A GENBRAL NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THI INTERESTS
OF ORGANIZED LABOR IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA
Becoguived snd Endors-
ef by More Than Fifty
focal Unions and Cen
tra! Bedies Over Camp
Bria County and Ad.
cent Mining Areas
Union Preas, Established May, 1935
VOI. 46 NO.2
CLERKS UNION HOLIDAY EDITION Lewis Moves to Organize
the Building Industries
HAS ENJOYABLE
DINNER AFFAIR
Second
Last
With
Anniversary Fete Held
Weelt at Brandon Hotel
Big Attendance.
en wa
, Highlighting the development nd
erganization efforts of the Joint Cou
cil of the Wholesale and Reta’! En
of America, of this section ef
the state, was the banguel held on
the occasion of the second anniversary
Give (C10 union, held at the
Brandon hotel, Spangler,
evening of last week, and with an at
sendance of more than 125. the plans
of the commitiee were up and wiy
pest their fondest epactations.
Plans for tha affair Bad been in pro-
gress for pevers! weeks and particular-
ly plessizg to all concerned was the
oe of InIny employers and their
representatives and the harmonsdus
atmosphere Duet prevailed throughout
the gathoiing The commitiee in charge
of the affair were Elmer Barger. n-
1
ternational View President of the clerks
as chairman; Meade Retallick,
Ebon,
af Colver, and Kenneth Ginzier Thos
A Owen of he Press-Courier acted
& astmaster st the banguet
Sigsally honoring the local Joint
Council, heir internalionnl secretary
treasurer, Jolin Coothwey, of New York
City, male 52 especial ip W Span
to be prosunt, and he spoke briel.
iy but effectively on the progress of
the industrially organised union of
which he & an swecotive olficer Al
wo present from
Comsnittee of Vandergrift, Pu
was the third labor
™ , j fn the Union Press-Coultier
Wednesday
the ranks of labor and |
was William Feen-
Stel Workers On |
NION |
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PRESS - COURIER
OUT NEXT WEEK
Annus] Issue, As lm Former
Years, Offers Merchants Fine
Advertising Mediam,
Next week, under date of Thursday
Wash ngton Long
regs Predident
is om Tuesday night of the
dered full speed ahead In a
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to wrest control of
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nizations Lew.
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CRIMDEIEN
the oon
feom the American
Labor and told Ab
snd organ
sonsideration for
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simuttion industry
Federation of
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CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AREA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7. 1639
ows vg cur movement weaker
wir lessen your efforts”
wavement derives it Suppor:
¥ own members and our first
one
own deals snd our
he daid In a ape
we CIO regional
Steal tI Ves sar
gr merniberaip,
cil comrendnentlaen
director
December 14th. the Union Press-Cour- |
wr will issue its annual holiday edi-
As in past yoars it will afford
merchants an excellent advertising
medium. to reach hundrids upon hun-
dreds of Bowes pol rested by any
other medium
Only once a year dots the Press.
Courter issue a special edition, and
that js upon this otcasion. Because of
this fact, coupled with the great cove
erage given by five thousand copies
sent through the malls to blanket ihe
mining towns and other communities
as well as the rural delivery roules
inn Northern Camnbein, advertisers usi-
ally grasp the chance lo have space
in this edition
This year the edition already gives
promise of surpassing past achieve.
ments. With better working conditions
and bigger pay roils prevailing, the
potential buying power that this »di-
tion wil Ireach is wel Tworth recsritd benefits become payable
chants’ consideration ws those who dan qualify. In that
Remember next weell is the time calegor yihe board believes there will
Your copy. reaching this office be $1000 persons before the end of
next Tuesday at noon, Will insure in- 1940 Thet estimate 3 based on he
sariion Ess Emption there will be 485 006
As & criterion of the volume of next old ape beneficiaries that
week's Press-Courier. his week's edi- is persons $8 years of age or older
tion Bas reached 1 pagiy without any who are fully insured In Their di
preanolion of our part We ask our right. 135000 wives abd 20.000 evs
readers to carefully scan the wd ver 8 TROD young widows with de
the paper, both this week atid next pendent children; 104.000 dependent
and you can also do 1m 3 faver bY
children and 10000 dependent par
telling Uwe merchant you saw hic od ent
The benefits will vary from BO 2
10m
bound
that
Peli
first
sd
Wash ington Social
offers sstimated he day
approximately 12000 persons will
seive benefits during 1D the
var paymnis ar gnder the
ar plan of the Sog
rity
security
aT
Ved ir
made
insurance Soecisd
a
*
$10 SVelem
The old age insur
wheth workers ang empoyers in cov
eral industries Rave been continibg.
ung for three years becomes effective
January Ist. Officials estimate hal
Between 45 snd 530 million wage arn.
ers are covered by that plan
oe The date
oy
Jan § will
first
When he
er moningy
ay
_y
shat
pranary
iH
ARR Ha Br Sr RES
Evirage Jength of 1
ry mnefits
3
%
"| doubt, ve
| ping sesson itself which should stim |
tioned |
depend.
benefit equal to o
912,000 TO GET BENEFITS UNDER _
OLD AGE SECURITY ACT IN 1940
wk %
mort worker and |
until 7943
pad By
by empliyer
Apoiicetion
pomplicated
BPE,
reuirenients Bose Lo
benefits beginning Jan at
Rowever are A worker must be ©
Ji and retired. be must Bave
been employed at work governed Uy
the pension system for six cxlender
quarters after 1838 in each of Ines
quarters hs covered wages must Bave
a1 enst $50
fa worker upon reaching the age
of 88. cannot fulfill these work re
quirements, Be ¢ continue 0 work
andl file Bis claim afeC acquiring suf-
ficient wage credits. Likewise Hf a
worker does iol op Work at
the sar of 88 he can continue and file
Bis claam dows relive
The | galculating mon
tha! the sured ware.
pecisves as a busic payment $0 per
of the first 880 of his average
monthly carsings 6 covered eanpioy-
ment plus ten per cent of his average
wage ver $80 and up wo $338 & month
He slic recwives an additional | per
per
plan is and varies with
wd iv idl
General fury
t gh SIE
Years
Len
rE
wen
wher he
winula for
thiy benefits a
eT
ais §
Leen fo rese wr nn whieh Be Das
month to a maximum of $6 a month, | nt fo resch year ‘a which
the: eng: of Sma) PT
carne st least S00 in covered em
years old, ha 2
« half of her
total muoas.
NEW KATZ PHARMACY
disbursed in recent asthe mean bet-. WILL OPEN IN BAR.
ar sols 8 ® x | ‘ |
ir Stied pockusthuaks hd § larger NESBORO ON FRIDAY
reflected in (Christmas sales | ————
“Added to the grealer Consumer
On page thres of this issue of
‘Buying power is the extended shop- |
Press-Courier will be found the
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half
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business out. |
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‘MAJOR ORDERS ARE
BESTOWED UPON FIF
of loyalty to our own
af the old age insurance
| ing light for the lust
Patton Courler, Established Out. 1593,
IR aA i RR RS I
CENSUS TAKERS COUNTY RELIEF
WILL SOON BEAT | CASELOAD HITS
AGIGANTIC TASK LOWER LEVELS
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And This Time the Govern. Nearly 8.000 Persons Severed
ment Will Authorize Several from State Assistance in Ab
Questions on Private Life, out Three and A Half Months,
Washinglon Ibi questions WW be Dropping to the Sowest point in»
asked in the 1980 census soon 10 DE tio year period the general assistance
hows to the publi in 8 perponsl so Lede bond of the Department of Public
of way, will pry no corners of Ame fuistanor in Cambria County
evicun life that have never been fully | within approximately 380 cases of
explored mmching a new five yeor low it hes
in addition to the time worn Job heen innounced by Edward R Golob,
of finding out how many people live ' precutive director.
in the United States. and where—ad | wa, general :
that each state will wnow how MARY | uy Lut day of November stood -
members of congress it is entithe Uo | dans aoe | vat: Ea a
the census will ask » group of ques | py § 1s Provisus low I
tons whose answers will be plecad n= | county caseload within the _—_
wo a» mosaic of social conditions
: . ! co . near period, was 23810 cases as of A
A few of the ARW apices are Led 38, 1098
Whether homes are owned or rend
ed and their value i
School attendance and the highest |
grade completed. ju Sie Sive yer
The citizenship of foreign born res |
dents / :
Changes of residonce in the last 5
years.
Whether persony have jobs are soe. |
king jobs and if not, why not” If they |
pave been looking for jobs, how long
have they been cut of work: if they
Bave jobs what are they working at
Their salaries, woes or mowme and
the source
What persons have social security
Ii 1 SM SA NE
TPR Newt PIR Aw
PATTON PA
tecord during that period
dod Sepcember Tih, 1838, wit
| di, |
The camload decline which
it in the present two
tarted during the week of
when S077 cases were on e
ince that time the Cambris county
jpenersl assistance load Bess dvepped
rupidly. Private employment snd the
accounts and the proportion of their | WPA amignments in that order of
wages or salary subject Wo WL i impertance are credited as being the
Besides this material whica will fur. | 'ief factors in the sharp decrease.
ssh the meat for conomists to feed | ON Ba scrapled basis of 34 persons
gpon for a decade, » Separs te lst of (pr deters i angsty we case, the 3
questions i being prepared for a pos. MSEENIP from mid-August te
gible housing cess. E : :
All these sre togées on which the
New Deal sconumisis have ;
net or five,
TEEN SEMINARIANS
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