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Local Unions and Cen-
tral Bodies Over Cam
bria County and Ad-
jacent Mining Areas.
Union Press, Established May,
NO. 46.
V. OL. 45.
REGISTRATION OF
VOTERS SHOWS A
NEAR BALANCE
Republicans Have An Advantage
of 604 With Rather Heavy
Lead in Johnstown.
"st time since 1336 the Re-
y in Cambria county has
10crats.
This was revealed on Saturday
istration st
was completed at the office of
county commissioners.
The figures ow t
of 43.471 voters registered as Republi-
cans, compared to 42,867 registered
Democrats in the 171 districts in the
county, including Johnstown, the Re-
publ s have a lead of 604.
BF: year ior the November elec-
tion 43,607 wer sgistered Republicar
and 45,170 © stered Democrats,
giving the Hatter a lead of 1,563. In 193
the Democrats nad a lead of 1,592.
In 1936 the Republicans held a sparse
lead of 18.
The new registration shows that in
the 43 districts in the city of Johns-
town 16,393 voters are enrolled as Re-
publicans compared to 11,734 register-
ed as Democrats, giving the Republi- |
cans a lead in the city of 4,659.
In the 128 districts outside of the |
city, 31,133 are registered as Demo-
crats, while 27,478 are enrolled as Re- |
publicans, giving the Democrats in the
districts outside the city a lead of 4,-
055 in those districts.
The total registration in the county
shows a decrease this year, as com-
pared to the November, 1938, figures,
of 2.402. The total registration this year
is 86,734, which includes besides the
Republican and Democratic enrollment
90 registered as Prohibitionists, 154
Socialists and 152 non-partisans. Last
year's registration for the November
election was 89,136.
The decrease is due, in part, to the
fact that many persons who had resid-
ed in Johnstown removed from the
city and evidently did not reregister in
other districts in the county to which
they removed.
Ano hee factor in the decrease in
i tion was that the registration
E OS as of persons residing
vn were removed from the
they had failed to vote
1ccessive years as provid-
ed by the permaner egistration act.
The following table shows the regis-
tration by districts:
during
Rep. Dem.
Adams Twp., No 1 164 62
Adams T , Dunlo 220 474
Adams T Elton No. 1 146 46
Adams Twp. Elton No. 2... 45 145
Adams Twp., Gramlg'tn 138 56
Adams Twp., St. Michael 251 39€
Adams Twp., No. 7 .. 78 68
Allegheny Twp. .. . 92 364
Ashville Boro .. 65 186
Barnesboro Bor, No. 1 ... 294 306
Barnesboro Boro, No. 2 .... 307 231
Barnesboro Boro, No. 3 .... 250 308
Barr Twp., Northeast .... 36 182
Barr Twp., Northwest ._.... 142 228
Barr Twp., South rine: 12D 375
Blacklick Twp., No. 1 257 170 |
Blacklick Twp., No. 3 ...... 154 507
Brownstown Bor., No. 1 . 101 344
Brownstown Bor, No. 2 .... 26 153
Cambria Twp, No. 1 ..... 345 205 |
Cambria Twp., Colver __.... 350 531 |
Cambria Twp., Revloc ..... 154 263 |
Carrolltown Bor.,, East ... 91 193 |
Carrolltown Bor, West _.. 124 211 |
Cassandra Bor. 39 166
Chest Springs Bor.
Chest Twp,
Clearfield Twp. ...... 8
Conemaugh Twp., Lower __. 193 243 |
Conemaugh Twp., Upper .... 120 91 |
Cresson Bor, No. 1 289
Cresson Bor., No. 2 368
Croyle Twp., No. 1 ...... 119
Croyle Twp., No. 2 352 |
Croyle Twp., No. 3 94
Croyle Twp., No. 4 111
Daisytown Bor . 116 |
Dale Bor. No. 1 : 246 |
Dale Bor, No. 2 .. iene O21 141 |
Dean Twp, ..... 143
East Carroll Twp., ‘North 142 222
East Carroll Twp., South 91 270 |
E. Conemaugh Bor, No. 1 539 508
E. Conemaugh Bor., No. 2 235 179 |
E. Conemaugh Bor.,, No. 3 271 246 |
East Taylor Twp., No. 1 .... 165 115 |
East Taylor Twp., No. 2 .... 133 169 |
East Taylor Twp., No. 3 .... 7 178
East Taylor Twp., No. 4 .... 151 75 |
Ebensburg Bor. Center ... 348 192 |
Ebensburg Bor., East 275 |
Ebensburg Bor., West .. 263
Eider Twp. i. 594 |
Ferndale Bor. No. 1 .. 149
Ferndale Bor., No. 2 138 |
Franklin Bor... 214 788 |
Gallitzin Bor, No. 1 .... — 194 380
Gallitzin Bor., No. 2 612
Gallitzin Twp., East 208 |
Gallitzin Twp., West 164 |
Geistown Bor. ....... 196 |
Hastings Bor., No. 1 351 |
Hastings Bor.,, No. 2 259 |
Jackson Twp., No. 1
ackson Twp., Vinco ..
..(Continued on Page 7.)
| (Seal)
by John L. Hite, Prothonotary of Cam-
filing of 606 wage liens—the largest
known number ever filed in Pennsyl-
this matter the workmen of the Logan
Coal Company were saved the expen- |
diture of approximately one thousand
dollars ($1,000.00) at a time when they
were in financial distress, and,
titude towards Labor in
therefore be of, |
and members of Local Union No. 2233,
90 | United Mine Workers of America of
100! Beaverdale, Pa., of which the work-
men of the Logan Coal Company are
A GENERAL NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS
OF ORGANIZED LABOR IN
UNION
CENTRAL
1935,
PENNSYL
VANIA.
PENNSYLVANIA
JOBS FALL FAR
SHY ON RELIEF
Only Enough Work Found to
Care for 3 Per Cent of the
175,000 on
Eligible Rolls.
the Pierson work-
I 1 me effective three
go, Pennsylvania's sixty-seven
have provided only enough
jects to give employment to
5,200 relief recipients, or fewer
three per cent of the 175,000 cer-
ified as able to work for their dole.
It has been disclosed that more than
half the c¢ s had produced no pro-
jects under the Pierson act, the terms
of which require the son on re-
rork a sufficient number of
hours at » prevailing rate of pay to
“work out’ relief.
State relief officials had hoped that
the Pierson act would make relief less
attractive and would put “professional”
relief recipients off thp rolls.
Despite its apparai® ineffectiveness
lief must w
so far, because of the failure of many
municipalities and .other
agencies to provide work-for-relief
projects, the plan was defended by
Howard L. Russell, State Secretary of
Public Assistance.
Asserting that he was not at all dis-
turbed, Mr. Russell predicted that the
state would get plenty of projects in
spite of the figures given out present.
So far 32 counties have certified 2,-
083 jobs under more than 100 projects,
and each job, because of the limited
time many relief recipients will be
required to work, will take two or
three men.
Estimating 2.5 men per job, statisti-
cians of the Public Assistance Depart-
ment figure that 5,207 relief roll mem-
bers would be working for their dole
enis week.
Mr. Russell said the plan would not
be in full swing before mid-Septem-
ber and estimates of the persons ev-
entually to be employed under it ran-
ged up to 50,000.
Pennsylvania relief heads have been
banking on an improvement in busi-
government
ness to reauce tne immense relief load |
during the coming fall and winter.
Mr. Russell said a few days ago that
“all of the factors except WPA” were
pointing toward recovery.
Since then the WPA has increased
its September quota of jobs for Penn-
sylvania by 21,000 to 150,000. On the
basis of proposed monthly quotas an-
nounced by WPA headquarters the
winter peak in Pennsylvania should be
reached in January or February, with
this commonwealth getting about 8
per cent of the nation-wide total of 2,-
400,000 jobs, or about 190,000.
This, however, is 80,000 fewer than
the WPA jobs available in Pennsyl-
vania last January.
HITE ENDORSED
RESOLUTIONS FROM TWO UNIONS
LAUD PROTHONOTARY FOR
FAVORS RENDERED.
The Press-Courier is in receipt of
the following two communications, in
which the candiacy of Prothonotary
John L. Hite is indorsed for re-election:
From Local Union 561, International
Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employ- |
ees and Moving Picture Machine Oper- |
ators, Johnstown, Pa.
August, 1, 1939. |
| To whom it may concern:
We, the members of Local Union No. |
561, of Johnstown, Pa., have endirsed |
|
| John L. Hite as our Republican candi-
date for the office of Prothonotary for
the reason Mr. Hite has proven in the
past that he is friendly to, and co-oper- |
| ates with organized labor.
Respectfully,
Gene Risher, President. |
Corbin Burtnett, Secy. |
The other communication is a reso- |
lution from the United Mine Workers |
of America, Local Union, No. 2233 at |
Beaverdale, and is dated August 17th, |
227 | reading as follows:
Resolution Endorsing John L. Hite for |
Re-Election. |
Whereas: Because of the aid given |
bria County, Pa., to the workmen of
the Logan Coal Company, in their re- |
cent efforts to recover back wages due |
them, in setting up his office in Bea-
verdale and thereby facilitating the
vania—and
Whereas: By Mr. Hite so facilitating
Whereas: Because of his friendly at-
general, |
RESOLVED: That we, the officers
| ies will be introduced, and will speak.
| Mr. Emil Schwing, of Johnstown, vice-
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AREA.
JERS, AUGUST 24, 1939
No Prospect Coal Prices
Will Be Set
Washington.
mum prices for the
at the mi coming effe
the first of the year are r
government and private coal
agree.
The Bituminous coal division has
not yet reached the half way point in
hearings on the proposed prices.
Possibilities of mini-
sale of soft coal
re before
The hearings started four weeks
ago—for coal fields only the big est-
ern districts—still have at least six
ks to go. Hearing dates have not
been set for other districts.
The division now is receiving of six
if the district boards in the eastern
fields for or against the prices recom-
mended shortly before the Bituminous
Coal Commission was abolished early
this summer.
When that testimony is finished an
even bigger job is due—the hearing of
This Autumn
argume individual consumers
from each district.
After the hes are
Director How ard Gr of
n of the
nous Coal Div
of the can pega direct
tion t¢ inal order setting the
proposed J > effect.
Gray's
, probably
gs. It is
upon reaching his de-
ision, will allow
between the date of the
effectiveness.
It all ¢ say the coal experts,
“to a final order, not much, if any, be-
january 1.”
added, too:
the ¢ ost certain
contest in the ec . Some operator
undoubtedly will ck the price-fix-
ing order and if possible carry it to
tne supreme court.
‘two to laps
yrder and
ore
“The there’
Evcellent Racing Program T, 0
Be Feature at Ebensburg Fair
An elaborate program of trotting and
running races will be one of the many
features of the Cambria County Fair,
which opens at the Ebensburg Fair
Grounds on Labor Day, Monday, Sept.
4th, and continues through Saturday,
September 9th, James A .Wilkinson,
race secretary of the Cambria County
Fair Association has announced that
entries are coming in rapidly. Joseph
McGraw of Washington, Pa., will be
in charge of the races. He is one of
the best known starters in the coun-
try.
The races will be run Monday, Wed-
nesday, Thursday and Saturday after-
noon with purses totalling $4,800 of-
fered as prize money. The complete
race program is follows:
Monday, Sept. 4.
Handicap Trot—3 dashes at a mile
wurith ponatics, 400.
All horses eligible and te be handi-
capped at time of entry. Winner of
each dash 40 ft. additional. Limited to
120 feet.
17Class Pace , i $300
25 Class Trot $300
Half Mile Run . $100
Three Fourths Mile Run $100
One Mile Run $100
Wednesday, Sept. 6.
Pace $300
20 Class Pace .. ; $300 |
22-18 Trot, Claiming price $800, 3
dashes at a mile with penalties $300
22 class, scratch; 20 class, 35 feet;
18 Class, 70 feet. Winner of each dash
35 feet additional. Limited to 105 feet
penalay. If entered for $500, allowed
35 feet.
Half Mile Run $100
Mile Run $100
Thursday, September 7.
14 Class Trot $300
25 Class Pace $300
21-17 Pace. Claiming Price $800. Three
dashes at a mile with penalties, $500.
21 class, scratch; 19 class, 35 feet:
17 class, 70 feet. Winner of each dash
35 feet additional. Limited to 105 feet
penalty. If entered for $500, allowed
35 feet.
Half mile run $100
| Mhyroa. Rannthe Mila. Tan e100
Mile Run $100
Saturday, September 9th,
Handicap pace 3dashes at a mile
with penalties, $400.
All horses eligible and
capped at time of entr
to be handi-
Winner of
each dash, 40 feet additional. Limited
to 120 feet.
$300
$300
$100
Mile Run $100
Printers’ Union Ousted From
American Federation of Labor
Atlantic City, N. J.—William Green,
president of the American Federation
of Labor, announced last week that the
A. F. of L.’s executive council had de-
clared the International Typographical
Union “automatically suspended’’ for
nonpayment of a special assessment.
Green said the I. T. U. could obtain
automatic reinstatement by paying an
assessment of one cent a member per
month which was levied in 1937 for an |
organization fund during the heighth
of rivalry between the A. F. L. and the
Committee fo* Industrial Organization. |
Unless the payment is made, Green |
| but the I. T. U. was
said, the I. T. U. will be denied seats
at the A. F. L.’s national convention
opening in Cincinnatti, Ohio, on Octo-
ber 4th.
A fight over its seating occurred at
the last convention in Houston, Tex.,
admitted with
what Green said was an understanding
the assessment would be paid.
The I. T. U.—powerful and domin-
ant—has consistently refused to pay
any assessment levied for the purpose
of fighting organized labor—CIO or
otherwise, and likely takes the ouster
from the AFL with but little care.
REPUBLICANS
WILL HOLD A RALLY IN EBENS-
BURG COURT HOUSE NEXT
TUESDAY EVENING.
A joint rally held under the auspices
of the Northern Cambria Republican |
| Club and the Central Cambria Repub-
lican Club will be held in Court Room
No. 1, at the Court House in Ebens-
burg on Tuesday evening next, August
| 29th, starting at 8 o'clock.
There will be music and entertain- |
ment, and Republican candidates for
nomination at the forthcoming primar-
chairman of the party in the county,
will preside as honorary chairman. All |
Republican voters are cordially invited |
to attend.
The annual harvest home reunion of |
VETS CLUB PICNIC
WILL BE HELD NEXT SUNDAY AF-
TERNOON AT SHAFFER’S
PARK, BEAVER VALLEY
The first annual picnic of the John
White Ex-Servicemen’s Club of this
place will be held at Shaffer's Park at
Beaver Valley on Sunday next, from
| 10 in the morning till 7 in the evening,
and will be for the club members and
their wives and children. There will be
plenty of ice cream, pop and other re-
| freshments. There will be free coffee
| but bring your own cups or other con-
| tainers. Those who do not have trans-
portation will be accommodated. Ev-
eryone attending the picnic will have
an equal chance of winning a grand
| prize of a large basket of groceries.
The Patton Band will be on the
St. Michael's Church at Loretto, will | grounds 10 furnish music and the con-
be held on Sunday, September 3rd. Wo- |
men of the parish will furnish the |
afternoon and evening meals with |
chicken and noodles as the menu.
— fs — |
members, assembled in regular session
August 17th, 1939, do heartily Lu
the re-election of Mr. Hite to the of- |
filling,
. JAMES T. PARKS,
JOHN A. TOWNSEND,
LESTER BATEMAN,
(Seal) Resolutions Committee,
| mittees are planning for a gala day.
State Senator John J. Haluska, is
tions, and will give a demonstration of
| sleight of hand that will truly amaze |
you. Lately the Senator has been gain-
ing a reputation that is extending far |
| phrey and Edna Walker.
| There will be games, contests and
fice he now holds and is so capably | rey announces the engagement of two | amusements for old and young during |
regular picnic speakers, in the persons! the afternoon, and prizes will be given |
of William Jones, President and Gener-
al Manager of the Fairview Hog Asso-
| ciation, whom we presume will talk
and wide.
Publicity chairman George Humph-
on affairs of the association, and John
at least a week or |
|
AN ATTAINMENT OF THE LARGEST GENERAL WEEKLY
NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA,
723 South Fifth Ave
PATTON. PA
MINERS VIEW OF
LAST CONGRESS
IS NOT PLEASING
Claim They Did About All the
Harm They Could to Common
People Before Quitting.
. W. Journal.)
its session, quit and
had done about ali
n it do to the common
f the nation. It cut down re-
the millions of unemployed.
that, but it threw 600,000 more
L f work by forcing the WPA
| to reduce its working force to that ex-
| tent. It went further and cut the hour-
11 most WPA workers in
ly wage rate
half: by requiring them to work about
wice as many hours a month as they
formerly worked for the same amount
of pay. Thus, Congress made a vicious
! assault upon the wage structure of al!
| industry. The House refused even to
| consider a bill backed by the President
{ to establish an $800,000,000 fund for a
| building and housing construction cam-
paign, which would have afforded em-
ployment for many thousands of con-
| struction workers. The House also re-
fused even to consider a bill passed by
the Senate to create a fund of nearly
$2.000,000,000 for lending to industries
to help them to increase their business
and thus give employment to other
thousands of unemployed. These are
but a few of the things that Congress
left behind when it adjourned.
On the other hand, however, Con-
gress made heavy reductions in taxes
cn corporations and other big inter-
ests, at the behest of Wall Street, the
National Manuflacturer’s Association,
the United States Chamber of Com-
merce and the other big interests. All
of which goes to show what kind of a
Congress it was.
The record would have been much
worse, had it not been for the stren-
uous opposition of the CIO and other
progressive labor influences. They suc-
ceeded in Preventing the crippling or
PET Tar a
Law and the Wages aE Hours law.
These two splendid laws give to la-
bor the right to organize and protect
itself against constant attacks by anti-
union employers and hard-shell re-
actionary industrialists and polit
Wall Street, the Chamber of Commerce
and the Manufacturers’ Association had
amendments introduced in Congress to
alter these two laws by pulling out all
of their teeth and rendering them prac-
tically useless. These proposed amend-
ments would have destroyed the rights
and benefits that labor had won. And
be it said that the American Federation
of Labor, which hypocritically profess-
es to be a friend of labor shamefully
joined Wall Street, the Chamber of
Commerce and the Manufacturers’
Association in urging Congress to ad-
opt these destructive amendments. The
high command of the AFofL did every-
in its power to help the bitterest ene-
mies of labor to nullify labor's laws.
WU aveia dius
icians.
But John L. Lewis, Philip Murray, |
Thomas Kennedy, Sidney Hillman, Lee |
Pressman, Ralph Hetzel and other rep-
resentatives of the CIO made such a
determined fight against the amend- |
ments that they prevented their adop- |
tion by Congress. In this fight, these
men were ably supported by repre-
sentatives of several AFofL unions, in-
cluding the Typographical Union, the
Machinists Union and others. The AF
of LL was split wide open on the issue,
many of its affiliate unions opposing
the amedments while the high com-
mand, without any authority from the
' rank and file, joined hands with Wall
Street to cripple labor's laws. The
thing developed into a beautiful AFof
L family fight. Scars were left that
never will be healed.
Anyhow, the session of Congress is
over, and the country is safe, at least
for the next few months, until the
same Congress comes back to Washing-
‘ton.
STATE FUND SET
FOR DISASTER RELIEF
| Harrisburg.—Pennsylvania is ready
to repair the ravages of the next flood,
tornado, or other disaster with a $2,-
000,000 fund set aside for an “emergen-
cy” WPA project.
Govenor James’ signature made the
money available last week. The feder- |
i al government authorized the project
| without requiring the state to contri- |
bute,
billed as one of the outstanding attrac- | Sl can
| George Wilson, of this place, who will
discourse on “Why I Am A Republi- |
{ can.” Another feature will be a foot |
race between Publicity director Hum-
| winners in a number of the contests
| All in all, the club has arranged a big |
time for its members and their famil-
ies.
Our Shop Is Equipped
to Do Job Printing of
All Kinds. Nothing Too
Large or Too Small,
We Cater Especially to
Local Union, Printing.
Patton Courier, Established Oct., 1893.
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR
DIGEST OF NEWER
SOCIAL SECURITY
PROGRAM GIVEN
Emphasis in the Revised Act Is
Placed on Insurance and Aid
to the Family,
Washington.—On Au
cial security act was four
Four days earlier the Pr
amendments to the law
recent session of congres
The keynote of all the
was a liberaliza 1 and expansion of
the entire program of social security
coordinated under the act. Greater
funds were made available for public
health, child welfare, and vocational
rehabilitation; more liberal grants
made possible for the state programs
of public assistance to needy old peo-
ple, needy blind people and children
bereft of a family bread winner. A few
changes were made in Federal pro-
visions relating to the Federal State
unemployment compensation program.
But of greater significance were the
changes made in the Federal old-age
insurance system.
Under the amendments it became the
old-age retirement and survivors’ in-
surance system, and annuity rights,
formerly limited to individual insured
workers, were extended, in part, to
wives and children of retired workers
and to widows, orphans and dependent
parents of those deceased. Wives and
dependent children are entitled to 50
per cent of the annuitant’s monthly
benefits, widows of insured deceased
workems to 75 per cent, orphaned chil-
dren to 50 per cent, and aged depend-
ent parents, in the case where a dece-
ased worker left neither widow nor
children, to 50 pe rcent.
The size of the benefits varies with
the individual account, but the least
that any retired worker or any sur-
vivor can get is $10 a month. The max-
imum monthly benefit paid on account
which covers a family, either during
the lifetime or after the death of a
worker, is $85. Jn no instance, _howev-
: 4
asa ws
14 the so-
years old.
sident signed
ssed in the
amendments
ar
ceed twice the worker’s Indiv} fdual
benefit.
Thus the maximum payable to the
family of a man whose individual ben-
efit amounts to $10, is $20 a month.
There are, in addition, other modifica-
tions and definitions pertaining to
benefits, essentially design to pro-
mote efficient administr
cial insurance system
ition of a so-
already number-
ing more than 45,000,000 individual ac-
counts.
Fully to understand the amended
program a little background on the
original law is essential. Beginning
with January, 1937, workers in indus-
try and commerce were insured under
a federal contributory insurance sys-
tem designed to give them security up-
on retirement from gainful employ-
ment at the age of 65 or over. A wage
tax was imposed on workers and em-
ployers. For the three years between
1937 and 1940 it was one. per cent for
each group; in 1940 it was scheduled to
£0 up to one and one-half per cent and
| continue at that rate for a three year
| period. The retirement age was fixed
| at 65; after a worker reached that age,
| both he and his employer ceased to pay
taxes on his wages and the worker had
no further opportunity for credits to-
ward benefits.
Two kinds of benefits were provid-
ed under the original law, monthly
payments for life to qualified work-
ers retiring after age 65, a single cash
payment for those who on reaching 65
had some credits but not enough for
monthly benefits. The emphasis was
put on the individual. If he died his
account was closed.
Framers of the law set 1942 as the
opening year for the payment of mon-
thly benefits. The amended law ad-
vances the date to 1940.
Beginning with 1940, the new pro-
gram, with the emphasis on family in-
surance, swings into action. The am-
ount and kind of benefits to which a
worker is entitled depend on his sta-
tus in the insurance program. Some
workers are fully insured, some cur-
rently.
Broadly speaking and subject to
closer definition, a fully insured work-
er is one whose social security account
shows employment for at least half
the time he has been in the insurance
system. A currently insured worker is
one who was actively in the system at
the time of his death but had failed to
| meet the requirements for full insur-
ance. Workers who fail to meet either
| requirement are not eligible for any
benefits.
A fully insured worker is entitled to
retirement benefits for himself, supple-
| mentary benefits for a wife of 65 or
| over, supplementary benefits for chil-
dren less than 18. When he dies, either
after or before retirement, his widow
is entitled to an annuity for the rest of
her life after she reaches 65. If she is
less than 65 at the time of his death
and is left with young children, she
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