Official Organ AGGTON This is your of UNION PAPER Local 713 UPW CIO SUPPORT IT!
Non political Vol. No. 5 Cents Panama, Friday, 7, 1947.
Double Jeopardy Increase For Disability Relief Claimants Receiving 17. 50 Beharan es machparran in connection with the curWHOSE IS THIS SIGNATURE?
LEN GOLDSMITH TRANSFERRED TO After Suffering courtpunishment on activity not directhy connected with his employment, TEACHERS LOCAL Silver worker given day suspension with strange signature. Union officials conBy executive order, all disability relief claimducting investigation.
ants receiving 17. 50 per month will receive consideration for increases in allowance. Here is the real Mac Previously the disability relief allowance Sparran signature as it appears on correspondence refor persons without dependents was limited to ceived by the Local from 17. 50 per month whereas those with dependents him.
were limited to 25. 00. This situation has been rectified by Governor Mehaffey.
Notice is hereby given that all persons receiving 17. 50 per month should write a letter to Mr. Schecker, Silver Personnel Bureau, Balboa Hgts. for reconsideration. If un2. Here is the signature which suspended Bojce a few able to write they may come to the Cristominutes after the supposed signer had sent him back to Len Goldsmith, who served work, whose signature is this.
bal office on Wednesdays or La Boca Union as National Educational DirecHeadquafters on Mondays so that this matter tor of United Public Workers All silver workers have suffered the recan be adjusted.
for the past two years, resigned gular run of discrimination under the present All Stewards and members are requested on January 1st from the Natio set up. The Silver and Gold roll have not to cooperate in this matter so that the Old Ti tely assumed new duties with so that persons working for the Governnal Office staff. He immedia failed to maintain the sharp and dividing line mers can receive the additional allowance at UPW Teachers, in New York ment have found themselves being measured in the earliest possible moment.
rent drive to win wage increa terms of race, color and nationality for the purses for teachers and to or poses of classification and, having thus been plaganize them on a large scale ced in one category or another, must submit to under the banner of the cro. being measured by one type of yardstick while Brother Lawrence Kammet Director of Goldsmith resigned watching others being measured in better terms.
due to inability to locate quar ters for his family in the city ver workers without exception. But now and This is the general application for all silof Washington.
Education Replaces Goldsmith then we experience unusually fierce and vicious administrations of the system. Here is one case in which double jeopardy is glaringly inflicted Lawrence Kammet has join ice Standard publication of the On The Sick List suffered an injustice not common in socially cied the National UPW staff as New York District of SCMWA.
editor of the PUBLIC RE In the past four years he has vilized communities.
CORD and National Director, been editor of the national news It will be recalled that in our last issue of and will assume Brother Gold paper of the American Com of the Metal Trades Council ACCION we gave an account of the incident in smith former duties. Brother munications Association, co, are Suffering terible pains in which Henderson Boyce, employed in the ReKamme of the former SCMWA and was were almost fit for the mad ceiving and Forwarding Agency at Cristobal as associated in the early days in a Motor Operator, was slapped by a white Amethe founding of the union in major labor situations includThat the Government (Turn to Page 4)
New York. At one time he edi ing Westtern Union, Press Wire allow Panamanians to ted the Welfare Reporter in less, negotiation, NMU give them competition in CiNew York and was a member strike, and the recent wage vil Service jobs is more than BOX SCORE of the staff of the Civil Sery drive of the Marine Engineers. the can relish. Too bad!
16 MORE CASES SETTLED; TOTAL NOW. 63 ACCION is pleased to report the satisfac2 TERM LIMIT FOR PRESIDENT tory settlement of sixteen grievances in addition to the 47 listed in previous issues of our paIt is evident that the present, that the main point of interest, to the nation that this business per. This makes a total of 63 in our Box ScoCongress of the is about is the safety of the nation at of continuing employment re which is a regular feature of ACCION.
ready to write in what has all times, based on the election after years of satisfactory All Stewards who settle grievances are realways been an unwritten law of the best man for the best service is good employment quested to report them in writing to the Union on the length of service any job through the will of the practice when dealing with the through Strobel.
president of the country could majority of the people. The baker uncle but not with the The sixteen new cases are: contribute towards the welfare enactment of legislation limit son.
of the nation. While it can be in the use of one man to any Theoretically, and gootiness ARCEM ARGENTIN, IC 31221, a returned opined that in normal times of the people to act freely in gress in session may try to lief grant since 1938. Case taken up by Orgaperiod also limits the power knows how soon the type con employee, has been receiving no disability rethe election of persons who practice it, all government em necessity of using one presi have proven themselves equal ployees are public servants of Milwood. Won payment of 19 per month.
dent for more than years, to the tasks. It appears more the first order. That they too house, Mechanical Division. Employed as maJOSE ARIAS, IC 86302, Cristobal Roundare the emergencies to be con sed legislation cannot be con reasoning is something not be chinist helper, Arias was discharged on Janua.
tended with. One never knows, stitutonal in the sense that it yond possibility. Superfluous ry 20, 1947 because he refused to pack wheels of provides a brake on the free as this might sound, the prin engine 702. Case handled by Steward Cargil.
All in all, the consensus of choice of the citizens, and can ciple is just the same. The Con Case won at second stage, and Arias was paid opinion in several quarters is be considered only as an edietgress is right in line. Turn to Page 3)
The officers and members is a charter member and served as publicity consul the head and, when last seen, tant in a number of recent house.
could events may not require the does one. BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL ERNESTO CASTILLEROR