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PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1942 No "Falline Out" for Him Labor Today By Guy L. Ralston Oceans of printers' ink time and mountains of tiny down the pi channels (such Price Control Is Seen Facing Earlv Tests Mark Sullivan Asserts Demands of CIO And Farmer Threaten La By Mark Sullivan WASHINGTON, Feb. I. The price control law was enacted the opening week of February. The price administrator, Leon Henderson, was appointed, and confirmed by the Senate on Monday of this week, February 9.

The mechan your favorite newspaper appears on your creaKiast table i since the International Typographical Union, now pre, to celebrate its ninetieth birthday, was born. 5 y- i I hi fl i p.t-(iazette rnoio. with 25 pounds of golf clubs on his back-over a three-mile course near his home at 6351 Douglas avenue, Squirrel Hill. Here he's shown tightening his shoes before he got under way last night on his pre-draft training grind. W7ien the going on the march gets tough, John B.

Slocum, 'Zii, army-bound employe of the Jones Laughlin JSteel Corporation, should be able to "take it" with ttie hardest campaigner, for during the past month he's been running every night Prospective Draftee Prepares J. Worker Gets In Trim to March Squirrel Hill Man Finds Brisk Trots Carrying Keep Him in Condition Training Of Clerks Is Planned High School Graduate. Women to Take Places of Soldiers A tentative program for union-management training of clerks which its sponsors believe to be the forerunner of a wholesale war-induced employment transition, was outlined yesterday at a meeting in the Fort Pitt hotel. Gist of Plan As proposed at the conference which was participated by a committee from the Retail Clerks International Protective Association, representatives of the city's leading food store chains and an attache from the board of edtication, the plan contemplates: (1) Immediate training of high school graduates and married women to dilute the labor supply in merchandising establishments, thus releasing manpower to the armed forces and defense industries. (2) Establishment of permanent guidance committees of instructors from the unions and stores which would eliminate all non-essentials in such courses, holding them to a maximum of a week or 10 days.

(3) Setting up special units to hae harge of clearing these students into industry on a preferential basis as vacancies occur. The plan, which is being mod eled after a similar project in England, according to Joseph Lie-be r. of the union, who presided as chairman, will be gotten into oper atinn within a few weeks when rfristrations will be taken and classes arranged. School Board Member Present Present at yesterday's meeting were Dart Ellsworth, of the school board, who assured those present that facilities of the trainmg- within-industrv unit would be made available; Robert Neil, personnel manager at McCann's: Irwin Porter, representing the Giant Eagle Stores; Edward Warm bier, of Spear and Company, and Fred Lindner, Albert Derzak and Ar thur Lloyd of the union. Finishing touches will be put on the program at a meeting next week, according to i.ieDer, at a general meeting.

Lithuanians Plan Independence Da) The twenty-fourth anniversary of the declaration of independence of the republic of Lithuania will be celebrated Sunday by members of the Allied American Lithuanian Organizations at a meeting in the Lithuanian Citizens HalC 1721 Jane street, Southside. Paul Dargis. president of the Lithuanian Alliance of America for the Third district, will be chairman. Speakers will be the Reverend J. Barauskas.

a refugee from Lithuania now living in Chicago; Judge Michael A. Musmanno, Welfare Director Clarence Klein and the Reverend John Misius. Dies Commillee Bill Is Advanced WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. The House Rules Committee approved a resolution today to continue the life of the Dies Committee on un-American activities until January 3, 1943.

The action was taken In executive session after the committee heard representatives of labor groups assail the committee as un- American and derelict in its duties. Chairman Sabath, Democrat, Illinois, said "a majority vote" approved the resolution, but several members said the vote was unani mous and "without opposition." and Joseph H. Shea have moistened the san brass alloy matrixes have things have to happen 1 re piuj mruc in me last from agriculture, 2.800,000, she stated. Diana of New Kensington ber of Local 2, CIOa1k Workers of America, h.is elected a life member of American Drum and Bu;" Band Association. 1-vV aluminum tube mill wi rk is director of the local's' Drum Bugle Corp CIO United Shoe I.America, in a National lations at Haverhill, to bargain collectively ployes of 23 shoe-mam firms.

The vote was i CIO, 1,619 for an AFL i 143 for no union. I- 1 i 0 Co-. Roads Sued in 1), aih Suit for $20,000 damns. the Erie Railroad and mer Lake Erie Rai'r death of Samson Jenkins ville, a section laborer' brought in common yesterday by his unch. Jenkins of that city, a-trator of his estate" FIT LIKE NEHIDentor bt, the r.e.

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Also Ees-Jlar Extra Strength erown-ups who prefer a stronger pruducl All VS. drugstores. (FALSE TEETH cAew lorL's Popular HOTIt LillCCIUl neurit A huge chunk of the jumiee win be staged in Pittsburgn, nome ui ITU Local 7, on May 2 and 3, in conjunction with the semi-annual meeting of the ITU Tri-State Conference, President T. J. "Ted" Little of the latter group announced last night.

About 50 delegates from West ern Pennsylvania locals and some from Northern West Virginia and part of Maryland will be here for the parley, Little said, and at least 1,000 guests are expected to attend the convention banquet in the William Penn Hotel. Special Buttons for Yets Men who have been members of "Old No. 7" for 40 years or more will be given special buttons and the presentation probably will be made at the dinner by International President Claude M. Baker. Similar buttons were presented by Little to six Beaver Valley veteran printers at a recent dinner in Rochester, Pa.

Little, a native of Meadville, where he joined the ITU 46 years ago, has been a resident of Mc- Keesport for the last IS years. The Pittsburgh ITU local was one of 14 which met in Cincinnati and formed the international union in 1852. The locals were numbered by drawing slips of paper from a hat. The Pittsburghers got No. 7.

Two other Pennsylvania locals, Philadelphia and Harrisburg, drew Nos. 2 and 14, respectively, and have retained those numbers ever since. The New York City local drew No. 6 and that is the reason why Christy Mathewson, one of baseball's immortals, who many years later was a printer and a member of that local, may have been "Matty" to some fans but was ever known as "Big Six" to a host of printers and their pals. Two other New York State locals in the drawing were from Albany and Buffalo.

The others were pretty well scattered, like hits off Mathewson. Two Conventions Held Here Pittsburgh twice has been the scene of the ITU's international convention, in 1S53 and 1886. This year the convention, now an annual affair, will be held at the Union Printers Home, Colorado Springs, 70 miles from Denver. That haven for ailing or aged printers, reputed to be one of the finest establishments of its kind in the world, was founded with a fund the nucleus of which was a check for $10,000 given to the ITU, shortly after the 1886 convention, by George XV. Childs, then publisher of the Philadelphia "Public Ledger," and a banker.

who also happened to be co-publisher, Anthony Drexel. Childs and Drexel are still revered by many printers, who declare they were real benefactors. George Ballinger a Post- Gazette employe and long a member of No. 7, is a trustee of the Printers Home, where several former Pennsylvanians and a lot of others are sojourning in comfort and will be glad to see the inter national delegates when they arrive next September. The ITU now claims approximately 81,000 paid-up members.

Shop Talk Latest estimate by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins is that non-agricultural employment is 5,000,000 above the level of exclusive of the vast number of men in the military services. Em- Give YOUR child same At the first sign of a chest cold the Dionne Quintuplets' throats and chests are rubbed with Musterole a product made especially to promptly relievo JJlblKtSS of colds and resulting bronchial and croupy coughs. Musterole gives such wonderful results because it's more than an ordinary "salve." It Landlord Defies Fair Rent Decision Committee Promises Tenant Protection; Co-operation General A landlord told the Fair Rent Committee yesterday, "I don't care if there is a war on, I want more money and I can get it." He demanded that his tenant pay $4 more rent a month "or get out," but the committee ruled the in crease unjustified and promised to protect the tenant against eviction for not paying it. In contrast to this landlord's belligerent attitude toward the committee's anti-inflation program to prevent rent increases here unless justified under certain set rules was the voluntary action of three other owners in withdrawing proposed rent raises. These three had listened to a reading of the committee rules providing for rent raises wnere unusual cost increases are proved.

Under these rules they were nor. entitled to increases and tney readilv admitted as much and agreed to continue the present rentals. Some Decisions Postponed One of them was the representative of the real estate division of a large Downtown bank which had increased the rent on a 10-room Northside home as of next May 1 fmm si.sn tn $165 a month or 10 per cent. The owner of an East End apartment house, on the other hand, was given the committee's sanction to raise rents on six apartments bv $2.50 a month, from $50 to $52.50, after proving that labor costs had risen enough to justify the increase. And in another case where a landlord had asked a $9.50 increase from $45 to $54.50, the committee ruled a $2 increase would be permitted.

Except for several cases which were postponed for further investigation, the committee ruled in tenants' favor in every remaining instance, rejecting proposed rent increases ranging from $2 to $25 a month. The latter was for a 10-room East End home whose out-of-town owner had instructed his local real estate agent to increase the rent from $65 to $90. Patterson Presides at Session Assistant City Clerk James W. Patterson presided at yesterday's session in the mayor's conference room which was attended by only three other members of the 10-man committee. Those present besides Mr.

Patterson were Harry A Noah, representing the Pittsburgh Real Estate Board; H. T. Mims, chairman! of the apartment house division of the Building Owners Managers Association, and Wilson Boreland of the Pittsburgh Hous ing Association. Appointment of a permanent chairman to succeed Attorney Morris Zimmerman, now with the Office of Price Administration in Washington, will await the return to the city of Councilman George E. Evans, chairman of the housing committee of the Pittsburgh Defense Council, under which the Fair Rent Committee operates.

Because of the deluge of complaints pouring into the committee's City-County building offices against May 1 rent raises, the committee, which already has held two meetings this week, will hold another tomorrow afternoon to consider about 30 more cases. It has acted on nearly 100 this 'week alone. Several landlords have told the committee that they would have withdrawn the increases at a re quest from tenants had they been approached. Local Tailor Honored Bv National Designers Paul J. Bergman, of Ahlers and Bergman, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati custom tailors, yesterday was elected to the executive committee of the Merchant Tailors and Designers Association of America.

tween the AFL Building Service Employes International and the Union Trust, Frick and Frick Annex buildings. You'd think that in five years about every kind of charge would have been exhausted, but yesterday the AFL came up with a new one. An anti-AFL man offered to buy a drink for the house. Attorney Ralph H. Frank, who represents the independent building service union which won a bargaining election in the buildings last December, the AFL asserted yesterday, was the man who pulled this one.

It was just after the election December 13 (always a day to watch), and all the polls attaches were sitting around waitine for the counting to start, when with absolutely no persuasion on the part of others present, Attorney rranK uppea ana said: "I'll buy all of you a drink, re gardless of who wins the election." Co-counsel with Mr. Frank, whose union is intervenor in the AFL-Union Trust, et al, controversy because it won the election, attempted to have the account of this offer stricken from the record without success. "It is significant, said Louis Little, counsel for the AFL union, who at that time was endeavoring to establish that the company influenced the election. Trial Ex aminer James L. Colbert agreed.

The day passed without enlight enment on another point. Did the men present permit themselves to be victimized by this offer? ism is" all set for keeping- prices down and avoiding ultimate infla tion. Yet at the same moment there are under way two actions which, if successful, would make the price control law ineffective, render Mr. Henderson helpless. Several large CIO unions demand a raise in wage rates basing their demand on the ground that cost of living has gone up.

At the same time, spokesmen for farm interests irt Congress are trying to bring about a rise in the "ceiling" over crop prices set up in the recent price control law. If either of these efforts is successful, it will be a justification for success by the other. If the farm leaders succeed in elevating the standard of crop prices, that will lead to increase in the cost of living. Thereupon CIO will have reason for demanding yet another increase in wage rates. IT WORKS both ways.

If CIO wins it3 present demand for increase in wage rates, the farm leaders will use that as justification for yet another rise in the ceiling over crop prices. In other words, if either of the present actions is successful, both will be successful. Thereupon the general price-level will be one round farther up in the rising sniral and with still another sniral in sietit. and then still an other and another. Both the pending actions threaten to wreck Mr.

Henderson and price control. Yet Mr. Henderson has no direct authority over either. Over waees he has no control whatever. The demand of CIO for increase of wage rates can be granted or denied by either of two authorities the new War Labor Board, or President Roosevelt.

The War Labor Board has offi cial iurisdiction over wagre dis putes. And President Roosevelt began last week a system of informal personal conferences with the heads of both the great labor organizations. CIO and AFL. If Mr. Roosevelt urges them, as a matter of policy, in the interest of avoiding inflation, to refrain from Insisting on wage increases, presumably the labor heads would be willing.

IN ANY event, all Mr. Henderson can do is to ask Mr. Roosevelt and the labor board not to let the wage rates go up. He can only use his influence with them, point out to them the consequences of granting wage increases. About increase in crop prices.

the situation differs somewhat. The price control law as passed set up a standard, a maximum. The standard is 110 per cent of parity price. However, after the law was enacted, Mr. Henderson united with Secretary of Agriculture Wickard in a public state ment that they would keep crop prices at about the present level.

which is roughly one hundred per cent of parity. This can be done, for Mr. Wick ard has powers of his own, out side the price control law, by wnicn ne can restrain crop prices. Among other ways, Mr. Wickard's department owns great quantities of wheat, cotton, and other farm crops.

These were acquired by the Department of Agriculture during some eight years past as part of the department's effort, at that time, to make prices go higher. These stocks on hand. Mr. Wick ard can now put on the market. and thus restrain prices.

And he has still other ways of restrain ing prices. WHEN MR. WICKARD and Mr. Henderson announced they would keep crop prices at the present level, this offended farm leaders in Congress. Farm lead ers neia that the action was a violation of the spirit of the price-control law.

The farm leaders propose now to make the standard in the price control law a compul sory standard. They wish to re quire Mr. Wickard and Mr. Hen derson to permit crop prices to go up to 110 per cent of parity be fore they exercise any restraint. Success of the effort to increase the standard of crop prices, would justify the demand of labor lead ers for wage increases.

Conversely an increase in wage rates would justify an increase in crop prices. And it is not these two alone that would be affected. Wages and crop prices are large factors in the prices of manufactured goods. (Advertisement) GARLIC, regularly used, it trtcctiv aid in relieving High Hood Fresfiirt symptom. D.

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fit. All wooden Choice of tape They are the largest factors in the price level as a whole. Then prices of practically everything would start upward. THE PRESENT hituation is specially important for its effect on the psychology of the country. If the country sees the price level move upward within a week or two after enactment of a price control law, the public is likely to think the law will not work.

The public is likely to begin to buy, in anticipation of future high prices. That would be one of the classic-early steps in inflation. On the other hand, if the present attempts to increase wages and crop prices are prevented, then the public is likely to think the Administration is really determined to prevent higher prices. The public is likely to think the price-control law will work. Such a public psychology would be a powerful factor in preventing price rise, preventing ultimate inflation.

U. S. Army Pilot Killed in Brazil The Army Air Corps reported 3'esterday that Second Lieutenant John Bradley Rush. 25. former resident of Sewickley and nephew of Ralph M.

Rush of the Dravo Corporation, was killed Saturday when the bomber he was piloting crashed near Natal, Brazil, killing eight others aboard. Young Rush. whose family moved to Princeton, N. about 10 years ago, was the grandson of Howard G. Bradley, Cleveland industrialist, and son of the former Princeton University football coach, J.

H. Rush. Pa Raise Asked Stale Workers Fo HARRISBURG, Feb. 11. UP) The Pennsylvania State Employes Union (AFL) today asked Governor James to seek a pay increase of all commonwealth workers during the special legislative session.

It also urged hiring of additional personnel "necessary to effectively carry on the war duties." Business Representative Robert P. Lonergan said. "It now costs approximately between 12 and 14 per cent more to live than it did two years ago." Fire in Home Falal lo Child GREENSBURG, Feb. 11. iJP) Six-year-old Robert Fetter of nearby Armbrust, perished late today in flames which engulfed his home, while his parents and gas well drillers tried vainly to rescue him.

Charles Fetter, the father, suf fered second degree burns about the face, hands and arms as he tried to battle his way from the basement of the home upstairs. jMusmaiino Asks Street Be Named MacArthur Judge M. A. Musmanno, of com mon pleas court, appeared before city council yesterday to urge that it rename West Carson street, from the Smithfield street to the city line at McKees Rocks, (Doug las) MacArthur Boulevard. Councilman T.

J. Gallagher said he would make a move next-week to comply with the judge's request. Chief argument of the jurist honor ing MacArthur. was the great general's present heroic defense in the Philippines. Launch Cruiser Today Feb.

11. UP The navy announced today the cruiser U. S. S. Montpelier would be launched tomorrow at the New York Shipbuild Company, Camden, N.

J. The vessel will be sponsored by Mrs. William F. Corry, wife of the mayor of Montpelier Vt. BUND S2.95 up When it comes to picking the rookie who won't be cussing out the sergeant after the first five miles under 50-pound impost, our money is on a young fellow you may have picked out in your headlights on a twist of Beechwood boulevard.

Our guess is. that when the company raises that old chorus of groans for mercy, he'll be grinning and asking for more. In explanation of which, is presented this morning's candidate for the most practically foresighted draftee-to-be (he hopes) John B. Slocum, of 6351 Douglas avenue, Squirrel Hill. For the past month, come fair weather or foul including last night's snow and nasty footing the 29-year-old employe of Jones Laughlin's ore department has been ardently following a conditioning program against the day when he'll shoulder a pack and rifle.

What was the idea? The question was unnecessary, of course, but reportorial finesse forced it. GAIL MACKALL Funeral services for Gail Mack- all, 45, of Beaver, who died Mon day in Valley Hospital Sewickley, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Georgetown (Pa.) Methodist Church. Burial will be in Georgetown Cemetery. Mr. Mackall was superintendent of drilling for the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey at Palem- bang, Sumatra.

He returned to the United States last October on furlough and was scheduled to re turn on December 9, his passage being cancelled because of the war. His wife, Mrs. Mary Trimble Mackall. had previously returned to the United States and placed their son George, 8, in school in Beaver. Mr.

Mackall was born in Fred- ericktown, and before going to the Fast Indies his home was in Georgetown. Besides his wife and son he leaves his mother, Mrs. Harriett Mackall; a brother, Fred Mackall of Georgetown and a sis ter, Mrs. Charles Reed, of Chester, W. Va.

ROBERT A. FEY Funeral services for Robert A. Fey, 60, of 1334 Olivant street, a grocer in the Lawrenceville district who died Tuesday, will be held tomorrow at 10 a. m. in St.

Augustine's Catholic Church, Thirty-seventh street. Burial will be in St. Augustine's Cemetery. Mr. Fey was a member of the Holy Name Society of Corpus Christi Church, the Eintracht Singing and Musical Society and the Knights of St.

George, Branch No. 5. leaves his widow, Mrs. Bertha Hoover Fey; three children, Regis F. Fey.

Mary Catherine and Francis J. Fey, and a grandchild. W. WOODWARD WILLIAMS W. Woodward Williams, 58.

prominent in the Pittsburgh steel industry for many years, died Tuesday in California, where he has made his home for the last two years. Mr. Williams was gen- County Savings, Loan League Frolic Tonight Members of the Allegheny Coun ty Savings and Loan League will hold their annual frolic in the Keystone Hotel tonight. Bernhard Ragner, publicity di rector for the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce and former foreign news writer in Europe, will speak. A buffet supper, dancing and entertainment will complete the program.

Ferry Pilot Killed OTTAWA, Feb. 11 UP Flying Officer E. Montgomery of Phoenix, was killed yesterday when his Royal Canadian Air Force Fairey battle plane crashed at Clappison's Corners, just west of Toronto. Montgomery, sole occupant of the plane, was ferrying it from Jarvis, to Mont Joli, Que. While his mother, Mrs.

Harry Slocum, puttered in the kitchen and he tugged at the laces of stout old-fashioned high shoes, John looked up. "So it won't be so tough when I have to do it and I hope it will make me a better soldier." (He has already passed his first physical examination, and soon the machinery of Local Board No. 22 probably will grind him into the final. And so saying in his matter-of-fact way, John hoisted across his square shoulders a weathered black leather golf bag which with two woods and eight irons weighs about half the pack he may be toting soon. While a reporter and photogra-v.

pher slithered behind him on the ice down Douglas avenue he set off at an easy lope that was to take him about three miles down Beechwood boulevard and back home by way of the Pittsburgh Country Club grounds a routine, he said, "that has kept me feeling fine, and I wouldn't stop it, even if I don't go." eral manager of the Babcock Wilcox Tube Company in 1940 when he went to the Pacific coast where he became a partner in the firm of Williams Killsby, representatives of Eastern steel manufacturers. Mr. Williams, a graduate of Harvard University, class of 1905, began his career with the Carnegie Steel Company here after leaving college. He was associated with the Bourne-Fuller Company, general manager of the A. M.

Byers Company; vice president of the Reading Iron Company and the Pittsburgh Crucible Steel Company. He was a member of the Harvard Club of New York, the California Club, the Flint Ridge Country Club of Los Angeles. He leaves his wife, Althea H. Williams and a brother, Ralph Williams. Funeral services will be held at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the Little Flower Chapel in Los Angeles, with burial in Forest Lawn Park.

CLARENCE PEARSON Funeral services for Clarence A. Pearson, Northside real estate broker, who died Tuesday in his home, 516 West North avenue, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock in the George Smith funeral home, 1200 Federal street. Burial will be in Highwood Cemetery. Mr. Pearson, a lifelong resident of Pittsburgh, had been in the real estate business for the past 40 years.

He leaves his widow, Mrs. Delia McCullough Pearson; two sons, Richard T. and Willis A. Pearson, and five grandchildren. Crack INDUCTION ENTER NO.

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