Cudahy Packing Co. Signs Contract For General All-round Wage Increase Omahana Benefitted A contract providing general wage increases of 7*4 to 16 cents an hour and a statement of policy recognizing the “importance and desirability” of a guaranteed an nual wage was signed with the Cudahy Packing Company, Ralph Heist«|ii}. President of the United CLEO’s Nite & Day BARBQ 2 cents an hour for a substantial number of wo men workers, (2) night shift premiums increase from five cents to seven cents an hour, (3) ge ographic adjustments ranging from 2'cents to 8 one-half cents an hour, (4) Pay for eight holi days not worked (5> split and combination job rate adjustments and (6) overtime earnings to be TO VETERANS WHO SERVED 6 MONTHS IN CVS OF THESE SPECIALTIES There's a good, steady job and new higher pay lor you in the new Regular Army il you can meet these qualifications: Age 18 to 34 inclusive. Discharged tram Army. Navy. Marines or Coast Guard on or alter May 12. 1945. Served at least six montlis in any or certain &pe ciaities. II you measure up. and held a non-commissioned grade at the time ot your discharge, you may enlist now in the Reg ular Army directly into certain non-commissioned grades. In addition to specialties listed here, there are many more for which you may qualify. Find out at your U. S. Army Recruit ing Station. • Bring both your discharge cert 111 cat* and your occupational history 1W.D.4.G.O. Form 100 — Report of Separation!. v\ MOS 039 Cable Splicer, Telephone & Telegraph 067 Dental Laboratory Technician 114 Machinist 213 Stenographer 264 X-ray Technician 304 Electric Motor Repairman 409 Medical Technician 858 Medical Laboratory Technician 870 Chemical Non-Commissioned Officer 965 Mechanic, Automotive, Wheel Vehicle (Third Echelon) 979 Chemical Corpsman, General 1607 Heavy Mortar Crewman' -Your Nearest V. S. Army Recruiting Stations 1516 Douglas Street, Omaha 2, Nebraska South Omaha U. S. Postoffice, 24th and ‘M’ Streets Busiest Christmas for Long Distance > There’s bound to be such a flood of long distance calls on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day that, in spite of everything we can do, many calls won’t go through promptly—and some calls may not be completed. More lines are coming. Shortages in telephone equip ment have made this a difficult year for our customers and for us. New lines Eire being added and switchboards being expanded as rapidly as conditions permit. Before long we’ll be able to handle more calls promptly. NORTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY , •UH4.lt ta loo& qatci 6citf" NATURAL HAIRATTACHMENTS on AGAIH--OFF ACAIH M, Do’s—to meet <1 occasions 1 fAG* . “°T_ NATlrtbtt $3.00 BRAID | $4'50 I SOU CAM HAVE YOUR HAIR H PERFECTLY MATCHED I Latest Creations iasiiy Attached Human Hair— • chignon All Shades ' i $5.50, SEND NC MONET . JUST SEND SAMPLE Of TOUR MB OR STATE THE COLOR JESSIE KARE BEAUTY PRODUCTS M7 RFIM AVL (Soon 905) NEW TOW 17, H T, Dept A reflected in vacation pay. Under the new wage adjust ments, the increases for individ ual workers range from a mini mum of 7 one-half to 18 one-half cents an hour. The average wage increase covering all Cudahy wor kers amounts £o 15 cents an hour. The geographic wage adjust ments under the new contract brings all Cudahy plants repre sented by the UPWA-CIO under the Metropolitan standards with i the exception of the Albany, Ga., ■ plant which was brought up to the increased Southern rates, i All wage adjustments are re troactive to November 1. j 1 *The guaranteed annual wage | clause provides for an independ | ent study by the company and un I *on as to the “practicability” of i °uch a plan. The company agreed i 5 to furnish the union with its , conclusions based upon its study . and the facts and figures upon ; which such conclusions are bas . ed.. ” ! The agreement also provides for a reduction in the ‘escape period” ; from 15 to seven days in the maintenance of the membership clause. The newly signed agreement is to be effective for two years with wage reopening clauses provided on April 1, 1947 and once in the year 1947-1948. The contract is to expire on August 11, 1948. The contract is subject to rati fication by the local unions in the Cudahy chain. Major Contract Provisions I. Guaranteed Annual Wage The Company recognizes the importance and desirability pf stabilizing employment on an an nual basis an t6 that end will to the extent practicable, attempt to give employees fifty two weeks’ Der year including the vacation period. It is understood and a greed by the company and the Union that the foregoing senten ce constitutes a statement of po licy only and is not intended to and does not impose any contrac tual obligation whatsoever upon the Company. ( It is agreed that the Company and the Union, to the end of de termining the practicability of an annual wage guarantee, will un dertake a study of this problem. The Company further agrees to furnish the Union with its con clusions based upon its study and the facts and figures upon which such conclusions are based, un less such information should be considered by the Company to be confidential. II. Geographic Wage* Adjustments In addition to the general wage increases provided for in Section 16 of the Master Agreement, the wage rates in effect at the fol lowing plants of the Company shall be increased as follows: Location M FM Omaha, Nebr. 2%c p. hr 3c p. hr Sioux City, la 2%c p. hr 3c p! hr Wichita. Kan. 2%c p. hr 3c p. hr Denver. Colo. 2%c p. hr 3c p. hr No. Salt Lake 2%c p. hr 3c p. hr Los Angeles 5c p. hr 5c p. hr SOUTH OMAHA Electric Shop ALFRED AXELROD, Prop. 5021 South 24th St. □□□ • Refrigerators • Radios • Washers W estinghouse Appliances nan —MA-3600— Omaha, Nebraska CALL JA.6500 FOR FREE ESTIMATES ON ROOFING INSULATION INSELBRIC Steel Basement POSTS RISCO COMBINATION Self.Storing WINDOW MICKLIN HOME IMPROVEMENT CO. 1702 CUMING SO SAY WE ALL! By COLLIER .. .:-—■ n i —in r h i ■— Albany, Ga. 8%c p. hr 7c p. hr It is further agreed that by the execution of this agreement all geographical wage inequalities are eliminated for the duration of the Master Agreement. III. Sick Leave Permanent employees with more than one year of continuous service, in accordance with the seniority provisions of this agree ment, who are on the current pay roll and who are absent because they have become disabled to the extent that they are physically unable to work and such disabili ty is due to sickness or non-com pensable accident (except where such sickness or non-compensable accident is caused by or is a re sult of the employee’s own mis conduct or gross negligence) and when such disibility and its con tinuation is supported by accep table medical evidence, shall re ceive part wage payments in ac cordance with the following plan: (a) Waiting Period Such continuous Com pany service of one thru nine years, .one week consisting of seven con secutive calendar days. Such continuous Com pany service of ten years and over. .none. (b) Amount of Payment One-half wages to be computed on the basis of employee's regular basic t hourly wage rate on a basic work week of 40 hours. In the case of em ployees who have a basic work week either greater or less than forty hours, one-half wages shall be paid computed on the ba basis of such work week. Where absence is for a period of less than one full work week each day of absence shall be com pensated for on the bas is of one-sixth of said one-half wages. (c) Length of Compensable Disibility Employees qualifying un der the foregoing shall be entitled to two week’s compensation at one-half wages for each year of such continuous service, whi6h amount shall be reduced b y payments made for other absences occurring during the 12 months immediately pre ceeding the starting date of the currant absence. PLANTS INCLUDED IN CUDAHY MASTER AGREEM'T Plants Local Unions Kansas City, Kan. Local U. No. 10 Omaha. Nebraska Local No. 60 Newport, Minnesota, Local No. 55 Sioux City, la. Local No. 70 Denver, Colo. Local No. 85 Wichita, Kan. Local No. 94 Los Angeles Local No. 107 North Salt Lake, U. Local No. 159 East Chicago, Ind. Local No. 206 Albany, Georgia Local No. 258 $40 Fine For Wrong Facts Lloyd C. Shipman, 2316 North Thirtieth Street, Wednesday of last week, was fined $40 and costs by County Judge Troyer. He pleaded guilty to making false statements in obtaining un employment pay. -- Gas Overcomes Man In Garage Paul A. Hayes, 21, of 2115 North Twenty-sixth Street, was overcome by carbon monoxide gas fumes last Friday night as he was sawing wood in a garage in back of 2518 Burdette Street. He was attended by the Fire Department Rescur Squad and taken to Doctors hospital. Police said Mr. Hayes was using a saw driven by a gasoline motor. His condition was reported as good. * Phone JA. 0798 SOL LEE • EXPERT ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE REPAIRS Plumbing Drains Opened & Repairs 2022 North 24th St. Omaha, Nebraska OUR GUEST Column (Edited by VERNA P. HARRIS) By William Kreen, President American Federation of Labor i Jim Crow and Bread The concern of the American Federation of Labor for the wel fare of minority groups is more than humanitarian concern for fellow men. The bogey of bigotry which pits worker against worker serves only to divide the solid unity of organized labor and thus to un dermine the working standards of all. If one gToup of workers were to organize to better their work ing conditions to the exclusion of any racial or religious group, the lower standards of the excluded group would remain a constant drag and menace to the standards of the organized group. Discrimination takes bread out of the mouths of all workers! Intolerance and bigotry are the tools used to destroy democracy and impose totalitarianism. Free labor can exist only in a free society. To deny minority groups the freedom to organize into un ions of their own choosing along with other workers in their trade is to refute the very principles of democracy mandatory to the ex istance of free labor unions. Any limitations to the freedom of one group plants the seed that may grow and ultimately destroy the freedom of all. It is symbolic of the unity of all workers that the AFL was formed and led for forty years by an immigrant Jew. Samuel Gompers, and that the Federa tion's name was proposed by Mr. Grandison, a Negro delegate from Pittsburgh to the first convention in 1881. Of course the record of Ameri can labor has not been without its blemishes. More than one strike has been lost and more than one union broken because the seed of intolerance was planted between workers. But with firmly implanted knowledge drawn from bitter experiences. American La bor has gone foreward, and to day it stands as one of the na tion’s strongest forces opposed to bigotry and intolerance. At present, out of 7.150.000 AFL members 650,000 are Ne groes. There is one Negro inter national union president (A. Phi lip Randolph), dozens of Negro international vice presidents, and thousands of Negro organizers and local union officials. It is indicative of the Federa tion’s struggle to raise the stand ards of Negro workers that the international unions which have the highest proportion of Negro members afe AFL affiliates: The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Por ters which is largely Negro; the1 CHICAGO RACE-BAITERS THREATEN Naacp. LAWYER NEW YORK, Dec 12th..Hurl ing ugly epithets and threats at her. a hysterical mob of race baiting Chicagoans closed in on Mrs. Marian Wynn Perry, NAAC P attorney, last Monday, when she accompanied Thurgood Mar shall. NAACP Special Counsel, to the scene of an incipient riot in front of the recently completed Air Port Homes in Chicago’s So. Side. The mob had gathered to protest the arrival of Negro ve terans and their families to take up occupancy in the apartments assigned them by the Chicago Housing Authority in the tax supported project set up for Chi cago veterans. Mrs. Perry’s ap peals to the police for protection were met with the request to "keep moving” and no action was taken against the persons who were threatening and insulting her. .in fact, the police treated her as a noutsider and did not seem to feel any compunction to rebuke or arrest her antagonists. The two NAACP lawyers had rushed to Chicago to investigate reports of rioting against Negroes which gave evidence of building up info a riot of the serious pro portions of the Detroit riot in ’43 when Negrods attempted to move into the Sojourner Truth Houses there. In appeals to federal and local authorities to implement the pledge of Mayor Kelly and the Chicago Housing Authority that there would be no racial discrim ination in the Air Port Homes, NAACP national and local offi cials, civic, religious veterans and labor groups sent telegrams and delegations to the Mayor and the Police Department to assure this pledge being carried out with the necessary police protection. Mrs. Perry and Mr. Marshall are in close contact with housing authorities and with civic groups anxious to prevent a recurrence of violence against Negro tenants in this and future city housing projects, and are giving legal ad vice to the attorneys of the two veterans who braved possible harm to move into their apart ments on Tuesday, December 10 although five other veterans with drew from the project. The two veterans, John R. Fort and Letholian Waddells, who are relying on police protection to maintain them in their homes at present, have spent two nights in their new homes. Both have wives who are pregnant, and they look forward to having them join them soon, when the danger of physical violence seems past. The night their furniture was moved in, a mob attacked the departing van and five men were arrested.. al though their trials were not set until February. The night the ve terans moved in a mob of over 300 stood about a bonfire in front of the project shouting threats. National Farm Labor Union with over half Negro membership; the International Longshoremen’s As sociation with all the Negro dock workers on the South Atlantic and Gulf Coast; the hod Carriers Building and Common Laborers Union; the Building Service Em ployees International Union; the Laundry Workers International Union, and the United Mine Work ers with 100.000 Negro members.. just to mention a few. It is also to be noted that there are more skilled Negro workers in the AFL building trades than in any other highly skilled crafts..50 percent of the union building tradesmen below the Mason and Dixon Line are Negroes. Because we are concerned with humanitarian justice for all and because our very existence as free working men and women depends on unity and the preservation of democracy, the AFL will continue to be one of America’s bulwarks against those ideologies which breed on iintolerance and passion ate bigotry.. communism and fas cism. — APA — ynr*/y for all the vT^I f S Family . BRAIDS Store 1415 Harney Street J' p Christmas t SPECIAL , f GET ACQUAINTED < | OFFER— i a 3 Beautiful 5x7 ^ I LIFE LIKE PORTRAITS J (in Folders) s2.50 \ f PHOTOGRAPHIC j A GREETING CARDS From Your Negative $1.50 " r We Make Negative $2.00 j ( —STUDIO OPEN— j ? Evenings 7:30 - 9:30 £ Sundays 10 a. m.-3:30 p. m. | 5 TRIANGLE PHOTO SHOP* j! 1608 N. 24th St. i Beauticians HAIR DRESSING BOOTHS —For Rent or Lease— DOT’S BEAUTY SALON 2031 North 24th St. AT-0459 but no arrests were made. No mob appeared the second night, probably because of a heavy rain storm. The situation is one "which still bears watching but now its terrifying implications are clear to most Chicagoans and the de- ; legation is growing which has been daily visiting the Police De partment to insist on adequate protection for the new occupants and on stern measures against the violent members of the mob. Both Mayor Kelly and the Chi cago Housing Authority have ta ken a firm stand on upholding the rights of Negroes to live in a city-owned project, and prom ise to embark on a program of ed ucation of the public and the po lice to better their understanding ; of race relations problems. Chicago, with only ten emer gency housing units "in a city of fifty wards, has an explosive si tuation on its hands and its suc cess or failure in solving it will set a pattern for other cities deal : ing with similar postwar housing problems. NAACP Urges Negroes Be Used In Vet Service NE YORK WASHINGTON, D. C„ Dec. 12 —Secretary of Labor Louis Sch wellenbach, under whose agency the Veterans’ Employment Ser vice functions, was requested in a letter from Jesse Dedmon, Secy, of Veterans’ Affairs, NAACP, to use his influence to assure the employment of qualified Negro veterans in this service. With the return of the U. S. Employment Service to the States, the federal ly financed and controlled Vet erans Employment Service as ad ministered by the Veterans’ Place ment Service Board, of which Secretary of Labor Schwellen bach is a member. Pointing out to Secretary Schwellenbach the difficulties facing Negro veterans in getting jobs, Mr. Dedmon said: “The NAACP, a membership organization with over 500,000 members, is vatally interested in the employment of veterans and particularly Negro veterans. Ac cording to reports received by us the Negro veteran has experien ced the greatest difficulty in get ting employment. “The Veterans’ Employment Service, which is an adjunct of the Veterans’ Placement Service Board, of which you are a mem ber. is charged with the respon sibility, under the law, of provi ding assistance to veterans seek ing employment. The Congress of the United States, as part of the Labor Department’s 1946 budget, granted 302 positions for the op eration of the Veterans’ Employ More Taverns Win Community Approval More Nebraska beer retailers now recognize that their license privilege obligates them to do everything possible to make their tavern a real asset to the community. They know for instance that it pays in both business volume and public good will to make their taverns as clean and wholesome as possible. They know that adequate lighting and ventilation are important; also modern toilet facilities, hot and cold running water, and a generally clean and at tractive atmosphere. More and more retailers show* they are not satisfied to meet the minimum requirements of the state’s sanitary laws, but are anxious to own and operate the kind of place that is a credit to themselves and their town. The Nebraska Committee’s self-regulation program has helped inspire this new and better attitude. Beer retailers in Nebraska are now learning it pays handsome dividends to operate in. such a way that all the public can approve. NEBRASKA COMMITTEE' United States . Brewers Foundation« Charles E. Sandal], State Director 710 First Nat’l Bank Bldg., Lincoln ment Service and according to a report made by the Chief, Veter ans’ Employment Service, all of these positions have not been fil led. In the 1947 Labor Department budget according to a report made for field work in the Vet crans’ Placement Service Board and high office as Secretary of Labor to see that qualified Ne groes are employed in this service so that it might be beneficial to all. Other members of the Veter ans’ Placement Board are Gen eral Omar Bradley, Administrator of \ eterans* Affairs and Selec tive Service Director Hershey. Give Bond Christmas “For Christmas, give a U. S. Savings Bond, the present with a future”, said L. J. Markham the State Director for Nebraska of U. S, Savings Bonds Division. ‘A’ Series ‘E’ Bonds costs as little as $18.75, and brings $25 ten years from now. Savings Bonds are an easy solution to the Christmas gift problem.” Nebraska ‘E’ Bond sales total led $5,124,769 in November, said Markham This was an increase Total bond sales for October in Nebraska including ‘F- and ‘G’ series, amounted to $7,875,769. Ten leading counties in Nebra ska during October and the a mount of ‘E’ Bonds sold in each county were as follows: Douglas, $1,359,430; Lancaster, $416,577; Adams. $132,993; Dodge $128,868; Buffalo, $122,175; Lin coln, $115,225; Plate, $101,681; Saline, $96,412; Gage, $95’025; and Hall, $86,286. Nebraska placed second in the nation during the first ten mon ths of 1946 in percentage of ‘E’ Bond sales, as compared with re demptions of $45,898,000. Sales were 125.42 per cent to redemp tions for this period. South Da kota was first with a percentage of 148,97, NEGRO DOLLS Every home should have a Colored Doll. Give her a beautiful Brown skin Doll for Christmas. 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