Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 207, Decatur, Adams County, 2 September 1955 — Page 8

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Bank Bandit Put On Most Wanted List Charles E. Ranels Added To FBI List (Editor'd note: Charles Edward Ranels. Bank bandit, who has been listed by the FBI as one of the nation's "Ten Most Wanted" fugitives has replaced Charles Flarone, a New York desperado who was captured at M*w Bedford. Pa., Aug 17 after an pight ye*r search.) WASH INGTON (INS) — Tatooed on the fingers of Charles Edward Ranel'g hands are the words "hard luck.’ 1 The FRF, in listing Ranels today as one of America's "Ten Most Wanted" criminals, indicated hope that the tatoo will prove prophetic. The 33-year-old fugitive, a native of Texas, who has been convicted of kidnaping, armed robbery, auto theft, and aiding a prisoner to escape. has been sought since last Oct. 37. Ranels has been identified as one of a bandit pair who. on that date, boldly held up a Louisville. Ky.. bank and fled with $34,680. Earlier in the month the same,- robbers, the FBI has Teason to believe, ob-

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mined $3,000 in a Louisville supermarket holdup. On Dec. 7, Rafaels’ alleged confederate in the Louisville crimes. Maynard Wilson Hollandsworth. was arrested at Biloxi, Miss., as a parole violator. He is now confined in the Federal penitentiary at Leuvenworth, Kan. Later, victims of robberies at Texarkana. Ark., and Lone Oak. Ky., identified pictures of Ranels as photos of the man who victimised them. The Lone Oak crime yielded the gunman $9,700 in curency and $15.000r worth of American Express travelers checks. dn his carreer of crime, which began when he was a lad of Hi. Ranels is known to have exchanged shots with police. The FBI warns! "luaw enforcement authorities consider Ranels exterinely dangerous. Since he has fired at police officers in the past..extreme caution should be used." The "most wanter” fugitive likes flashy cars. He has spent much time in the Houston, Tex., area, where he is said to frequent second rate night clubs. He Is known to be armed with a .38 caliber revolver carried in a shoulder holster. The FBI says Ranels has “no preference" as to victims. He will rob a big city bank or a crossroad grocery with the same disregard, whenever he needs money. Here are aids to identification: Aliases - H. L. Boyer, John L. Boyer. H. L. Cameron, Charles H. Mercer, T. A. Nelson. Charles Renals. Description — Age 33. born April 14. 1922. Conroe, Tex.; height, five feet, seven and one half inches; weight, 150 pounds; build, medium; hair, brown; eyes, brown; complexion, medium; race, white. Occupation — Bookkeeper, truck driver, fireman. Scars and marks — Cut scar left eyebrow, cut scar middle of upper lip. cut scar on bridge of nose, small scar right side of forehead near hairline, cut scar inside of right elbow. Tattoos —- Bird with word “love" on outer side of left upper arm, heart and "T. L.” on outer side of left forearm, bird and “T. M. L.“ on inner left forearm, skull, elapsed hands and “R. A. Charlie" on outei side of right upper arm, dagger and scrolf with “C. R. and Tinnie" on inner right forearm, letters "hard” on backs of fingers of right hand and letters "luck” on backs of fingers of left hand. NATIONAL AIR SHOW (Cohtlnuad From Page One) lated atomic shell used for training soldiers for possible atomic warfare. It has the characteristic mushroom shape and towers 400 feet in the air. Feature of the opening day program is the famed Bendix trophy race in which a new record is expected to be set in the dash from Los Angeles to International Airport. The mark last year was established by a second world war fighter pilot who flew an F-84 thunderstreak jet between California and Dayton, 0., site of the aircraft show, at an average speed of 016.208 miles an hour. On Sunday skilled mechanics will compete for the Allison trophy which gees to the crew changing a jet engine in the fastest time. The Labor Day feature is the famed Thompson trophy speed run event.

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Krafr’Biilldoziiig Co. <h> 34.4John W. Kareb Stone C 9. do 64-«'. Meahberger Bros. Stone do v»<4.2, Harry Bowers do 10.0' Lee Hardware Co. do 5.2<. Cowens Ina Ag.v Insurance 10.10 Decatur Euu-ip Co. Prop .- 3;>66.00 WELFARE Bernice Nelson Mil. 4 Post 39.1 r Mary J. Hazelwood Mil 9.5.. Mabel Marshall do 6.11 Veronica Linn do J?-?,’ Citizen* Teleplhone Co. Oper 19.4 Allen Business Mac.h. Co. do lu.oo Board of Commissioners. Certified before me thVa 2nd da) of September, 1955. FRANK KITSON Auditor Adams County Sept. 2-9 Washington—Population of the U.S. has Increased by about 20 percent since 1940. At the same time the number of children under the age of five has increased by about two-thirds, it is estimated.

THE RFCATT’R DAILY DEMOCRAT. DECATUR. INDIANA

More Than 180,000 G-E Employees Received A Substantial Wage Increase Starting Aug. 15 Why Not Decatur G-E Employees? The national officers of the UE have not yet accepted the Company’s offer which has been accepted by the majority of the 90 other unions representing General Electric employees. Compare these UE claims with straight facts!

UE CLAIMS: “GE has offered only a 3 per cent annual wage x increase which is far inferior to settlements elsewhere, THE FACTS: Our offer is actually superior in many respects. It is much more than a 3 per cent wage increase. The 3 per cent general annual wage would be raised to close to 3*/2 per cent during the fourth and fifth years and would yield an average increase of one per cent per hour more than the 3 per cent would yield. But even this doesn’t tell the whole story of how the proposal would boost the income of most General Electric employees. An unusual feature in the pension proposal would eliminate the first 1-per-cent-of-pay contribution and a second 1 per cent at the end of three years. Thus — over and above the wage increases offered — all employees now participating in the pension plan (nearly 95 per cent of all employees eligible) would get the equivalent of another 1 per cent tax-free increase in pay for the first three years plus the equivalent of a second 1 per cent tax-free increase for the next two years. Unfortunately, the UE committee, passed up the opportunity of making all of these increases effective for UE members August 15 when they will go into effect for the overwhelming majority of other General Electric employees. Incidentally, the general wage increases are only two of the seven features for better pay, which also include proposals for better minimum increases, better premium pay, an escalator cost-of-living clause, better adjustments for certain classifications of hourly and salaried workers, and better progression schedules for salaried employees. UE CLAIMS: “GE demands a new recognition clause cutting down the union’s right to take up grievances and otherwise to effectively represent employees.” THE FACTS: Directly contrary to the UE’s claims, the union’s right to represent employees is guaranteed and protected by Federal law. Furthermore, the proposed contract and the law itself clearly gives each employee and his chosen representative the clear right to process grievances effectively. Because of UE’s attempt to distort the long-estab-lished meaning of the contract in current litigation*, the minor changes proposed for the recognition clause will state specifically what was originally intended by both parties—and what, incidentally, has been the understanding since this clause was first put into the union agreement more than 15 years ago. UE CLAIMS: “GE demands a ‘management authority’ clause giving the Company a free hand on seniority, speed-up, firing, hours and conditions of employment, as well as wiping out local understandings. No such clauses ’have ever before gotten into any UE or IUE-CIO contract with the Company.” ■*» THE FACTS: The so-called “management rights” clause is common in contracts throughout industry, has been accepted without question by virtually every major union in the country, and simply states the right of the Company to manage its business. This clause will not add to or detract from any right the union, an employee ar the Company has had under our contract or local understandings over the years. The hackneyed UE charges of “free hand on seniority, speed-up, firing, hours and conditions of employment” are dog-eared, emotional falsehoods long used by some unions to frighten employees. UE CLAIMS “GE demands the outlawing of old, but unsettled, grievances so that if an accumulation of grievances forces a stoppage, only the last grievance on the list will be up for settlement.” * THE FACTS: The contract with UE presently gives the union the right to call a strike over a grievance which has been fully processed through all steps of the grievance procedure and the Company’s answer has not satisfied the union. The Company proposal wouid protect the union’s right to strike over a fully processed grievance within a reasonable time after a final answer has been given so that the union could not use an old grievance as a pretext for a strike over a current issue. This does not prevent the union from filing a new grievance on what they view as a continuing-type of problem and from having this grievance processed in the normal manner. UE CLAIMS: “GE demands compulsory overtime and a freehand to schedule your hours any time within the 168 hours of the week.” THE FACTS: Both the union and the Company agreed in principle during this year’s negotiations that in the operation of a business, there must be from time to time departures from normal work schedules. Here again, the Company proposal for contract clarification (which was not an obstacle in the last sessions with the unions) does not change the meaning of the contracts which have been in effect over many years, and the personal convenience of employees will be given the same consideration as in the past. Os course, the Company pays premium rates for overtime, and further improvements in premium pay are important features in the new proposal. These features include two provisions for liberalizing premium pay. One proposal would pay time-and-a-half for the first 8 hours of a new work shift, after a temporary shift change with certain exceptions. Another proposal would pay double time for time worked in excess of 12 hours a day. The present contract calls for payment of double time only for work- in excess of 16 hours, unless the work involves installation or Tbpair work off Company premises.

STUDY THE G-E OFFER SEE HOW GOOD IT REALLY IS . LET YOUR UNION OFFICERS KNOW THAT YOU WANT THESE BENEFITS IMMEDIATELY GENERAL ELECTRIC

UE CLAIMS: “GE demands a contract clause knocking out the right to demand a time study on all piece work prices, giving the Company a free hand with its motion time study, or book setting piece-work prices.” THE FACTS: The Company has simply proposed that the contract language clearly indicate that the Company is not limited to use of time-studies in setting incentive standards. This merely reflects our long-standing practices at many . of our various plant locations where we have incentive. The contract will have the same safeguards for incentive workers as it presently contains, despite the false claim above. UE CLAIMS: The offer increases the starting age of pensions for women workers from 60 to 65 —a long step back. THE FACTS: This is another one of the good features of the Company’s proposal which the UE has deliberately distorted in an attempt to make it look bad. Under the former pension program, retirement of women at age 60 was compulsory. The new proposal would permit women, if they wish, to work another five years — until age 65. This would not only permit them to earn pay during the period from age 60 to age 65 but would also provide the opportunity for women to acquire larger pensions since the benefits increase with earnings and length of service. The same proposal would protect women now participating in the present plan in these rights: a. The present optional retirement as early as age 55, with appropriate adjustments to take into account old and new contributions, will still remain available. b. For those with 15 or more years of service who elect to retire before age 60, the present guaranteed minimum retirement income will still remain available. c. The present supplemental payment of $45 provided for optional retirement before age 60 will continue to be provided to those with 15 or more years of credited service. d. Age 60 will continue to be the basis for calculating pensions up to the date of change. The early reduction factor of 4 per cent would apply on this part of their pensions only for each year of retirement prior to age 60. Women with 15 years or more of service under the plan who retire at age 60 or later would, until the date they become eligible for Social Security, also receive the new minimum of $3.00 pet month for each year of credited service under the Plan. Likewise, these women as well as those whose regular pensions are greater thati the guaranteed minimum, would also deceive the new supplemental payment of $55 a month for the interim period. Then, when Social Security normally * starts, the new $2.00 minimum ($2.25 tifter 1958) will be payable to those eligible. Thus, the new minimum retirement income for women between age 60 and age 65 would be $l3O for 25 years of service (25 times $3.00 plus $55.00) for women who now retire at 60 or over — compared with the previous minimum of $125 for 25 years service. And, of course, these are only minimums, for pensions go up with both earnings and length of service. UE CLAIMS: “The offer is for a five-year contract without any wage reopener at all.” THE FACTS: Actually, what the Company proposes is to commit itself firmly to substantial general wage increases every year during the next five years. Therefore, General Electric employees — unlike most employees elsewhere — do not have to depend bn annual wage negotiations but are assured in advance of what General Electric pay increases for the next five years will be. Moreover, during the last two years these wage increases will be even better than they are now. In addition, employees will find that their take-home pay will be increased again with the further elimination of the pension contribution of a second 1 per cent of pay. These improvements will come at the same time that the new guaranteed pension minimum will be increased from $2.00 to $2.25 and the basic benefit for special hospital services under the “Corridor” insurance plan increases from SIOO plus 75 per cent of the next $2,000 to slso,.plus 75 per cent of the next $2,000. UE CLAIMS: “The offer has an up and down escalator cost-of-living clause which means that GE wages can be cut at any time a Washington bureaucrat decides the cost of living decreased.” THE FACTS: Here the UE is referring to a clause which was proposed by the Company to protect the regular wage increases from being watered down by increases in the cost of living. The so-called escalator adjustment applies only to pay increases which would result from increases in. the cost of living and not to the general wage increases and other improvements in the program. Thus, under no cirstances, can anything be deducted from the increases and other improvements if the cost of living should fall, but even further increases would be added to these general wage increases should the cost of living rise. The escalator clause is just one of the many features of the program under which General Electric employees have nothing to lose and everything to g*hu • This occurred in the UE’s attempt to upset the Company’s policy on .< Communists and those pleading the Fifth Amendment before a Government Committee. The U. S. District Court upheld the Company.

FRIDAY; SEPTEMBER 8. 1955