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.* Incrsing workmen's comrpu.tlon payments from $87.5to $lWrtuprary disabilityfrom: $tZOR to $70 .weekly foipemaet 'disabiity, and otherwise liberalng benefIts to Burvting4epen4nt c workers.*tt& wekl benefts-tIn

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wage fr. $1. to $2.0an hwara-.-Xifawblfr, effowilbe ex

tenoded 't moe a 'Pederatlobacked measure' to increase unemployment insurance-. paymen4i$¶ds bill presently is -ian Miembly committee await

The Legislatu reressed Augut 13. With, the resumpothi we, the 71 session wib theo longest in the state's t12yeAr history.*Two major developments dur

lgn ethiaetua wl add .to thiPCIacing.-.t'he: -memberi

of ' the Sen.at... TheM are President Nix

.n' wage-prlce freeze and i3bp:UaSSnme .Court ruling. thaC4full publlc school finan

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'crllntory. agaist the poor.-Witthe" elose partsan dlvi

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| The Visitors IAs the most populous state in the union California has

been.inspiring vsits_fron..numero_us U. S. Senators seek-.ing. etherp..aIepia hoWtos or;.. national prestige.

It Is not the' function of the Califoa Labor Federa-t lion. to endorse candidats in presidential primaries but> neither is it ou policy to ignore the teachings of Samuel- Gompers relative to the rewarding of friends.

Tu-a we sall- conte to offer hot courtesies toall vidtin members of the House and Senate who have

oedthe ensement of AFL-CIO bodies by reasonof progressive voting records.1* .Those courtesies shall be extended regardless of arty

* affiliation or cause of visit. That applies to E.epuwytu.uclike Javits of New York, Brooke of Massachusetts and

- Case of New Jersey as well as to Democrats like Ken-nedy, Muskie, Jackson, Bayh or- McGovern.

* Our Federation is not concerned with the presence orabsence of prresidential ambitions. Nor with- party labels.We have our wn standards.

We shall continue to lteeve at dinner assemblies,laor picnics ant eucatolcouferencs ,thos officeholders who havewreUosemi ti. needs of the working

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Ifoa. is taking legal actIOn tochallenge lthe constituti6nalityof President Nixon's wagefreeze.The UPC, affiliated with the

American Federation of Teach&ersa and the California LaborFederation, AFL-CIO, repre-sents some 3,000 professors inthe state college system.

President Art Bierman, SanFrancbco State philosophy pro-fessor, said the suit will demandthat the wage freeze- not applyto merit salary increases dueSeptember 1. The suit was filedlate Tuesday in -the U.S. Di'-triet Court at San Francisco.-Te actio see enjStat College trustees -and--n_._ - f l ..-

-Ths s beeI Policy of the past and wt d mei t.niceawsit remains the. way of fairness-for the future. UIofltIng to $1% _illover the l-ay pWd man

datd by Pesi n Nixon rflEER~~~~~~~~~- the wage freze..

Fed ruwuc cmp.oymenrlenges in the nation to the NixonCwonference on Nov. 4-5 program, tbeaction i ledon

All Central Labor Councils In librarian in the state colefelabor D y nCalifqrnia were notified this system. .

Labor Day at week by Executive Seretary The suit arose out ofa rulingJobhn F. Henning that, the Call- by administrative authoritdesState Fair forni Labor Federation, AFL- who informed coUege presidents

A Union LAbel show and the CO,wIll sponsor :aA ducation that faculty members would notannual Caifornia Labor Federa- Conference on Publie Employ- receive -annual step or merit in-ton, AFL-CIO, race at the traclk ment and Public Employees on creases of 5 percent as sched-featured Labor Day at the Cali- November 44. iuled for September 1.fonia State Fair. The meeting will be at the The UPC suit maintains theAmong those participatIng in Airport Marina Hotel, adjacent Ecinomic Stabiliation Act of

special Labor Day observances to the airport at Fresno. under which v?Presidenthtef -IWiniams.; 1 a letter to the council, actd is unconsiuonatthe firerd eRalhWiiamsB R dsaid* in that Its 'powers are too broad.

President of the CaMrloia Re Hennintsaidtail Clerks Council; Roy Mack,': '"With continuing assaults on UPC President Bierman told aPresident of the Sacramento La,- the wages, benefts and job se press eonference:bor Council; Ed Turner, Presi- curit of federal, state and local "M. af nin of respni bldent, Marine Cooks & Stewards; gement employees by'p - l i we cannot IdFederation Vice President ar- fical oficeholders and seekers, stad by ad wtch P t

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U.S. Jobless Rate Rises AgainUnemployment throughout the

United States rose from 5.8 per-cent in July to 6.1 percent inAugust. This represents 5.1 mil-lions out of work and is within0.1 percent of the nine-yearpeaks reached in May and De-cember.

In California, the jobless ratefor August was higher than forthe United States as a wholebut lower than the state's Aprilhigh. In August the state's rateheld at seven percent, com-pared with 7.4 percent in April.The number of California job

seekers went down between Julyand August by 24,000, accordingto the State Department of Hu-man Resources Development,from 631,000 to 607,000. This wasstill 51,000 over the August 1970figure, when the state unem-ployment rate was 6.4 percent.

Aerospace UpHRD said employment figures

showed 68,000 more people hadjobs in August than in July, in-cluding 2,700 workers in aero-space firms. This was the firstincrease in the aerospace indus-try since July 1968.Employment increases were

registered in construction,trade, business and professionalservices, finance, insurance andreal estate. Transportation andutilities rose by about 4,400,while governnment employmentdropped off by about 9,100 inCalifornia.HRD's figures showed that the

civilian labor force, consistingof the employed and unem-ployed available for work andseeking work, totaled 8,759,100in August, up from 8,741,400 forthe same month of 1970.The national 6.1 percentage

figure compares with 3.5 per-cent when the Nixon adminis-tration came into office in Jan-uary, 1969.

State's CommunitiesIn Los Angeles County, the

jobless rate remained constantat 6.9 percent for both July andAugust. Orange County unem-ployment dropped from 7.3 per-cent in July to 7.1 percent inAugust.

Stockton's unemployment ratewas highest in the state with10.2 percent, up from 8.3 per-cent in July. Stockton has beenconsidered a chronic unemploy-ment area for several monthspast.Santa Barbara had one of the

"Discouraged Workers" Add750,000 to Nation's Jobless Ranks

The 5.1 million Americans on unemployment rolls do notfully represent the extent of those out of work. On August 25 theLabor Department revealed an estimated 750,000 more are "toodiscouraged to look for jobs even though they are out of work."

Only those unemployed actively seeking work are tallied inthe federal jobless statistics.

Since early 1970, the number of "discouraged workers" hasrisen from 600,000 to 750,000.

The rise in the number of "discouraged workers" accountsfor a small part of the recent slowdown in labor force growth.The rise is also small when compared with the recent sharp in-crease in national unemployment.

Labor force participation trends have changed among sev-eral demographic groups. The changes may be summarized as aslight decline in participation of men and a leveling off of thelong-term rise in participation among women.

lowest rates in the state for Au-gust with 5.8 percent.The aerospace employment

picture in California hit its peakin December 1967, with 616,200workers, and the nadir wasreached in July 1971 when only

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WASHINGTON-The numberof registered apprentices in alltrades rose 10,000 to a record280,000 in 1970, the Secretary ofLabor has announced.Minority apprentices account-

ed for 9.1 percent of the total,an increase of 16 percent over1969.The minority proportion of all

new apprentices has risen stead-ily over the past four years.Nearly 12 percent of all newapprentices registered in 1970were minority group members,versus 10 percent in 1969, 8 per-cent in 1968 and 6 percent in1967.Of the 280,000 apprentices reg-

istered at the end of 1970, 161,-000 were in the constructiontrades (57.5 percent); 53,700 inthe metal working trades (19percent); 15,000 in the printingtrades (5.4 percent); and 50,000in the miscellaneous trades (18percent).The 9.1 percent minority

group proportion represents 25,-000 active minority group ap-prentices in registered pro-

433,900 were employed in thatindustry. In August the aero-space work force was at 436,600.

Aero EngineersEngineers and scientists em-

ployed by aerospace firms inCalifornia slumped from 74,800

pprentices0o Increasegrams at the end of the year.Among them were 15,400

blacks (5.5 percent of all ap-prentices); 6,160 Spanish sur-named (2.2 percent); 1,400 Indi-ans (0.5 percent) and slightlymore than 2,000 Orientals (0.8percent).Among the four major trades

groupings the printing trades,with an 8 percent increase inthe number (1,225) of activeapprentices for the year, showedthe biggest net gain. The mis-cellaneous trades were nextwith a 7 percent gain (3,800),followed by the constructiontrades with 5 percent (8,765).The number of apprentices in

the metal working tradesshowed a decrease of 6 percent,representing 3,740 fewer appren-tices than the previous year.

4,643,200 in Bay AreaTotal population of the nine-

county Bay Area as of July, 1970was placed at 4,643,200, accord-ing to an estimate releasedAugust 16, 1971 by the San Fran-cisco Bay Area Council.

in December 1967 to 58,400 inDecember last year, the latestmonth for which the govern-ment has figures for engineersand scientists as a separategroup within aerospace.A U.S. Department of Labor

spokesman conceded it was"bad news" to see the peicent-age rate going up on a seasonal-ly adjusted basis "because ofthe wholly unpredictable rate ofnew workers entering the labormarket. "A leading critic of the Nixon

Administration said the newfigures "dramatize the most se-rious flaw in Mr. Nixon's recov-ery package: his proposal togive businessmen tax credit formoney spent to buy new ma-chinery even though industry isnow operating at less than 75percent of its present capacity."

Widespread SufferingAFL - CIO President George

Meany said the latest figuresshow that "widespread suffer-ing among American workerscontinues unabated." He re-newed demands by the AFL-CIO nationally that if wages ofworkers are to be frozen andcontrolled, then controls shouldalso be imposed on profits, divi-dents, interest and other formsof income.

Meany AssailsIrish Detention

"rf'rue protection of the law"for citizens in Northern Irelandwho are being detained withouttrial was called for by AFL-CIO Pres. George Meany in astatement on current disorders."Centuries of progress and

civilization itself are gravelymenaced by the dictatorial de-crees permitting the detentionof Irishmen without court trial,"Meany said. "English law, fromwhich we derive much, and theauthorities in Belfast should . . .

show true protection of the law"to citizens.

Publisher's NoticeYhe California AFL-CIO News is

published weekly by the CaliforniaLabor Federation, AFL-CIO, 995Market Street, San Francisco, Cali-fornia 94103. Second class postagepaid at San Francisco, Calif.-Sub-scription: $3.50 a year. John F, Hen-ning, executive secretary-treasurer;Glenn Martin, editor.

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UEWaW fOakland flb Warns Against.-SSIOfl. So.Blaming Unions in InflationThe, Oakland Tribue in a Labor Day editorial cautioned

against plaing the onus on organized labor for the "inflationarywage-price spiral that has afflicted the American economy for(nqptkud fron Pac-!.). the pas seveal years." The Triune said:lines Is 'nat to' confrm '.U.S. prices in recent years have -generally risen fastest in

with i$ geAicted fields that lack strong unions. Insurance, domestic and medical* - zcSff ~ of ~ service low-unionized businesses, but insurance rates, charges

Hou; t";!j; "I* of home aUnces and autos, both pro-wen~~~~~~~~Iwel n |ae duced by highly unionized workers, have climbed relativelyinr v.(an-vgres& delifl6 i'abao8' .~~~~~~~~~~The editorial concluded:wrg.t a reapportioument ,Teetoa oculd

paropo*l;Roweer, f r. "With dedication and responsibility, union members, unionbe a~ivitory to the state legis- leaders-indeed the nation's total laboring force-can continuelatoraz zwlai.wffl have the final their economic and social progress in a society where humandecisiondurig the preent sea- values, and human dignity grow ever more important."sion. 'X how the distficts arelaid oth-sw1 DE n ea aa

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the vale o g 'wrker or-ganlzatonils beganing increas-inglyb l ant to the careergovemtnt wrker."Noting th# predicament of the

publineuewployee at this- thie,the Federation leader pointedout. 9Ofsb Idepe~itt"b llfltWVrbpf-resenttbdr lujieret, they baverecef bee6me. 'examples' ofunderpaid wage eanrs caledupon to make 'temporarynewtfices in personal gain' whileAmerican in4usrys ve M1lion doBarUcft tt''Program det and regitra-

tion mat wi soonbe dis-b d to Federaton fias.The c wer aked . alerittheir temberip to the up-coming- ene:toIt ue" mAiw ptcipatou in ilsti vital" meeting.

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ry FiLnks ant-other labor rep-resentutimfom.oer. the: state,Other slpecial juetgineclud-

Pete. Hays,,edi o hemento-Unl;. Walter P. -Jonesexecutive editor of McClatchyNewspapers; Congressmen Rlar.old TJ`-Bhzz)- Jobhnsbn; RichardMarriott, Mayor of Saemento;Thom Bair, general managerof the'.fai;- Archie Mull, pastpresident, Calfornia State Bar,and i-et'Qrcon Shbe ofthe Mciberge.:Bcl Law.

vEr',' pep attfair onLs*i. ay.

rFmUiMUare P IUAEU u mVW uMThe National Farmers Union nomic game plan know no

in Washingto,' D.C., tis week bounds."A NFU newsletter said, "Thetookitstandwiththe PPO- key point of the.. policy is

nents of President Nixon's that it pointedly refuses to deal"new" economic policies, an- with the major problem facingnounced Augut 15 and embrac- the economy-maldistribution ofing a 90day wage-price freeze. income and ownership. UnderThe NFU charged "the absurdi-- the plan, the rich will continueties surrounding this new eco- to get richer."

U.S. SENATOR EDMUND MUSKIE (D-Me.), shown here withRichard K. Groulz, Executive Secretary of the Alameda CountyCentral Labor Council, was the principal speaker at the Ala-meda County COPE Piclnic on Labor Day -at Pleasanton. A crowdof over 3,m beard the Senator sharply criticie President Nix-oen's new economic policies, while offering alternative proposalsfor economic recovery. Muske was also the -speaker at the 25thannual Cathli0c labor Institute Labor Day breakfast at Los An-geles.

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dent in effect has abrogated ourcontract with the State of Cali-fornia" and challenged the con-stitutional right of the action.Bierman noted that -h col-

lege instructors, ha"e ;bee de-nied' pay raises, except formertiincreases, th9 past twoyears. -he UPC also avers that-the Presidential order discrimi-nates against wage earners incontrast to those who get theirincome from interest or busi-ness profits.The City and County of San

Francisco also filed action inthe federal court, challengngthe ruling on grounds. the city's5600 firemen and policemen had,been granted an increase effec-tive July 1 and only legislativetechnicaliti*s. delayed- approval.

Firm. A.dded. toAFL.CIO...L.ist

The La-Z-Boy Chair Company_.has kfm IPatroize" list bir the UnionLabel and Service Tades DN-partment, AFL-CIO, at' the -request of President Fred Fu}lfrdof thie tited Furniture Work-ers of America.The la-Z-Boy Chair Company

in five fruitess mothsoft netiations l.ived up to Its name Inthat they were less than, anxouto reach an agreement. As a re-sult, the United Furniture Work-eta were forced to strike in Mon-oe, Mtican, on August 2,1)71,and in Florence, South Carlina,on August 3, 1971. The srike In-vaolves over 1,000 memb andtheir familes. .

Charges of spying on the work-ers, numerous discharges, Intm-Idatione, mass layoffs, and shortworkw ekes have been leveled bytheFu-h re Workers. TheCompany has apparently as.sumed an attitude that em-ployees do not have a right tounion representtioan.

COPE 1830Nonpartsan political tactics

were used by American labor asearly as the 1830's when a New:England convention of worker,artisans and farmers proposedto secure legislative objectves'by selecting candMItt.

Health Care Pacts forSome of the advantages of a

union contract in California arereflected in a state report re-leased recently showing that 98percent of 1,530,000 p e r s o n sworking under 1,688 studied un-ion contracts have health careplans.Without considering variations

in the quality of care or thecosts covered under union ver-sus non-union health care plans,statistics developed by the in-surance industry's own HealthInsurance Council in New Yorkindicated that as of December,1968 only 77 percent of Californiaresidents had hospitalizationcoverage, 71 percent surgicalcoverage and 63 percent medicalcoverage.The insurance industry fig-

ures, of course, covered allState residents, including per-sons covered by union as well

as non-union and individually-contracted health care plansbut excluding senior citizens 65or over.While most union-negotiated

plans include medical coverage,the fact that the Health Insur-ance Council's figures peg Cal-ifornians with medical coverageat 63 percent means that 37percent of California residentshave no coverage for doctor'sfees in or out of the hospital,exclusive of any surgical cov-erage they may have.But the focus of the state re-

port issued by the Division ofLabor Statistics and Researchof the State Department of In-dustrial Relations was on theincrease in the average month-ly employer payments to union-negotiated, labor-managementhealth and welfare funds inCalifornia to an estimated $46.-

98 Percent of05 per employee in the latterhalf of 1970.The $46.05 figure was $15.40 or

about 50 percent higher than itwas in 1968 although more than15 percent of the increase wasaccounted for by rising costsof medical care rather thanimproved coverage.The report said that the em-

ployer contributions are used"primarily to pay hospital anddoctor bills, but a portion goesfor group life insurance and, insome instances, (to) non-occu-pational disability benefits."

California employees work-ing without benefit of a unioncontract m i g h t well contem-plate that $46.05 per month perunion employee figure. It worksout to coverage costing $552.60 ayear for each union membercovered.Moreover, thanks to union ne-

gotiations, the employer paid

Unioniststhe full cost of coverage for88 percent of the workers withplans and they often includedhis dependents as well.The state report said that 10

percent of the employees hadto contribute to the- cost of theirown coverage and in the remain-ing 2 percent the financing ar-rangements were not specified.Monthly payments in individ-

ual union-negotiated plans, how-ever, showed considerable vari-ation, the report said.

In contracts covering the mid-dle 90 percent of the workers,payments ranged from $16.60 to$87.67 per month.

In short, the report, whencompared with insurance indus-try data, suggests pretty clear-ly that workers covered by un-ion-negotiated health care plansenjoy substantially better healthcare coverage than non-workers.

James LeeIs Named onCAVICA Board

James Lee, President of theState Building and ConstructionTrades Council, has been namedas a member of the statewideAdvisory Council, California As-sociation of Vocational and In-dustrial Clubs of America (CA-VICA). His term expires June30, 1974.The appointment was an-

nounced by James A. Herman,chief of the State Bureau of In-dustrial Education, an agencyof the State Department of Edu-cation.CAVICA works with repre-

sentatives of management, la-bor and education in developingprograms to provide "meaning-ful experiences to the studentsof industrial education."

Job Injury ReportsThe Secretary o; Labor is au-

thorized by the new Occupa-tional Safety and Health Act torequire covered employers torecord and submit reports onwork-related deaths, injuriesand illnesses other than thoserequiring first aid. These rec-ords will be used to develop in-formation on the causes andprevention of occupational in-juries and illnesses.

"Who Is The Imperialist?," anew 52-page booklet produced bythe AFL-CIO International Af-fairs Department, summarizesthe territorial expansion of theSoviet Union and Red China dur-ing the past 30 years.

Filled with maps and statis-tics, the booklet traces develop-ments in Romania, Lithuania,Estonia, Latvia, East Germany,Czechoslovakia, Poland, Fin-land, North Korea, Vietnam,Japan and other Asian nationsand contrasts them with the ef-forts of the free world to imple-

Union Organizers'Handbook Revised"Organizing and the law," a

widely acclaimed union organ-izers' handbook to the legalframe work within which unionorganizers must operate, hasjust been revised with the assist-ance of Frederick E. Sherman,assistant professor of Labor Ed-ucation at the University of Wis-consin.The new edition, which incorp-

orates many changes in federallaw since the first edition waspublished in 1967, is availablefrom the Bureau of National Af-fairs, Inc., 1231 25th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037. Pa-perback editions cost $5.50; thehard cover, $10.

ment the principle of self-deter-mination in 68 newly indepen-dent states.Among other things it notes

that both the Soviet Union andRed China have each chargedthe other with "imperialism."In its conclusion, it asserts

that:"The free world has granted

independence to 1,153,452,053people and 13,223,124 squaremiles and the Soviet Union andCommunist Chinese have sub-jugated 172,107,000 people and1,977,254 square miles and areseeking more."Then it asks:"Who is the imperialist?"Copies of the pamphlet may

be ordered without charge fromthe AFL-CIO Department of In-ternational Affairs, 815-16th St.,N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006.

Equal PayThe U. S. Court of Appeals in

Philadelphia has upheld the La-bor Department's right to obtainmore than $90,000 in back pay,including interest, for some 2,-000 women employees of theWheaton Glass Company of NewJersey. The money representsunderpayment of wages to thewomen in violation of the Fed-eral Equal Pay Act.

I 0 CandidatesFile Papers InAssembly Race

Seven Democrats, one Repub-lican, an independent and aPeace and Freedom Party can-didate have brought to a totalof ten the number of those as-piring to succeed State SenatorDavid Roberti as Assemblymanfrom the 48th District in LosAngeles County. This was an-nounced by James Allison, LosAngeles County registrar.The district embraces East

Hollywood, Silverlake, LincolnHeights, El Sereno and portionsof Alhambra. A special elec-tion is scheduled October 19 tofill the vacancy which occurredwhen Roberti was elected to theState Senate this summer.

If no candidate achieves amajority, the top vote gettersof each party will be involvedin a runoff election November16. Voter registration for theOctober 19 balloting has alreadyclosed, but registration willopen to September 25 for thepossible November 16 canvass.

'Contraband Goods'"Goods produced under con-

ditions which do not meet rudi-mentary standards of decencyshould be regarded as contra-band and ought not be allowedto pollute the channels of inter-state commerce." - PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt.

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"Who is The Imperialist?"Brochure is Available