaining might be ascribed to many
| factors and not wholly to the Wagner
spirit engendered by its operation.”
The survey, in which Sarah Gamm,
associate NLRB economist, assisted,
showed, according to the report that
the “most spectacular gains” were in
the mass production industries “where
there was little or no collective bar-
gaining.”
These industries were listed as steel,
rubber, flat glass, automobile, and el-
ectrical manufacturing, but equally
significant gains were made in other
industries, the report asserted.
The survey showed also according
to the report many industries in which
| written agreements had been introduc-
| ed almost for the first time, these in-
dustries including aluminum, cement,
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| 3 ;:
| canning, petroleum and metal mining. |
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Eramples of large scale production
units covered only recently and for
the first time by collective bargaining
agreements were given as the Alumin-
um Company of America, Sinclair Oil
Companies, Anaconda Copper Mining
Company and American Smelting and
Refining Company.
For the first time in the history of
the men’s garment industry a national
agreement was signed in 1937. Sub-
stantial union progress was made in
the textile industry and in the shoe
and leather industries.
And so all along ihe line,
TWO TRAFFIC DEATHS IN
MAY INCREASE COUNTY
TOTAL TOLL TO TWELVE
May increased to 12 the highway fa-
tality toll in Cambria county for the
first five months of 1833, according to
the monthly report of Coroner Patrick
McDermott.
The two deaths in May marked a
reduction of one fatality from the pre-
ceding month when three occurred,
| but represented the same number of
fatalities as was recorded for the cor-
| responding month in 1938.
! The 1939 highway fatality toll at
| present stands the same as the 1938 re-
i cord, 1 2deaths having also occurred in
the first five months of last year.
According to the coroner's figures,
{ the 12 traffic deaths this year were
| fairly well divided over the 5 month
| period, whereas last year seven deaths
| were recorded in one menth.
Mine Workers in Central Pennsyl-| In addition to the two highway fa-
talities, eight other violent deaths oc-
2 | . : .
which | curred in Cambria county during the
month of May, the coroner's report
act, the report stated ,it indicated the |
effectiveness of the act and “the new |
Two traffic fatalities recorded in|
| at Philipsburg. Winning teams will be | disclosed. This was four fewer than in
| eligible to compete in the annual first | April, when 14 violent deaths were re-
aid meet of the state which will be corded.
| held this year in connection with the| Violent deaths last month include
| Cambria County Fair at Ebensburg. | two mine fatalities, one railroad fatal-
i Each member of the team winning | ity, two suicides and two fatalities re-
| first place in Philipsburg will receive
| $25, members of the second place team
will get $20 each and more than $500
in other prizes will be distributed. Am-
ong the mine inspectors who will be
in charge of the Philipsburg meet are
{ Roy D. Joseph, Johnstown; W. H. Fil-
er, Ebensburg; M, W. Thomas, Wind-
| ber, and Dennis J. Kenan, Barnerboro.
sulting from injuries suffered in falls
at homes. There were 32 sudden deaths
from natural causes investigated by
the coroner.
ary of Father Demetrius Augustine
Gallitzjn, revered prince-priest of the
Alleghenies, would be observed in a
manner to attract national attention,
was made on Sunday at Loretto by
1 Most Rev. Richard T. Guilfoyle, Bish-
! op of the Altoona diocese.
| While the celebration will not ap-
proximate in importance or attendance
such Catholic events as the annual Eu
charistic Congress, it was revealed that
preliminary plans call for the presence
of many Catholic dignataries and pro-
! minent laymen from all parts of the
country.
Prince Gallitzin, born of noble an-
cestry in Russia, spurned the purple
| and the marble halls of Russia for the
rigorous work of arnissionary in Am-
erica. He arrived in Cambria 7
in 1799, and established St. Miche 5
Church at Loretto, first Catholic chur-
ch in the vast domain between the
Susquehanna and Mississippi Ri
St. Michael's Church
Catholic houses of worship
Harrisburg. There were
ches in the wide expanse of
the Mississippi river was
where F ich missionaries had work-
ed their way north from the Gulf of
Mexico.
Father Gallitzin, revered as the
“Apostle of the Alleghenies”, died at
Loretto on the evening of May 6th,
1840. Activities planned for the one
no ot
hundredth anniversary next year will |
! pivot around this date, Bishop Guil-
| foyle announced.
|
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MINE SAFETY GROUP
| ANNOUNCES AWARDS
| AT EBENSBURG MEET
| Awards for safe mining practices for
the month of May went to Sonman
Slope of Koppers Company and C. A.
Hughes Coal Company, Cresson, at the
regular meeting of the Holmes Safety
Council of the Tenth B#uminous Dis-
trict on Friday evening at Ebensburg.
President Ira Bradley announced
that the Class A banner for May had
been won by the Sonman Slope where
30,027 tons of coal were produced w
one lost time accident. Class B ban
went to C. A. Hughes company which
finished its fifty month thout an
accident with an accumulated produc-
tion of 15,675 tons.
Holmes Safety Council Certificates
of Merit were awarded J. Hugh, Por-
tage; Michael Seabolt and W. Aberna-
thy, Lilly; Louis Cornell, Douglass Me- |
Clelland and Clarence Butterworth, of
Cassandra. Speaker Friday evening
was C. Owings of Pittsburgh office
of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, who re- !
viewed recent mine accidents in the
United States.
Members of the council will motor
to Pittsburgh on June 24th, for an ex-
S. Bureau of Mines Experimental Sta-
tion. Reservations for the trip may be
made with District Mine Inspector W.
H. Filer, Ebensburg.
INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL
HOLDS IT’S REGULAR MEETING |i Giapuscs nis cori con
hibit of the use of explosives at el ;
of explosives at the i The bills, opposed by organized la- |
the advantage of greater production
and the very finest of completed work.
The press is not to be confused with
the feeder type on a platen printing
pieces and up per hcur. This press is
new unit conceived for better printing.
In addition to this a number of oth-
er improvements in our job depart-
ment are contemplated at once, in-
cluding new and modern type faces,
and the Union Press-Courier will ap-
preciate a continuation of the print- |
ing of its present patrons, and solicits |
that of all others.
DRUNKEN DRIVERS
[Would Get Stiffer Penalties If
Rose and Mayer Get Bill.
Action to have
ed so that leaving the scene of an ac-
cident where a death is involved would
become Vv tary instead of involun-
tary manslaughter, was promised the
other day by Assemblyman Walter E.
Rose of Johnstown.
Mr. Rose will act on a request made
him by District Attorney Stephens
Mayer. In event Mr. Rose's proposai
would become law the statute of limit-
ations would be for five years in an'
automobile hit and run case instead of
two years as at the present.
i District Attorney Mayer cited to
Mr. Rose the case of Cal Reindfleish,
24, of New Florence, who, following |
| his arrest recently on the charge of
operating a motor vehicle while under
the influence of liquor, admitted that
on December 24, 1934, he had struck
and fatally injured Stuart W. Johns- |
ton, 50, in Johnstown.
| Although Reindfleish confessed to
Johnstown officials that his car was
| the one that struck Stuart, prosecution
on a charge of involuntary manslau-
ghter was precluded because the sat-
tute of limitations in that type of case |
runs for only 2 years. Mr. Mayer poin-
ted out, however, that if the crime is
made voluntary manslaughter under
the law that the statute would run
for five years and that anyone com-
mitting such an act
ed at any time within five years fol-
lowing the date of the accident.
Assemblyman Rose declared that he
believes the proposal “a most sensible
one” and that it would be one of which
the public would approve.
GOVERNOR PUTS HIS
| SIGNATURE ON 3 BILLS
THAT LABOR OPPOSED
Harrisburg.—Three labor bills pass-
‘ed by the 1939 legislature, affecting
thousands of Pennsylvania men and
ture to them.
| bor leaders, revised the state’s “Little
Wagner” Labor Relations Act by
; sharply defining the rights of employ-
| ers and workers, extending from 10 p.
| m. to midnight the permissible work-
| ing hours of women in industry and re-
| laxed the anti-injunction law to per- |
ite law amend- |
could be arrest- |
women workers, became effective last
| Friday with Governor James’ signa- |
congress had done “worse than noth-
| ing” to solve this problem. He asserted
that agencies of congress had been
busying themselves “tearing the vitals”
| out of measures for the unemployed.”
In a keynote speech to a session of
the CIO Executive Board, he declarad:
| “I do not think the people will much
| longer have patience with the nostalgia
| and the powers of corporate business.
| “Nor will they be content with the
timid solutions offered by government,
solutions fearfully withdrawn before
they can be really tested.
| Lewis told his leaders that the na-
! tion needed courageous leadership to
|
ward off the “danger of being engulf-
[ed by a wave of despair and “black
reaction.”
| In taiking of the unemployment of
| eleven million workers, Lewis said:
“The slow undermining of the faith
| of these people in the ability of our
nation to provide them with a job
constitutes an ever growing menace
to the stability of our form of govern-
ment.”
Prefacing the discussion of a new
campaign tor CIO membership, Lewis
| told the board that “progressive. labor
1s not retreating.”
“There are still in tais land 20,000,000
unorganized wage earners,” he said.
“In many important measures, such
as the rapidly expanding aircraft and
| shipbuilding operations, we have only
| begun the job of organization.”
| The executive board, summoned to
| Washington to prepare for a new or-
ganizing drive, in the nation’s big in-
dustries, was asked to authorize the
use of injunction and damage suits in
the war against the rival American
Federation of Labor.
Lee Pressman, CIO general counsel,
sala such legal actions would be aim-
ed at AFL boycotts against products
manufactured by CIO workers and
! “collusive contracts” signed by em-
{ ployers and AFL unions to freeze out
the CIO.
The proposal to carry on the labor
war througn the courts was made in
one of a series of reports to the board.
Another report urged that congress
amend the Social Security Act to pay
a maximum of $60 a month pensions
tc persons 60 years of age and older,
witn supplementary allowances for
wives which would ilicrease the max-
imum to $90.
NEW YORK YOUTH DROWNS
Lure of a swimming pool in the
mountains of Pennsylvania ended fa-
tally on Sunday for a New York City
young man who was spending the
summer on a Cambria county farm.
| William Chort, 21, of New York, was
drowned in Clearfield Creek, near the
Flinton bridge between two and three
o'clock on Sunday afternoon. He had
arrived a few weeks ago to work on
| the Joseph Monahan farm in White
| Township, three miles out of
| Timber on the St. Augustine road. He
went to Coalport on Sunday to visit
Harry Monahan, son of Joseph Mona-
| han, and husband of a sister of Chort’s
| mother. In company with the young
| Monahan Chort went swimming.
Harry Monahan told Coroner Pat-
rick McDermott that Chort had been
disporting in the tien foot deep hole
Fallen
at the mass celebrated by Rev. Father BARNESBORO LEGION WILL
John E. O'Connor of Altoona, state SPONSOR ENTERTAINMENT
chaplain. | FOR ASPINWALL VETERANS
| The Barneshoro American Legion
Ww 5 { Post is sponsoring an entertainment
| for veterans at the Aspinwall Veterans
| Hospital on Thursday, June 29th. Fred
| L. Soisson,” well known Hastings
| marksman, will entertain with an ex-
i hibition of rifle, pistol and shotgun
| shooting. The following members of
| Barnesboro post are now patients at
America’s Foremost Entertainer | j,, Aspinwall hospital: Dick Scollon,
The regular Semi-Monthly meeting] The discussion of the American
held in the Vintondale Dance Hall on | floor and each local was asked to
June 7th. Mr. R. G. Davis presided in place at least two pickets on in Bar-
the chair. The roll call was read and | nesboro on Saturday. It was also deci-
answered by the following local unions | ded that each local union should write
of Cambria county, Revloc, U. M. W.| a letter to the Management of the
of A, Emeigh U. M. W of A, Moss- | American Stores Co. in this area and
creek U. M. W. of A. Benedict U. M. | ask him to bargain collectively and
W. of A. Vintondale U. M. W. of A, | sign a contract with the Wholesale and
Colver Clerks, Barnesboro Clerks and | Retail Clerks Union.
the Truckers, U. M. W. of A. Mr. John Maholtz spoke of the ac-
A letter from the Barnesboro Clerks | tion of the Legislature and the Truck-
of the Trades and Labor Council was | Stores Co. in Barnesboro was on the |
Yons, : | and was able to swim. He dove from a
James McDevitt, head of the AFL | 55rd and came to the surface only to
Pennsylvania Federation of Labor, and | gjsapnear. Other swimmers at the pool
| John A. Phillips, president of the CIO | 413 the coroner that not much time
| Pennsylvania Industrial Union Council, | e1ansed before Chort was brought out
opposed the measures as “vicious anti- | 4 the water. Coalport doctors report-
labor legislotion. to a: | ed that in all probability Chort was
They carried their fight to Governor seized with cramps ”
James in asking him to veto the bills. fi
The Governor refused. bio .
McDevitt said, after the Governor | Reiffton, Berks county, as Fagan'’s suc-
announced his intention of approving | cessor. Gifford has been general or-
| the legislation, that Jabor leaders were | 8anizer for the American Federation
discussing with their attorneys pos-|0f Labor in Eastern Pennsylvania.
sibility of testing the new laws in The amendments to the present an-
Brings Orchestra and Many |
Entertainers to Ball Room. |
—. |
|
Armed with saxaphones, clarinets, |
violins, trumpets, trombones, blondes,
brunettes and redheads, Ted Lewis,
America’s premier showman, together
with his celebrated high hat and his
world famous dance orchestra and |
stage revue, wil appear in person at|
SUNSET on Wednesday, June 21st.
Lewis is the mood-man of contem-
porary American music; a sleight of
hand artist, who with his little bag of
tricks, can evoke sobbing syncopation
or crazy cacaphony at will, The Tea
Lewis revue, entitled a “Rhythm
Rhapsody”, is an entertainment fan-
tasy from giart to finish.
|
Jack Ellis, John Beck, and Jack
Welch. The public is invited to attend
the entertainment.
GALLITZIN MINER HURT.
ing for the assistance of the Trades
and Labor Council. A motion was re-
corded in the minutes of the meeting
Caught under a fall of rock Mon-
day morning while at work in No. 10
mine of the Pennsylvania Coal
Coke Company at Gallitzin, John |
Greene, 50, Gallitzin, suffered a com-
pound fracture of the right knee and
lacerations of the head.
He was taken to the Memorial hos-
pital, Johnstown, and his condition is
listed fairly good. Greene is president
of Gallitzin Local 1056, United Mine
Workers of America.
The fall of rock occurred after a
mine car jumped the track and crash-
ed into several props, dislodging them
that the Council lend their moral sup-
port to the clerks’ organization and that
Union was read and discussed for a
lengthy period: the clerks were appeal- |
ers of letting bids for dump trucks,
which would only mean favoritism for
| the unorganized truckers getting the
| Jobs with their low bids against or-
ganized truckers. It was recorded that
| a telegram be sent to the governor
| asking him not to sign this bill until
and all delegates present would go back to | a public hearing had been held by the
their respective local unions and notify | truckers. The bill is House Bill 673.
their membership to refrain from buy- |
The store clerks of the Industrial
ing any products that were made oh Stores said that the contract between
the Home Baking Co. of Ebensburg
until the management recognizes the
clause set forth in his contract for
Collective Bargaining for Arbitration.
The discussion on H. R. Bill 6471,
dealing with wages and hours for re-
lief workers. It was recorded that the
Council wire our congressman not to
vote for the bill,
them and the Industrial Stores would
expire on June 29th and asked for all
locals to cooperate and help them to
regain another contract. The next
meeting of the Trades and Labor Coun-
cil will be held in the St. Benedict
Local Union Hall on June 28th, 1939.
the courts.
Changes in the Labor Relations Act
include those giving employers as well
as employees the right to petition for a
collecvtive bargaining election; de-
claring as unfair labor practices sit-
down strikes and intimidation either
by employer or labor organization and
permitting a “check off” of union dues
only after a secret vote of the em-
ployees.
Another provision prohibited a mem-
ber of the board from engaging in oth-
er activity. It was aimed at one of the
members of the present board, Patrick
T. Fagan of Pittsburgh, who is presi-
dent of District No. § of the United
Mine Workers of America.
All local unions are invited to attend.
Joe Jones, Treas,
Shortly after signing the bill, Gov.
James appointed Harry Gifford of
ti-injunction law relaxed the statute to
permit courts to issue restraining or-
ders in labor disputes in case of a sit-
down strike; violation of a “valid labor
agreement;” where the court finds a
1 union sought to compel an employer to
| have his employees favor a particular
| labor organization and in cases of en-
forced violation by an employer of the
Labor Relations Act.
Governor James advocated enact-
ment of the new Womens’ work law,
which permitted two shifts a day in a
plant from 6 a. m. until midnight. The
Governor and other Republican lead-
ers claimed it would attract new indus-
try to the state. Democratic opponents
and labor leaders contended it would
permit men drawing higher wages to
be replaced by women workers.