Jobs Up in State'sDefense IndustriesEmployment in two defense-

lated industries in California in-creased by nearly 20,000 in the past12 months and this combined gainoutweighed a decline of about 14,-000 in aircraft, it has been reportedby Director of Industrial RelationsJohn F. Henning.

Missile plant employment of 69,-700 wage and salary workers thisJune was at an all-time high and ex-ceeded the June 1960 count by9,900. Electrical equipment andelectronics employment was at anear record total of 175,300, exceed-ing the year-earlier count by 9,400.

The aircraft work force, on theother hand, was down by 13,900 ascompared to June 1960. Lastmonth's employment of 191,700workers in this industry repre-sented a ten-year low.Henning said that despite the fa-

vorable balance in "defense" em-

ployment, total manufacturing em-ployment in the state at 1,293,500wage and salary workers in Junewas below last year's total by 18,-200. With the exception of missilesand electrical equipment, almost allother industries reported lower em-

ployment than in June, 1960.Between May and June 1960, fac-

tory employment rose by 14,800. Inaddition to the usual expansion inseasonal industries such as food

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Peak L.A. Earnings BelowAlthough gross weekly earnings

of Los Angeles area factory workersrose to an all-time high in May,these earnings did not representthe highest purchasing power onrecord, Director of Industrial Re-lations John F. Henning revealedlast week.Weekly earnings of manufactur-

ing production workers averaged arecord $105.87 in May. But the buy-ing power of these May earnings,after deducting federal and statetaxes and adjusting for the rise inconsumer prices, was one percentbelow the record set in June 1959.

WeeklyVol. 3-No. 26

July 21, 1961

News Letter

THOS L. PITTS Published by California Labor Federation, AFL-CIOExecutive 151Secretary-Treasurer151

Kennedy: School Aid Bill Most Important"House Rules Committee shelving of the Administration's overall educa-

tion program evoked a Presidential plea for Congressional rescue of hispublic school aid bill which was described by Kennedy as "probably themost important piece of domestic legislation I have requested."

Viewed by organized labor as a badly needed boon to the economy be-cause of its aid to school construc-tion and school teacher salaries overa three-year period, the Senate-passed $2.5 billion public school aidbill was strangled at least for themoment along with two other Ad-ministration measures:d A $1.8 billion bill extending

the Nation Defense Education Actto promote instruction of science,mathematics and foreign languagesover the next three years. About$375 million of this amount, ear-marked for low-cost loans to pri-vate and parochial schools, receivedquiet encouragement from Admin-istration spokesmen.* Another $1.8 billion measure

extending loans, grants and scholar-ships to colleges during the nextfive years.

Earlier testimony by AFL-CIO

June '59 Purchasing PowerCompared with May of last year,

Henning found that current aver-age weekly earnings before taxeswere 31/2 per cent higher. Part ofthis gain was wiped out by price in-creases over the year so that the netgain in purchasing power amountedto 2.3 per cent (computed for aworker with 3 dependents).Henning reported that average

hourly earnings of manufacturingproduction workers edged up to anew high of $2.66 per hour, rep-resenting a gain of 9 cents per hourfrom the previous May. Workingtime averaged 39.8 hours per week,the same as a year ago.

legislative director Andrew J. Bie-miller also indicated organized laborhad. "no objection to extendingloans to private schools" for theconstruction of facilities "in thoseareas that are covered in the pres-ent law." Biemiller stated that thisposition was a "logical extension"of labor's earlier support for loansto private as well as public schoolsfor specialized equipment furnishedthrough NDEA.Although some press commentary

attributed the action exclusively tothe "separation of church and state"controversy, the nation was re-minded by Rules Committee mem-ber Richard Bolling (D., Mo.) thatthe basic opposition still arises fromconservative resistance to the "fed-eral tax system, based on ability topay."A national AFL-CIO spokesman

noted the fundamentally economicnature of the Rules Committee ac-tion:

"The seven conservative mem-bers - the Republicans and twoSouthern Democrats, C h a i r m a nHoward W. Smith (Va.) and WilliamM. Colmer (Miss.), are opposed toschool aid, both public and paro-chial, just as they are opposed toother federal welfare and socialprograms that involve the spendingof federal funds."The conservatives talk in terms

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Labor's Story Told in Book by Labor EditorsFor the first time in the history

of labor journalism, the country'sleading trade union editors havejoined to tell the facts, goals, prob-lems and accomplishments of Amer-ican labor.

Their collective effort has re-sulted in a new book titled Labor'sStory. Some 85 labor publicationsare represented in the 348-pagebook. It includes 305 articles, newsstories, editorials and features, plus26 labor cartoons, published be-tween 1955 and 1960.

Editors of this important workare Gordon H. Cole, editor of TheMachinist; Leon Stein, editor ofILGWU's Justice; and Norman L.Sobol, editor of Local 1-S News,organ of a Retail, Wholesale & De-partment Store Workers' local

Included in Labor's Story arechapters on collective bargaining,"justice on the job," organizing,apprenticeship, technology, safetyand unemployment. Labor's activ-ities outside the plant gate are re-ported in chapters on communityand consumer service, health, re-tirement, education and housing.

In the area of public affairs, chap-ters on legislation and civil libertiesare supplemented by a lengthy sec-tion on current controversies. Theserange from the significance ofstrikes and the causes of inflation to"right to work" and repressive leg-islation. Final chapters provide adetailed survey of labor in worldaffairs, and a view of labor's goalsin the years ahead.The volume also includes special

sections on runaway plants, the

DST Among Four MoreExtension of Daylight Saving

Time for one month in the fallpromises to be one of the more con-troversial ballot propositions placedbefore the electorate in 1962.

This proposal is one of four bal-lot measures previously unreportedby Weekly News Letter as a resultof the recent legislative session. Atotal of 21 ballot propositions arealready scheduled for direct vot'erapproval or rejection in next year'selection.The other three unreported bal-

lot propositions deal with the fol-lowing subjects:

* Submitting bond issues to the

changing South and a chapter-longcase study of the historic 1959 steelstrike.

Labor's Story was prepared withseveral different kinds of people inmind, according to the book's edi-tors.

"First, for the active unionist, of-ficer and shop steward," they ex-plained, "secondly, for the highschool and college student who isabout to enter the workforce andshould understand what unionismis, thirdly, for the general readerwho knows little about labor exceptas he reads about it in the dailynewspaper."We felt that a selection from the

contemporary labor press wouldbetter tell the real labor story thanany other editorial approach."

Seconding this view in a letter tothe publishers, International LaborPress Association president RichardC. Howard and secretary-treasurerBernard Mullady said:

"Labor's Story should be read byevery American trade unionist con-cerned about the problems he faces. . .on the job, in the communityand nation, in the world.

"Not least, we recommend thisbook to teachers and clergymen,journalists and political leaders-to serious-minded citizens of all in-terests . . ."

Copies of Labor's Story may bepurchased from Community Pub-lishers, Glen Cove, N.Y. The cloth-bound edition costs $5.50; thepaperbound edition, $2.50, bothpostpaid. Quantity rates are avail-able to unions.

Ballot Props in '62people as statutes, instead cf con-stitutional amendments, with a two-thirds vote of both houses of thelegislature required for the statuteto qualify for the ballot.

* Permitting board or commi$-sion salary increases during term ofoffice if one member starts a newterm and is eligible for the increase.

* D e 1 e t i n g the legislature'sauthority to limit rounds in boxingmatches, rescinding the require-ment that after-expense revenuesfrom boxing licenses and fees go tomaintain veterans' homes, and re-moving fee exemption from Ameri-can Legion-s p o n s o r e d boxingmatches.

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Fed Union labelPromotion ProgramA minimum program for the pro-

motion of union label activities inthe state was adopted by the Cali-fornia Labor Federation's execu-tive council at its recent meeting inCoronado.

Prepared by the organization'sUnion Label Committee, under thechairmanship of Jerome Posner, thep r o g r a m seeks to materiallystrengthen union label activities inCalifornia through the followingthree-point approach by the Feder-ation:

1. Promotion of the observanceof Union Label Week, scheduledfor the first week in September,among all AFL-CIO affiliates in thestate.

2. Regular publicity to union la-bel activities through the WeeklyNews Letter, with stories in thisfield to be featured at least once amonth.

3. Establishment of a union la-bel event as a regular feature atconventions, possibly in the formof a few hours of convention timedevoted exclusively to union labelactivities, "climaxed by some eventsuch as a drawing for presentationof union label goods."UNION LABEL WEEKThe executive council action came

on the heels of the AFL-CIO UnionLabel and Service Trades Depart-ment announcement of the nationalunion label celebration. The depart-ment's secretary-treasurer, JosephLewis, stated:

"Labor Day, September 4, marksthe opening of one of the greatestnationwide celebrations in honorof the union label, shop card andservice button in the history of or-ganized labor's traditional em-blems."The special period of tribute to

labor's symbols of fair play, high-est quality and brotherhood hasbeen set for September 4-10 byunanimous resolutions adopted atthe 1959 conventions of both theAFL-CIO and the ULST Depart-ment.

Lewis stressed the importance ofearly planning to make completelyeffective the labor movement's ef-forts during the week to inform itsown membership as well as the gen-eral public of the benefits accruingto the entire nation when the de-

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Union Label inYour Dentures?

Promotion of the use of uniondentists and dental laboratories byAFL-CIO affiliates in their healthand welfare plans was endorsed bythe executive council of the Califor-nia Labor Federation at its June 29-30 meeting.The request for such action, sub-

initted by Local 99, Dental Techni-cians Union of Northern California,pointed out:"A recent definite trend has

been made to extend. . . fringe ben-efits to include additional coverageand many unions are now explor-ing prepaid dental care. As a matterof fact, some large unions have al-ready accomplished this purposeand the coverage for care is alreadyin effect."

Together with its Southern Cali-fornia counterpart, the AFL-CIOJewelry Workers Union affiliateholds contracts with a considerablenumber of dentists and dental lab-oratories throughout the state.Some of these have been in exist-ence more than 25 years.

Recently concluded negotiationsresulted in an excellent two-yearcontract covering all points consid-ered by organized labor as essentialto the good and welfare of its mem-bers. The Dental Technicians' re-quest for support declared:"We feel that local unions should

take into consideration these factswhen exploring dental care pro-grams and give consideration tothose dentists and dental labora-tories who are willing to cooperatewith organized labor and continuefrom year to year on a mutual agree-ment pact."

Signatories to contracts with theNorthern California Dental Techni-cians Union are as follows:

Dr. J. C. Campbell's offices in12 major communities in the SanFrancisco Bay area encompassed bySacramento, Salinas and SantaRosa.

In addition, dental offices em-ploying union members in SanFrancisco are those of Drs. P. G.Alexander, R. F. Beauchamp, Her-bert H. Brady, A. L. Hart, John T.

Kennedy:School id I(Contirnued from Page 1)

of 'states' rights'. But they servethe purposes of groups that prefersocial programs to be financed bythe states on purely monetarygrounds. No state revenue systemputs the same emphasis on a gradu-ated income tax that the federalrevenue system does."

Addressing Wednesday's newsconference, K e n n e d y signalledplans to circumvent the committeeaction obstructing a floor vote onthe three bills:"The fact of the matter is that

there are procedures available inthe House of Representatives toadopt this bill in spite of the action(by the Rules Committee)."Kennedy expressed hope "that

the members of Congress who sup-port this (bill) will use those pro-cedures which are available to themunder the rules of the House tobring this to a vote."As the week drew to a close, nu-

merous a l t e r n a t i v e approacheswere being discussed by proponentsof federal aid to education. Promi-nent among these was a strong indi-cation from liberal leaders that pas-sage of a separate impacted-areasbill would be vetoed.The impacted-areas p r o g r a m,

presently contained in the Admin-istration's main public school bill,has in the past assisted schoolscrowded with children of service-men and federal employees. ThePresident's leverage derives fromthe fact that 313 of the 437 Housedistricts are presently benefiting

Hayden, S. D. Orowitz, E. H. Vamos,and Duralite Dental Laboratory.

Oakland dentists under unioncontract are Drs. L. H. Barton, R.F. Beauchamp, A. A. Genser, andA. L. Hart.

Sacramento's unionized dentaloffices include those of Drs. S. D.Orowitz and H. B. and H. R. Veon.

Other unionized dental facilitiesare those of Dr. H. E. Burns in SanRafael; Dr. S. D. Orowitz in PaloAlto; Dr. H. E. Stanton in San Jose,and Drs. Tully and Horsley in Hay-ward.

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ill "Most Imporant"from this program. In order to winsupport for the mian bill, Housebackers were proposing an appro-priation of $936 million for the nextthree years of impacted-areas assist-ance. This represented almost a 30per cent increase over previous al-locations.

In view of the fact that so manyHouse members would be embar-rassed at home by failure to enactan impacted-areas bill, a distinctpossibility existed that a veto wouldbe overridden. This considerationhas given rise to the possibility thatother approaches, such as the Calen-dar Wednesday procedure, wouldbe utilized by Administrationforces.The evidence on this was not con-

clusive, however, since other ob-servers noted that urban areas rep-resented by liberal Democrats re-ceive proportionately smaller bene-fits from the program than is truefor Southern conservative members.

Because of uncertainty as to thestatus of the bills in the House, Sen-ate floor action on the National De-fense Education Act was expectedto be postponed for at least a week.

Henning Asks LaborCensus Coo,peration

The 1961 census of Californialabor union membership has beenannounced by John F. Henning,California Director of IndustrialRelations. "This year's organizedlabor questionnaire is being mailedto over 3,500 union locals in theState," Henning said.

Replies to the questionnaire areused to compile the department'sannual report on the number oflabor union members in the stateand in various areas and industries."The response to the organized

labor questionnaire has made pos-sible a chronicle of labor uniongrowth," Henning stated. "Duringthe last decade total union member-ship in the state has grown by over400,000 members-from 1,355,000to 1,756,000."Henning urged all union officials

to complete and return the ques-tionnaire as soon as possible. Itshould be mailed to the Division ofLabor Statistics and Research, P.O.Box 965, San Francisco 1.

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Schedule for AFL-CIO's Washington ReportWASHINGTON REPORTS TO THE PEOPLE, the weekly AFL-CIO

public service educational radio program, is now carried on 24 Californiastations in addition to some 436 other outlets throughout the nation.

The program, dealing with key issues of interest to labor, features adiscussion of legislative proposals by a Democratic and a Republican mem-ber of the Congress.

The scheduling of Washington Reports in California is given below.Where the day and hour of the broadcast are not given, local radio schedulesshould be consulted.

city Station TimeApple Valley KAVRBlythe KYORCarmel KRML Fri., 12:45 p.m.Chico KPAY Sat., 7:05 p.m.Crescent City KPOD Mon., 4:30 p.m.Escondido KOWNHayward KBBMLancaster KAVL Sun., 6:15 p.m.Lompoc KNEZ Sun., 4:00 p.m.Los Angeles KPFKMountain View KFJC Wed., 5:00 p.m.Needles KSFEOxnard KOXRRedding KSDARidgecrest KRKS Sun., 2:15 p.m.Riverside KPRO Sun., 10:30 a.m.San Bernardino KFXMSan Francisco KFAX Sun., 2:15 p.m.San Luis Obispo KATYSonora KROG Mon., 6:45 p.m.Stockton KCVNSusanville KSUE Mon., 6:45 p.m.Ukiah KUKI Sun., 5:45 p.m.Visalia KONG

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mand for union products and serv- in the importance of organizedices increases. labor's emblems.He declared that today there is a "This upsurge of a true realiza-greaterdemand for emblems of tion of the vital role of the uniongreater0han foreemblemslof label, the shop'card and the servicelabor than ever before and called button in our nation's economy on

the 1961 celebration "our finest op- the part of our own people," saidportunity to bring the impact of this Lewis, "is manifesting itself in atruth home to the American con- greater acceptance for union prod-sumer in a dramatic and forceful ucts and services on the part offashion." the unorganized consumer public.Lewis declared that more national With this in mind, we are assured

and international unions are part of that Union Label Week this yearthe ULST Department than ever can be a resounding success for allbefore and that an increasing num- AFL-CIO organizations in the land."

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Jobs Up in State'sDefense Industries

(Continued from Page 1)processing and lumber, there werealso non-seasonal increases in elec-trical equipment, missiles and otherindustries. The only reductionsfrom May were in private shipyardsand aircraft.LOS ANGELES-LONG BEACHHenning reported that aircraft

has now yielded its place to electri-cal equipment as the largest manu-facturing employer in the Los An-geles-Long B e a c h metropolitanarea. June employment in electricalequipment totaled 132,800, whilejobs in aircraft stood at the 129,200level.

Factory employment as a wholerose to 766,300 in June, a rise of4,300 from May as small gains infood processing, electrical equip-ment and other industries out-weighed a further decline in air-craft.The area's factory force was be-

low the June 1960 level by 14,700.The aircraft work force was off by14,200 and smaller losses were re-corded in metals, auto assembly,machinery and other industries.The only sizeable gains from June1960 were in the form of job in-creases of 7,000 in electrical equip-ment and 1,800 in missiles.SAN FRANCISCO-OAKLANDThe director also indicated that

the June factory total of 195,300wage and salary workers in the SanFrancisco-O a k 1a n d metropolitanarea was up by 2,700 from the pre-vious month, but down by 3,600from June 1960.The May-June rise in the Bay

Area reflected seasonal pickups infood processing and other indus-tries, while the loss from a year agowas chiefly in the durable goodsgroup.