Recognized and Endors- ed by More Than Fifty Local Unions and Cen- tral Bodies Over Cam- bria County and Ad- jacent Mining Areas. VOL. 46. NO. 5. A GENERAL NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF ORGANIZED LABOR IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. UNION Union Press, Established May, 1935. 28 2 eran ef CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AREA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1939 RESULTSINTHEELECTION ne Meer aT DEMOCRATSWIN Leads Judicial Race THE JUDGESHIP Five County Offices Also Taken | By Them; Republicans ture Three Positions. BOROUGH VOTING SPIRITED Cap- Results of Tuesday's election in Cambria county returned Hon. Ivan J. McKenrick to the com- mon pelas bench, gave Frank P. Hollern and Eddie McCloskey, the top positions in the County Commissioners’ office, and re- turned Commissioner John Tho- mas, Jr., Republican as minority commissioner. Likewise, Dennis L. Westrick of Elder Township, was elected County Controller, on the Demicratic ticket. Mi- chael J. Hartnett won handily for Register of Wills, Clark Powell had easy sailing for Re- corder of Deeds, and Joseph C. Wess is returned a winner for NEW COUNTY CONTROLLER DENNIS L. WESTRICK Clerk of Courts. Patrick Me- Dermott, Democrat, will contin- ue as Coroner by mandate of the voters. Yepublicans garnered three jobs: John L. Hite was reelect- ed Prothonotary ; Stephens May- er was reelected District Attor- ney, and Dr. Emlyn Jones was named county treasurer. Down in Johnstown Mayor Daniel J. Shields has been defeated for re- election. While the Press Courier feels gra- tified in the election of a majority of the candidates it supported, it cannot but feel, also, sympathetic with all the losers, both those whom we favored, and the others. It was a clean cam- paign throughout, and now that it is over our best wishes go to all winners. Because we close our forms Wed- nesday at noon, the complete umoffi- cial count was not completed, but no material changes will develop in the | following figures, which have six dis- tricts of the 171 in the county missing: Judge, Cambria Co. Ivan J. McKenrick, D ... : 29,653 | Harry A. Englebart, R .. . 28,126 | District Attorney W. Lloyd Hibbs, D ..... rine 2188 | Stephens Mayer, R ........... 29,862 REGISTER OF WILLS MICHAEL J. HARTNEET HON. IVAN J. McKENRICK FINE SUCCESS Twenty-Seventh Institute of Fifteenth District Held Last Saturday Has Lots of Interest The 27th Mining Institute of the Fifteenth Bituminous District was held on Saturday afternoon last at St. Thomas’ Parish House, Barnesboro. made the address of welcome. B. W. Derringer, of the Coal Commission, at Altoona, spoke on Bituminous Coal Industry and Federal Regulation.” T. F. McCarthy, general superintendent of the Clearfield Bituminous Coal Cor- poration, Indiana, discussed ‘“Mechan- ical versus Conveyor Loading in Cen- tral Pennsylvania.” * Adapatation of Cutter Bitls to Meet Mining Conditions’ was discussed by Prof. Buch of the Department Min- ing of Pennsylvania State College, and George C. Hood, of Ebensburg Coal Prothonotary Company at Colver, spoke on “Roof M. C. Chervenak, Jr, D 26.597 | Control.” J. J. Forbes, supervising en- John L. Hite, R 29.612 gineer, Safety Division U. S. Bureau Register of Wills Michael J. Hartnett D Clem L. Varner, R Recorder of Deeds Clark Powell, D R. M. “Milt” Good R County Commissioner Eddie McCloskey, D Frank P. Hollern, D John Thomas, Jr. R John Lloyd Jones, R County Treasurer | John J. Haluska, D Emlyn Jones, R County Controller Dennis L. Westrick, D Malcolm MacDougall R | Clerk of Courts | Joseph C. Wess, D Williams H. Heslop, R Coroner | Patrick McDermott, D ....... | William J. Killius, R Ne reins — COUNTY COMMISSIONER FRANK P. HOLLERN PATTON BOROUGH VOTE. Election day in the borough proved quite spirited. Results are as follows: Judge Cambria County 1st 2nd Wa wd of Mines, Pittsburgh, discussed “Mine 35.010 Rescue and First Aid.” An illustrated 21415 talk on “Better Light and Better Sight,” was given by V. A. Stanton of 30.608 Johnstown, representing Mines Safety 25.947 Appliance Company. Entertainment included songs by L 28.191 Jones and J. Wright, Colver, with Ad- 30,488 am Walkinshaw as piano accompanist 26.813 | and accordion numbers 22611 Costello. Dinner was served in the by Thomas evening in the basement of St. Ed- 27.665 ward's Catholic church. 28.954 Dennis Keenan, state mine inspect- or for the Fifteenth district, is Mine 28,568 Institute President; J. G. Nicholson is 26,828 (reasurer, and C. P. Brinton is secre- tary. Committee members include O. 28,017 J. Flannagan, Samuel Law, John F. 27,016 | Foreman, C. D. Early, Francis Schroy- | er, M. J. Christoff, George Lindsay, | 30,527 | William Murray, Morgan" 26,538 | John Brazil, T. L. Aiken, Richard Tod- LABOR LEADER Watkins, hunter, Jr., Charles Hannigan, M. A Ward, Frank Goaziu, David Davidson, A E. Morgan, James Nicholson and J. J. O'Rourke. | ARMISTICE DAY PROGRAM WILL BE OBSERVED HERE ON SATURDAY MORNING Armistice Day will be fittingly ob- served in Patton on Saturday morning next, when school children, the local band, members of the Walter McCoy I American Legion, John White t, Veterans of Foreign W Ladies Auxiliaries and the ¢ the ens in Patton Courier, Established AN ATTAINMENT OF THE LARGEST GENERAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. Our Shop Is Equipped to Do Job Printing of All Kinds. Nothing Too Large or Too Small We Cater Especially to Local Union Printing. Oct., 1893, 723 South Fifth Ave. PATTON. PA. SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR CLOSED SHOP WORKERS NUMBER EAGLES PLAN A THREE MILLION IN UNITED STATES GALAINITIATORY Washington.—Three millions of the nation’s eight millions of workers in labor uniens are now covered by clos- ed shop agreements. This estimate is given in the Feder- al Bureau of Labor Statistics’ month- | ly Labor Review for October, issued this week. In addition to the 3,000,000 there are many labor unions who work un- | der conditions which approximate the D. A. Westover, Barnesboro burgess, | “closed shop,” but which are not for- malized by written agreements, the government publication said. The “closed shop” agreement re- quires that all employees in a plant or craft covered by the agreement must | be members of the union, and that | new employees are to be union mem- bers or must join the union immedia- | tely upon employment. | The ‘preferential shop,’ in which | union members are given preference | over non-union employees in dis- | charges and rehiring, is less common | than the closed shop, the review said. | The ‘“check-off” method of collect- | ing union dues, according to the La- | bor Review, has been of much less | concern to unions than the problems | of establishing protection for union member ugh a closed or prefer- ential shop. SHEETS MINE AT JOHNSTOWN AGAIN IN FOLD OF UM.WA. WITH A CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP The first and only mine operated under a contract with the Progressive Miners’ Union in District No. 2 of the United Mine Workers of America, passed out of existence last week and a few minutes later the same mine started operations with UMWA miners. The house coal mine of the Sheets Coal Company, in Fourth Ward, Johns.- town, for more than a year a storm center in a jurisdictional fight be- tween the United Mine Workers and the Progressive Miners Union (AFL) changed hands the other day. E. E. Sheets who operated the mine during the period that the “Progressives” were attempting to gain a foothold in this strong UMW territory, no longer is associated with the mine, it was an- nounced as the banner of the PMU, which never even got started toward first base, was torn down. August J. Pleskovic, associated for some time in the operation of another house coal mine at Johnstown, was announced as the new operator of the Sheets mine. With the removal of the {P. M. U. banner from the mine, the BLASTS JAMES AND RESIGNS AFL Apprenticeship Board Member Quits After Bitterly Criticising Governor. With the James St . the AFL general will take part in a program at | mato, me on. the Palmer House corne beginning | al Assoc at 10 a. m. Principal spe r for the | mitted t« occasion will be the Rev. Father Ber- | his 1 trand McFadyen, O. S. B., pastor of St Mary's holic church. Stores and public places in Patton will be closed between 10 and 11 a. m. on Saturday and have posted notices to that effect In case of unfavorable weather on Saturday morning, the program will be held in the Grand Theatre. Members of both the ex-services- men’s posts last Sunday evening held their annual church-going Armistice period service, and the service was well attended. Held in different churches of the town each year, the service last | Sunday took place in St. George's Ca- at ers gove in the skilled tr In his lett amato too 1 to a paper story which declared the cil has approved ticeship agreements industrial groups. McKenrick, D 355 303 | tholic church, and the sermon was “As a matter of fact, the writ- Englehart R 337 200 | preached by the Rev. Father Basil | Ing of this article, ther as been no District Attorney Balko, pastor of St. George's. meeting of the apprenticeship board Hibbs D 346 323 | —— since June 8, 1939,” Mr. Pessamato Mayer R #4 11 CARD OF THANKS. wrote the Governor. “Up to and in- Prothonotary | We wish in this manner to thank all | cluding June 8, there had been only Chervenak, D. 310 276 | those who assisted us in any way and | tWO or three meetings of the board Hite, R . .... 376 218 | who were so sympathetic during our | and at none of these meetings were Register of Wills recent bereavement, the death of our | there any apprenticeship agreements Hartnett, D ... .. 421 387 | beloved daughter, Bernadette Cunn.|€nhtered into with employers. Varner, R 257 116 | ingham.—Mr. and Mrs. George Cunn-| “In view of your reactionary atti- Recorder’ of Deeds ingham and Family. | tude and the manipulating of cheap Powell, D ..... 409 363 misleading publicity, I have no other Good, R ... 269 139 PUBLIC SALE. recourse than to tender my resigna- County Treasurer | tion as vice chairman and member of Haluska, D ..... ——— 30 315 Ed Karlheim will offer at public | the board, as I cannot consistently Jones, R ...... 320 192 sale at his farm, two miles south of | S¢TVe the best interest of the workers (Continued on Page 8) COUNTY COMMISSIONER EDDIE McCLOsKILY PORTAGE CLUB WILL SPONSOR A DANCE | will receive a total of $27,537.96 from | the state as payments for transporta- The Portage P. M. A. Club will hold | tion of school children, according to a dance on Saturday, November 11th, | Auditor General Warren L. Roberts. at the New Polish Hall in Portage. | Music for Polish and American danc- | receive $58,693.82; Indiana county, $32- 191.49; and Clearfield County, $47,501.- 4. ing will be furnished by Peter Paul's Orchestra of Nanty-Glo, formerly Go- vernor’s Band. Dancing from 9 to 12. Gents 35¢c; ladies 25c. Press-Courier office. Union label prin- ‘ine of all kinds. We solicit a trial | two miles from the school building. order. appreciate it. Fatton, on the Eckenrode Mill-Chest Springs road, on Saturday, Nov. 11th, | starting at 12 noon, all his live stock, | farm machinery, and equipment, etc. See posted bills. | transportation of pupils where schools have been consolidated, closed on ac- Mine sheets a specialty at the Yalon | Sour of a small enrollment of pupils, | or where children reside more than Patronize our advertisers. We will | Courier job printing department cater | to miners’ local union printing, under your administration.” | SCHOOLS IN COUNTY | WILL RECEIVE $27,537 FOR TRASPORTATION School districts in Cambria county Bedford county school district will The payments are allowed for the Particularly does the Union Press- new operator had been neg a contract the United | time ago on a labor relations Sheets mine, | board election a > witnesses testify for the Prograss- | ive miners Union said that the union organized for Sheets miners was the only one of its kind in District No. 2, With the passing of the Sheets own- ership and the dissolution of the very small PMU group of miners, officials of District No. 2, UMWA, announced that the entire Central Pennsylvania bituminous field again is one hundred per cent UMWA. Collapse of the Sheets mine, it was revealed by the UMWA officials, was attended the filing of claims for unpaid wages against Sheets by a | number of employees. It was announ- ced that suits amounting to more than | $425 had been entered before Alder- man J. Alvin Reese and similar ac- tions involving approximately $140 had | been taken before Alderman William | M. Murtha, TWO NORTH COUNTY COAL MINERS ARE IN- JURED ON MONDAY nbria County coal neither of them Monday. ras Benjamin urred and Mr. Abel Miners’ hospital the Bakerton Coal Company. thumn 11 thumb on the d and were am. vital. He was at 6:10 on dition is good. STATE'S RELIEF LOAD CONTINUES TO BE CUT BY INDUSTRY AND WPA H: Private industry, a princiy ontributor with WPA to the downwse plunge of WPA relief rolls set up a new mark for taking cases off public aid during the week ended October 28th, the assistance depart- ment reports. The week's net record of 3,692 cases, representing 15,850 persons, who ob- tained jobs in industry or increased earnings so they no longer needed re- | lief was the second four year mark, es- tablished by the state's booming pri- | vate business in three weeks. Records | | have been kept since September 1935. | | WPA made an even greater inroad | | into the relief load. The week's total | decline was 9,014 cases, or 33,234 per- | sons, of which WPA took a net of 4,389 | cases or 15,285 persons. | “A declinig volume of applications | indicated that a downward movement | | in general assistance rolls may be ex- pected to continue,” the report noted | optimistically. | AUTO INSPECTION PERIOD IS OPENED Pennsylvania opened its semi-annu- al drive on November 1st for inspec- tion of 2,140,000 cars. The inspection stickers will be good until April 30. William J. Hamilton, Jr, secretary of revenue, urged motorists to have the inspection job early and cited fig- ures to prove that two out of three cars owned and operated in Pennsyl- vania needs some sort of adjustment. | Of the 2,037,840 examined during the | last inspection period, 105,000 had to| be junked ,according to Hamilton, —— — This office is particular in the kind of job printing it produces. EVENT NOV 17 Past Grand Worthy President of Order Will Be Honor Guest and Speaker. John W. Heller, Jr. Patton Aerie, No. 1244, Fraternal Order of Eagles will hold a class ini- tiation in the Aerie Rooms on Friday evening of next week, in honor of John W. Heller, Jr, of York, Penna, a past worthy grand president of the order, who will be here and be the principal speaker for the occasion. Ar- rangements are now being made for the affair, under the work of a com- mittee composed of R. Peter Short, L. J. Croft, James Donahue, Albert Thomas and Peter Baback. The initia- tory ceremony will be in charge of the crack Patton Aerie Degree team. There will be lunch and entertain ment after the business session, and all members of the aerie are cordially invited to attend. This affair will be strictly stag. TURKEY RAFFLE AT CARROLLTOWN, THURS- DAY, NOVEMBER 16TH The annual turkey raffle of the Fox- Peale Post, Amer Carroll- town, which this year likewise is co- sponsored by the Carrolltown Fire Co., for the convention fund next summer, will be held in the Legion Hall at Car- f Bakerton, | rolltown next Thursday evening, No- hand | vember 16th, and plans are being made be- | to make the event this bigger than ever. An ample supply of large birds will be on hand. The general public of the north county is cordial- ly invited to attend. Or, if you would prefer playing bin. go for a turkey, the opportunity will be affarded you on Friday evening of next week, November 17 in the -Le- gion hall, following the ular week- ly bingo party which is under the sponsorship of the firemen for the con- vention fund. RECOLLECTION DAY TO BE HELD MONTHLY BY DIOCESAN CLERGY A day of recollection for priests of the Altoona Dioscese will be held the second Tuesday of each month, start- ing November 14th, at St. Francis Col- lege, Loretto. The practice of holding a monthly recollection day is an established cus- tom among priests of many dioceses. The sessions at Loretto will be spon- sored by officers of St. Francis sem- inary Alumni Association, with the committee in charge consisting of the Rev. Fathers Philip J. O’Donnell of Renovo, Michael F. Brett of Barnes- boro and John Reichart of Hollidays- burg. Recollection day will open at 11 a. m. with exposition of the Blessed Sac- rament, followed by private medita- tion until 11:30 a. m. Confessions will be heard at noon. Dinner will be serv- ed at 1 p. m. with a conference at 2 P .m. and holy hour at 3 p. m. as the closing exercise. BENEFIT PLANNED BY SPANGLER UNIT A luncheon and card party will be held in the American Legion home at Spangler on Friday evening, Novem- ber 10th, for the benefit of the Cam- bria County Association for the blind. The event is being sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary, in co-op- eration with the Northern Cambria Kiwanis Club. Send us that job printing order, no matter how large or small, and we'll guarantee a satisfactory job.
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