The Union Times

As We See It

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THE STAFF

Local 404's members who were forced to walk out by the management of Hof-Brau restaurant in New Haven, are determined to win, and it is confidently expected that they will. Business Manager Betty Marland says that morale is high which, in itself, is a guarantee of victory.

John A Johnson, business agent of Local No. 79, New Haven Carpenters, and known to some people as Augie, is the grandfather of twins.

A CORRECTION appearing recently in the New Bern (N.C.) Sun-Journal:

"Miss Thelma Elmore Jones was married to Bobby Stanley and not Henry Hodges Stanley as was stated in the article on their wedding appearing in a recent edition of the Sun-Journal. The bridegroom's parents are Mr. and Mrs. John B. Stanley and not Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Stanley, as was stated in the same article, and the officiating minister was Rev. E. W. Downing of New Bern and not Rev. A. E. Brown of Bridgeton."

The Russians say the "secret of the atomic bomb" is no longer a secret.

U.S. army officials think that's hokum and say it "sounds like somebody is having a pipe dream."

The neighborhood barber says he'd just as soon wait a couple of hundred years to find out who's right.

There's no way out for John L. Lewis; he's trapped coming and going. First, the Communist newspaper, Trud, in Moscow, declares that "the reactionary Lewis" is trying to "direct the growing American workers' movement into a channel advantageous to monopolistic trusts." Then, a few days later, because John L. won't sign the Taft Hartley Anti-Communist affidavit, the Washington Post calls him "The AFL's Gromyko."

But that didn't end Lewis' unsolicited publicity last week. The Int'l Institute of Artists & Photographers announced in New York that it had elected Lewis "Mr. Chin of 1947." He won the election over such competitors as President Truman, Gen. Omar Bradley, Actor Edward G. Robinson and Singer Jack Smith. In announcing the election, the Institute said, "A man's chin is the true hallmark of his character. It must be 5 1/2 inches from jaw to jaw or his 'chin appeal' falls short of American women's demands for rugged manhood."

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hood." Okay, Moscow, what'ya to say to that?

DISPLAYED AD in Silver Springs (Md.) Post:
"Wake Up! with FLORENCE, Girl Disc Jockey .. WGAY."

FROM the Buffalo (N. Y.) Courier-Express: "In every ministry in Rome, they give you sheaves of figures-and very moving figures, too showing brides rebuilt, factories restored. ..."

Another neat buried story was a speech made by Under Sec. of Labor Keen Johnson in Chicago two weeks ago. Johnson, former governor of Kentucky and a onetime newspaper editor, charged that the press played up strikes, ignored labor peace. In 1946, he said, "despite strikes, the total output of American industry was the largest in peacetime history," but to the press only the stoppages were news. The thousands of peaceful negotiations which transpired during the year were not regarded as news," said Johnson as he pointed out that nine out of 10 disputes were settled without a strike. "The nine cases peacefully settled did not make the news, but the tenth did."

You figure out why the daily press plays up strikes ignores peace in labor.

Federal Housing Commissioner Franklin D. Richards this week announced "the largest single project yet started under the new FHA program providing rental housing for World War II veterans and their families." The project, Meadowbrook Apartments in Indianapolis, "will contain one and two-bedroom apartments renting from $81 to $95 a month." Bureau of Census figures show that the average veteran can pay from $40 to $50 rent. Please, Commissioner, when you mean "for officers only", say so!

The NAM has decided something has to be done about those over-sized profits. Reduce them? Heavens, no! They're working out a new book-keeping system that makes a $10 million profit look like a mere 5c on the dollar."

IN ITS story of a confessed wife slayer the Tulsa (Okla.) World referred to "The Macabre family tangle," leading to the belief there's a Scotsman on the telegraph desk.

Pressure from chick-producers finally forced Washington to end "chickenless Thursdays."

Wonder why pressure from the people can't force Washington to bring meat prices down and eliminate "meatless most-days."

WIREPHOTO offering on AP wire: "Bob Hope being treated for first degree bat with Jane Russell."

A later correction made the points clearer: "Bob Hope being treated for first degree burns suffered while making a picture with Jane Russell."