39. Se’ wt “4 )) 1 A GENERAL NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF ORGANIZED LABOR IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. Recognized and Endors- ed by More Than Fifty Local Unions and Cen- tral Bedies Over Cam- bria County and Ad- jacent Mining Areas. Union Press, Established May, 1935. "VOL. 46. NO. 6. CIO’ BETHLEHEM DEMAND IS AIM AT RISING PROFITS New York Times Sunday Has A Story Bearing on Election in Cambria ( ounty. The election in Cantor] a county las week, and its bearing on the Steel Strike in Johnstown some time ago, is linked together by Howard Carroll, a writer for the New York Times, who had the following story in last Sun- day’s edition of that metropolitan pa- per, and is hereweth republished for what you think it is worth: The story was under a Pittsburgh dateline. Election day was not chosen by mere coincidence for the place of a of the by the Steel Wor mittee, CIO aifiliste. The date was selected with an eye not single to the current profits Bethlehem, impressive as these mcu ting figures are, but w re than a glance then impending sweep to victory of the Democratic forces in Cambria county, where are locat Johnstown and the of the n > ctacular 1937 he budding days of the CIO. In the balloting, Daniel Shields who as Mayor of Johnston fought the S. W. >. thn strike effectively C } and 3 skill, was defeated by the Democrat, John A. Conway, In the Mayorality contest An enthusiastic friend of labor, Eddie McCloskey, one time boxer, former Johnstown mayor and member of the State Boxing Com- mission s returned as a County Commissioner, an office of large pow- ers. In general a slate which was al- leged to be largely the selection of the SWOC was victorious by a large mar- gin. This result was attained against a trend which found a large majority of the western counties, except industrial Allegheny, Westmoreland, Fayette and Cambria, back again in the Republi- can tradition. Naturally it will be used as a weapon by the CIQ negotiators. in any discussion with Bethlehem offi- cials. Said a spokesman of the SWOC.: “Cambria Caunty has clearly shown that public opinion has sweng solid- ly in back of the steel workers’ unien. The voters have sipoken so decisively that the heads of Bethlehem cannot help but heed” So the message to Bethlehem was geared to timeliness in at least two ways. It was only a fortuitous circum- stance that the Federal Court of Ap- peals in Philadelphia only Saturday handed down an opinion favorable to CIO and upholding a Natienal Laber Relations Board ruling directing the Republic Steel Corporation to rehire 5,000 Ohio workers involved in the “little steel” strike of 1937, and to pay them back wages estimated at some $7,000,000. But this decision is not be- ing overlooked by the SWQC chiefs as they gird for the Bethlehem discus- sions. It is remembered that the Beth- lehem also has causes pending on ap- peal which grew out of that same dra- matic 1937 period. Undoubtedly the SWOC demand on Bethlehem came as a surprise to a public forgetful of labor strife while | intent upon war abroad and the up- | surge of industry at home. It appears | now that the CIO heads have been lay- | ing the groundwork for months. In the more immediate background | a first manisfestation came late last August when, without fanfare, some | forty-eight leaders of the Bethlehem | Employees Representation Plan, styled | by the labor leaders as a “Company union,” came to Pittsburgh and con- ferred with Philip Murray, head of the SWOC, and other CIO leaders. These men, it was asserted, represented all | the Bethlehem plants over the coun- | try and each stood for large groups | of fellow workers. They were E. R. P. leaders, it was stated, who had gone cver completely to SWOC and were then working for CIO objectives. The winning over of these men was | accomplished by development of a technique first applied in the manoe- | uvring preliminary to the discussions | with United States Steel leading to the famous contract with “Big Steel.” In organizing for the drive on Beh- lehem the SWOC has departed in at | least one particular from the previous plan. Formerly each plant of each | company being organized was placed under one leader to whom was giv- er. full responsibility in his field. Now, in the case of Bethlehem a single head E. J. Lever, has been named on a na- | tional basis. | Wages, hours and working condi- | tions are placed on the SWOC agenda. | Interest, of course, centers on the first. | With Bethlehem's profits announced as | running at upward of $5,000,000 per auarter and with a backlog of more than $263,000,000, is is natural that la- | bor, say the SWOC heads, should look | for 2 ~ommensurate share in the good things, | retary of health, predicted that :the pneumonia death rate in this| DEADLINE NEARS IN A TIME RACE ON COAL PRICES, Minimum Schedules Must Be | Set Up By First of Year, and | It’s Going to Be Big Job. It is technical, hard to understand, and highly legal and official—but a | “race against time” is going on at Washington . as the Interior Depart- | ment's coal division works to set up | minimum prices for bituminous tuel | before Jaunary 1st. i That date is important because | within a few weeks thereafter Cong- ress will meet, and certain members thereof will inquire what has be done under the bituminous coal which received the official sign: of President Roosevelt on April 1937. The hub of the coal law i imum price schedule. same was in a former law, ch the preme Court invalidated. The new law is more than one and one-half years old and still there are no minimum | prices. Under present coal business needs them less than once did, but parts of the industry n conditions the the need “is just around the corner.’ ? Opponents of the ove) law are said | to be hoping that when Congress con- venes it will find the bituminou tute a “hopeless case,” with the that repeal or devitalizing will be enacted > interior department's ¢ immed hearings 3ondz: an official key witn effort to complete them by mid-De- ness ¢ cember. But a new complication has | appeared. The Carter Coal Compnay, operating in Southern West Virginia whirh brought the suit which knocked out | the old coal law .ang has expressed its | antagonism do the present .statute, has filed a request that it be permitted to | examine the voluminous. s ments of | coal concerns comueting with the Car. ter concern The coal producers boazwt for sen-| tral Pennsywania has objected, calling | the Carter motion a “fishing expedi- tion”, and iatimating the the object is delay to the hearings leading towaid | price determination Coal division examiners have z0t| ruled yet ANNU AL RAFFLE AND BINGO PARTY, PATTON NEXT TUESDAY NIGBT The annual turkeyraffle, ccard pasty and bmgo party held annually at this S€ by Branch Ho. 90, Knights of St. George for thei benefit of St. Mary's Church and Schocl, will be held «n Tuesday evening next, November 2ict in the Firemen's Hall, Patten. This year the affair promises to be the best ever, and the genera! public is cordial ly invited. No admission change to the raffle. Cards, .25 cents. Bingo, 25 cenis for 36 games and a prize each game The raffle wil start at seven o'clock and cards and bingo at 8:30, yith the rafle contimuir gater the cards Don't raiss this. PNEUMONIA WAR IS Harrisburg —Dr. John JJ. Shaw, sec- Menday | state will be cut in half through an extengive, new free state medical pro- gram He said that all the 170 pneumania | control stations throughout the state have been supplied with free seriun, and sulphapyradine and that labora- tory equipment has been added to pre. [ vide physicians with accurate diagnos. is of pneumonia germ types. “This is the only state in the union| | tom for more thar three centuries, we | town. Coach Tom Hughes team was | | the parish, but received his early ed- | give thanks to the Almighty for His| also charged with a forfeit loss at the | ucation in @Gallitzin. Ordained to the H OLD ST. MIC Hn AEL wany gifis. We give thanks for the| hands of Barnesboro when a game was | priesthood at St. Francis Seminary on | that has a complete pmeumonia pro- | gram, with serum, sulphapyradine, and laboratory diagnosis,” Dr. Shaw said. Approximately $100,000 has been in- vested in serum and another $25,000 in sulphapyradine, for free distributien, in an | CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AREA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1930 ™ Sub, fim Ave 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. ‘atton Courier, Established Oct., 1893. SUBSCRIPTION $2. 00 PER YEAR AMES LEAP Picture Courtesy of Johnstown Demo crat. The. above cwt:shows flames leapin from 15 to 20 feet into the air from th cavein of the abandoned m¥ne out atihy the the clay works T occurred last Friday afternoon. 'Th ton residents have become alarmed Lacal officials said Friflay's cavein x : | : SCE 1 °r sec- | trench around the area. | covered about ¥2 square feet. ‘Flames | in Ex | shot from the huge crevice for several | tions of that district over which the | rights and attracted many visitors. { rapidly I toward the towr unless stopped with: a short period. | Amcther danger if the burning: con vein is pointed «ut by Mine Inspect Dennis Keenan, Barneshaoro, of ti {HIGHEST COURT UPHOLDS NLRB AND COAL LAW_IN DECISION G GIVEN The Supreme © urt uph ernment on Monday in ca the National Bituminous Coal and Ma | tional Labor Relations Acts The court ruled that Atlanta, had ne grounds on which to attac | the comnstitutionality of the coal sta | tute. The plea for yalidation was ba sed an the contention that the la threatened to incre costs, possibly forcing it to adopt - the zov volving new type of heating unit. The decision | affirmed a ruling by a three-judge fed eral distnict court STATE'S TH/ JANKSGIV ING in Patton. T’he cavein pextremely second cavein @ccurred about ‘60 feet | from a previous cavein last May. Pat- as! bon manexide ga to the extent of the undergrourd fire. seeped from the abandoned workings. MONDAY | w| Underprivileged Children. the city’s fue = GEORGE HOPPEL IS NEW HEAD OF KIWANIS CLUB | Unemployment Representative Is Speaker at Meeting Last Monday Evening. M SECOND GAVE OF LOGA } At the meeting of the Northern | Cambria Kiwanis Club held at Bran- | don hotel in Spangler on Monday ev- | ening, George C. Hoppel of Patton was elected President of the club for | the year of 1940; Ralph H. Greenwood | was chosen vice president and Fred { B. Buck, treasurer. The board of di- rectors will be John Foreman, J. Edw. Stevens, Louis Luxenberg, John R Nicholson, H. C. Kenny, W. R. Cra- | go, R. L. Struble, George A Clark and { D George. { Principal speak at the | the Kiwanians Monday Miss Anna B. Sandt, spe | representative of the Div 1 women’s yn of Un- employment Compensation Em- | ployment Service, on the sta of the | executive director, Ernest Kelly, who ance Ag- spoke on the subject of “In amnst Unemployment.” | Miss Sandt explained that the huge problem of unemployment existing in | our country today is responsible for ! unemployment compensation legisla- tion. She stressed the fact that unem- rloyment compensation benefits are a measure to alleviate the suffering cau- sed by inveluntary unemployment. She stated that the primary objective or the Division of Unemployment Com- g .Fennsylvanis Bureau ef Mines. He tion pr bat the fire, but as pensation and Employment Service is e says that carbon monoxide given off | yet no action has taken on the| to secure jobs in private industry for irning coal and -bony was! request. | the unemployed. Aproximately 95,000 T0ISONoUs | In the opinion of Mine Inspector | placements have been made in the e On February 1, 1936, nineteen per-| Keenan the only way to halt the fire, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania since ons 1g in the wicinity @f the ab-!| is to dig a :deep trench around the | the first of January this year, 75 per andonedl. mine were overcome by car-| burning area. He indicated it would | cent of which were in private indus- reported to have | be first necessary to dig test holes to| try. In Cambria county alone approxi- determine the extent of the burning | mately 1,000 jobs have been secured. Miss Sandt explained in detail the requirements on the part of the un- The fire is a problem to the bor- | employment compensation claimant ¢val = burning. ough. It lacks sufficient funds 10 even | and the manner of computing thé | After the first cavein borough of- | sponsor 2 WPA project and even if it| weekly compensation rate and the bi It was reported that it was possible | area and then start digging a 20 foot that gas might escape in other sec- This second wavein gives indication | fi.ja1 made every possible effort to | did have such funds, it would not be | maximum amount of benefits payable | that the underground fire is spreading and will continue to Spread control. They asked aid from the de- {ithe burning area is located in Elder | compensation benefits. receive aid in bringing ‘the fire under | permitted to use them because part of | to eligible claimants for unemployment 1 partment of mines, but were informed ! township. She further stressed the fact that a there was no money allocated for that! Meantime the borough officials are person may not voluntarily quit his 1 | purpose. ' Council adopted a resolution | ‘trying every avenue for financial help job and be eligible for benefits and r | asking the County Cormnissioners to | to combat the menace. State, county | that he must be able to work and be Works Progress Administra- | and federal contacts are being made. | available for work, and must have earned within his year wages | DRIVERS ARE TOLD OF from covered e! not less d in detail e year and nts under nent Com- € | spensor 2 PATT 0 N HIGH | than 13 times his ympensa- ih a E FOR CHANGE | tion amount F RESIDENCE, ADDRESS Miss Sandt al Se the waiting pe i Harrisburg—The Department of the benefit year requ g : x» Pe Qo rania nema? - AT E B E N > K U 2 | Revenue reminded motorists this week the Pennsylvania Unemplo; that November 25th is the deadline for | Pensation law. | notifying the Motor Vehicles Bureau She urged the c of em- - | of change of address for new opera-| ployers in reporting i in € r Ky- | sob s r . of | Foot! bail Sounds Meet Friday Ev-| tors’ licenses connection with illegal attempts to se- ening to Augment Fund for | Printing of new cards, compulsory cure unemployment compensation ben.. | after February 1st, will begin Novem- | efits. She also urged > cooperation 1 | ‘ber 27th. The 1939 le .gislature advanced | of employers in build up the em- a | the date for renewing drivers’ li- | ployment service in their communities | With (the Ebenshurg Kiwanis Club censes from February 28 to February | so that it would be a re et to em~ 4 sponsor. a post season foot- ‘1, but set back the deadline for new | ployers and employes alike. She urged Sy as S$ all game between Ebensburg-Cambria | license plates from January 1 to April | their contacting Employment Service | offices when it was necessary to se- | ane Patton High Schools has been ar- | 1st | | ranged for Friday evening of this Failure to submit a change in ad-| cure additional workers for their ina | week. The contest will be played at| dress before November 25th will re-| dustries and businesses. ARTED IN STATE | IS DATED FGR THURS | pigs ying wit in cmsiiegile daly . » FNEVT Wh | ours lela. ar) g J é DAY OF NEXT WEEK i The proceeds devived from the game | rr : _| will be used in giving aid to the un- FATHER L J. DENNY & derprivileged children | Is APPOINTED RECTOR Te date the county seaters have OF CATHEDRAL PARISH nine games, bowling over ei Governor . James last Saturday | einimed November 22 as ing Day and urged that the flag bel . : 2 flown that day from -all homes apd | Woo SIX | night under flood lights on the Ebens- | sult in considerable delay, said Secre- |! | Miss Sandt explained that contribu- | tions as received by the state from the employers are first deposited in the | state treasury and from there are re. moved to the federal treasury where they are set aside in a trust fund un- | der the title of “P ’ennsylvania Unem- ployment Compensation Trust Fund.” public buildings. | Cressan, Nanty(3o, ps The date had been suggested by | President Roosevelt. Text of the James proglamation: “In no place under the shining hes | | vens is there more cause for giving thanks in than ar our lamd. “As has been .our American cus- natural blessings of our lang the commonwealth has made this year. “We rejeice in the progress which | muddy field. ( Hollidaysburg,| Rey. Father 1 J. Denny, adminis- | Westmont, Franklin ang Huntingdon, trator, has been appointed rector of j while losing to Barnesboro, Cone-| the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacra- | maugh and Ferndale. They have scor- | ent succeeding the late Rev. Dr. ed 139 points against 77 for opponents. | NMorgan M. Sheedy, whose death oc- Engaging in seven games Patton has | ciirred recently. 5 { defeated Spnagler, Cresson, Lilly and| The new rector had been adminis- | Portage township while losing to| trator of the Cathedral parish since { Cherry Tree, Nanty-Glo and Carroll-| june 17th, 1938. He is a native son of | Miss Sandt stressed the fact that all contributions made by employers to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for unem ‘ment compensation, are used for Y one purpose and that is | to pay benefits to eligible compensa- bles for unemployment compensation in the Commonweal of Pennsylvania. : MAN IN STABBING | not played because of an exceptionally | | August 18, 1918, he has served the | i STABBING following parishes: St. Francis Xavier, Folks in the north or the county | Cresson; St. Joseph's, Williamsburg; | William Jerome, aged 24, of St. Mi- chael, is in a serious condition in the on a physician's prescription, to needy | We have seen many ef our people re- [are specifically reminded that the pro- ! St. Thomas, Ashville, and St. Patrick's Windber hospital, and Robert Hayman, patients in anticipation of the “pneu- | monia season” during the winter mon- ths. imum wage would make into the Beth. lehem income has mot been estimated. That, in a current phrase, would be “up to management, But as the “prince or pauper” cycle of the steel industry swings again to the royal phase, though perhaps not to remain there long, labor is found knocking at the door. Labor leaders may look upon the situation as they wish, but industrial- ists hereabouts are steering carefully away from the word “boom.”They say the prices received for the product are the true index to the industry's con- | turn to employment and have been | ceeds from this game will be given at Spangler. He was stationed at the 24, also of St. Michael, ae omic suffering. “We live in a land which has lowed the principles of liberty, of the world is at war. apart a day of Thanksgiving was star- ted by the Pilgrims. One hundred and fifty years ago President Washington | issued the first Thanksgiving Day pro- | clamation. No day is more wholly Am. erican. “Therefore, I, Arthur H. James, Go- vernor of the Commonwealth of Penn- sylvania, following the proclamation dition, not the fact that output has| risen from 52.40 per cent of capacity | in July to 62.12 in August, and so on! i vertically to about 94 per cent in this How big an inroad a $5 a day min-| district in the current week. of the President of the United States, and the date he has designated therein do hereby proclaim Thursday, Novem- ber 23, 1939, as Thanksgiving Day, a day of prayer to be observed by all fol- | fund. Our readers well know the pur- wir- | pose is a worthy eharity, so turn out | was taken to the Memorial hospital at tue and independence, and today we | for the game. Help along! are at peace when mueh of the zest “Our cherished custom of setting | stanza on a neatly executed forward | 2 hunting ig companion. is in the Cam- permifted to witness the alleviation, to | jointly to the Ebensburg and North- | last church for seven years prior to a considerable extent, of much oar! p bria county jail, charged with having era Cambria Ceurnty Kiwanis Clubs | being assigned to Altoona. for their underprivileged children’s stabbed Jerome twice during a fight in a wooded section of Croyle town- ship on Saturday evening, Jerome suffered knife wounds of the stomach. Johnstown the other day for treat- Hayman was taken into custody by Scoring the second frame as the re- | ment of a gunshot wound of the right | st. | stati o 3 \ on sult of a blocked punt and in the third | | foot, sustained when accidently shot by | SBIR ier oe over ome were en 2 yomen. Joseph Shander, 21, of Vintondale, Colver Brothers Hurt. lateral pass, Patton high school turn- | | ed back Portage Township, 13-0 at| | Patton Jast Saturday afternoon to FE DAY FARLIER | complete play in the Northern Divis- | — ion of the Cambria County Confer- | Be ence. Bo a Da ltkispiving i ay, at our - = - “| housewife readers may benefit in {the people of this Commonwealth in| food values offered for the Turkey their homes and churches, acknowled- day by oar Teed store advertisers, ging their thanks to Almighty God for! The Vinion © = s-Conrier will be the many blessings we ar» enjoving. I| issued on Teordas of next week urge that the flag, symbol of the Advertisers monients an clared that he hs: d faith of our Fathers, be flown from all all others ar~ =rrod to have their | and aid s 34 Founded ove homes and public buildings.” copy in this office on Monday, - ot 0 a 30s he 0 Men upline Two pedestrians, Louis Valeri, 52 | and his brother, Joseph Valeri, 50, | both of Colver, were in 1jured early on | Mond: ay morning when struck by a car driven by Mike Datsko, 22, of Col- | ver. Datsko informed officials that the | two men were walking in the center | of the highway between Tripoli and { Colver when he struck them. He de- | {
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