A CENERAL NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF ORGANIZED LABOR IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA NION Union Press, Established May, 18356 Recognized & Endors- ed by More Than Fifty Local Unions and Cen tral Badies Over Cam Bria County and Ad fscent Mining Aveas AN ATTAINMENT OF THE LARGEST GENERAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA VOL 47. M.G3. PATTON, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1941 PLANS FOR COUNTY FAIR AT EBENSBURG NEAR COMPLETION liutomobile Racing Will Be One of Host of Features Prepared By the Management, Automobile races used to won and | Jost in the grimy shops of the racing | hat the fans saw oh ‘that one builder had put together 3 more powerful fa. simply Uwre to speed was used tage. : Very often the most skilled driver and the mest courageous one was to be found behind the wheel of & ma- chine Which gave him no chance to exhibit his own qualities while the race was won by 8 high powered car | in the hands of a man lesser gifted All that has been turned around oy Tex Rickard of Auto Racing, who will promote the auto races st the Cam bria County Fair, on Saturday, Bep- tember 6th. Stebbins is at inst real ging his dream of puto racing In skill and courage rather than on the steel “innards” of an sutamobile. The races will be one of the features of the fair, Pair Grounds, Labor Day. ptember 1st, and continues throu ghout the week. All last year, mieshins, who holds the title of auto racing director for Madison Square Garden in New York, | steered clear of big car promolions and concentrated upon midget auto races st his various Lracks through- out the country. But he was bullding. ' at the same time, for this year. Aa early as July in 1940, Stebbing started lining up fields for ihe big cir races he is building this year. He | to builders limiting | pron. | Sa the morxs. | outlined his plans motors to 214 cubic ches. He #7 rzces | bria Walter C. Stebbins, ofien called the which opens at Ebensburg | Monday, Celebrated Orchestra and Rhythm | i NLRB VOTE SET AT MINERS’ FIRST-AID PUBLIC ASSISTANCE BETHLEHEM PLANTS Employes In Bix Other Plants Choose CIO As Agent The ©. 1. ©. Steel Workers Organ- izing Committee has announced that the National Labor Relations Board | has scheduled elections at two Beth lehem Steel Corporation Flants on August 20 and 2]. The union estimated that 20000 | workers will participate in the elec chime than another. The drivers were i tions at Bethlehem and see that power and to greatest advan | twill vote at 20th or ist Pottstown. About 18.000 men will vole at Beth jehem August 21, and 2.000 employes Pottstown on either the Employes in six other Bethlehem plants have participated in NLRB el. ections during the past fow montha favoring the BWOC as thelr bargain- ing agent in each Instance, On empioves at the Cin re a o LET Plant sole bargaining agent, TED LEWIS AND HIS which the accant will be upon Burman BAND IS SATURDAY SUNSET ATTRACTION Rhapsody Revue Carries Also Twenty-five Entertainers. 7 : ¥ i in Johnstown voled 8040 to 2108 in favor of the SWOC as the | AND SAFETY TESTS SET RECORD To Be Held Saturday, September 6th, at Ebemsburg Fair, As Part of Fair Program Predicting that the statewide | Miners’ First-Ald and Bualety Meet to be held at the Ebensburg Fairgrounds | Saturday, September 8, as one of the outstanding features of the Cambria i County Fair, will set a record for any similar contest, W. Curflield Thomas deputy state secretary of mines, re- cently made committee appointments of those who will have charge of The affair i The meet will be sponsored by the gtates secretary of mines, Richard Maize: the Joseph A. Holmees Safely ounctl, UU. 8 Bureau of Mines snd the United Mine Workers of Ameri ea. Participating in the statewide ineet will be the winners of district gontests already held in Indiana, New Kensington and Uniontown. The win. ners of the contests to hw held at Lhe Point Btadiam st p.m. Baturdsy August 23, alsg will participate In sdditicn to attending the Eber Chur mest, stale mine inspectors of ihe 25 bituminous districts will bod Li comvention in the Ebensburg house, Friday, September 5 lary Maize will be the principal sp miker Mr 1! gos courts Thomas will bead the commit- charge of the miners meet lames Banner, Colver, 8 secpelary, Land Bart C. Leomard, Bouth Fork, of the Adams Fuel Corporalion, reas furer. William Lamont, Ebensburg Lmine inspector, will be the assmstant Lpeneral chairman. J. J. Forbes of | Pittsburgh, supervising engineer of iB BOARDS NOTIFIED OF FIVE LAW CHANGES Bules Are A Lot Different Since Recent Legislature Acted on Five Measures. Harrisburg State relief authors ties sent to county boards last Friday digewits of the five changes in the (ithe safety division of UU. & Buarean Hof Mines, will be the chile! judge and ing her in death, Her sicond husband | Pennsylvania Public Assistance Law made by the 1941 Jegisiatore for guidance in local sdmihistration The acts, approved by the House ind Senate and signtd by Governor James, provide 1A gusrs against improper pub. leabinn of the nareg of persons om relied snd restriction of the use of ne formruetion about relied recipients for jar poses connected with the adminis rats of putdi ARSStance. 2 Authority for the department and its local Boards to promole re Bsbilitation of persons on relied and to lake measures 16 help Uheon find Jiokuk $A requirement that » egal ith en Of who has fied declaration to becorne 8 CIUBeN a setUsment in Pesnayl varia. The law was amended Lo sirike vil the provision (hat ss applicant mun, show al least Two years pre ioe residence if the stale i-- Creation of the "Little WPA", providing department with an iharity eal conumunities nande work refief projects not in ihe coonpetition with the WPA with the mbar to coins from refie! rolls Ble Dan extending relief Ww persons wi advocale overthrow of the jrovernment by force, Another sot of the legislature, not effedting Ue county boards, however, war he bil placing the department's {3 +8 dea “ $i intent Tob) ave Gnly $B the Foe Pade Wx TRIS & oy os civil service under a special comma SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR DESERVE A RAISE BE Scale Is Lower Than Prevading. JA] Wages for Similar Work Union employes in the State Hopor stoves are talking sbout & strike in’ an effort to get the minbmum pEy schedules provided in a MI passed by the 1941 Legisisture but vetoed by | Governor James | pe The State liquor store workers lnve ® been persistently, but Usmpersiely, seeking better pay for several yonrs. And they deserve it. Their pay skies are substantially lower thas Ghose prevailing In industry for similar’ in work oe XA pu : The bill =hich Governor James ve Sei will give an exhibition of mine v i : , ‘remcue week. A “mine” will be con ed provided & pay rate of $36.05 8 | yucted en the baseball field and by week for clerks $31.15 & week for oo “wool” open spectators assistant managers, and $35.77 & week i will have sn oo —. for store managers. Those are Bot | ry of witnessing mine rescue work high rates of pay for a Dulibess ds which earns 18 million dollars a per | rod. Sha om SS. profits and whick does the hme iy . vali that is Randied throws) o_o | The mine will be constructed in 8 State Liquor Stores | manner to show headings. haulage Liguor store employes are under trey, ssn and alr Shanta. Aft trict civil service. They cannot ake | the explosion” whe ig teams inched. part in polities. Perhaps that's tw ing Ren with apparatus, reason why they have fared so bully, | will enter i the mine and carry ous pi —— enor identical to demands made Upon (them in time of actual uaderground Competing teams will not be infor : ied of the satare or otllent of the | explication” until the start of (he mine [remcnie oomtest. A simar eviet held h lat year at Ebensburg proved so suiconaaial that the general committes for ihe “Back Diamond Week™ do cidedl to fealure the “explosion” as one of the highlights of the Johns town program. . Ad explained by Inspector Koons, i ——— ter’ Will Peature “Black Diamond Week. '’ I ebm A mine expiosion---one of the tra Julenatown's xk Di Unier the direction of Dennis J. Keenan, of Barnesboro, state nudne in spocunr 12 teams of RE Annual Event of The Association Gives Promise of Being the Best Held in History Tha third —— fled day snd fhe wxhibit wil) be “Ube ume 48 IB 8 phonic Sunday, August 17th, event of the Cambria Copnty ¢osl ine, with the exceptation that per. Association will be hold Specistors may occupy seats in the ing contests at Pinning at 3.09 fe i ge [dsughters: Mrs. Howard Taylor Con "ToMe the flow of ofl snd gasoling t Lmatgh B.D; Mra. Bronat Yanssens, | 16 Ae ust, laying plans to make us| SrOsON Mrs. Frank Sebulsky 'f Very available means to transpor. | nih Mizu. Curl Gluaky: bth of Vinton- | Sation, & son, Robert Cooke, Cren- TWO large oil com -, § tom, all born to the first union. Twen- vealed, have begun Pasa a {\-five grandchildren and six great. crude : even | srandehildren also survive. 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