Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 212, Decatur, Adams County, 8 September 1948 — Page 7

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- Rail Inions Launch Wage Boost Demand 16 'Non-Operating' Unions Open Talks Ch|Bk<>. Sept - * HP) Rail■>ad opened their big drive for* Bi;! round wage increase today. j Jggn 1B "non-operating' p. rati ‘ifr* 11 * claiming 1,000,000 memnegotiations with a 15•“t ma* p>u niiitee representing tinnation'* railroads. iHS&unions demand a reduction is th«»"rk week from 18 to io boaruund a 25-eent hourly pay raise That unions represent shop. ■aMpanee. aorvice and clerical * n K a Ked 1,1 Hie actual ffyjflfen of trains. 'UjAtiatlons between the railnMdsßii‘i the “Idle five" operating hieMfeinoils, representing ton.ooo e*BS r ' firemen. switchmen, tr*|Kii. conductors and other keyfl ‘ will be held later. A IB'b non-operating union rep '*l train dfspateners also will later. The dispatchers istnMf ~ the reuuced work week

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and an extra week of vacation, but I demanded no raise. • I Negotiations with the opera)lng brotherhoods and the dispatchers are expected to begin later this; month. G ;•’. Lieghty, president of the order of railroad telegraphers, head ed the negotiating committee sor 1 the nonoperating unions as the discussions opened today. I.ejghty estimated the average straight-time wage of non-operating railroad workers at J 1.17 an hour., or 158 15 for a 4s hour week. For a 40-hour week, he said, steel i workers last December averaged 160.11. automobile workers J 59.74. electrical manufacturing workers 1 158.12, rubber workers 161.76 and 1 petroleum refining employes >67.46.: ' 1 "The railroads simply can t help recognizing that even after the ■ employes’ proposal for revision In 1 the basic work week is put into 1 effect, the railroad employes will, be getting smaller weekly earnings than employes in other industries ’ with which they are properly com--1 parable," he said • f "De Nature Boy” In and Out Fort Wayne. Ind ti'l’i Sher--1 iff Harold Zeis's most frequent ■> "boarder" at the Allen County jail' t is a man who is arrested after he

Russian Communist Party Blasts Tito Suggests Yugoslavs Oust Marshal Tito .Moscow, Sept. B—(UP8 —(UP) — The Russian communist party today denounced the Yugoslav regipe of .Marshal 5 tto as a "hand of pie litical murderers" and suggested that the Yugoslav party get rid 'of its present leadership After more than two months of : editorial silence here on the out- ! ter of Tito from the Comlnfonn. I the party fired a broadside at the I Yugoslav leadership. The blistering attack was published in the i party organ Pravda The denunciation charged that ■ Tito had lost the support of a I majority of Yugoslav communists. He stayed in power, it said, only by means of "cruel repressions, mass arrests and murders.'.' The party organ said the Tito regime had lost the support and confidence of all communist par ties and a majority of the Yugoslav communists. t "Already the Tito group does I not represent a majority,” it said. 1 “It is 'icing state machinery In order to suppres the will of the internationalist majority. It operates not on confidence but on the administrative police machine.” Costello Sentenced To 120 Days At Farm Henry Costello, who stoutly denied the indecent exposure charge the state brought against him. was sentenced to 120 bays at the state penal farm. Putnamville, in city court Tuesday afternoon. The case had been under advisement since Friday. Also sentenced to Putnamville. but for 80 days, was James Collins, an Erie railroad worker from Pittsburgh. when deputy sheriff Robert W Shralukii charged him with vehicle taking and driving without owners consent He was arrested Saturday night Both men were fin led 810 and costs in ad- ■ dition to their jail sent 1 ences. Mayor John M. Doan alson fined Leland I, Keener, of Fort j Wayne, |5 and costs on a reckless , driving charge Keener was arrest ' ed by city police on Monroe street !at 25 am. Monday. ! drinks too much denatured alcohol. 1 canned heat, bay rum of vanilla I 1 extract. This year Zeis has a spe cial name for him "DeNature Hoy."

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Restraining Order On Dixiecrat Party Indianapolis. Sept 8 11'1’1 A court order today restrained the Indiana state election board from placing the Dixlecrat ticket of can dldates on the state ballot Marlon county circuit judge Lloyd Claycombe issued a temporary order at the request of an Indiana polls voter. Ralpli E. Hanley, who charged that the party's policy and philosophy violates the Indiana and federal constitutions. Hanley sought a permanent in junction to keep the party off the ballot Hr said the party "seeks to discrlniinatc against minority groups.” The election board had al

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ready given the Hixiecrats a place on the ballot. COUNCIL • (font l-'r on Page (Uiel 1 several drainage projects, which ' I later are paid back to the conntv . through assessments I Richard Prudi-n. executive see refary of the Chamber of Com • merce, continued his att< admire > at tile session and conferred with I the officials oil several of the I contemplated appropriations. STASSEN Vpohi *•;* ’*• '• • I II .. President appeared here 'as a complaining candidate for election ■■rmmaflßauaaßMHanßM

1 seeking labor's vote.” Stassen also said the President's audience of 125.00 V in Cadillac Square was built up with "labor 1 boss threats of a 13 fine for nonattendance " "He used a day set apart for all Americans to honor American ! labor, and instead dishonored labor : with an extreme demagogic appeal to set class against < lass . . | Stassen said "The people of our country want a united Au rica making progress toward better living, better housing and better health . . . "But your visitor brought a transparent attempt to create dis ; unity and to benefit politically by deceiving labor to secure the vote jof labor. I am confident labor will

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not be deceived." 1 Stassen said that from V-J day • to August, 1917, the average hour- - ly wage in manufacturing employ- - ment, including overtime, rose 2" penent while prices jumped 24 I percent. Then, be explained that 1 both wages and prices have Increased approximately seven per I cent under the Taft Hartley law "No fair- minded thoughtful union member In Ann rl a would i exchange the year 1948 under the law for the year 1916 without the law, Stassen said He replied to Mr. Truman's . charge that a Republican victory in November would usher in "an era of fear" by citing Gov. Thomas | •iE Dewey's record ut labor legisj I lation in New York

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He cited specifically New York * law against discrimination in employment. liberalized unemployment Insurance beneflrt, extension of the state's minimum wage law. the state's independent mediation board and labor relations board, and pay raises for state employes. Stassen also accused President Truman of trying to "shift the •dame for high prices.” "Clearly, the primary causes of high prices are* the world wide shortage of goods In the wake of the war, coupled with unsound pditics of the administration after the war and the further urgent necessity of sending quantities of American goods abroad to help the peoples of other nations to regain i their feet." he said