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;s:s,IT'- AL,, .AINT '3C.'.: Li .,,Ai;R Group Legal Services i.^ Vol.-INo.25 Under Study N eemci July 17, 1959 A report of the Committee on Group Legal Services of the State Bar, containing recommendations which may be of importance to News Letter labor organiations as well as other groups which utilize group legal services, has been published in the May-June issue of the Journal C. J. HAGGERTY Published by California Lor Federation, AFL-CIO of the State Bar of California. Executive The report is called to the atten- Secretary-T"aurer I tion of affiliates by C. J. Haggerty, secretary-treasurer of the California Labor Federation, because of its re- ferral to a subcommittee of the Haggerty Warns Congress of Three-Pronged State Board of the Bar Association for study and report at its August, Attack on Watr Monopoly Protections 1959 meeting. Some affiliates may C. J. Haggerty, secretary-treasurer of the California Labor Federation, wish to make appropriate represen- AFL-CIO, this Tuesday warned Congress of a "three-pronged attack in tation to the State Board at this Sacramento and Washington to thwart the aims of federal water policy and August meeting. allow future irrigation projeets in California to fall under the control of a Haggerty noted that the report few corporate absentee owners who hold huge tracts of land in the San of the Committee on Group Legal Joaquin Valley." Services discusses in detail the re- The state AFL-CIO leader, fight- used for water deliveries by the lationship between attorneys and ing to mobilize liberal forces in the "state" without the application of labor organizations and their mem- field of basic resources develop- federal anti-speculation, anti-mo- bers. Some of the recommendations, ment, issued the warning to each nopoly controls. if adopted, will have the effect of member of the California delega- (2) The irrigation repayment con- changing historic relationships in- tion in the House of Representatives tract which Secretary of the In sofar as some labor organizations in a hard-hitting, straightforward terior Fred Seaton has recently of- are concerned. statement on vital water issues be- fered districts in the service area of Those unions using group legal fore the Congress affecting the Pine Flat Dam to escape reclama- services may obtain a copy of the future development and prosperity tion law protections for taxpayers. May-June 1959 issue of the Journal of California. (3) Water legislation passed by of the State Bar from the State Bar The three-pronged attack, Hag- the California state legislature pro- headquarters, 2100 Central Tower, gerty said, is manifested in the fol- posing a $1.75 billion water bond San Francisco. lowing: program without any anti-enrich- (1) The San Luis Project Authori- ment protections for landed monop- zation bill, H.R. 7155, scheduled to olists in the San Joaquin Valley, Urge Affiliates Support Effort reach the floor of the House of Rep- who stand to be unjustly enriched resentatives in the near future, by millions and millions of dollars. To Reduce Traffic Deaths which provides for joint federal- Although the three drives are Support by California labor or- state development in a scheme not necessarily coordinated, Hag- ganizations of the national drive to whereby federal faculties would be (Continued on Page 2) reduce traffic deaths on highway during this year's Labor Day cele- bration is urged by the California California Consumer Association Launching Steps Taken Labor Federation, AFL-CIO. Formal steps to launch a California Consumers Association, dedicated Cooperation with the Labor Divi- to promoting the Interest of the public as consumers, were taken last Satur- sion of the National Safety Council day in San Francisco, following a one-day conference on consumer problems. in this safety drive was voted at the Upon adjournment of the conference, presented by the University of May meeting of the national AFL- California's Institute of Industrial Relations in cooperation with coop, and CIO Executive Council. other consumer and labor groups, in- The AFL-CIO Standing Commit- cluding the California Labor Fed- a provisional constitution and state- tee on Safety and Occupational eration, interested participants in ment of principles and objectives of Health, designated by the Executive the one-day meet constituted them- the Association as working papers Council to implement this decision, selves as a sponsoring committee for the development of final docu- will coordinate its implementing ac- for the purpose of establishing the ments to be presented at a founding tions through state labor organiza- Associaton. convention to be convened at a fu- tions. Close to 100 individuals from var- ture date. In due course, safety materials ious consumer interests, includiDgPoctor Peter Odegard, University will be available through the Fed- organized labor, a t t e n d e d the of California professor, was unanim- eration's offices in San Francisco, launching session, which was. held ously elected temporary president, for use of.al affiliates in publicizing in the Georgian Room of ,the Whut- and John Huthinson, of the Uni- the safety campaign. The Labor Di- comb Hotel. versity's Industrial Relations Insti- (Contkoued on Page 4) The self-constituted body adopted (Continued on Page 2) Haggerty Warns Congress of ThreePronged Attack on Water Monopoly Protections (Continued from Page 1) Although thesestate deliveries ger staged a five-hour debate to up- gerty pointed out, each of them utilize federal facilities, supporters hold the principles of reclamation "would serve the same end-mo- of the bill in its present form have law. nopolization of irrigation water insisted upon exemptions from fed- Emphasizing that none of the furnished by public monies." eral reclamation law. language to. which the. state AFL- It has been stated that, in terms In his statement-this week, Hag- CIO has.objected is necessary in the of dollars and cents, the monopoly gerty called the attention of Cali- bill before. the House, Haggerty threat posed would permit a give- fornia Congressmen to a previous argued that "the legal framework away bigger by far than the measly statement sent by the state AFL- for cooperative state-federal. proj- $100 million nearly pulled off in CIO to the entire Congress on April ects already exists in federal recla- "Dixon-Yates." 24, 1959, outlining amendments mation law ... and the inclusion of SAN LUIS LEGISLATION necessary to rem o v e loopholes this language can only serve to con- Under the San Luis bill, the fed- which would allow vast enrichment fuse and confound existing law to eral government would be author- of monopoly landholders. the sole advantage of. large land- ized to construct a-federal dam for Since that statement, Haggerty holders, some of whom right now delivery of water to the west side said, the Senate passed S. 44 author- are on the verge of evading the aims of the San Joaquin Valley. So-called izing the San Lu project with one of reclamation law in the Pine Flat joint use provisions of H.R. 7155 pro- of the key exemption amendments service area." vide for the construction of addi- eliminated. Meanwhile, he added, PINE FLAT SERVICE AREA tional state capacity for storage and the House Interior Committee has In relating the San Luis bill to the delivery of water to the south, and cleared H.R. 7155, containing Sec- efforts on Pine Flat Dam to evade to highly concentrated landholdings tion 7, which is the exemption pro- reclamation law, Haggerty said that that adjoin the federal service area vision deleted from the Senate ver- Secretary of Interior Seaton has of- on the west side, and the lower end sion of the San Luis bill when Sen- fered local districts receiving irriga- of the San Joaquin Valley. ators Douglas, Morse and Neuber- tion water from Pine Flat Dam re- payment contracts which would al- low them to sidestep compliance California Consumer Association Launching Steps Taken with the so-called 160-acre limita- tion by prepaying the charges al- (Continued from Page 1) State Attorney General's office, in- located for irrigation. tute and Teacher Union member, cluding creation of a Consumer This offering to exchange "policy temporary secretary-treasurer, to Fraud Division, was reviewed by for cash" by the prepayment doc- proceed, with preparations for the Howard Jewel, assistant attorney trine, was labelled as running con- founding convention. general. trary to strongly expressed legisla- The purpose of the California The noon luncheon session fea- tive intent, and the defeat on two Consumer Association, a completely tured an address on how consumer specific occasions in 1950 and 1951 non-partisan organization, is to pro- laws work by Persia Campbell, form- of legislation designed to permit mote consumer interests through er Consumer Counsel in the state what Seaton is now proposing by the processes of education, repre- of New York, who gave conference administrative fiat. sentation before administrative and participants insight into the type of The pattern of landholdings in legislative bodies, and the provision problems which would likely con- the Pine Flat service area shows of consulting services. It is intended front the new state Consumer Coun- some 52 farmers owning 196,466 also that the mobilization of con- sel, and also what to expect in the acres of excess lands. In the so- sumer interests would be of mater- way of accomplishments. called federal service area of the ial assistance in the development of Governor Edmund G. Brown, who San Luis project, 66 owners hold sound consumer programs and rep- was unable to address the one-day about 70% of the project's 450,000 resentation through the newly- session, sent a statement praising acres.

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