Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 42, Decatur, Adams County, 20 February 1950 — Page 2

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Condemns Company For Election Stall Local 924 Approves Latter To GE Firm Condetoking "actions «f tM Gtoeral Etoetrte aotoßsy in Mailtos on slectiona." tbe mem be ratop «t Local OM United Electrical. Batoo aa< Machine Workers (US) to a nW. tn* last week approved a letter neat by Jon Dermody to the OU company. Dermody in an international representative at the UK and nse* reUry of the UE-GK conference board Henry Stauffer, preaident of UE

Extended Insurance YOVR property can be damaged an badly by windstorm and expkwion a» by fire. J For a nmrprtoin«ly low additional premium you - can have your fire insurance extended to cover you against loss from them and several other causes —ail in one policy. Ask this Hartford agency about it. THE SUTTLES CO. •--< 1 Hartford Fira Agent I j Niblick Store aid*. Decatur, Ind. ———

FLATLUX TNI WAU PAINT MAM WITH OH * Gom 5» 00 * , r fl* 140 Mark ‘ yJt(U\ * L * avM Odor f * C** l f av’-Ux ’*>• Toom Some Day * One Gallon doe. WAUBOA, ‘ > \ *• A - a ’ 9 * Room PLASTIR 1 CIMINT 1 L nunuifaM \ BR icx woo# Aik Polder .hawing modern Identically 7 4 1 Matched Color of- ! fecit with HAT- A tux. GIOS-LUX WM*Xm|F Jr Tl and IATIN IUX vAS/2) amv www m m funuX mow KLENKS 232 Madison St. ' ! I ’ ' - More Days To Register for Our Big Opening Attendance Prize. ■J., I ’IOO In Merchandise GIVEN AWAY This will buy enough paint to cover an average home.. It will buy I enough wallpaper to paper the average'home. B. J. says, ‘‘We have a fine location for the convenience of our customers. Being located in the Mies Recreation Build- l. ing. we are close to Decatur’s shopping center.” <« B. J. FEASEL PAINT & WALLPAPER STORE 370 5 2nd St. Phone 2ln Iterator. Ind. ’ ——t y. j'*. 1 ' ■' ll 1 " \ .t?"

Local »:♦. Maud that the "GE oompea/ baa been patting oat toformMtae to toe e«eet that toe L’> does act want aa election." "On tbe contrary." saM Stauffer. US baa done everything possible to have the election quickly so that collect tire bargaining ean begin on the eentraet tor 1»M” (The elertin—to determine repre«muttvea an to bo heM In an GE plants upoa petition Hied by tbe company.) "The tetter rent by I'l to the 01 company shouK pet the record straight." eaid Sian Her, "and it M aa follows: "Dear Mr. Pfeif: "la your tetter of February * yea state. -.... while both UK and IUS loudly proclaim their desin for Immeiiate elections, there te no evidento ire can see that either of you actually la ia vary much of a harry.' "Permit me to refresh your memory. "On January lI.IMO at IS o'clock In the morning, on tbe 40th floor of the General Electric company building at Lexington Avenue and 51st Street, New York City, the UE presented to the General Elactric company and tbe IUE a signed agreement for sn election in the planta of the General Electric company on February 10, under the existing collective bargaining unite, in your presence, and In the presence of NLRB repreaentativaa, the IUE refused to sign tbe agreement for a consent Election. You were then asked to sign on behalf of the General Electric company, and you refused. I am enclosing a copy of thia document. You can still sign it for tbe General Electric company if you choose to do no. "No matter how bard it tries, the company cannot wash Its bauds of responsibility' for stalling elections and disrupting collective bargaining procedures In its plants. GE | bailed out the company-union IUE ; by petitioning for elections In Bl! • plant locations when tbe IUE was Unable to show evidence of membership in any plant and did not even claim a paper charter in 34 «Lth? x»|snt□ocatjons where Jim petitioned.. You and Abe It’E be tween you forced the question of elections Intp Taft-Hartley board I hearings and have kept them going :for weeks by tossing the ball hack • land forth between you You know! I this, and you also know that the!

jUgl is. MCOVMEM M A NMRTAI M McCbord Held. Wash, M Sgt VMatg Trippodi of Brooklyn, N. Y, who made it possible Cor search parties to get a radio on the Crash acene where the Air Force B-S* crashed off BriMsh Ctdwnbia. VtoMaff thMr buddy are Capt Harold Barry (eenter), commander of the bomber, and Lt Raymond Whttfletd, who rescued Trippodi when he leaded in a tree. (latertuttoael Soendphoto)

company could stop this farce by withdrawing its demand for unit changes In plants still not agreed upon. L "We are Informing our membership of these facts la order that General Electric employes mayknow tha' tbe company Is responsible tor the disruption of eaUecllve bargaining, that the company is re sponsible for the continued stalliur ot elections, and that tbe company i Is doing so in the hope of escaping the UE national contract and gain i Inga free hand to speed up, layoff and exploit GK workers "Very truly yours, Joseph hermody "International Representative ■ ....... , The earliest searchlight was designed by a Frenchman in IS7B. Through the 20th amendment to Ithe U. S. Constitution th? meeting' jof Congress Was changed from • March 4 to January 3 each year liremmggiigSgH I - Wa ¥ a* 1 Mt OSJfCT of a sp«*-«l United Halons mission, ths Fon of Laikon. ~ lamcnda Province, British Cc.h- --' iroon. is pictured completely at his ?ase in a compound in West Africa. : The chief told the UN investigators Jiat were checking into bis highly Khygamout state that it is con..-t on practice for chiefs to have as n.any wives as they want lteJtasAini.u_d xlmself toonly 110 (International)

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RIM ACTOU Botwrt M ntgcmery'Q ihtcn.cw<"l by AtoMtoQ in New York after fling a request tn ft krai court that U. S. Attorney Irvlr.g H Sa’tw l Mart'action to cancel naturalization certificate of •Itetto rvTt-!*". Vwa Frisk Cootglio. MuMcomery deciarta CoateUc nb«a ".v l " .- - i p freitduietHiy »t.a ffiegaity by neglecting, (g mwnt.<.r, 't>-xtle«g:r.g actr. etea he apjlied for rittornkhlp in I'2: CX.e,o iu.i act..-a clteap. hammy ktaat" (Zatgntofwnal/

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Spectacular Blue ./■ * ■’ ■ •<- I Destroys Foundry Illinois City Scene Os Spectacular Fire Belvidere. -Hl, Feb. 30 —(UP)— Fire swi pt the National Sewing Machines foundry today and tire-£ men said the building probably would lie a total low. J. The spectacular blase tied up morning—rush hour traffic in downtown Belvidere as fire- em]_ .glues- from Belvidere. Rockford and Sycamore. Hi, faced to the . • The flames spread" quickly to a' building housing a hugfe. ,CTM>e . and firemen fought tn keep them from spreading to the main plan' 30<> yards from ilie toumTiy". — ~ — 1 The foundry It self Is a otiw-aiofy ' Kltm-ture a qualter of a block ' sqiMre Built ill 1447. II wks one ! of the most iuod. ru tooudriea n. this part of the c-mtHry 7 Tiie (ompanyfs one ag" rti» _ waN i th>n i biggest sewiti,- ma. iltle manutoi-hir' rs. making maebiiies. under its own brand mum all.l ■ manufacturing rsthcr- for Mont ! gdmery W ard amt other Mg UUUI- ~ bufors * ■' 7lie tir.- u.... ~:-..wtei be’tween"" 1 w.-i ‘ It. . o : •'» Mrs ot a skeleton ciew win.lt re port • I for seri in a..> aiice of tire IV,cP h<r daV .'.l tt No .a; uail le> were r-p. :'od' r Firemen said" the : .tin rppttr en*ly started in an .observation . upola »■ the , eilinu- ot th. foundry building where sup. reisers, and . rane operators" oTWrve operations. —- " Tbey be ieved (he fire was elec- | tri.-ai in origin ——. • ] Baby Girl Born In Stranded Automobile isogans|*»i | . ln<l. ? Feb 2(7. -. • l'?i Mrs. Ula!»n.e Harufon un4 her newly horn’ daughU r, .were .do ing all right u»dav ia a fi-oMpital- - nftrF-th*’4Hf4iv4w- a .id, jut'.'j.c ■ 11«- ; .i ■ Sll :*i iy. _ < Hannon wa» rushed nere liy* h« r husbantt htrnn rin Flora. Tbe-ir-car broke down two "hXUcluk fi-ulii a liuspltaL. her hUsharid ftw L.ir help 3trs ’ Harmon gave birth to the baby in ' the trolsl aeai of the ear. Trade in a )*ood Town — Decatur | ' ’ i

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