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"it -Labor Housing- Bill to Spur lobs A $5.3 billion housing bill jor victory for the Johnson- 000 low and moderate-income At the that could significantly improve Humphrey administration, calls families acquire homes during job opportunities in 's for the construction Or rehabili- the next three years and. anothW depressed construction indus- tation of more than 1.7 million or provision to provide 70I0- Legislature try was signed into law late housing units during the next 000 new housing units for low last week by President John- three years. and moderate-income rentes son. in terms of volume, the two Both programs are geared *1 The the most am- major in the AFLt- to a federl interest rate sub- From the Capitol Office measure, provisions of the Executive Secretay I' bitious housing legislion CIO-backed bill are provisions- sidy which would in. effect'ro- the nation's history and a ma- designed to help nearly 500,- (Continued on Page 4) After being in onstant con- tact with representatives of la- bor interested in thle subject Confusion Reigns matter of AB 1463 and AD Public Employees' Bill 1464 throughout the session, Over Windup backers of the legislation were Is Sent to Governor able to reach agreement on Of. Legilature A session-long srggle on behalf of publie o0r amendments satisfactory to all employe Contsion reigned over the in legislative s ss parties involved. Since we were ganizations ended late last week with California legislature this week able to achieve this result, the concrence Assembly mndments to SB 1228 In after the leaders o£t the Assem- these two bills have successful- the Senate by a vote of 23 to 129 bly and State Senate came to ly negotiated passage through This measure, with Senatr George Moscone as the prin- an impass over the issue od both houses and now await ac- cipal author and the Assembly adjourning or relng. by the Governor. They deal r Commnittee on State- Employ- In a unprecentd acon, with apprenticeship training the Sete passed a resolution and -employment opportunities. Reagan Turns headed by Assemblyman (ment several Saturday calling on acing Gov- In the form in which -they were Miiasrgeamong that ernor Hugh M. Burns to ad- La- co-authors, provides recog- introduced, the California ,His Back On nized employee organizations journ the legislature sine die bor Federation vigorously ob- have the right to repre- as of 5 p.m. August 3 which jected to some of their provi- UN Day Fete shall he signed. But the Assembly sions. After several amend- sent their members in employ- Most of the nation's 50 states ment relations with public remained in session Monday menlo and extensive consulta- and Tuesday of this week and were able to arrive at this year will formally honor (Continued on Page 2) lion, we the creation and finaly "recessd" until Sep- mutually agreeable conclusions. humanitarian alms of the United Nations by tember 9-the date on which * * proclaiming October 24 "United Ex4olon Pushes the Senate is due back for a Assembly Bill 1208 by Assem- Nations Day,"-but not Califor- five-day constitutonal veto ses- blywoman Yvonne Brathwaite nia, the nation's most populous Anli*Union Drive sion. successfully ran the legis.lative state which played host to the Pending some clarification of Former Rep. Fred Hartley is the existing confuon which gauntlet and was sent to the chartering of the U. N. in San at it again seeking funds from Governor's desk in the final stems largely from the widen- Francisco 23 years ago. gullible business executives ing gulf between the Senate week of the sesion. Although 35 California com- and corporations who are in- generally with deb- and Assembly leadership, no Dealing munities have already pro- terested in saving the country comprehensve assssment of tor's exemptions, A B 2 0 8 of un- claimed it, there will be no ae- by "brea;king the power" the final achievements or fail- would exempt wages from gar- tion on the state level lbecause ions. nishment prior to judgment. ures of the 1968 regular ses- (Continued on Page 4) Hartley, who has made a ca- sion can be meaingfully un- Other significant changes in dertaken. this area will be effected if the (Continued on Page 3) Governor signs the measure now before him. Win A last ditch fight to amend Social Workers First County Govt. Pact the bill to have the garnish- An example of heads up la- when, after two and a half ers Local 535 covering social ment of wages provision strick- bor management relations was m on t h s of negotiation, the service and probation depart- en out was made on the Senate set by the Marin County Board Board signed one-year contracts ment employees. floor by Senator James Whet- of Supervisors a sit month with the AFL-CIO Social Work- The landmark contracts more. This move was defeated believed to be the first ever 13 to 20. The bill was then ap- negotia-ted in California b proved by the Senate 21 to 15. IN.4ST OF IND REL LUi$RARY- tween a local union and the The next day, AB 1208 re- counsty government - provide turned to the Assembly where pay increases averaging 10 per- on 2) 2521 CHANN I?*IGw RMaIIl O GContinued on Pace 3) (Continued Page 'M m tIs __.- A Fe af f -- Earnings Up But Workers' Public Workers' Labor Rights 'Bill Goes at The Purchasing Power Drops To Governor Legislature Average earnings for Califor- ents. Hourly earnings of fac- nia factory workers posted rec- tory workers in the area to- (Continued from Page 1) ord highs in June but purchas- taled $3.37, 16 cents more than I agencies. Other provisions es- (Continued from Page 1) ing power dropped below the June a year ago and t h r e e tablish procedures for resolu- level of June, 1967, according cents higher than the previous tion of senate amendments were con- to a report just released by the month. The factory workers' disputes. curred in 45 to 12 and the bill State Department of Industrial average workwork was 40.8 The California Labor Federa- was given final passage. Relations. hours, two-tenths of an hour tion led the drive to secure ap- * * * Weekly earnings of manufac- higher than the previous month proval of this important mile- In the waning days of the turing production workers rose and equal to the level of June, stone in labor relations legis- session, SB 397 by Sherman to $140.13, up $7.95 or 6.0 per- 1967 lation for public employees was passed by the legislature cent over the year. In the San Francisco-Oakland throughout C'alifornia. A tre- and sent to the This mendous Governor. But when theseB wesearnngse i are area, the factory workers' aver- job by Mert Walters, bill had Federation support and auding age weekly earnings totaled Ken Larson Mul- adjusted for taxes, incluing and George '150.88 up $11.98 or 8.6 per- prohibits an employer from the new federal surtax, and in. $ key for the Federation resulted discharging an employee for creases in consumer prices, the cent over the year. The pur- in this great victory. taking time off for jury duty, factory workers' purchasing chasing power of these wages After the bill was given final providing reasonable prior no- power dropped 0.2 percent be- was 1.1 percent above the June, passage in the Senate, a move tice. The measure passed the low the year-ago leve,l for the 1967 level for the worker with to reconsider was made by Sen- Assembly 60 to 1. It was pre- worker with three dependents three dependents but un- ator Ralph Dills. This stalled sented in that house by As- and 1.1 percent less for the changed from June a year ago the bill for another day before semblyman John J. Miller. worker with no dependents on for the worker with no depend- it could be sent to the Gover- * * * a statewide basis. ents. The factory workers' nor's office. Federation repre- Labor opposition, led by Bill average earnings in the area LITTLE GAIN was $3.81, three cents higher sentatives were forced to con- Plosser of the State AFT, tact members of the Senate worked for the defeat of SB Even if the 10 percent surtax than in May and 23 cents high- again. 458 on the floor of the Senate had not gone into effect last er than a year earlier. The during the last day of its ses- April, the purhasing power for average workweek at 39.6 hours However, after discussions sion. Assembly amendments both the family head and the was three-tenths of an hour with Senator Dills concerning combined with the original single worker would have in- higher than the previous month his motion he agreed to let the one per- and of an hour language made this a bad bill creased by less than eight-tenths reconsideration drop and the cent over the year, the report higher than in June, 1967. for teachers in the field of pub- bill went to the Governor. lic school employer-employee said. relations, virtually a "right-to- Most of the disparity between work" law in this field. The the percentage change in gross Union Teachers Pay Is 10 to 20% Assembly approved its version weekly earnings and buying of the bill on August 2, but the power was attributable to the Senate refused to concur on over-the-year gain in consumer Above Others, Study Shows prices. August 3, the same day the Organized teachers win more Average hourly earnings in mined teacher organizations can Senate adjourned. benefits than those who pas- do so remains to be seen," it manufacturing as a w h o l e sively accept school board of- said. climbed to $3.46, up four cents fers, according to a study by The institute examined salary Firm Charged With over the month and 18 cents the Institute of Labor and levels between 1961 and 1965, above June, 1967. Industrial Relations operated before the Michigan Public Em- Pay Law Violations The average earnings in man- by the University of Michigan ployment Relations Act went Charges of violations of the ufacturing reflect earnings in and Wayne State University, into effect, and the three years federal wage-hour law have many different industries in the at Ann Arbor, Mich. since. It found that in 12 large state's economy. Weekly earn- been filed by U. S. Secretary of Institute Co-director Charles school districts, bargaining for ings this June ranged from an the 1966-67 school year Labor W. Willard Wirtz against M. Rehmus and UM graduate brought average of $85.20 in apparel to student Evan Wilner said they raises averaging some 10-20 per- , Inc., of San Ra- $168.27 in petroleum refining. cent higher. The factory workers' work- found that "hard collective bar- fael, a cosmetics firm developed week in June averaged 40.5 gaining, accompanied by the by William Penn Patrick, a threat of strikes," has paid sub- right-wing candidate for Gov- hours, two-tenths of an hour or Eisenhower's View 12 than stantial dividends of from 10 "The coverage of the mini- ernor in 1966. about minutes longer the workweeks prevailing in to 20 percent to organized mum wage is no less important The suit, filed in San Fran- both May, 1968 and June, 1967. teachers. than -the amount. Neither the cisco last week, charged the In the Los Angeles-Long One result, the study showed, federal nor state laws now in- firm with violations of the over- Beach area, factory workers was increasingly severe finan- clude the lowest paid workers. time, shipping, and record-keep- were found to have average cial pressure on many school It would be well for both the ing provisions of the law. It weekly earnings of $137.50 last districts. The institute added: Congress and the states to con- asked the court to restrain the June but the purchasing power "As yet it does not appear sider the question of bringing firm from future violations and of these earnings was 0.7 per- that school boards have been substantial numbers of workers, to award any back wages found cent below the year ago level able to persuade the public to now excluded from the protec- due employees of the firm, for a worker with three de- provide sufficient new funds tion of minimum wage, under which is located at 616 Canal pendents and 1.6 percent less to meet teacher aspirations. its coverage." Dwight D. St., San Rafael. for the worker with no depend- "Whether strong and deter- Eisenhower.

-2- Lobby Blocks Social Workers Union Wins Union Farm Farm Workers First County Govt Pact W(orkers Win (Continued from Page 1) by public workers in Sacramen- Best Pact Yet Labor Rights cent, better vacations, liberal- to and Los Angeles. a The new contracts negotiated A new contract boosting Despite a "tremendous ef- ized sick leave provisions, by Local 535 also served to im- farm workers' wages at least fort" by church and labor county-paid medical care plan prove the wages and working 15 cents an hour and providing groups, "powerful lobbying and other improvements. conditions of other county additional health and welfare voices" have blocked congres- The contracts, one covering workers. benefits has been signed by the sional action that would put county employees in the Pro- After the union contracts AFLCIO United Farm Work- farm workers under the Nation- bationary and Juvenile Hall were worked out between the ers' Organizing Committee and al Labor Relations Act, the Departments and the other Schenley Industries, Inc. AFL-CIO's c h i e f organizer, covering Social Service Depart- union negotiating committee charged last week. ment personnel, were ratified and *the county negotiating The contract, believed to pro- by a three to two vote committee consisting of the Ma- vide -the highest wages for The stall on legislation that July 23 rin County administrator, the farm workers in the continental would give farm workers "some of the Marin County Board of Supervisors. county's personnel director and , hikes the wages level of first-class economic the county department heads for grape laborers and irriga- citizenship is a reflection on VOTE DISCLOSED involved, county officials asked tors from $1.75 an hour to the Congress . . . and its un- Voting in support of more for and got an additional 2% $1.90; increases the hourly wage willingness to recognize the adequate wages and working percent increase for other for tractor and truck drivers 1968 needs of farm workers," conditions for Marin County workers who had previously from '$i.85 to $2.05;' and in- declared William L. Kircher, workers were: Supervisors Pe- been scheduled to get only a creases crew leader wages from director of the AFL-CIO Dept. 4% percent boost. The super- of Organization on -a nationwide ter Behr, Tom Storer, and Wil- $1.95 to, $2.25. liam Gnoss. Opposed was lame visors' approval of the la-tter re- The agreement, signed by radio interview, Labor News quest boosted their increase to Conference. duck Supervisor Ernest Ket- UFWOC Direetor Cesar Chavez tenhofen and Supervisor John seven percent. and witnessed by William L. The union spokesman said Under the union contract, the National Committee for McGuiness. Kireher, national AFL-CIO Dij The positive action by- the wage increases run from 5 per- rector of Organization, also Agricultural Democracy, a coa- cent to 12% percent, with only lition of Catholics, Protestants Board's majority could well calls for an additional 10 cents serve as a guide to other boards one worker receiving the low- per hour per worker to be and Jews, has sustained a "very est percentage increase. aggressive" two-year drive to of supervisors throughout the placed in a health and welfare persuade Congress to give farm state in averting the curtail- OTHER PROVISIONS fund to provide retirement, workers the same right to ment of public services and bit- Other provisions of the new dental, and medical care bene- organize u n i o n s that most terness that result when coun- contract won by the Social fits for farm workers and their other workers have had for ty officials refuse to deal reas- Workers Union, an affiliate of families. more than 30 years. He named onably with their employees. as the AFL-CIO Service Employ- Other contract provisions call the American Farm Bureau, exemplified recently by strikes ees International Union, were: for $2.10 for hand pruners and "recognized for many years as $2.25 for operators of recently * Three weeks vacation after introduced pneumatic pruning one of the most powerful voices Ex*Solon Pushes one year and four weeks after -lobbying voices - in the 10. rigs. Congress," as the chief oppon- * Assignment of work for so- The pact also sets piece-rates ent to the proposal. AntioUnion Drive for pickers to average $3.25 (Continued from Page 1) cial service employees on the rates are Kircher said the s t e a d y basis of an assumed 40-hour an hour. Vine-tying growth of the farm workers un- reer out of fighting labor since set at $2.00 an hour or $2.05 week with cases to be assigned whichever is ion, restricted by the legal ex- his defeat for Congress in 1948 on the basis of hours of work cents per vine, clusion that makes strikes and -after he had co-authored the needed. higher, the union said. boycotts the only methods of Taft-Hartley Act - is now co- In hailing the new contract, * Full payment by the eounty with winning employer-recognition, chairman of a Conference of of of two medical care the UFWOC's third pact is strong evidence that farm American Small Business Or- one Schenley, the farm workers' plans under consideration - observed: workers want unionization and ganizations. Kaiser or Blue Cross. paper, El Malcriado are determined to achieve it. In that capacity, he has writ- * to study in "This is the way labor and He noted that the United Farm ten letters soliciting "modest" An agreement management should deal with Workers Organizing Committee contributions, up to $100, to cooperation with the union, the each other, with mutual respect now has contracts with 12 grow- help promote "agitation" in the provision of a prepaid dental and consideration, on a rational ers. next Congress to enact curbs plan. and humble basis." "Measured in terms of what on unions. The former Repub- * Assignment of probation The Giumarras and other has not been done in the past lican Congressman from New officers on the basis of agreed- growers who refuse to sign 30 to 40 years, we have done a Jersey also wants investigations on caseload standards with ad- collective bargaining agree- great deal," he said, but, of the National Labor Relations ditional staff to be requested ments with the union are just in Board, the Wage & Hour Divi- when caseloads exceed these well as he stressed, "measured standards. "hurting themselves as terms of what needs to be done, sion, and the courts for "abet- * their workers," it added. we have not done very much." ting" the unions. Joint determination by the Kircher also reported that the Hartley uses a novel, new workers and the supervisors in union has mounted a nation- pitch in his letter: He blames both the Social Service and wide boycott against all Cali- unions for riots in ghettos. His Probation Departments of the worked out between the coun- fornia table grapes, except reasoning: They helped secure number of hours of service ty and the union officials. those produced by the DiGior- minimum wage increases, which needed on each case. * Extension of accumulation gio Corp., which has a contract caused unemployment, which The contract also called for of unused sick leave from 90 with the union. caused the uprisings. an arbitration procedure to be to 120 days. -3- Housing BilE to Spur Jobs Reagan Turns (Continued from Page 1) market-can make as much as quate housing at low rents for His Back On $7,080 a year and still qualify low income families. duce interest rates on monthly for subsidies under the pro- The measure also authorizes UN Day Fete mortgage payments to as low gram. creation of a $250 million fund as one percent. The measure is expected to to permit the government to in- (Continued from Page 1) In the home ownership pro- bring the hope of home owner- sure property in ghetto areas- Govenor sa gram, home buyers would be ship within the range of some insurance much harder for so. required to pay 20 percent of families making as little as ghetto residents to come by In response to a request for their income for their housing $3,000 annually so long as the since the tragic and costly riots a statewide proclamation from with the difference between family does not buy a house that have swept such cities as L. F. McCollum of New York, the 20 percent of their income costing more than $12,000. Watts, Newark, Detroit, and national chairman of United and the required monthly pay- COST CEILING Cleveland in recent years. Nations Day 1968, Reagan di- ment being made up by the It also includes an authoriza- rected an aide to reply that federal subsidy. For most areas price tags tIion of $1 billion for the model "Governor Reagan does not feel Families having incomes 35 on homes would be limited to cities program to encourage he should issue a proclamation" percent or more above the in- $15,000 although they could large-scale upgrading of blight- because it "could be interpret- come ceiling for families in cost up to $20,000 in certain ed areas and another $400 mil- ed as a blanket endorsement of public housing would be ineligi- areas. lion to speed up construction the total United Nations con- ble. To aid renters, a similar fed- of public housing. cept and operation." However, government spokes- eral interest subsidy program In the past, however, funds The action places Reagan men have indicated that a fam- would be provided to non-profit actually appropriated by Con- squarely by the side of the ra- ily of four living in Chicago- or limited-profit organizations gress for the Model Cities pro- cist Governor Lester Maddox an area viewed as a "typical" to construct apartment com- gram have fallen considerably of the compulsory open-shop family In the home-ownership plexes that would afford ade- below the amount authorized. state of Georgia who took a similar stand last year. Until Reagan took office in January, 1967, California had generally joined -the U.N. Day Study Seeks To Use Arbitration observance but last year Rea- Phlt Asks gan simply ignored it, even AN bAW Fam Skills To Solve Urban Confliets though 58 California cities pro- A new program launched by velop both techniques and claimed it. ai. Mu the American Arbitration As- trained people to apply media- The California Labor Federa- sociation will seek to apply the tion and arbitration principles tion and the AFL-CIO national- "We're with you and we are arbitration skills used in set- to new areas. Such areas may ly has long championed the going to stay with you." tling labor disputes to com- include school controversies, U.N. as "the world's best hope munity conflicts and inner-city disputes between landlords and for true and lasting peace." That's the title of a very spe- problems. organized tenants, direct ac- In fact, delegates to the State cial pamphlet that underscores With the help of a $90,000 tion challenges by civil rights Federation's last convention the determination of AFL-CIO Ford Foundation grant the As- groups, urban renewal disputes adopted a resolution which members to help the United and welfare agency procedures. pointed out that "despite its sociation has set up a Center impressive record over the post- F a r m Workers' Organizing for Dispute Settlement to de- The Center, to be headed Committee win decent living war period, however, unwar- conditions and other standard by Samuel C. Jackson, who is ranted and illogical attacks con- union benefits for the nation's New Social Security nearing completion of his term tinue within the United States long-exploited farm workers. on the U. S. Equal Employment against the United Nations. Laws Aid Disabled Opportunity Commission, will Such attacks can only be dis- Many unions, large and small, be headquartered in Washing- sipated through greater pub- have already set up monthly Under the new social secu- ton, D. C. rity amendments that became lic support and awareness of donations to the Farm Workers' the United Nation's purpose Defense Fund to help sustain effective February, 1968, work- PLANS EXPLAINED ers who are disabled before It plans to recruit and train and principles." and stabilize the UFWOC's action strike assistance program. age 31 may qualify for social mediators and arbitrators in Reagan's is clearly dia- security disability benefits if various communities who would metrically opposed to these Trade unionists having any aims. suggestions to make or desiring they have worked under social be available at the request of to help should write to Cesar security at least half of the the disputing parties. Chavez, Director, United Farm time between age 21 and the The Center will also seek to Workers' Organizing Commit- time of their disability. come up with some new ideas of Mediation and Arbitration, tee, P.O. Box 130, Delano, Cali- If their impairment occurs on resolving, organizing and is scheduled to work on this fornia 93215. before age 24, the worker must aspect of the program. have worked under Social Se- bargaining disputes involving Jackson has served as a Copies of the pamphlet, avail- curity in one and one-half of public employees. mediator of community dis- able in both Spanish and Eng- the three years preceding the This phase of its activity will putes in the Bedford Stuyves- lish, may be obtained by writ- illness or injury. Further in- be centered in the Boston re- ant area of Brooklyn at the re- ing to William L. Kircher, Di- formation on the new disability gional office of the American quest of the City of New York. rector of Organization, AFI- benefits available under the Arbitration Association and will Prior to his appointment to the CIO, 815 16th Street, N.W., Social Security Act may be ob- be known as the New England EEOC, he was a Kansas attor- Washington, D.C. 20006. tained from your nearest social Plan. Robert L. Stutz, chairman ney and a member of the Board security office. of the Connecticut State Board of Directors of the NAACP. -4-