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Knight Tells 3-Point Labor Program Gov. Goodwin J. Knight, principal speaker Monday at the California State Federation of Labor convention, pledged a three-point state program to reduce industrial accidents, reminimum wage and examine. regulations and institute a snare time job program for teenagers. Other speakers warned means must be developed to cushion the shock to workers displaced by automation and called for revisions of the Taft-Hartley Law and the Davis-Bacon Act.

In the forefront of activity during the afternoon business session in Municipal Auditorium was the approval by delegates of revisions the federation's constitution and of policy statements. Today delegates -will hear addresses by Edward P. Park, California Labor Commissioner; Richard A. McGee, director of the California Department of Corrections; and Daniel V. Flanagan, director, of organization, American Federation of Labor.

Among resolutions expected to be brought to the convention floor either today or Wednesday is Proposition 4, the oil conservation measure on the Nov. 6 ballot. The State Building Trades Conference, representing 300,000 AFL-CIO union workers in California, by unanimous vote of its steering committee endorsed the proposition Monday. William C. Carroll, secretary of the SBTC, said his group will vote solidly for Proposition 4 when the issue comes before the convention delegates.

The proposition has also heen endorsed by the president of the Long Beach Naval Shipyard Employees' Assn. and the heads of three other local labor unions. In return for his three-point program of aid to labor, Gov. Knight asked organized labor to help maintain California's "moderate climate of understanding and appreciation for the rightful, aspiration" of both labor and management. The Governor will ask the legislature for a budget which will "substantially increase" the number of safety engineers assigned to the construction section of the State Dept.

of Industrial Relations. Studies are under. way, he said, and public hearings will be held within the next year on minimum wages, hours and working conditions in 11 industry and occupational groups. Gov. Knight said he plans to form an advisory committee on teen-age employment "as long as hard-won gains to prevent abuses of child labor are not sacrificed and the adult breadwinner's position in the labor market is not Ernest B.

Webb, director of the California Department of Industrial Relations, told dele- the 54th annual convention population of the to, state will grow by four million persons by the year 1966. In his address, "The Next Ten Years," he said the increase in population will necessitate providing a million and a half more jobs, bringing the state's labor force to million workers. Based on studies of trends in various industries, Webb said jobs will increase in trade and service industries, in stores, public utilities, construction and public services. "But in California throughout the country," Webb said, "jobs will be affected by new inventions, new processes and by that development automation." SEATED at tables bearing placards of their union organizations, part of the 3,500 delegates attending the California State Federation of Labor convention here overflow the convention hall floor of Municipal Auditorium. Addressing He said automation is more than a continuation of the trend to make machines do the work of men.

he said, "can give us greatly improved workling conditions and make possible higher real wages and increased purchasing power." "But," he said, "automation will bring increased need for developing means to cushion the shock to displaced workers. "I'm confident." Webb said, "that labor and management will work out such means." A second afternoon session speaker, Bryan P. Deavers, general president of the State Building and 'Construction Trades Council of California, appealed for amendments in two federal acts affecting labor. Deavers called for pre-hire al contract amendment to the Taft-Hartley Act which would assure workers the Tight to sign contracts before jobs are begun. He also urged the elimination of a section of the act pertaining to open shop or right-towork laws.

Deavers also urged amendments to the 1 Act. the act which directs the Secretary of Labor to pre-determine prevailing wages on federal construction projects. He said coverage under the act should be extended to all federally assisted construetion programs or wherever federal money is involved. And he said the act should provide for fringe benefits along with hourly wages. Statements of policy approved by delegates pertained to international affairs.

full employment, taxation and Taftthem Hartley Act and labor legislation. Under the of international affairs the delegates accepted as policy the statement, "Organized labor warns that, despite the actions of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party, Soviet imperialism still threatens the peace of the world." The statement calls upon the United States to be prepared to intensify its own offensive in the cause of freedom, peace and social justice. Of full employment, the policy statement said, "The existence of serious and growing maladjustments in the economy requires immediate and positive action by both private groups and government if another full-blown recession is to be averted." Of taxation the policy statement said, "Federal action to restore to full operation the progressive character of the federal tax structure through the elimination of loopholes, erosions, and leakages in the tax structure favoring the wealthy. and through the enactment of immediate relief 'for low and middle income taxpayers, remains an immediate goal of organized The statement said the Federation, "while opposing all efforts to obtain increased state revenues through the imposition of additional consumer taxes, will continue to press for rei vision of the state's regressive tax structure. in accordance with the principle of ability to pay." of the Taft-Hartley Act and labor legislation, the statement said "organized labor renews its pledge to press for the of the evils of Hartley Act, and the enactment of a sound and fair national labor relations law based on the principles of the Wagner Act." Service Station to Give Proceeds to Girl in Coma CALIFORNIA STATE Kenneth RI Wehinger, owner of a Shell service station at Palo Verde and Spring has his staff all set to pump as much gasoline as possible Wednesday during "Susan Payette Benefit Day." All proceeds from the day's sales above actual cost of the products and taxes will go into the special fund for the 15-yearold Susan who has lain unconscious since her heart stopped.

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The defendant declined counsel, pleaded guilty to all three counts, admitted a prior felony conviction and asked for immediate sentence. The assault count stemmed from the July 3 shooting of police Sgt. Thomas Welch when he stopped four men for questioning about a W. Wardlow liquor store holdup. Sgt.

Welch was hit in the ankle by a bullet which glanced off a wheel of his patrol car. Of the other suspects, one was sentenced to state prison last week in San Diego on another robbery charge, one is awaiting trial here Aug. 31 and one has not been captured. Missouri Picnic Annual summer picnic of the Missouri State Society will be held Aug. 26 in Bixby Park.

(Long Beach, Aug. 14, 1956 THE INDEPENDENT--Page 3 Guilty Plea Entered on Marijuana Charge on A real FEDERATION LABOR tO. the delegates here is George Roberts, regional head of the AFL-CIO Political Action Committee, who flayed the Taft-Hartley Act and what he termed the "trickle down" philosophy of the income (Staff Photo by Bob Shumway.) An alleged member of a mari-1 juana selling ring Monday pleaded guilty for the second time to a conspiracy charge in Superior Court. Norman Sharp, 22, of California will be sentenced Thursday. He admitted the charge in June but later withdrew the plea.

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admitted the conspiracy count in June. She was sentenced July 18 to 45 days in the Jail a condition of probation. The four conspired to sell cigarets on two occasions to narcotics officers and two female undercover agents who posed as addicts. They were arrested May 19. 'Safety Valve' on Ridge Route CASTAIC (I.P.) The State Division of Highways Monday started work on "safety valve parking areas for trucks on a five-mile grade, of the Ridge, Route where six drivers or runaway trucks have been killed.

since Jan. 1. The parking areas into which drivers can steer runaway trucks on the section of U. S. Highway 99 are located at the crest of the grade, and about: three quarters permit a mile drivers down.

to inspect their brakes air line connections before starting down the steep grade..