—— = Union Press, Established May, 1935 A GENERAL NEWSPAPEX DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF ORGANIZED LABOR IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA UNIONP Ng Zid Patton Courier, Established AN ATTAINMENT OF THE LARGEST GENERAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA S COURIER Oct., 1893 VOL. 49. NO. 34 PATTON. PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 24. 1943 SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR ASKS MINERS RETURN TO WORK UNDER MINE SUPERVISION OF U. S. Formal Decision Reached Late on Tuesday By the International Policy Committee, Inte wontionsd Pp olic y Commit- | tee of the United Mine Workers of America, in session in Washington, D. C., on Tuesday night of this week, | ordered the mine workers back into the pits until October 31st, with a | broad indication that during that time they would resort to the courts to obtain the portal-to-portal pay the | War Labor Board refused to give them in a decision handed down last | week, andw hich had caused the men | to remain out of the pits, starting on Sunday midnight, at the expira- ation of the truce they had been wor- king under. The announcement of the back-to- work decision laid heavy stress on the fact that the men were returning to work under existing pay and con- ditions, only as employees of the gov- 3 ernment of the United States and not | Salary, in the drive to stem inflation- of the mine ownership. ary trends. (International) st, lel pion pa ONECRORD ©) ATES AMATEUR EVENT WITH A PATRICTIG BLENDING duction units by the United States Thursday of Next W Week Will Be The WAR INDUSTRY in World War 1, Bernard M. Baruch (above) was named by War Mobili- zation Director James F. Byrnes, as his special personal adviser. Baruch will serve without title and without Board Chairman Government and will automatically terminate if government control vacated prior to the above mention- ed date.” The indication of reliance on the courts to get underground travel pay uw came in this paragraph of the an-| nouncement: First of Series of Community “The executive officers of the in- Meets in Nighbor Town ternational union are hereby express- ly authorized to exercise their decis- ion in the filing of suits at law or by other necessary means, to protect the equity of the membership in the mat- ter of portal-to-portal compensation, Vie tory Sing and Amateur Show, sponsored by the Barnesboro Business Men's Association, which had originally been scheduled for the evening of June 16th, but which had | both as to current and deferred lia- | to be abandoned because of a heavy | bility.” | rainstorm, has now been re-scheduled | President John L. Lewis of the U. | for the night of Thursday, July 1st, | M. W. of A. was asked after the starting at eight o’clock, in the New | policy committee meeting if thera, Barnesboro High School Stadium, Solid Fuels Admitistrator ToT he Ce Dera Ickes, government custodian of the ra Prizes will be given con: mines. He said the committee state-y testants in the show, the first award ment spoke for itself. Asked whether | | being $10.00, the second, $5.00, and the check-off of union dues would | the third, $3.00. be continued, Lewis merely pointed | Contestants in the north of to the statement which said thati, county desiring to enter these ama- minimum wages and conditions teur shows can write their intention will be continued. to the President of the Barnesboro | Ickes said: “The mine workers un “| Business Men's Association, sponsars | derstand that my job is solely 0 | of the entertainment. produce the coal necessary for. var | Victory songs and other musical en- | homes this winter. To do this will hin | Sorter ji ng a] oat industry. 1. took oe nas. hg PodY 8 welcome to 0 to the affal cooperation will be given. and. enjoy. an ‘evening =f hilaron | £1 singing, your own included, and While President Lewis appeared to | some sod entertainment. have given ground, in that he order- ed the miners back without getting the $1.30 a day the policy ee! ROSS has demanded, the mines by the same tensive a form government control | - a i will take remains to be seen. Election of officers for the coming token appeared to be lost to the op- | erators temporarily, if not for the | One point was still at issue—there | year featured the June meeting of the had been no compliance with the | Susquehanna Branch, American Red The hi d entire duration of the war. How ex- | ADVISER TO BYRNES | the tan of a band. ! Patton could through their represen- | y, the | PATTON RECREATION HEARINGS STARTING CENTER COMMISSION THIS WEEK ON COAL IN SPECIAL MEETING STABILIZATION ACT | Members See Need of Local Band, Ickes Scheduled Yo Appear In Be- Discuss Activities for Inde- half of Renewal and Vinson pendence Day Fete, Speeds Action. | | | | | | | | { | i | A special meeting of the Patton| Congress, acting belatedly, will be- Recreation Commission was held on | gin a series of hearings this week on | Friday evening last, June 18th, with | proposals to extend the Bituminous | the following members in attendance | Coal Stabilization Act for another 3 Young, Cooper, Schwab and Super- | years as part of the war time pro- | visor Hovan. Others present, rep- gram to stabilize industry. | resenting the various organizations | The act expired last April 26th but | were—Sam Rogers, James McGone- | ac extended temporarily for 120 gal, Thomas McQuillen, C. P. Welty, | days. Unless re-enacted it will expire |W. E. Noonan, Elmer Crowell, Leo| next Aug. 23, and if congress takes Donahue, Frank Cammarata and its proposed recess early next month Mark Brown. | without acting to renew the law, A very interesting meeting was | coal industry stabilization program { held, that included suggestions from | will be ended. the various organizations’ represen- | The House Ways and Means Com- tatives in regard to some kind of ac-| mittee agreed to a series of hearings tivity here on the Fourth or Fith of | op continuing the program after Di- July. | rector of Economic Stabilization Fred The first subject discussed at some | yinson appeared before the commit- length was that of a Community| tee last week. The hearing will cc Band, and the group generally were tinue all of this week and perhaps | in agreement that the town has been | sadly neglected in this matter. The representatives of the organizations, | the Department of Interior and its covering all in Patton, voiced the| Bituminous Coal Division and later j Salton that their clubs could raise | witness will be Harold L. Ickes, sec- ry substantial sum of money for |rteary of the interior, who as solid | fuels’ administrator, strongly favors | re-enactment of the law. Mr. Ickes stated his position six and | weeks ago in a letter to Senator Jo- give an exhibition at the seph F. Guffey, of Pennsylvania, the | Giver on gr Fourth of July. | sponsor of the act. That the various organizations in| «A fajlure to renew ihe coal act ould seriously jeopardize the pro- tatives, function as a collective body | quction of bituminous coal in a suf- | for the good of the community. | ficient quantity to fuel the war pro- That each organization take a Sun-| gram of the nation,” Mr. Ickes wrote. day to sponsor a picnic at the park. “The willingness of this industry This idea met with much approval. | to make the investment necessary to That the different clubs could do- accomplish this production has re-| nate games for children at the park. | sulted largely from the assurance af- Add something new in the way of [forded it under the Coal Act that the | | amusement each year. | weighted average cost of its product | Have community singing until a | would be returned to it by virtue of | | much needed band gets into action. the established minimum prices. i The scetetary was instructed to] Production goals will not be two or three days next week. First witnesses will be officials of Some suggestions that were forth- coming from the group were: Jo 2 professional swimmer > ach- | evening, with present: Ott, hursky and The min - 1706 000° my to and enlisted men, : menower need of the armed forces = over 1,500,600. IN CASE OF FIRE CALL THESE NUMBERS Due to the fact that the regular Patton Fire Warning, the Clay Works Whistle, temporarily is not functioning, James Blake, Patton Fire Chief, advises residents, that in case of fire, they promptly call one of the following numbers: This method is to be employed only so long as the regular alarm call is not functioning. the |~ FATHERS WILL GET A DRAFT REPRIEVE communities, RED CROSS DRIVE IN GLEARFIELD BRANCH SHOWED FINE SPIRIT Most Every Community in Our District Displayed That Folks Were Generous in Call Harry H. Nehrig, chairman of the recent Red Cross Campaign for funds Geo. Lehman 3692 H. J. Mulligan 2785 | in the Clearfield Branch, has releas- Commercial Hotel 2841 ed the amount of total contributions L. Ianniello 300¢ || made by the various communities in William Jones 3304 | Northeastern Cambria County, and the totals show that the entire sec- tion was generous. The breakdown of figures by the follows: Ashville, Eulalia Godfrey, chairman. Solicitation, house to house, $85.50 soliciatation, town businessmen, $47; total for the town, $132.50. Hastings. Domenis Demento, Chairman. Solicitation, house to house, $372.- UNTIL FIRST OF YEAR - And Its Very Probable That the | Most of Them May Never Be Called At All C t C t estimates of Washington. New 22; solicitation, town business men, ,198.61; from local union No. 393, MW. $1, 619.50; solicitation f operators, all others $185.5 clubs, organiza- bosses, and a total for 10ns, lerks, he Army and Navy manpower require-| Howard Apple, Chairman. ments make it appear likely that the Solicitation, house to house, $236.- induction of fathers will be delayed | 98; local union No. 7569, U. M. W. A until the first of the year, if not in-| $454.00; solicitation of operators, definitely. : $109.10; making a total for the town Selective service, planing on the |°f $800.08. | basis of an §,200,000-man Army by Dean and Dysart. December 31, had estimated that the J. L. Marks, Chairman. o drafting of fathers would become ne- Solicitation, house to house, $72; cessary by October. local union No. 7018, U. MW 4, It now deveiops however that the | $94.50; operators, $61.05; the total Army may not reach its peak until | fe June 30 next year. Moreover, it in-| cludes in the 8,200,000 over all figure | | WAAC’s, women nurses, dieticians, {and physical theaapists. Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson said at a press conference | there would be some variation in Ar- | my requirements for the rest of this bri te | year. ut decli ctive problem i de mining’ from what groups’ aod oh nas shsrortanialy net increase of less than a men in the eoming year, the t hé next 12 months is only a Tit 1 In obtaining these omen, the Army | ¥ and. Navy will be able to get approx- | | solicitation, town business men, local union No. 6504, U. Fion. 00; local union No. 65; sol $356.00; U. Sommunity contribution being $227.- Blandburg. Thos. C. McGoey, chairman. Solicitation, house to house, $72.50; $55; M. W. A, 391 (District $15.00; Solicitation coal and $266; Coupon. i Walter F. Robbins, chairman. Solicitation, house to house, $125.- town business men, Ww. A. local No. 2054, $6300; solicitation, operators, $102; lize hetore a clubs, organizations, $80.80; a total 5 .planned increase of 77 192 °f $406.25, pation . A. Litzinger, chairman. “Solicitation, house to house, $817.» 2; solicitation, town business men, 968.00; Local Union No. 842, U. M, W. A. $7200; Clay Workers Union, No. 431, $51.00; Clubs and organiza- It was ‘imately 100,000 ‘youths a month. as|.’ a] rie the “Tax they’ turn 18, oF 1,200,000 for the | tions, $375.00; Farmers, $200.50; a and that's 12-month period. eran total of $2,533.62. ent to. th The remainder could be obtained | pA Borough: See oe from ‘single men who have been de- COLVER MINERS order the sn w he said, ' ferred for occupational reasons . and | in a ourve the monthly bill: It Docket “brought 1 Soliciter.” ni tee has pre- from childless married men whose | draft number has not yet been rea- ched or who will have been occupa- tionally deferred. If, instead of spreading their calls | evenly over the next 12 months, the Army and Navy should decide to con- | {C N ELECT OFFIGERS At the annual election of officers of olver Local Union, No. line Workers of America, 860, United held last WLB order that the miners sign a | Cross, Monday night in the chapters |= (or E Noatan Was 00 coal pro- | centrate them in the next six months | Thursday, Mike Degretto was again contract embodying substantially the | headquarters in Barnesboro. ced the opinion slation, in- |it might become necessary to start chosen as president of the body. He conditions under which they were or-| Mrs. Blair McAnulty, Barnesboro, muni mining | drafting fathers in October. A still| has served in that capacity for a dered back to work—something that | was re-elected as chairman, Other ipous fields in | unceratin quantity is the number of | number of years. Andrew Machuta the miners, for their own protection, | officers are Mrs. A. Sidney Deringer, Ni men that must be drafted as replace- | Was chosen vice president; John Hul- surely won't do. secretary; Louis Luxenberg, Barnes- { ments for fatalities and men dischar- | gus was re-elected Recording Secre- : i" ; Mrs. W. C. Wetzel, i | ged £ e reason or another tary, and James Sloan, financial sec- Many Miners Do Not Return boro, treasurer; : ; | ged for one reason or ano A . : Be al pale ly Barnesboro; J. G. Nicholson, North 1 Meanwhile, the armed forces, the|retary; John A. Malloy, treasurer; Eat Piany nines In this district are | gpangler; John F. Foreman, Spang-|g 3 [war Production Board and other ag- Baldo .Vicini, door keeper. Jerry Dok Jona ng te Tpuray Hee ler; Mrs. Norbert J. Feighner, St. er. th ; | | encies are quietly and thoroughly ex- Gherardi was named to the Hospital g + appeared last night in the| pepedjct; Mrs. Thomas A. Owens, neil 4 | amining the supply problem as af-|committee and Frank E 'd as the TERE of He wy W. Ove 2 Bropns Carrolltown; Mrs. George Lieb, Nick- BLL Tag | fected by the size of the armed for-| Ration committeeman. three 0 resider Rooseve 0 INnAucl| town: Mrs. Francis Sullivan, Baker- AME TW ; 1 available t ro- | members chosen for the mine com- striking employees of government op- | ton. Fred Shrock, Marsteller; Mrs. N 0 Mary 8 the Ameri id ene Sailer he mittee are John Shook, Baldo Vicini erated industries up to the age of 65. Joseph Hughes, Garmantown; Miss do Aakers at the quarterly | the civilian popuiytion and James Hood. Also, in many of the local unions, the Margaret Price, Emeigh, and Mrs. i he Corba 1 id oi Checkweighmen elected for the pe- miners are embittered over failure y y ia. vice i x = ¥ re were James Sloa: 1 ulgus ion: ¢ S. eniifiorsd 0 Lure | yohn Shaw, Cymbnias Yes amen American Legion Auxiliary, | PATTON OFFICER NOW ried w re. Je es 81 )é 1 Huigus ot é age ase, fra: Me 2 c n c 3 ian ~~ 13it od and Joe Spanol: x( Peter Hu- Mines reported as working today MrS: Mcanully announce ’ ¥: July 1, in the Gallitzin Le- GRADUATE OF MEDICAL SE : or Hu I 2 4 “J | Chapter exceeded its recent War|_: dak was again chose: boy. are: St. Benedict, Marsteller, Cass- bo g ‘ id} Six FIELD SERVICE SCHOOL v ; andra, Vintondale and a few others Etind Drive quola by #1723 She s (The gusts Will pe Mes 2D. Den , ve gb Re " Chapter’'s quota was set a 3 > \ "g - [ERVENAK EN 1 totalling not more, perhaps, than in the x Pp Rr Au¢ i; Fra western vice president, Mrs. First Lieut Edward J. Haluska. REV. CHER VENAK ENLISTS, : rin 000 and members secured a total of Altoona, membership | ps = r ~ the 1 hborhood of 3,000 men. $10,723 in contributions. ! igh P| Dental Corps, of 709 Palmer avenue, IN NAVY CHAPLAIN CORPS Mines that did not operate today, ! a 1 a An rs. Leroy Beigemun, Patton, ph: liv hardened and well . it is said, are, among others in this AME gpny Service cnalrman, -ained for duty with troops in thc v. Father Alo Cherve- section: Norty: Glo, Scalp Lato Reve DON'T USE NEW ST P i Hon of officers for The som: ie il ars pres 1k bib I art g ¢ : = loc, Windber, Barnesboro, St. Michael ON AUTO TILL JULY FIRST grill stake Place gupme the parations, last Thursday was graduz 1- cepted as a Navy Chay ith the Colver, Elmora, Beaverdale, St. M- a I fo ih Nn on ted from the Medical Field Service rank of lieutenant junior grade. He chael, Hastings, South Fork, Lilly. The new $5.00 Federal auto Gy 0 Et 0 it a Sh, or School, Carlisle Barracks, Pa. 3 the fifth priest of the Altoona dio- Sentiment against a return to work | stamp must not he disylayed on the: A Peer. Sn ey ae Te o| He has already left for his new sta- cese to serve as chap n the arm- rose strong in the coal fields of this | windshields, nor the old stamp, res Ary Eee Trail I 2iobop. Mm. 1 € | tion where he will put into actual ed forces of World W area since the district would have [moved until*June 30th. 08 ara = | practice the military training, med- Father Chervenak enter 1e Ser benefitted by the $1.30 portal-to-por-| Even though thé motorist nay. Tye. = | ical tactics, military sanitation, log- vice approximately one later tal pay proposal on which the miners|{have purchased the new stamp, SPURN JOBS |istics, field medicine and surgery, than had been his intent order and the Central Pennsylvania opera-{ must not be put iff use before thet AS COAL OFFICIALS |and administration which he learned to pass the required physical exame f pi 1 1 ph) tors had reached a tentative agree-| deadline, : a | thoroughly at that “West Point of inations it was necessary for the ment, but were unable to reach: 2 rire —Although Pennsylva- | the Medical Department.” young priest to undergo a major op- written contract, ~ Run Down By Car. 3 foal mines “are badly in| He was among a class of 465 phy-| eration with nearly a year to recover Because the ‘official orders from Robert Yingling, four year old Ba 8,” Acting Mines Sec- | sicians, dentists, veterinarians, safn- completely. headquarters did not reach the local meshogo boy, suffered lacerations d Maize asserts that) itary engineers and medical adminis- Son of the late Michael and Eliz- unions until late yesterday, a number | the 1 ead and shoulders last Thur many bituminous coal | trative members who prepared-them- abeth Chervenak, of Port age, Father of mine locals are meeting today to| night when he was struck by ah’ pk. examination for certifi- selves at Carlisle to convert their pro- Chervenak had three brothers in decide whether to return to work. | tomobile on the Barneshoros doremen, assistant foremen, | fessional skills from peacetime to war | World War I Andrew, now residing Flat rejections against resumption Road. He was treatedA b and electricians this year | uses. Lieutenant Haluska, 26, atten-|in Clevel: and; John, deceased, and Jo- of operations without a union con cian and removed to. the ho | ded | the University of Pittsburgh and seph, Louisville, Ky. Assemblyman tract came from the largest of the lo< parents. Police said the car u 3 ‘examination given in the bi- | received his D. D. S. degree there. iM. C. Chervenak, Jr., Portage Town- cal unions in the areas at meetings.f erated by Stanley Sass ‘of WS coal division on June 4 and| Two hundred and eighty-six Med-| ship, also is a brother of the ch \p- Hopes that the men will reconsider” Sass told police he ‘th said, only 1117 miners |ical Department officers in the grad- | lain. : their action, were expressed by dis- an embankment in an } eShtrasted with $284 fusting class as physicians, and 130 v- trict board members.” i striking the child. last June. are dentists, drawn from 42 states. —Buy bonds and stamps regularly,
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