Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 October 1946 — Page 26

i Important Tieups

Seen Design to Preserve T Standard of Living Started by War.

heoretical tle

lost later.

Editor's Note: This is the second of four dispatches in which NEA's expert on. labor and business gives you an objective report on

what strikes have done fo America.

hugely to inflation, differs in

not unusual for restlessness to arise from rising prices. The increased cost of living _ is advanced by unions now as _ their reason for striking. Unestionably it enters into the pict a Not Real Cause But Xt was hot the real cause of the long series of major strikes that began last\ Sept. 17, when 43,000 petroleum réfinery workers in 20 states walked but for what proved lo be a 20-day shytdown. The really imports this critical twelve m J day were designed te and if possible to improve.retical standard of living “that the war had boosted beyond anything that the most viscionary drehmed before Pearl Harbor, N Through big hourly wage boosts for a 40-hour week, combined with premium overtime for everybody who wanted it, American workers attained incomes far above anything they ever had imagined possible. Purchasing Ability Even after high income taxes, they had a theoretical purchasing ability unprecendented in world It was theoretical, because s0 many of the things they wanted to . buy were not being made during the war, so they saved some and spent more for transient entertainment and such luxuries as could be bought. When Japan surrendered, they knew that two things were almost certain to happen. Pirst, they would lose their premium overtime. Second, they would be down-graded in their own plants or, often, obliged to leave high-pay war factories and return to lower-pay civilian production.

By 8. BURTON HEATH NEA Staff Writer

The strike wave that has afflicted American industry since V-J Day, holding up reconversion and contributing

any other on record. It has a pattern. : Traditionally, strike waves spring up when organized workers become restless for one reason or another, - It is

yesterday's top,

: Heep, one important respect from|* P

The , settlement? Exactly 18% cents, the amount accepted by General Motors and the U. A. W. Pattern Emerges Run down the category of settlements as recorded by the labor department in the case of major strikes and see the pattern emerge: | Petroleum workers, 18 per cent Medium to Good— boost. Lumbermen 15 per cent | 99-120 pounds boost. San Francisco Bay ship-|enofce - yards, 18 per cent to some, 18 centa/ |

Good to Choice 270- 300 pounds 300- 330 pounds 330- 360 pounds 360- 400 pounds Good400- 450 pounds 480- 550 pounds

Medium 250- 550 pounds

an hour to others, Midwestern truckers, 15 to 18 per cent increase. | 1300-1500 pounds General Motors, 18% cent raise. 700- 900 pounds Western Electric, New York and 1100-1300. poynds New Jersey, 18.2 per cent raise; | 1300-1500 pounds . - | Medium — nationwide; 5 eents an hour retro | "700-1100 pounds active plus 16.4 per cent. General 1100-1300 pounds

0il Workers Guinea Pigs The oil workers were the guinea pigs in an attempt to- force hourly wages up enough to offset the loss of overtime and the effects of downgrading, etc. They demanded a

per cent raise. This would give risen, it was not the steel workers,

them the same pay for 40 hours they had been getting, with overtime premium for 48 hours. Other larger unions, more important from the reconversion viewpoint, announced frankly that this was a test—what the oil workers won, all industry would seek. The refinery strike started Sept 17 and lasted 20 days by BLS count That would be Oct. 7.

Before that date the great United were pushing the Detroit automobile industry for the same 30 per cent raise—52 hours pay for 40 hours) work. Behind the UAW, the pro-

Automobile Workers’ (CIO)

cession formed. Strikes Listed Almost 200,000 General

15, 180,000 employees of Genera Electric, Westinghouse and

General Motors electrical division walked out. ~The next day 125,000 | ectronic Lab

packing house workers struck. Jan. 21 saw 752,000 steel aluminum employees leave

plants and 25000 walk out of the

International Harvester Co. The Caterpillar Tractor strike o

17000 came on Jan. 29. Feb, 4J¢ some 16000 struck at American Kinga

Brass. Lewis took his 340,000 sof

anthracite miners May 31.

Allis-Chalmers, an important supplier to many manufacturers, was closed April 30 and is just begin-|

ning to re-open. Form Pattern

af time-and-a-half — strikes

have had major effect in delaying | Ch of Com Bld reconversion and the production of S!tiZens Ina Te

badly needed consumer goods. The oil refiners

by the General Motors agreement.

After the General Motors strike had dragged on for almost two” months a federal fact-finding board | recommended a 19% cent raise. The |

company wouldn't, President Tr

man suggested 18% cents, and this

was adopted,

Now, here is where the pattern,

comes in, clearly and describably Publish Recommendation The fact-finding board's reco

mendation in the General Motors

case was published Jan, 11.

the steel workers forced the price ceiling break in February and as a direct result of this break.” {

Common

Medium weathers

alone, who broke through the wage |

700- 900 pounds ... 900-1100 pounds ... 1100-1300 pounds ...

900-1100 pounds ...

Bulls (all weights) Beef -- : Good (all weights) re

Cutter and common CALVES (600)

Good and choice . Medium and good .

Good, choice yearling we

GOOD TO CHOICE HOGS (15,660)

Packing Sows

Slaughter Pigs

Voie . 21.00023.00 CATTLE (3400)

. 15.006 16.50 . 12.506 15.00 . ; | [email protected] —The extent to which the nation

Motors employees went out Nov. 21; 24,000 Western Electric workers struck Jan. 3 and 142000 Jan. 9; on Jan.

coal men out April 1 and 75,000! Marmon Herrington

These are just a few of the | Stokely-Van Camp pfd larger, more sensational strikes that | form part of the “pattern’—strikes ; based on the desire to boost hourly wages enough to make up for downgrading and loss of overtime hours | American Loan 4'as 60 .... 7

compromised, finally, on 18 per cent raige. This approximated the boost pattern that | was to come, which really was set!

The preceding day Phil Murray| Butterfat: No. 1, 92¢; No 2, 8c had been in session with officials —

formulas. They merely strung along | with petroleum, automobile, machinery, electrical

pay envelopes from peacetime employment. i

‘| Tomorrow: What are the results? |

LOCAL ISSUES

American States cl A... L 8 Ayres 4%2% bid. Ayrshire Col com ......... Belt R Stk Yds com Belt R Stk Yds pid -... . Bobbs-Merrill 442 “pfd......., Bobbs Merriir—eom=

com : Iv ayne & Jackson RE pid vie | Herft-Jones cl A pla’ =. 16%

N Ind Pub Serv 5%

No and many | merit):

and toiletries

TRUCK WHEAT

.. 19.00@24. . 19.00 24.00 .. [email protected] [the expenses to be defrayed jointly [email protected]| by the city and county, [email protected]) The remainder of the ground wil

Whether or not one accepts this . ne | Ewed (shorn) \, 30|analysis of why living costs have! 4 and choice Ata X Common and medium . ras 0

HOGS $2 LOWER AT STOCKYARDS

| Two-Way Price-Trend Seen In Cattle Market.

A two-way price trend in the cat~ market at the Indianapolis stockyards today showed an early steer and heifer gain which was

Hogs were about $2 lower than while some lots were off as much as $2.50. Vealers and sheep and lambs all looked | about steady, especially good and choice grade lambs. Receipts today were 15,650 hogs, 3400 cattle, 600 calves and 5000

[email protected] 5 in the northeast part of Crawfords-

[email protected] [email protected] |

[email protected] AMOUNting to approximately 10

[email protected] . [email protected] © [email protected] most exclusively for fairs and sim34:006%0.00 j1ar events.

[email protected] | 24.00

Electric and General Motors elec- | 07750 pounds... 0... [email protected]| become part of the city park systrical division, 18% cents; Westing- Heifers | tem; with plans calling for evenhobge 19 cents; Packinghouse work- 800-300 poungs tecxunvases 3 SoG 16.00 tual construction of a high school ers 1§ cents. | Good : {sports field and stadium. Steelworkers and Harvester em-| $00- 800 pounds ............ DEGRE| The Crawfordsville recreation ployees, \18'a cents. Caterpillar | Medium . we commission has been backing the Tractor, 13\cents an hour for lower | 500: 800 pounds ......e..... [email protected] ans for the project. paid, 15 per ent for others. Amer-| 500- 900 pounds .......... . [email protected] ican Brass, 18% cents an hour. The| Cows (all weights) wl same for soft col miners, plus 8 Medium |... ........... CL. [email protected] | AY EAT FAMINE welfare fund \ | Cutter and common ... 10.256 14.00 \ Canner [email protected]

ws 1S PROSPERITY TAX

Indianapolis flour mills and grain’

farm | vators are paying $2.02 1 red wheat (other grades on Ni 1 yellow &

corn, old,

oats,

per

ew, No. 2

brand)

would

bushel

ellow white, $1

testing 34 pounds org) the meat we would like to buy.”

Nominal quotations furnished poy Indianapolis securities dealers: : STOCKS | By ROGER STEWART Bid Asked | Scripps-Howard Staff Writer Agents Fin Corp com % 3 J . Agents Fin Corp pid.. WASHINGTON, Oct. American States pfa 35 amazing the things Uncle Sam re-

quired to win the war. Who'd have | thought, for instance, that hair oil (“Hollywood Extra” be needed by the thousands of bot-

Centra) Boya com 2 27 Ttles? Or that assorted shades of Circle eater com 81 reatIv 3 1| Comwith Loan 4% ptd 02 10s (rouge and sweetly-scented . toilet Consolidated Industries com . 3% 1's soap would be needed along with the Consolidated ndustries pid 3a 4 . aed 2 |Cons Pin Corp pid 97 bayonets, blankets and atom bombs? | Deita Electric com 142 The army and navy bought mil-

lions of dollars worth of cosmetics; War assets admin-

get rid of the unused

toothbrushes

The stock includes $150,000 worth of

and Hook Drug Co com HHL nN Ind Asso lei Co 2 ptd vo 3] istration the agency in charge of their Ind & Mich Elec 4'3% pfd . .107'2 1090's l tv d Indpls P & L com on 25% 27% surplus property isposal {Inapls P & L 4% ptd 100 112 trying to | Indianapolis Water pfd 108 v) as { Indpls Water © A.com ...... 19% 21 | items. | [ndpis Railways com. . ....... 14%a 15% More than $1 million worth of Nat Life com“... ...e00 15% 7 gan & Co com . 612: 7% such stuff—from n& Co pld ..........os 80 84 . y ¢ | Linco Loab Co $4 prd 100 skin lotion—is offered in sales now | Lincoln Nat Life 5% pfd 69 n on or due soon. com 8's . | Mastic Asphalt taeda 6%. 1% approximately Nail Homes com . 11% toilet soap. Most of the soap will be

109} : 18 | | bought by veterans, but commercial

now

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Gustav Metzman New York Central system.

| |

OLD FAIRGROUND ‘BOUGHT BY CITY

(17.—Purchase of 33.8 acres of the old Montgomery county fairground

ville has been voted by the Crawfordsville city council, The remainder of the fairground,

|acres, will be developed as a new housing project, The city agreed to pay $5000 for {the plot of ground which for -more |than half a century was used al-

It is planned to erect a 4-H club building on part of the ground, with

| CHAMPAIGN, i, Oct. 17 (U.P.).

. . . President, John, W. Barriger . . . President,

ever in a xailroad station.

the first group to visit the exhibits. They will attend dedicatory exercises at 3 p. m, Nov. 7 and will be guests of honor at a dinner at the Claypool hotel that night.

Metzman, New York City, New York Central Barton White, Baltimore, Md., Baltimore & Ohio president; J. W. Davin, Cleveland, New York, Chicago & St. Louis (Nickle Plate) president; | John W. Barriger, Chicago, Monon president; Wayne A. Johnston, Chicago, Illinois Central president, and Paul E. Feucht of Chicago, Indianapolis Union railway president,

vice president in charge of operations of the Pennsylvania railroad, | will represent Martin W. Clement, ation, Pennsylvania president.

completed for the exposition is that

| feels the meat famine is a measure

: |G d c . 24. that they wanted, they settled down [Sood 8 Chaise tin Ta o0a3e00 of its booming prosperity. Secreto something that is not. far from, Culls (75 pounds up) [email protected] | : 18 per cent. And in those indus- \, Feeder and Stocker Catétle and Calves |tary of Agriculture Clinton P. Antries that set the pace both for chnjce Steers | derson said last night. production and for prices, 18 per 300 ue poungs : jsioalin Mr. Anderson told a Democratic cent is approximately the increase | Good-= political rally that demand for meat in the wage cost. oe SO Lone [email protected] and other goods is at an all-time It is of this demand and of this Medium A h high “because the people have 10-1000 PONNAS ..vvvrannnen [email protected] | iH result that American Fedegation of olny Q : | money to buy. - Labor's Monthly Survey for August| 500- 900 PO Or ar [email protected] | The nation consumed 126 pounds said that “practically. the entire ¥ be ) of meat per capita in pre-war living cost rise has occurred Since’ oy ice (closely sorted) . 98.00 | years, compared with a consump: |

last quarter .of 1945. An annual consumption of 200 pounds probably

\ 1.501: would be needed to satisfy current 00@ 11.00 demand, he said. @10.00

“In all the talk we hear about |the meat shortage” Mr. Anderson |said, “seldom does anyone mention

olefar | the fact that perhaps the unprece-| nelied dented level of prosperity being enother groups, who—wisely or not— | $1.99 Per Qushel, and No 2 white “helled. | Joved by our people has some redecided to fight to retain wartime $1.25 per bushel and No

per bushel; | better, 80c bushel

.30| lationship to our inability to get

an rm— ee ——— et A ———

U.S. to Sell Cosmetics, Lotions Left Over When War Ended

|has a sale now under way of cos-

| metics and toiletries valued at more 17. — It's than $500,000. 2

Hand lotions valued at $38,000 and

| offices. worth of hair tonic.

powder and cold cream.

359,690 jars of-deodorant,

lall—at an average of

each.

dentifrices amounting to $200,000 will be sold by the New York, Bos-! ton, Chicago and Seattle regional | Seattle will offer $70,000

The Alexandria, Va, army depot is offering $50,000 worth of face

The Richmond sale includes such choice articles as 20,312 cases of cleansing cream at $18 a case; 50,000! bottles of hand lotion, at 30 cents; at an average of 8 cents; 179,617 bottles! of hair oil, at 7 cents; 71,357 tubes of lip pomade, at 6 cents, and 5782 compacts of rouges—five shades in 10'4- cents

The toilet soap offered by Richmond totals more than two million

ny,

Railroad Chiefs to See Local Exhibit

Monon railroad.

$0’ be on permanent display

THe railroad presidents will be

Among the visitors will be Gustav

railroad president; Roy

James M. Symes, Chicago, deputy !

One of the first exhibits to be!

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N Ind Pub Serv com 16% 4 [et Matioey, Som - 32a 1% puyers will be permitted a crack at bars. In addition, there are several 4 {Pub Serv of Ind com 36'2 38% the other items thousand cartons of soap flakes and And so it went. Bub Seve ol Ind Fat pd 3 1% * The Richmond, Va., regional office soap powders, dG & E 43% pla 06a Lidia | - pbs Stokely-Van Ct DoW i 38 29% RT NG il CROSSWORD PUZZLE | Untied eC HI wn” 3% H d WAVE Answer to Previous Pussie nion tie com aes BONDS i eads $ that | American Loan 4'as 58 . .... 97 Poh [ee inh 5 hner Fertilizer 5s 54 . Nn "| "HORIZONTAL 4 Lame [7 | ha 8 **| 1 Pictured new 9 Not any ie] {EE a Se. 3 wel headof § algonquin KENT [SITIES Hamilton Mig Co 53 36 97 A | WAVEs, Capt 3 Indian . alo] 0081 56 97 . [ Fi Indple. Brass & ium bs 56 97 . ege gree AHHH 8 Indpls P&L 3%2s 170 108% 107 | 10 Ringworm 8 Hurl HIME a Indpls Railways Co 8s 57 .... 88 93 | 11 Dest 9 Bird ANNO IAT ind Asso Tel Co 33 Be 13B ny 10 Wearies DEGRADED] nvestors Telephone 3s ‘ by i a clay 1 Ek pho ts . ubner Packing C0 4 3 ] n wi’ | 14 Solitary 12 C onstellation 28 Age 43 Sweet Pub Serv of Ind 3%s 75......108% 07% 16 Portico 13 Book palm 29 Regular (ab.) secretion ob a ss 51 Jsveens 3 100 18 Crafts 15 Either 32 Tentmaker 44 English Williamson Ine 5s 53 97 19 Woody plant 3 Indigo 33 Ingot silver version (ab.) | 20 Threefold apuchin 35 Praise 45 Man's name u- LOCAL PRODUCE 21 Anent monkey 36 Expires 46 Vertex | 22 Tone E 25 Before 40 Moslem 47 Brain passage RICHES FOR LANE DELIVERY (music) 26 Paving pilgrimage 52. Symbol for : ens, } v " . ry ns, 340 14 ang over, 3ori| 23 Property item material 41 Great Lake tantalum A | rings. friers broilers and roosters, 40c 27 Gwiained 27 Distant 42 Soon $4 Type measure | springs, 35¢c; roosters, 16c: ducks,! 30 Brazilian 10¢: i ec: No. br uN { s - Ex Joes 10. No, 2 poultry, .4c less macaw Nn - gs: Cu t 5 se i ” SSG ww oie | SL Ew : wr | Sma, 32¢; grade B large, 46¢c; no grade 34 St oY i . otorme is yA y > | 31 Mine ‘ 7 38 Greek letter 39 Pain . : | 42 Fish sauce ! ; od. Listen lo | 46 Quote + 4 " 48 Erect a” 49 Russian river 3 BUSINESS HIGHLIGHTS" | sae: wh : by 51 Redactor i i ff Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane | 33 Bee's ceeded Capt, —— . Every night ap Monday through Friday VERTICAL i 1 Cast off . ; | WFBM-10:15 P.M. _ capriciously : 2 Individuals 1 Te . Nr

deeply upholstered cushions.

Roy Barton White . , . President,

Baltimore & Ohio railroad.

Indianapolis to Dedicate Union Station Exposition on Nov. 7

Butchers . 3.00 120- 10 pounds 23 00073 on | Railroad executives from|of E. C. Atkins & Co., Indianapolis 150-100 pounds 22 80023.00 Shroughout the nation will be visi-|pioneet indistfial firm and the - pounds .. . ; spas . rs here for the Indianapolis In-|world’s largest manufacturer of . [email protected] | 4 « x 220- 240 Dunes . [email protected] 4-H Building Is Planned on dustrial Exposition Nov. 7 at Union Saws. industry, came up to 15 cents. The| 340. 370 pounds . [email protected] C fordsville Plot station. The exhibit will feature color strike began Jan. 21. It lasted 25] 210- 300 pounds . 22.800123.00 rawiorasviie Jot. Sponsored by the Indianapolis |PhOtOSTaphy showing Atkins shws days at U. Poi Steel, a Otiiers 330- 360 DOURAS +vvevssnss ss [email protected] Tre Slats Nervio.» Chamber of Commerce, the pC Bt Work in various types of sawing signed up immediately thereafter. Medium - tion is said to be the first of it hh all parts of the country, The | 160- 220 pounds ............ 2000032.50| CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. Oct. st of its kind) 4,100 "will be centered with a pic-

ture of the new Atkins plant, now under construction.

TRAINMEN REFUSE TO ENTER CIO FOLD

MIAMI, Fla, Oct. 17 (U. P).— “just in case.” J The Independent Brotherhood of| The silk and nylon fabrics were Railroad Trainmen yesterday voted | used during the war for parachutes against affiliating its 218,000 members with. the Congress of In-|gac used in huge shells where the dustrial Organizations. | The action came at

meeting of the 1046 B. R. T. convention delegates here, after hours|the

debate.

C. 1. O. President Philip Murray had made a special trip here tolof the war assets administration. ask the delegates to approve affili- Officials stated ‘recently that sale the would start by Oct. 15, but WAA brotherhood full jurisdiction over workers Each of the railroad presidents all railway workers in the C. I. O, will be accompanied by a delegation tipaacu—— of officials.

and had- promised

INDIANAPOLIS CLEARING HOUSE

Clearings Debits

a closed | self were loaded separately.

THURSDAY, OCT. 17, 1946

CRANE NAVY DEPOT

‘Acres’ of Trucks, Half Million Dollars Worth of Silk and Nylon on Surplus. List.

"Times State Service

of silk and nylon make up part of the surplus property at the Crane naval amunition depot, located west of here. | : Surplus property, too, is one of the major mysteries at the depot, No one knows much about what there is to be for sale or when the sale will begin.

2 are large quantities of wood traine ing rifles, mattresses and bunk beds. Chief items of interest, howe ever, ‘are automobile parts and vee hicles which include two and: onee half to ten-ton trucks, bomb serve ice trucks and completely equipped automotive parts trailers. Tool and sheet steel by the ton, electric light bulbs and general hardware make up the balance of the items in the large supply dee partment, The depot’s surplus property also Keep Some Fabrics lists complete machine shops on He added the navy will retain Wheels. They were used during the a “reasonable” inventory of the|War to carry the repair equipment. fabrics to fill orders from time to|The shops are enclosed ‘in large (time and to meet an emergency ailen which’ can be towed by rucks.

houses, goods that cannot be exposed to the weather are stacked roof high. The government property, all listed as surplus, is. worth an estimated $15,000,000. The items range from small hand tools to huge multi-ton trucks. Of greatest interest to women is the half-million dollars worth of nylon and silk fabrics now being prepared for sale, Russell Murcock, superintendent of the pryotechnics area, said that practically all of the pure silk the navy owns is located at the depot.

None For Bale

{which go into the making of star ishells and flares. "The pure silk

buy one dime’s worth of surplus material at the depot today.

0 er, 1 barg | propellant charge and the shell it- However, Ralph . Shue} or,

The sale of surplus property at depot, probably the largest | planned in the United States, will | be conducted by the St. Louis office

suggestion for veterans who to use their «priorities toward pure chase of some type of surplus mae terial: ' “Write immediately to the Hvanse vile WAA office anl tell them what you want. They will send a blank to be filled out and for you to return. Promptness in applying is essential, since the first to ape ply get the first purchase certifi

at Crane reported the sale probably will not get under way until several weeks.

Included in the huge stockpile

VELOUR DAVENPORT and CHAIR

Modern, massive. Well-styled, well-built!

g construction;

e velour covering.

* COFF EE TABLE... glass top. oko

styling. Polished, rich walnut finish!

. 2 END TABLES... braced. Nicely styled,

in satiny walnut to match coffee table!

. TABLE LAMP_......, base.. Stylish shade! 9 P ICTURE —Large, attractively framed picture? . HASSOCKS! °2 THROW RUGS!

“SALE IS AWAITED

BEDFORD, Ind., Oct. 17.—Acres of trucks as well as $500,000 N |

Surplus materials are piled high in the depot area. In huge wares °

But try as you might, you canno# °

WAA official in charge of s property at the depot, did have ) w :

92. Exactly as Pictured!

Pe. Velour Suite

Soft,

STORE HOURS: MON. thru SAT. 9:45 to 5:15

WOOD BED, full or single 5-PC. BREAKFAST SET ______$39.50

3-ROOM WII

'THURSD: Hoosier

To He

; Newest” develo | science will be }| mationally know:

Dr. Herrell and consultant Mayo clinic, w Clinical Use of | ing the two-day sion. Indianapolis p as instructors f variety of subjec

LOCAL TIF NAME Oharles L. Ki tire distributor, three-year term Apsociation of

Dealers board «

organization's ar férence in Los Well known ir ness circles, Mr. the tire business ing his own bu: firm, the Knoer of the largest

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