Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 72, Decatur, Adams County, 26 March 1957 — Page 8

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Teamsters Union Is Biggest In Nation

WASHINGTON (UP) - The, Teamsters Un 1 o n'i sprawling domain includes ’•everything on wheels that runs in the street” and then some. The biggest union of them all stretches across the country, through the trucking industry into warehouses and businesses of all kinds. Its 1,500,000 members include women on food cannery assembly lines, brewery workers, dairy processors,, , construction workers, gasoline station mechanics and even some automobile salesmen. Core of its power and influence, among other unions as well as industries, are the truck drivers who form the nucleus of its membership. They haul everything from our daily bread to automobiles fresh off the assembly line. Has Tripled Membership The trucking industry estimates three of every four Ums of freight moved in this country is hauled: on trucks at least part of its jour-' ney. Nearly 20 per cent of all freight between cities goes by truck, including most of the nation’s livestock, poultry and eggs and jnore than half its fruits and vegetables. The industry estimates there may be around 150,000 trucking firms. The union still has a long way to go to organize the entire industry'but it has almost tripled its membership in the past 15 years. As a union dealing with thousands of firms, it deals from strength. The Teamsters Union, for instance, is the target of a substantial number of the secondary boycott charges filed with the National Labor Relations Board. The usual case centers on a nonunion trucking company. Virtually all trucking companies operate within a limited area and depend on other trucking companies to carry the goods farther. If Teamster members employed by other OPEN WEDNESDAYS ’Till 9:00 P. M. Kane Paint & Wallpaper Store, 158 South 2nd Street. It

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■ companies refuse to handle the I goods, the non-union employer is under pressure to deal with the union to keep his business. In industries such as canneries, breweries and dairies, which are dependent on truck drivers. Teamster strikes have led to wage contracts covering production workers as well, t Can Make or Break Where another union is on strike against a company dependent on trucks for supplies and deliveries, the decision by the Teamsters on whether to "honor” the picket lines or drive through them frequently can make or break the strike. The Teamsters is one of the few AFL-CIO unions that has refused to sign the AFL-CIO “no-raiding" pact prohibiting affiliated unions from taking members away from each other. Union President Dave Beck's argument is that other 'unions, particularly the Brewery {Workers, have truck-driving or 1 warehouse members who “belong” to the Teamsters. In an effort to profit instead of suffer from the Teamsters’, persuasive power, a number of other unions including the machinists, bakery workers, upholsterers and meatpackers, have signed individual agreements with the Teamsters for "joint" organizing drives. Teamster leaders boast that their members' wage contracts are “the best in the country." Wage rates for over-the-road truck drivers in the midwestern states are $2.30 an hour plus substantial fringe benefits. TEAMSTERS • (Conti'' 1 from ona> union official who invokes the i Fifth Amendment's protection ' against selfeincrimination is unfit Ito hold office and should be ousted. That appeared to give the forthcoming executive council meeting 11 the atmosphere of a trial. Beck is . j a member of the council. The executive council consists of 29 persons.

Give Rail Employes Move Or Quit Order 4 Accounting Office Os Railroad Moved i i ST. LOUIS W — Time was ; running out today for some 115 ( employes of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Katy Railroad who were given a “move or quit” ultimatum Monday. The workers, soma veterans of 30 years and more with the road, were confronted with a * locked door and a printed notice when they reported for work at the accounting office here. Most of the furniture and records of the office were placed on moving vans late Saturday and early Sunday for transportation to Denison, Tex. The legal, treasury, purchasing and passenger traffic departments were switched to Texas in an earlier move without offical notice. The Katy notice affixed to the office doer told "employes who wished sc transfer” to report to Denise i >or duty starting at 8 a. m. Monday. “Pullman cars for the exclusive use of our employes will be attached to the head end of the Texas Special leaving St. Louis 5:40 p.m. Tuesday, March 26,” the notice read. “You will be permitted to stay in these cars at Denison for a period of one week, and you will be allowed S 4 a day for meals for the period, you occupy the Pullman cars.** From the employes’ view, the worst feature of the move the fact that they had no assurance of jobs even if they elected to move. “Our seniority will not be recognized there," one of them said. Elmer Streng, chief clerk of the Katy disbursement department, took the names of those employes who wanted to transfer to Texas. He said about 10 or 12 signed to date. Want Ad — they bring results.

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Young Brazilian To Be Berne Speaker Danilo M. Vasconcellos, a young Brazilian national who recently arrived in the United States to enter Bible school in preparation for full-time Christian service, will speak at the outh for Christ rally which will be held at the First Mennonite church in Berne Mon-, day evening, April 1 at 7:30 o’clock. Vasconcellos served as an interpreter in the seventh world congress on evangelism which was held in Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city, in the spring of 1955, and which was heralded as the greatest impact for evangelical forces in Brazil. Seeing the opportunity which his country offers tor preaching the gospel and reaping a harvest which is unparalled in its history and unequalled anywhere in South America, this young man resigned his duties in the bank to prepare himself for full-time evangelism and then return to his country to join the Youth for Christ forces directed by Dick Shurtz, who was a rally speaker in this county last year. An interesting program is planned to which the public is invited. — PLAN HOUSING (Oeetla—4 tram Paa» O—, loans for big city veterans. For parliamentary reasons it was denied a chance to vote on raising the interest rate to 5 per cent to encourage private lenders up the money.

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Telephone Finally Comes To Freedom 300-Person Hoosier Town Gets Service FREEDOM. Ind. ffl —The . telephone came to this town of 300 b persons today, about 81 years *fter Alexander Graham Bell ini vented it. Families in Freedom and the I Owen County rural area surround- ; tag have been fairly well isolated i for many years. They have relied on a storekeeper and his wife to : carry messages to them from the ■ “outside world.” But a ceremonial call today—between town leaders and their i congressman in Washington—offil cially started the telephones rtag--1 tag. Back in the 19405, the Freedom * area had telephone service of a ; sort. It was provided by another ! company, but too often, said farm- ' er Ralph Allen, the operator did 1 not respond and the caller had to go to the telephone office and place the call Other times, fallen lines were not repaired. In 1949, the exchange was abandoned. The next year, Indiana Bell . agreed to place a pay phone booth r along the highway passing > through Freedom. An extension L phone was installed in a nearby general store operated by Horace

Kay and his wife so they could answer incoming calls. They took emergency messages and delivered them to families in the area. Jimmy Hines Dies In Hospital Today Former Powerful Tammany Man Dead LONG BEACH, N. Y. TO — 'James r< J/ (Jimmy) Hines, who : rose from blacksmith to become one of the most powerful district leaders in Tammany Hall, died early today. Hines, 80, inactive in politics since his parole from Sing Sing prison, died of uremia at Long Beach Memorial hospital/ He entered the hospital March 12 and has been critically ill with a kidney ailment. Hines’ political career began ofwhen he was 20 and took over his father's captaincy of the 11th District. The high point of iua political career came at the Democratic presidential convention in 1932. Hines supported the late Franklin D. Roosevelt and broke the solid Tammany support for Al Smith. Hines' political career ended in October, 1940, when he entered Stag Sing to begin serving a four to eight year sentence on a policy 1 racket conviction obtained by a

young racket-busting district attorney named Thomas E. Dewey. Probe Price-Fixing On Polio Vaccine Federal Grand Jury Will Study Charges TRENTON, N. J. (UP) — A government official today confirmed reports that the Justice Department intends to investigate alleged price-fixing by manufacturers of polio Vaccine reported by Rep. Henry S. Jteuss (D-Wis.) Asst. U. S. Atty. John Wooley told the United Press a federal grand jury will meet here late next month to look into the matter. He said some 12 subpoenas have already been sent to manufacturers of the Salk antl-polio vaccine. Wooley declined to name the firms to which the subpoenas had been sent, but it was reported that Eli Lilly & Co. was one of the firms involved. Lilly and PitmanMoore, both qf Indianapolis, produce the bijlk of the nation’s polio vaccine supply. The investigation was touched off when Reuss charged that the city of Milwaukee had received 11 identical bids when it sought to purchase Vaccine. Earlier, Asst. U. S. Atty. Gen. Victor Nansen, head of the anti-trust division, announced in _—

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Washington that an inquiry had been started within the past two weeks. He said records of several major manufacturers had been subpoenaed. RESCUERS <Oatu»«e* u«m O—» stuck in the snow, or whether they would find more casualties. , Scores of little country towns were isolated by the storm, and took on the added burden of caring for travelers caught by the blizzard. Farmers opened their doors to motorists stuck in the snow. Trains Accounted Far The storm isolated six towns in southwestern lowa Monday, and' an estimated 300 cars were stalled in the Red Oak area alone. Most of them were freed, however, by today. AU major trains and buses appeared accounted for and their passengers safe in the Great Plains storm. Six trains had become mired in snow drifts, and others were help up at various points until tracks were cleared. On the highways, however, it was a different story. Four Oklahoma Highway Department work--1 ers died of asphyxiation when their car plowed into a drift. i .11-—— Capt. William Bligh of H.M.S. Bounty brought the first few apple trees to Tasmania, an island off Australia, in 1788, the National Geographic Society says. Today i the fruit is Tasmania’s second i most important export crop.