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the fit of members of Local 713 the money paid for dues is is reThe to lows.
to for conventions for your From Were Stand. up card as member of a well. division. Request granted. From Page 2)
known Canal Zone labor union? JUAN BENEDI, IC 36506, Atlantic side. 50 dues pay each gently asked: how was it that so that was the end of our Was receiving disability relief grant of 12 per month, is answered. Here he, such an ardent hater of long and pleasant friendship. month, but claimed longer service. Case taken the breakdown for the bene unions, was holding a fully paid Get it?
up by Organizer Cheresh. Grant was increased to 13 per month.
who would like to know how IRENE BISHOP, IC 36798, Hotel Washbeing spent.
EDITORIAL ington. Former employee of Hotel Washington, Seventy five cents was injured while working in 1942, but received tained in your Local. From Page 2)
no compensation nor disability relief grant. Case other seventy five cents goes the International Union, Dispensary was robbed on two occasions while taken up by Organizer Cheresh. Irene Bishop where it is distributed as fol thieves made away with an electric fan from will receive 14 per month pension for life.
the clubhouse not 10 yards away. The school JOHN BOWEN, IC 31032, Cristobal. RetiFive cents per capita 50 yards or so away had been broken into and, rement case taken up by Organizer Cheresh. Case for maintaining the members according to latest reports, the Municipal En settled favorably, will receive 22 per month for ship records, dues system and gineering Division at Ancon had lost some equip. life. Eight checks of 22 each, otalling 176, bookkeeping; ten cents for ment. Despite the frequency with which these are waiting for Bowen, will be sent to CristoNational Office expenses in bold scoundrels worked the police maintained a bal pay office.
cluding rent, supplies, tele one fifth average performance.
THOMAS CARILLO, IC 39097. Was receivphone and salaries; three cents Were the members of the community jus ing no pension, case taken up by Organizer Che research, legislative and tified in becoming alarmed over the situation? resh. Will receive 18 per month beginning grievance work; cents for and meetings. So it appears. The low performance of the po March 3, 1947.
and the largest amount, for lice in the community of La Boca cannot be ty four cents for field orga considered a reasonable justification for the LEONARD LIGORE, IC 60868, RF A, nization. Interesting, ins it? continued existence of such an institution un Cristobal. Was discharged from job; reason Take cents for research, legislative less there is the admission that the force against given Suspect in theft. Cristobal court dismis and grievance work, then just which such an organ is operating constitutes an sed charge of petty larceny against Ligore. Case If such be handled by Steward Lucas; won reinstatement imagine three measly little pen overpoweringly strong adversary.
nies detaching themselves from the case then there is all the necessary justifi to former job at 2nd stage, with a days off monthly dues, joining cation for increasing the force to cope with the reprimand.
hands with other little pennies situation. If such is not the case then there is MANUEL LOPEZ NEMESIO, Army.
from the dues, of your broth. the necessity for a complete revamping of the An Army compensation claim; case taken up and all over the United States, force. And this may well be the case. The law by Organizer Cheresh. Agreement reached that tolling up a vast concourse of has enjoyed so profound a respect in the Canal Lopez will receive compensation; case still pendmore than Twenty Million pen Zone area that muscles must have had enough ing: nies over Two Hundred Thous. time to grow fat with rest and weak with inac ANITA MacKENZIE, DR 363, Atlantic side.
and Dollars each month to pay tivity. When this happens the intellects be Employee was receiving 17. 50 disability relief attorneys ond labor specialists, batteries of them, for research come dull.
grant, but claimed longer service. Case taken and the drafting of legislation Whatever the case, something must be done. up by Organizer Chersh. Grant was increased to the Congress of the United The boldness with which the thieves are work to 27 per month.
States so that your lot as a ing constitutes a mockery to the police; a dan silver worker on the Canal ger to the citizens. With the steady reduction SAMUEL MARTINEZ, IC 18915, Atlantic Zone may be improved.
in force and consequent vagrancy there is the side. Empolyee was dismissed in 1944. OrgaYour contribution to phase of your Union activity need for added protective forces in our commu nizrs Garcia and Cheresh took up case and obMartinez obtained emwill cost you the insignificant nities if peace is to be maintained and the wel tained new clearance.
sum of three cents per month fare of the populace preserved.
ployment after two years unemployment. something you could not buy, CHRISTOBAL McNISH, Canal Seaman.
a silver employee, for Organizer Cheresh obtained change in clearan 50, 000. if you had it. That ce from: Conduct, Good; Workmanship Very is a gift of the gods. guard JUNIOR it well. And there, incidentally, Good, to: Conduct Very Good, Workmanship is your answer to these smart Very Good.
atacks who try weaken you By HUGH ADAMS DAVID PINDER, IC 39473, Atlantic with the inference that you are side Retirement case; was receiving 17. 50 per being taken.
Recently CIO. locals have The United States Commis.
been organizing Negroes in thesion has asked Governors and month, but claimed longer service. Case taken The Attorney Generals of forty. two up by Organizer Cheresh. Disability relief grant It is interesting to note that workers of four hundred fac. States to outlaw the Klu Klux was increased to 20 per month.
we have many friends across tories have been organized. The Klan and revoke its charters CONSTANTINE SEBASTIZAGA, DR 493.
the line who prate continually majority of the factories are This will give the Negroes a Was receiving disability relief grant of 17. 50, against the unionization of textile factories. Organizing in great break. alien silver.
difficult but claimed longer service. Case taken up by We, however, the South is very Chicago Mayor said that Organizer Cheresh. Grant was increased to have observed that the louder Some workers are scared the holler, the more invective joining because they think the the total residential area for 22 per month.
they emit from the ire within unions are going to let them Negroes in Chicago is in stufBENJAMIN SMITH, IC 28482, Atlantic them, is the less of a case they down. They are also afraid of fed, over populated an unmake; matter of fact they losing their jobs. The women sanitary slums. Due to these side. Obtained extension of time to remain in usually mistake vituperation conditions high rate of quarters for this retired employed. Case was for argument.
organized one hundred per cent. sickness and death has brok handled by Organizer Evering.
We know of several Almost the entire population of en out. These places have to RAYMOND STERLING, IC 535667, Truck friends who have tried to Negroes are poorly educated. be made sanitary. Similar con disrupt the organization of sil situation somewhat similar ditions on the Canal Zone Driver, Fort William Davis. compensation ver workers under their ju exist on the Canal Zors. The may at any time give rise to case; Sterling was injured August 12, 1944. Case risdiction, using the many wea. cio is trying to make the Uni. the breaking out of a high taken up by Organizer Cheresh. Will receive pons at their command with. ted States of America and all rate of sickness and death on retroactive compensation in about months.
the colored communities out scruple, despite the fact her land possessions a more they themselves pleasant place to live in. This the Canal Zone. Let try to CHARLES WARREN, IC 23452, union affiliations. They try to task is left entirely up to the prevent this by supporting our Cristobal. Discharged in 1945, Suspect in inject the virus of distrust into complete membership and who. union promptly so that she ti eft. with objections to re employment with the hearts and minds of such lehearted support which is ren. will have strength fight for and objections to entry of pier area.
workers in efforts to keep them dered this organization. Sup better housing conditions in These objections were lifted by Executive Sedisunited. prey for the pre port your union a more sanitary environment.
cretary in 1947 and Warren was employed by Quite recently one of these District Quartermaster, Cristobal. He then re friends who had given us quested transfer to upon a written much good advice in the past BOX SCORE.
note from Beck, Supervisor, From Page 1)
After transfer papers were turned over to te us vindictively, as it were, he was denied reemployment. Case for not heeding his anti union for all time lost up to February 5, except for was taken up by Stewards Lambert and Lucas, unions generally, he said, but three days for reprimand. Arias requested that and was won at second stage. Warren was he hated the CIO) so we very he be allowed to seek employment in some other made eligible for employement in this as. 0:Southern United States. 0:of who work in the factories are a such of that have datory.
came out into the open to pas. BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL ERNESTO CASTILLERO