CaIifornicu AFL-CIO News Published weekly by California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO, Executive 995 Market Street, San Francisco, California 94103-Second Class Secretary-Treasurer Vol. 10-No. 4 Postage Paid at San Francisco, Calif.-Subscription: $3.50 a year _F 151 THOS. L. PITTS Jan. 26, 1968 -~ ~ ~ ~~~~~~a.2,16 Douglas Barrett Joins Fed Staff New Champion Labor MobIlizes As Special Rep. of Unlimited Thos. L. Pitts, Secretary- Expense Accts. To Fight Scabs Treasurer of the California La- Businessmen still irked at Mobilization of the entire labor movement in San Fran- bor Federation, AFL-CIO, an- Uncle Sam for not letting them cisco and nounced this week that Douglas write off anything they want Los Angeles in support of some 5,000 workers on fighting a blatant, union-busting the billion Barrett of Sacramento has their expense accounts have dollar attempt by joined the staff of that organ- a new champion - Governor Hearst Publishing empire swung into full gear this ization as a special representa- Ronald Reagan. week after Wells B. Smith, President of the San Francisco tive. Barrett is assigned to work Printing Company called a In the course of his recent press conference at 4:30 in the field of relationships address to the Economic Club p.m., between state government and of New Wednesday afternoon to an- H the Federation. York, Reagan recalled nounce that negotiations were In ner a time a few years ago when being broken off. pr "At this time, our principal the Bureau of Internal Reve- To Arke Wells acted even though ne- emphasis in association with nue undertook an investigation gotiations continued orkers state government of account actually is the 1968 expense abuses. But until 5:02 p.m. and even though session of the Legislature," in all fairness, the California the Mailers Union Pitts said, "and it is in Governor didn't use the term negotiators Dsabled this offered shortly before 5:00 p.m. Four bills to field Mr. Barrett will be mainly "abuses." Here's how he put to provide better it: continue negotiations all protections and benefits for conicerned for the time being. night. workers suffering His service as an active mem- "At that time the business of the off-the-job ber of the administrations of Doug Smith, president injuries or illnesses were intro- community was under attack striking San Francisco Mailers duced in the this Governor Knight and Governor by the Bureau of Internal Rev- Union Local Assembly Brown also will 18, surprised by week by Assemblyman George be utilized in enue. Specifically, the bureau the publishers' behind-the-back N. Zenovich matters involving organized la- i s s u i n (D-Fresno). was g new regulations action, declared: bor with administrative agen- "Legislative action on these (Continued on Page 4) "I am astonished and shock- issues;0VIVlcis r+1+,,- NI (Continued on Page 3) viai tnLis year it caii- -W _(Continued on Page 4) fornia is to maintain an effec- tive, realistic, and progressive social insurance program that Digest of Bills affords meaningful benefits to Don't Buy Hearst, Unions Ask workers suffering off-the job Starts Today disabilities," State AFL-CIO Commencing with this issue The Los Angeles Herald-Examiner Joint Strike-Lockout Council leader Thos. L. Pitts said. of the California AFL-CIO has issued an appeal to all trade unionists and other friends of "These bills are designed to News, we are digesting legis- organized labor not to buy any of the following Hearst publica- provide an on-going improve- tions and to cancel any existing subscriptions to lation of interest to organized them as a pro- (Continued on Page 4) labor. This will be a continu- test to the use of professional strikebreakers at the L. A. Herald- ing digest, from issue to issue, Examiner. designed as a service to all The Hearst Corporation has refused to meet wage levels al- affiliates. ready negotiated by the unions of much less affluent and smaller Fed's Legislative To keep posted on the prog- papers in Long Beach. Publisher George Hearst has already in- Roster To Go ress of various m e a s u r e s dicated that ability-to-pay is not an issue. Apparently, however, through the legislature, affili- maximization of profits at the expense of decent wages and work- ing conditions for employees To Press Soon ates should drop a note to the is. Here is the list: The 1968 roster of Califor- chairman of the committee to Magazines-Cosmopolitan; Good Housekeeping; Harper's Bazaar; nia's which a House legislative representatives measure of interest is Beautiful; Popular Mechanics; Town and Country; Motor; will to as referred go press soon as all requesting notice of Motorboating; Sports Afield. legislative committees h a v e all hearings called on the bill. Newspapers-L. A. Herald Examiner; San Francisco Examiner; been named and their meeting The Digest of Bills, which, Seattle Post Intelligencer; San Antonio, Texas, Light; Boston schedules posted. while contained within the Cal- Record and American; Baltimore News-American; Albany, New The roster, a handy pocket- ifornia AFL-CIO News, will be York, Times-Union; and The Knickerbocker News. size booklet, lists the numbered separately, will indi- Pocketbooks-Avon. name, cate the committee party affiliation, address and to which geographical area represented each bill is referred. Requests each of be INSJITUlEE OP by California's U. S. should addressed to Com- Ii4DUSTr4IMI senators, representatives, state- mittee Chairman, c/o S t a t e R LX1itqNI 'r B B senators and Capitol, Sacramento, California assemblymen as 95814. ii ij%Q 2[ 4S trt ;+ (ConNtnued on Page 3) Union Rolls Climb to 1,990,600 in California Apprenticeship Union membership in Cali- In manufacturing, u n i o n cent more than in July 1966. Council Meets in fornia totaled nearly two mil- membership was at an all time Non-farm employment in Or- lion as of July 1967, according high of 609,400 last July. Des- ange County, which is regarded Santa Barbara to a report just released by pite large gains in aircraft and as a bastion of conservatism The problems of equal op- the State Department of In- missiles (up 14,300) and metals and includes the California portunities in apprenticeship dustrial Relations. and machinery (up 10,900), headquarters of the John Birch for members of minority groups The study, conducted by the the net increase from July 1966 Society, rose 6.9 percent over were scheduled to be explored Department's Division of La- was relatively s m a 11 - 8,600 the year. A membership loss today at the first quarterly bor Statistics and Research, members or 1.4 percent. in construction of 2,500 held meeting of 1968 of the Califor- pegged union membership as It also noted that a rainy back union growth in the area, nia Apprenticeship Council. of the middle of last year at s p r i n g prevented the work the state report said. This drop At the outset of the council's a record high of 1,990,600. This force in fruit and vegetable was offset by a gain of 1,000 three-day meeting at the Santa reflected a gain of 43,200 or canning from reaching its nor- members in food and kindred Barbara Inn in Santa Barbara 2.2 percent over July 1966. Non- mal July level. As a result, products manufacturing plus yesterday, the council reviewed farm employment rose 2.9 per- union membership in canning increases of from 300 to 600 the role of apprenticeship in cent during the same period. was 14,700 lower in July 1967 in metals and machinery, gov- the new GI bill-the Veterans' But for the continuing slump than in July 1966. Also holding ernment, miscellaneous ser- Pension and Readjustment As- in the construction industry re- down the net advance in fac- vice industries, and public utili- sistance Act, that went into ef- sulting from excessive interest tory union membership was the ties. fect last year and heard a re- rates and tight money policies, loss of 2,800 members in lum- San Francisco - Oakland - port indicating a significant up- the increase in union member- ber and furniture manufactur- There were 494,200 union mem- trend in apprenticeships that ship might well have outstrip- ing. bers in the five-county San developed last year despite a ped the percentage increase in The r e p o r t was based on Francisco - Oakland area as of general slump in the construc- non-farm employment. questionnaires mailed to every July 1967, 13,600 more than a tion industry. known to have Cal- BLDG. TRADES DIP union local year earlier. Membership and Today the council was sched- ifornia members. It tallied a non-agricultural employment uled to hear reports on the Unions in the construction total of 3,929 union locals in increased at the same 2.8 per- Manpower Development and industry lost 24,400 members 1967, just 23 more than a year cent rate. Most of the S. F. Training Act program for on- between July 1966 and July earlier. bay area's union membership the-job training which current- 1967. This represented the big- increase took place outside of ly enrolls 4,500 trainees, 40 per- gest year-to-year drop in the GROWTH IN KEY AREAS manufacturing. A rise of 7,800 cent of which co- fr_.. mi- industry since totals were first Here's a run down on union was reported in government, nority groups. It was also sched- compiled in 1950, the report membership g r o w t h in the 5,100 in transportation and uled to hear proposals to re- said, noting that the drop re- state's five biggest metropoli- warehousing, and 3,500 in pro- organize the U. S. Bureau of flected the cumulative affects tan areas: fessional, educational and re- Apprenticeship and Training to of the slump in construction Los Angeles - Long Beach- lated s e r v i c e s . Construction reassign MDTA-OJT to the U. S. employment, particularly i n Union membership in Los An- trades locals showed a 5,200 Bureau of Works and Training. home building. geles County in July 1967 membership decline. A public forum was sched- Interestingly, union member- amounted to 800,700, up 26,700 uled this afternoon on "Affirma- San Jose - Santa C la r a Selection ship in Los Angeles County or 3.5 percent from a year 93,100 members in tive Recruitment and where the AFL-CIO Los An- earlier. Between July 1966 and County had of Apprentices." Other reports July 1967, 1,800 or 1.8 percent hard- geles - Orange County Organiz- 1967, the county's non-farm earlier although on efforts to reach the ing Committee has been con- employment rose 2.7 percent. less than a year core unemployed and on a four- non-farm employment rose 6.5 Dr. centrating on organizing the The bulk of the membership However point program developed by unorganized, rose 3.5 percent, gain took place in manufactur- percent over the year. Otto Roemmich, President of the decline was centered in can- to re- outstripping the 2.7 percent in- ing, with locals in aircraft and were 7,100 San Jose City College, crease in non-farm employment missiles picking up 10,300 ning where there solve conflicts over charges of fewer members in July 1967 discrimination in apprentice- in that county. members and locals in metals than a year earlier. As noted In the San Francisco - Oak- and machinery, which added ship classrooms on the campus earlier the report pointed out were also scheduled to be pre- land area union membership 7,300 members, leading the way. were and non-agricultural employ- Furniture and fixtures manu- that cannery operations sented to the council during its somewhat delayed last year by session. ment climbed apace at a rate facturing reported a loss of unseasonal spring rains. The of 2.8 percent over the year. 1,100 members. In professional, area also lost 1,200 educational and related ser- San Jose the 5.8 percent increase in non- PUBLIC EMPLOYEES UP members in the construction in- farm employment. While union vices, unions netted 4,100 new A large part of these Public employee locals, the members over the year, princi- dustry. membership in San Diego has losses were offset by gains of increased in each of the last report said, chalked up a gain pally among hospital workers. from to 1,800 members of 16,500 members over the Gains of from 2,000 to 3,000 1,000 three years, it is still 7,900 be- in transportation equipment low the all time high reached year, 84 percent of which are were chalked up in air trans- metals and ma- federal employees. portation, communication, gov- and ordinance, in 1960. Manufacturing chinery, professional, educa- accounted for n e a r l y two- Organizing gains by nurses ernment, motion picture and and related services, and and other hospital employees television film production, and tional thirds of the 1966-67 increase, was the principal cause of a trade. Building trades locals government. with aircraft and missiles ac- 12,300-member rise in profes- lost 8,000 members over the San Diego - Union member- counting for the lion's share. sional, educational and related year. ship in San Diego climbed to Government union locals pick- services. The report attributed Anaheim - Santa Ana -Gar- 82,800 as of last July, a gain ed up 1,200 members. But this this increase primarily to "sub- den Grove-Orange County un- of 4,200 over the year. The and other gains were offset stantial wage increases won by ions had 86,100 members in Ju- membership increase of 5.4 per- by a 1,300 member drop in the unions in these fields." ly 1967 or just 200 or .2 per- cent was only slightly below building trades. -2- - I 9,'7PJKFLEY DIGEST OF BILLS 'I 1. *Sponsored by the California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO No bill may be taken up until 30 days after the date of introduction indicated in Digest, except by 3/4 vote. Key to Symbols CR Civil Rigihts and Gvil Liberties LC Labor Code Changes, General S Industrial Safety Di DisabilitNy Insurance Li Liens, Attachments & Writs SL State & Local G,overnment EA Employmlent Agencies, Private LS Labor Unions, Special TA Taxation ED EducatioIn LU Labor Unions, General TR Training & Retraining EL Elections Ml Miscellaneous Ul Unemployment IInsurance HO Housing PH Public Health WC Workmen's Comnpensation IN Insuranc:e (IncI. H & W) RE Recreation WP Water and Poweer The bills are classified "Good," "Watch," "Bad" and "N. C." With respect to the classification, "N. C.," the proposed legislation is class or special legislation, and the Digest is printed with the information printed for our affiliates who are involved, but the bill is not classified "Good," "Watch" or "Bad" since we defer to the classification by the affected affiliates. ASSEMBLY BILLS

AB 8 Collier (Ed.) Requires University of California or state college no estimate is required if a taxpayer's liability for the previous year student to pay a specified tuition, or defer payment under a learn, was less than $40. Provides that not less than $300,000,000 raised by earn and reimburse plan, making an appropriation therefor. Authorizes personal income tax law in 1968-69 fiscal year shall be used solely for Director of Finance to assign notes executed by student and requires capital outlay purposes and for no other. Jan. 9. TA-Watch state to guarantee payment by student of assigned note. Specifies that assignment of note executed by student and guarantee by state of AB 23 Crandall (Ed.) Creates the State Board for Vocational Education payment by student of assigned note shall become operative only if, and prescribes the membership, duties, and responsibilities of the board. Appropriates $15,000 for the operations of the board during the first and at same time as, ACA -. passed at 1968 Regular Session is year its existence. Jan. 9. TR-Watch approved by electors. Requires Director of Finance to administer pay- fiscal of ment and collection of loan to student pursuant to National Defense AB 31 Milias (S.P. & V.A.) Increases the maximum rate of overtime pay Education Act of 1958 and note executed by student pursuant to learn, which may be granted to state employees from their regular rate of earn and reimburse plan. Permits state income tax deduction of such pay to 11/2 times their regular rate of pay. Jan. 9. LS-N.C. tdJW16n ,.AyAi'nts. Jan. 9. ED-Bad AB 32 Milias (S.P. & V.A.) Appropriates an unspecified amount for in- AB 15 Porter (Wafer) Increases the amount of Long Beach oil revenue crease in compensation for officers and employees of the state includ- and dry gas revenue which is deposited each year in the California ing nonacademic and noninstructional employees of the University of Water- Fund from $11,000,000 to $25,000,000 commencing with fiscal California and state colleges, plus staff benefits. To take effect imme- year of Long 1970-1971. Provides for the deposit of said $11,000,000 diately, urgency statute. Jan. 9. LS-N.C. Beach oil and gas revenue payable to state during balance of fiscal year 1967-1968 and fiscal years 1968-1969 and 1969-1970, and $25,- AB 33 Milias (S.P. & V.A.) Appropriates $1,800,000 for increase in com- 000,000 of such revenue payable to the state during fiscal years 1970- pensation for officers and employees of the state other than employees 1971 and 1971-1972, in the Central Valley Water Project Construction of the University of California and California State Colleges and allo- Fund, instead of in the California Water Fund, for expenditure without cates it to Department of Finance for differential compensation for regard to fiscal years for construction of the State Water Facilities, services provided by evening or night shift employees. Jan. 9. LS-N.C. except Davis-Grunsky Act facilities. Also provides for the transfer of AB & contributions. Revises con- the unexpended balance of money in the California Water Fund on 34 Milias (S.P. V.A.) Meyers-Geddes the effective date of the bill to the Central Valley Water Project Con- tribution of employer to employees' basic health plan to provide that necessary pay the cost or whichever is struction Fund for expenditure as above. To take effect immediately, amount will be that to $12, lesser, or urgency statute. Jan. 9. WP-Watch rather than cost $6. Jan. 9. LS-N.C. AB 16 Powers (G.O.) Increases number of members of the California AB 36 Chappie (P.U. & C.) Requires every employer who plans to con- a common shall contain Horse Racing Board from 3 to 7 members. Jan. 9. LS-N.C. struct trench, which trench multiple underground utilities, to obtain a permit from the Division of Industrial Safety prior AB 17 Schabarum (G.E. & E.) Makes it a misdemeanor for any person to construction. Authorizes division to set out contents of permit appli- except a licensed physician and surgeon, registered nurse, clinical cation and to set reasonable fee for such permit. Requires division to laboratory technologist, or clinical laboratory bioanalyst, to transport, attach pertinent safety orders to permits issued by it. Jan. 9. S-Good pick up, or administer blood in connection with the operation of a hemodialysis machine unless such person is licensed by the State AB 57 Priolo (G.E. & E.) Makes prohibition against the sale or exposing or any within miles of any Department of Public Health as a hemodialysis machine operator and offering for sale of intoxicating liquor 1l/2 requires the state department to prescribe minimum standards for the building actually occupied as a home, retreat, or asylum for ex-soldiers, licensing of persons as hemodialysis operators. Specifies procedure for ex-sailors, and ex-marines of the Army or Navy of the United States issuance of hemodialysis machine operators' licenses and for suspension established by the United States inapplicable to the sale or disposing or a off-sale or revocation of such licenses. To take effect immediately, urgency offering for sale of alcoholic beverages by retail package statute. Jan. 9. LS-N.C. beer and wine licensee for sale of alcoholic beverages or his agent outside of one-half mile of any such building within a county with a AB 18 Sieroty (Ed.) Increases from $5,000 per year to $8,400 per year, population of more than three million. Jan. 10. LS-N.C. the minimum salary for credentialed teachers. Jan. 9. LS-N.C. AB 59 Monagan (Fin. & Ins.) Makes worker contributions for unemploy- AB 20 Veneman (Rev. & Tax.) Establishes system of personal income tax ment disability insurance due and payable from an employer on calendar withholding by employers to be operative on and after October 1, year basis, rather than monthly or quarterly, if contributions for year are 1968. Provides for filing declarations of estimated income to be oper- $100 or less. Jan. 10. DI-Bad ative with respect to taxable years beginning after December 31, 1968, with the first declaration due on or before April 15, 1969. Provides that AB 69 Bear (Elec. & Reap.) Provides that no write-in votes shall be counted ini any election unless the person whose name is written in has filed a declaration that he is a write-in candidate for that particular ASSEMBLY office or nomination. Requires declaration to be filed no later than the CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS tenth day before the election and provides for the place of filing. Makes related changes. Jan. I1. EL-Watch ACA Cullen (G.O.) Provides that court of appeal nominations and appointments by Governor be made exclusively from names forwarded AB 81 Crown (Crim. Pro.) Requires Commission on Peace Officer Stan- by local bar associations or state legislators of affected district to the dards and Training to establish for all levels of employment of local District Commission on Judicial Appointments and submitted by the peace officers optional minimum standards of compensation, retirement commission with its recommendations. Jan. 9. SL-Bad allowances, and other fringe benefits, and provides that county, city, or city and county that meets such standards and standards for re- ACA 2 Milias (Rls.) Eliminates 5-day period at end of each regular ses- cruitment and training established by commision shall receive subvention sion to reconsider vetoed bills, eliminates 30-day recess required at from any funds appropriated therefor for assistance in paying compen- end of regular session, and requires Legislature to reconsider such sation of such officers. Provides that commission shall establish not to vetoed bills during first 5 days of next succeeding regular session. exceed five advanced training centers on a regional basis for instruc- Changes effective date of all bills to 91st day after date on which the tion of local peace officers assigned thereto by employing entity. Jan. Governor deposits the statute in the office of the Secretary of State. 1. LS-N.C. Jan. 9. SL-Watch ACA 3 Collier (Ed.) Authorizes Legislature to provide for payment of AB 88 Porter (S.P. & V.A.) Allows state employees whose religious obliga- fees, charges, and other costs of instruction, and collection thereof, by tions conflict with scheduled work to take time off without pay, use students attending University of California. Authorizes Legislature to vacation or exchange shifts with other employees. Jan. 15. LS-N.C. provide that state guarantee notes executed by college students to defer costs of higher education, and to provide funds therefor. Jan. 9. AB 104 Veysey (Rls.) Authorizes Legislative Counsel to make nonsubstan- ED-Bad tive revision of statutes and resolutions to avoid errors of form and style and to resolve conflicts between acts amending the same section ACA 4 Gonsalves (Rev. & Tax.) Provides that on and after July 1, 1969, of a statute or code section to extent possible to give effect without the total ad valorem tax on any single-family dwelling occupied by the substantive change to each act. Requires identification of such changes owner thereof as his principal place of residence, together with the in published act. Jan. 15. MI-Watch land on which it is situated, in any tax year shall be limited to percent of full cash value and provides that this limit may be exceeded to pay AB 108 Monagan (G.E. & E.) Provides for a program entitled "California bonded indebtedness in the manner provided by law. Provides that no Home Ownership Construction and Rehabilitation Act of 1968" under ad valorem taxes shall be levied on such property for school purposes which low-income families may obtain loans from the state out of rev- except for bonded indebtedness. Specifies that other types of property enue bond proceeds to construct or rehabilitate single-family dwelling may be taxed at a rate different than the rate for single-family dwell- houses and other specified residential units, and whereby such families ings and that revenue shall be raised by any form of state taxation not must under a "self-help program" devote a certain amount of time in prohibited by the Constitution equal to the deficiency created by the labor and services in such construction or rehabilitation with technical above limitation and apportioned to local government or that the assistance and on-the-job supervision by the state. Creates California Legislature shall authorize local government to impose taxes, other than Self-Help Housing Commission to administer the programs. Authorizes property taxes, to make up such deficiency, or both. Jan. 10. TA-Watch the commission to issue revenue bonds to finance program, payable ACA 5 Lanterman & Provides that the and technical assistance fees. (Elec. Reap.) Reapportionment out of revenues received from the loans Commission shall reapportion Assembly, Senate or congressional dis- Creates Home Ownership Fund as depository for revenues and appro- tricts whenever they must be reapportioned and the Legislature fails priates money therein. Jan. 15. HO, LS-Watch to do so. Establishes conditions under which the Legislature will be AB 109 Campbell (G.O.) Provides for organization and operation of considered to have failed to reapportion. Makes changes regarding California job development corporations, whose purposes are, generally, standards for districts. Jan. I 1. EL-Watch to assist, promote, and encourage the economic development of the ACA 6 Conrad (G.O.) Limits a person to two elected terms as Governor. state. Provides that Superintendent of Banks shall supervise and control Limits a person who has served more than two years of someone else's such corporations. Jan. 15. MI-Watch term to one elected term. Jan. I1. EL-Bad AB 115 Monagan (Mun. & C.G.) Authorizes and prescribes procedure for ACA 7 Conrad (Elec. & Reap.) Provides for the election of the Governor the formation of a public agency, to be known as a renewal area agency, and Lieutenant Governor as a team. Jan. I1. EL-Bad for a renewal area for the purpose of providing low income, middle income, and normal market housing and sufficient commercial estab- ACA 8 Vesey (RIs.) Authorizes Legislature to provide for nonsubstantive lishments to serve persons living within a reasonable distance of the revision of legislative measures before their publication to correct renewal area, and for the purpose of rebuilding or rehabilitating the errors of form and style and to resolve conflicts. Jan. 15. MI-Watch renewal area. Jan. 16. HO, LS-Watch AB 118 Elliott (Ed.) Raises monetary limit for the estimated cost of a ASSEMBLY CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS construction project which may be constructed, with approval of the ACR 2 Murphy (Rls.) Proclaims week of February 4 through 10, Indus- Department of Finance, without complying with all of the provisions of trial Safety Week. Jan. 10. S-Good the State College Contract Act from $50,000 to $65,000. Jan. 16. LS-N.C. ACR 5 Ryan (RIs.) Continues the existence of the Joint Committee on Teacher Credentialing Practices during 1968 session and until January AB 121 Chappie (Jud.) Eliminates exemptions from jury duty for an ex- 31, 1969, with the reporting date of the committee extended until the press agent, superintendent, employee, or operator of a telegraph or fifth legislative day of the 1969 session. Makes $5,000 available from telephone company doing a general business in this state, and a Contingent Funds of the Assembly and Senate for the expenses of the superintendent, engineer, fireman, brakeman, motorman, or conductor Joint Committee on Teacher Credentialing Practices. Jan. 10. LS-N.C. on a railroad. Jan. 16. LS-N.C. ACR 8 Moretti (RIs.) Extends existence of Joint Interim Unemployment AB 124 Ralph (Fin. & Ins.) Increases maximum amount of individual's Insurance Committee, and the date for its fiscal report, until fifth weekly benefits under unemployment insurance from $65 to $75, with legislative day of 1969 Regular Session of the Legislature. Authorizes corresponding increase in amount of base period wages. Jan. 16. expenditure during such period of extended existence of moneys pre- U I-Watch viously made available to such committee. Jan. 16. UI-Bad Douglas Barrett U.S. High Court Rulings Expand Joins Fed Staff Fed's Legislative As Special Rep. Secretary of Labor's Authority Roster To Go The authority of the Secretary of Labor to upset union (Continued from Page 1) elections found to be in violation of the Landrum-Griffin To Press Soon cies of California's govern- Act has been significantly broadened by two related re- (Continued from Page 1) ment." cent U.S. Supreme Court decisions. well as the weekly schedule of committee meetings for both Barrett served throughout In both cases new elections had been held the the Knight administration as a by the upper and lower houses of unions involved while the Sec- the State Legislature. press secretary and research Unit * retary^ ^s of Labor's suits to void secretary to the Governor. Dur- CWA Uni Offers the original elections were One copy of the roster will ing the e i g h t years of the pending in court. And no union be sent free to each Federa- Brown administration he was a 20th Award in Fed member had challenged either tion affiliate. Central labor bod- m e m b e r of the California the procedure or the results of ies and other affiliated organ- Youth Authority and the Adult izations interested in obtaining In he has Scholarship Tilt the second election. Authority. addition, Two U. S. appellate courts quantities of the roster at cost served on occasion as a special Another $500 scholarship has had dismissed the cases earlier, should make arrangements with consultant to the Federation been added to the California ruling that the new, unchal- the Federation's San Francisco and has had extensive experi- Labor Federation's 18th An- lenged elections made the Lan- office immediately. The ros- ence as an editor-publisher in nual Scholarship Awards pro- drum-Griffin suits "moot." ters will cost about $15 per the community newspaper field. gram, Thos. L. Pitts the Fed 100 or 15 cents each. But despite the lower court copies At the same time, Pitts also ei exeutiveku officer,an-decisionso e a and a brief support- Inquiries or orders should announced that Clinton Fair is nouncednounced'ths week. this the be addressed to Rosters, Cali- no associated with ing them submitted by longer the The new scholarship, which the U. S. fornia Labor Federation, AFL- California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO, Supreme brings to 20 the total to be at on both cases CIO, 995 Market Street, San effective January 19, 1968. Court, ruling by stake in the competitive exam- an 8 to 0 margin on January Francisco 94103. Matters pertaining to social ination to be held Friday, April 15, held that the election chal- insurance programs except leg- 5, 1968, in each high school lenges were still alive. islation, formerly handled by is where applicants have filed, The court's decision, written was restrictive. Fair, in the future will be the period unduly being sponsored by the AFL- by Justice William J. Brennan, In the Laborers' case, the gov- responsibility of Ernest Webb, Workers CIO Communications Jr., said that if the lower courts ernment maintained that some Assistant Secretary-Treasurer of America, Southern Califor- find the original complaint jus- members who were behind on aiid Director of Social Insur- nia Council. It will be known tified, then the Secretary of their dues were permitted to ance. as W. the George Gorman Labor may disregard the sec- vote in violation of the Webb has extensive back- union's Memorial Scholarship. ond election and order a new constitution. ground in this field. In Septem- Local unions and central vote under government super- In its brief on the case, the ber, 1945, he was appointed by bodies are to inform their urged vision. AFL-CIO had emphasized that Governor Warren as a member members of the scholarship To assume that it would serve of the Industrial Accident Com- the legislative history of the competition but Pitts pointed "no practical purpose" to con- Landrum-Griffin Act indicated mission, Southern Panel, where out that the contest is open to tinue the cases, Brennan said, he served until February 1, all senior school students that Congress recognized that high "fails to consider the incum- "government intervention in 1955. At that time he was ap- or in public, private parochial bents' possible influence on the internal union affairs should pointed by Governor Knight as schools in California. It not is new election." be kept to a minimum." Director of Industrial Re- limited to the sons and daugh- In commenting on the failure lations. On May 1, 1958, Gov- ters of union members. of any union member to com- One of the issues in the La- ernor Knight appointed Webb The deadline for borers' case was whether the applications plain about the second election, Labor had the to the Unemployment Appeals for the competition is March 8, Brennan said that in passing Department pow- Board and on January 1, 1963, 1968. The Federation must re- the Landrum-Griffin Act, Con- er to seek a new election for G o v e r n o r Brown designated ceive the applications, which gress "emphatically asserted a all union offices even though him to serve again as Director must be accompanied by tran- vital public interest in assuring the complaint filed with it dealt of Industrial Relations. Upon scripts of the students' high free and democratic union elec- only with a runoff election for leaving that position on Feb- school records, from the prin- tion that transcends the nar- business agent. ruary 1, 1967, he became as- cipal of the high school by the rower interest" of complaining The Supreme Court held that sistant to Pitts with the Cali- March 8th date. members. it did, declaring that Congress fornia Labor Federation. Brochures setting forth the The cases involve 1963 elec- had given the Secretary of La- "Mr. Webb's long, extensive rules and other details of the tions held by Local 153 of the bor "broad investigative pow- experience in the area of so- contest have been sent to all Glass Bottle Blowers at Wash- ers" in the "public interest." cial insurance-both as a union public and private high schools ington, Pa., and Local 125 of officer and as a state official in California. the Laborers at Youngstown, The Governor's View -makes him uniquely qualified Ohio. The cases have been re- to assume these expanded du- Dead!ine For Medicare turned to the trial court for "Las Vegas is really a won- ties," Pitts stated. "The Cali- consideration of the Secretary derful place. Where else, out- fornia Labor Federation is for- The open enrollment period of Labor's suits. side of government, do people tunate to have a man of his for part B of Medi-Care - the In the Glass Bottle Blowers' throw money away. The big calibre available to it." voluntary insurance costing $3 case, the Labor Department difference, of course, is that Federation Vice President per month to cover doctor bills maintained that a requirement here you can do it yourself; in Harry Finks has been placed and other supplementary bene- that candidates for office must government, we do it for you." in charge of the Sacramento fits - has been extended have attended 75 percent of -Governor Ronald Reagan, office by Pitts. through March 31, 1968. union meetings over a two-year June 19, 1967 -3 4 Bills In Hopper Labor Moblizes New Champion To Aid Workers T of Unlimited Disa ble omomi c Expense Accts. (Continued from Page 1) (Continued from Page 1) for a nationwide boycott of Hearst publications; call for an- (Continued from Page 1) ment in the available ed that the publishers would- benefits ti-strikebreaker legislation at regarding tax deductibility of under this solely worker-fi- even while negotiations were both the city and/or state levels nanced program in order to still in progress - summon a business travel expense, busi- and urge a Justice Department ness entertainment and gifts cope with soaring medical costs press conference to say the investigation of possible anti- and year-to-year cost of living Mailers were negotiating in bad to employees and customers. trust law violations by the The bureau won by default. increases," Pitts, executive of- faith. Hearst Corporation. An abbre- ficer of the California Labor "If anyone is negotiating in "Actually, the issue was one bad faith, it is the publishers," viated version of the Los An- Federation which initiated the geles Herald-Examiner has been of principle involving the very bills, said. he said, pointing out that the right of management to make Mailers Union contract expired published since the strike be- The measures called for im- gan with the help of some 200 business decisions. But business proving the benefits afforded to last March 5 and that the un- sat down with government as ion has been attempting to ne- strikebreakers, 53 of whom more than five million workers have been identified as pro- if at a bargaining table. Prin- covered by the 22-year-old pro- gotiate a reasonable contract ciple was forgotten while they that affords its workers pro- fessional strikebreakers by a gram by: tection against arbitrary and file kept by The AFL-CIO In- debated whether the traveling o Providing hospital benefits capricious actions by manage- ternational Typographical Un- man could have filet mignon for pregnancy so long as the ment for a full year, since, Jan- ion. or the blue plate special for patient is hospitalized (AB uary, 1967. While negotiations w e r e lunch. Should the limit for de- 206). scheduled to resume in Los ductible purposes on gifts be * Setting up an escalator ANTI-TRUST ISSUE Angeles today between the $25 or $35. Forgive me if I clause to boost weekly benefits In a separate development, paper handlers and the pub- seem presumptious, but I think as the average weekly wage in the San Francisco Central La- lishers with representatives of business should have said to covered employment increases bor Council joined the union's other unions sitting in, no sig- government. (AB 207). joint strike committee in pre- nificant progress has been re- "'So long as we are legiti- o Requiring the state to pay senting a five-page letter to ported. mately spending money in hospital benefits directly to the U. S. Attorney Cecil F. Poole In calling last night's meet- the belief that it helps to worker instead of authorizing calling for a reopening of the ing of the L. A. County Federa- produce a profit, it is not any the patient to assign the bene- U. S. Justice Department's in- tion, Sigmund Arywitz, the Fed- of government's business how fits directly to the hospital complete investigation of the eration's executive o f f i c e r much we spend."' without any adequate account- anti-trust aspects of the 1965 warned that Hearst's use of Curiously this revealing in- ing of them (AB 208). S.F. publishers' merger agree- strikebreakers poses "the great- sight into Governor Reagan's * T he expanded benefits ment that reduced San Fran- est challenge in history" to the moral and economic philosophy would be financed by extend- cisco to a two-newspaper town. labor movement of America. The publisher's pact, which re- "This fight is the responsibil- received little if any mention ing the present one percent of the in any of the nation's daily worker contribution to all sulted in the creation ity of the entire labor move- press. wages up to $15,000 instead of joint printing company and ment. We must show Hearst, the present taxable wage base eliminated the separate Sunday powerful though he may be, ceiling of $7,400 (AB 205). Chronicle and the San Fran- he is not powerful enough to cisco News-Call Bulletin, left lick the labor movement of Los Although daily hospital rates the morning field exclusively Angeles," he said. ple, James Couttes, General are already in excess of $40, the to the San Francisco Chronicle Manager of the Retail Dry present state program provides and the afternoon field exclu- MAYORS' STANDS Goods Association, reported hospital benefits of only $12 a sively to the Hearst-owned San sharp sales declines in a num- day for up to 20 weeks. The Francisco Examiner. San Francisco's new Mayor ber of big department stores present ceiling on weekly bene- Joseph Alioto has stated pub- licly that strikebreakers "will and women's shops. fits to disabled workers is cur- SENT TO WASHINGTON Sales in one of the city's rently $80 for up to 26 weeks. Poole said he planned to for- not be tolerated in San Fran- cisco." But in Los Angeles largest downtown stores in the Back in 1950 when hospital ward the letter directly to the second week of the strike were benefit payments were initiated, Justice Department in Wash- Mayor Sam Yorty has refused to involve himself in the dis- 35 percent below the level of they were $8 daily, a figure ington. a similar week in 1967. much more in line with the In Los Angeles, an emergen- pute. reality of hospital costs of that cy meeting of the Los Angeles While donations of food and PEoonomists and businessmen day than the present $12 bene- County Federation of Labor money and pledges of support have warned that the entire fit is, Pitts noted. was scheduled for last night to continue to pour into union Bay Area may be in serious mobilize the entire labor move- strike headquarters in b o t h financial trouble if the strike ment against the union-busting Los Angeles and San Francis- continues. Some of the depart- New Appointee efforts of the Hearst manage- co, more are needed. ment stores are understood to Milton K. Hedberg has been ment at the Herald-Examiner Evidence was mounting how- be considering closing on one appointed regional director of where Machinists and News- ever, that the Hearst Corpora- of the nights they now remain the Labor Department's wage- paper Guildsmen have been on tion's adamant attempt to open for business, an action hour and public contracts divi- strike since December 15. break the unions was taking that would slash the income of sions. He will administer the The meeting was also ex- its toll on the economies of thousands of people who work federal wage and hour law in pected to further implement both areas. for the city's major stores, res- eight western states. the embattled unions' appeal In San Francisco, for exam- taurants, bars, and theaters. -4-