Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 December 1940 — Page 18

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TALKS CUT STRIKES AT SAN FRANCISCO

Present Industrial Stability Accredited to the Conference Table Methods Used by Head, Staff of Employers Council.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 26.—Conference table methods sponsored by the San Francisco Employers Council are largely responsible for the industrial stability that has come

to San Francisco.

Back of this transition from less than two years ago,

when strikes were breaking week, to the present, when only one strike is in progress, “is the steady effort of a staff of labor negotiators working under Almon E. Roth, presis

dent of the council. Daily conferences among employers, negotiators and union representatives do much to sooth tender spots that might otherwise develop into a rash of outbreaks, costly to employers and employes alike.

Makes Monthly Report

Each month Mr. Roth submits a progress report, terse, bristling with figures, that reveals the increasing . improvement of employer-worker relationship. The reports give little hint of the patient hours spent across the tables where negotiators from both sides give and take. Glancing back across the record built’ up since establishment of the council on Feb.- 20, 1939, Mr. Roth finds that 196 collective agreements had been completed up to Nov. 30 of this year. In that period 304 controversies were amicably settled by negotiation, adjustment or arbitration. In November, for example, 21 controversies were settled without loss to employers or employees, and 13 collective labor agreements - were completed. Only one strike was called during the month and it lasted only eight working days. One Strike Now

The one current strike “has been -on since March. It involves a dispute between a knitting firm and the union over the return of employees who respected another union’s picket line last fall. “There are 225 well-8stablished unions in San Francisco and I think it. is safe to say that the employers of this city enjoy a friendly cooperation with 90 per cent of them,” Mr. Roth said. Mr. Roth recently agreed to head

for another five years the oganiza-|

tion he so largely built up. He is a| former controller of the Stanford] University, and has a long back-|. laverted by the joint efforts of the

ground in labor relations as the

out on an average of one a

association is embarked on a _unionbusting program.

Urges Cellective Action

“On the contrary,” he said, “I'm urging employers to develop more effective methods of dealing with unions. Such development of employers’ strength through collective action is not an anti-labor activity but a pro-employer objective. “We have had {00 much ‘umbrella thinking’ by emptoyers. They too often approach problems with minds

that shed facts instead of facing

them. “Admitting that employers and their employees have a_ common interest in the successful operation of an enterprise, the fact remains there will always be a fundamental divergence of interest between the employer and the employee over a proper division of the dollars which industry produces and ‘the responsibilities and prerogatives of management and labor.”

‘It’s a Pressure Game’

Urging a proper balance of em-ployer-employee strength as a means of achieving industrial stability, he admitted that even with

reasonable and co-operative lead-|

ership on both sides “you will find that collective bargainig is a realistic pressure game.’ Membership in: the Employers Council is open to all business, its roster ranging from beauty-shop operators to shipbuilders. It includes industry groups such as the potent Waterfront Employers Association and the Association of San Francisco Distributors, aside from numerous firms who do not belong to industrial associations. There is a third classification for individual members, such as attorneys.

‘Membership totals 1700.

The major part of the council's work is in negotiating contracts for its members with the various unions. However, it likewise follows the employer's interests in legislative and court actions.

“Many disputes have been

former head of the Waterfront | Employers Council and the San

Employers Association of the Pacific | Coast.

Mr. Roth denies the employers’

| Francisco Labor Council (A. F. of |L.),” Mr. Roth said, “through the latter's self-imposed restrictions.”

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MERCHANTS GAY OVER BEST YULE

And Outlook for Next Year Is Good With Consumer Incomes Swelling.

NEW YORK, *Dec. 26 (U. P.).—If your next door neighbor is a retail merchant and he insists upon humming “Happy Days Are Here Again” doa’t condemn him because: 1. If he is representative of the

retailers of the nation as a whole he has just completed one of his best Christmas selling seasons on record. Chances are more than even that his unit velume exceeded that of 1929. .ind if he is located in one of those communities which are now enjoying‘a boom because of defense orders there is a good possibility that he transacted a bigger dollar volume than in the previous record year 1923, although current prices are 20 per cent lower on the average. 2. Present indicatiéns are that his sales will continue on the upgrade, with volume for the first half of next year running some 10 per cent ahead of the year now closing. With consumer incomes swelling as result of the business boom and prospects that several additional million persons will find jobs within the next six months, the outlook for the nation’s retail merchants is the best in history, The heavy Christmas bonuses distributed by industry this year promise a better than ordinary postChristmas selling season, particularly in the home furnishing lines.

Lucky Stockhelders

Thousands of employees through-

out the country were the recipients this year of the biggest bonus ch:cks since 1929, with the possible exception of 1937 when such payments wzre stimulated by the tax that year on undistributed corporate profits. The feature of this year’s payments was the heavy disbursements made by companies engaged in the manufacture of war goods. In general they made the biggest bonus payments in their history. An additional highlight was the practice of many firms of extending those bonus disbursements to employes who now are engaged in the military and naval services.

Two More Shopping Days

Stockholders also fared well this year. A United Press survey indicates that companies publicly announcing dividends will have distributed some $4,000,000,000 in that manner ior the full year 1940. That will represent a gain of some $500,000.000 above 1939, but will be a similar amount below 1937, the record post-d=pression year for dividends. Corporate earnings this year compare favorably with 1937, but in the latter year dividend disbursements, like bonuses, were virtually on an “or else” basis, because of the undistributed profits tax. Last minute reports from retail merchants in various: parts of the nation indicated that their sales for the Christmas season would top last year's by 5 to 10 per cent. The fact that there were two additional shopping days this year after the week end aided volume. Christmas Day in 1939 fell on a Monday..

PROSPECT MASONS ~ INSTALL OFFIGERS

Lester H. Hoppes will be installed as worshipful master of Prospect Lodge 714, F. & A. M,, Prospect and State Sts., at 8 p. m. Saturday. ~ Other officers to be installed are John B. Johnston, senior warden: Lawrence R. Fix, junior warden; Frank B. Meyer, treasurer; Raymond F. Lane, secretary; William

‘| W. Johnson, senior deacon; William

H. Green, junior deacon; the Rev. Reiner H. Benting, chaplain; Glenn M. Furr, senior steward; Millard Kinder, junior steward; John C.

‘|Hoover, tyler, and Aubrey White,

trustee. Past Maser George J. Weishaar will act as installing officer, assisted by Clarence E. Gunckle. Entertainment and dancing will follow the installation.

Friday and Saturday

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Twin Boys Named for Two Internes Present at Birth

Fourteen boys and seven girls,

twins, were born in Indianapolis during Christmas day. The first baby born was a boy, John David Taylor Jr., who arrived at 12:03 a. m. yesterday. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John David Taylor, of 2817 Rader St. Dr. William FP. Johnson, the attending physician, was called a couple hours later to officiate at the birth of a girl to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Kennedy, R. R. 13, Box 321. City Hospital internes delivered identical boy twins at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smock, 841 Meikle St. The twins were given the first names of the internes—Dr. Philip Hedrick and Dr. Maurice Snyder—as their middle names.

Six at Methodist

Six babies arrived at: Methodist Hospital. They were a boy to Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Porter, 3640 N.

Meridian St.; a girl to. Mr. and Mrs. |

Abner ‘Mears, 3566 W. 16th St.; a boy to Mr. and Mrs. John Huggins, 2946 Boulevard Place; a girl to Mr." and Mrs. Harry Moore, 219 S. Harris St.; a boy to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Clark, 40 S. Tuxedo St. and a boy to Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Hull of Elwood. Only one baby was born at City Hospital, a girl, to Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Rhude, of 1439 E. Raymond) St. At St. Vincent's Hospital, a boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Budnick, 2806 Ruckle' St.; a boy to Mr. and Mrs. David Murphy, 117 N. State Ave.; a boy to Mr, and Mrs. Carl Most, 3164 Washington Blvd.; a girl to Mr. and Mrs. John Owen of Noblesville, and a boy to Mr. and Mrs, Graham Peck, 523 N. Denny St. Three babies were born "at St. Francis Hospital. They are a girl to Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Porter, R. R. 1 Box 743; a boy to Mr, and Mrs. Walter Pollard, 1011 S. Gale

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including a set of identical boy

The finest Christmas present ever . . . new brother for Marjorie May and Toivy Lee Taylor, children of Mrs. John David Taylor. John David Jr. was the first Christmas baby in Indianapolis,

| St., and a boy to Mr. and Mrs. Wil|liam Fulton, 4216 E. 10th St. A boy was born to Mr, and Mrs. Samuel Layton, 1315 Brookside Ave., at Coleman Hospital. A girl, Norma Lou Skaggs, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Norman Skaggs at their home, 467 Arnolda ve.

CANADIAN BARRACKS BURN, ONE IS KILLED

"AN EAST COAST CANADIAN PORT, Dec. 26 (U. P.).—Several men were injured today when fire of undertermined origin swept

through two new barracks housing 800 men. At least one was killed. His name was not disclosed. Witnesses said the flames swept with incredible rapidity through the first structure and men poured from it through windows and doors. Many were carried to safety by other soldiers and Royal Canadian Mounted Police. A dozen military and naval ambulances shuttled between the scene and a hospital. ‘Fire fighters lacked cquipment | with which to quell the’ flames from ‘the waterside—the buildings were {only a few yards from the sea.

CLIPPER FLIES WITH DIPHTHERIA REMEDY

NEW YORK, Dec. 26 (U. P.).— Carrying a .carge of 50 pounds of diptheria antitoxin for Spain and 14 pounds, or 7000 injections of diphtheria toxoid for London, the Dixie Clipper took off from La Guardia Field today after an hour’s delay because of poor visibility, The med-

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HALF SOLES A9Ye WASHINGTON

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Our annual CLEAN-UP. . . . We've got to get our stocks in order before inventory. The only way we know how to do it Is place ail our odds and ends on sale at practically GIVEAWAY prices. We'd rather sacrifice profit than count items!

So + «+ We're disregarding cost and taking markdowns in one | SHORT LOTS, COUNTER-SOILED merchandise that’s just as good as ever except for cleaning up a bit "+++ OLOSE-OUTS . . . BROKEN ASSORTMENTS . . . yes, even our own “BUYERS’ MISTAKES” (they just can’t guess your preferences all the time) . . . honestly, the VALUES are really

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Ir would take us pages and pages to list everything, so in order to save you time in reading all of them we’ll just say . “COME TOMORROW—Gom Prepared fo Buy—You'll Save as much as 25%, 331/3%, 50%.” Look on every counter for BARGAINS!

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G. C. MURPHY CO.

“The Shopping Trend Is Toward Market. and llinois Sts.”

VITAL TO NATION

Three Experts Declare They Are ‘First Line of Defense.’

NEW YORK, Dec. 26 (U. P.).— With the world in the grip of war, America’s “first line of defense” is its children, three experts on child

- | welfare told the nation today. The statement was made in, a|

“Report on the Nation's Children,” published in Parents’ Magazine, by Katharine E. Lenroot, chief of the

tU. S. Children’s Bureau; John W. Studebaker, U, S. Commissioner of ||

Education, and Dr. Thomas Parran,

Surgeon General of the U. S Public Health Service. “There is danger,” Miss Lenroot said, “that our concern: for batileships and airplanes, for food and fuel, for defense training and. defense productlon may cause us to overlook a less dramatic but vitally important fact, namely, that the homes of the mation and the caildren in those homes are a first line of defense. . . . Dr. Parran, reporting able gains” in sanitation, prevention of disease and scentific nutrition, said that “we have a new generation . whose general health care is

far supgrior to that of a generation

ago.” Mr. Studebaker cited gains in vocational training, pointing out that in 18 months of the World War vocational schools trained only 60.000 persons whereas in the first two months of the current defense program vocational schools have enrolled 107,000. “Only through education broadly conceived can we achieve a citizenry with the convictions that make for a nation powerful because it is united in its love of democracy and its determination to develop and defend that democracy,” he said.

MORGENTHAU NAMES AID WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (U. P.). —Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. today appointed Ferdinand Kuhn Jr. former chief of the London bureau of the New York Times, as his special assistant. Mr. Kuhn is expected to act as a liaison man in connection with British aid developments.

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CLEAN-UP: SALE! :

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VALUES T0 32

Choice of Jenny Lind 4Poster Beds with Spring and Mattress

MATT R 2 is S ELT EN IN You will find included in| this INCLUDED group every popular style ofl bed, \ including Jenny Lind, 4-Foster, Modern, etc. With each bed, during this sale, we give you a good: quality mattress and spring. You

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CEDAR CHESTS

Genuine cedar-lined, [From

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$14 to $28 values..

Rez. $7.95 OCCASIONAL CHAIRS

Sturdy walnut frames . « . spring cushion seat . . . long wearing covers.

We Couldnt Begin to List All the Values in This Sale!

SUITES

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