Page ACCION Panama, April, 1948 Grievances Here and There WE PRESENT TODAY TRENDS JOSEPH DAWKINS, employed any of the Pacific side commisby Foster Bournes by the Motor Transportation Di saries. After waiting one month vision was involved in an ac for an answer she was told to go The decision of the silver employees to organize is withcident with his vehicle while to the other side and seek the out doubt the most revolutionary event to hit the Canal Zone, transporting men from work. job herself. Sister Ward reported so much so that a peculiar phenomenon is evolving, right beDawkins was discharged from his this to Organizer Garcia, who fore our very eyes. Strong men who once fought with everyjob with objections to reemploy took the case in hand and in less thing to grind those workers faces into the mud are today ment in the MTD and in addition than 24 hours she was on the making strange statements and peculiar overtures. Can it be his pay receipt and rest leave ac train to take a job at the Curunthat per capita interest in the silver worker is so widecumulated was help up as pay du Commissary.
spread hence the honeyed inuendos and sugar coated apment for damages to the truck. 000proach. The case was processed by Or As an employee of the 000ganizer Evering who was able to Brother Vernal illiams was secure for Dawkins his pay and discharged for continual absence Paradoxically, strong men who once fought for, and with, rest leave amounting to 71. 80. from the job during working the silver workers would seem to have turned their coats.
000hours. He was then handed a They have jumped unto the other fellows band wagon and After intervention by the poor clearance. Organizer Garhave galloped off like Aldous Hurley moronic coachman, in nion thru Organizer Evering the cia protested the clearance, and BRO. LOUIS every direction. There can be no denial of the fact that these objections to re employment in won an adjustment. Brothers unseemly happenings of the past few weeks will bear watchthe Commissary Div. placed Williams was then able to land MOJICA ing so as to determine what their ultimate goals are. It has against David Herton, in the another job elsewhere.
been wisely said that where there is smoke there is fire.
year 1941, were removed from 000. 000 the Brother Record.
Brother Guillermo Benn, an Brother Louis Mojica, ste 000employee of the Atlantic Bakery, ward on the Cristobal Docks If, we say If some of our shrewdest minds have allowed Upon complaint from members asked for a day leave to attend takes the Organizing honors for, themselves to be used as tools, nay as pawns, in a nefarious in Gatun that the lack of ice de to important personal matters. February. Single handedly he scheme to wreck the silver workers Union we say PITIlibery on Thursdays, Sundays He was denied the leave, but the signed up 40 new and re instatABLE. Amen and holidays was a severe incon personal business couldn wait ed members. 000 venience to the people since so he took the day off anyway.
there were no facilities for ice On his return, he was given a On March 6th, Brother Mojica Should these things be blamed on gamma rays, the moon, storage for two days and thus five day suspension. The stew called together a meeting of 45 or fear? The situation is freighted with mystery and specuresulted in food spoilage, Or ard, Daniel Foster, went to bat, full blooded San Blas Indians lation.
ganizer Dean took this matter showed the injustice involved, who are also full blooded cio Fear destroys morale. Fear gnaws at the senses lie a rat up with the Commissary Offi and the suspension was listed.
members on the docks. spirignaws in a drain. Fear perverts the soul of strong men. Fear cials and it was agreed that in 000 ted discussion was held of grievreduces to the irreducible nadir. Fear moves men to destroy the future ice deliveries will be William Johnson never got to ances and the organizing drive.
that which they cannot control. Then again there is that made daily including Sundays. be a member of Local 713. you It was virtually a United Nacomplex human weakness: Lust for power. This one martyrs 000see he was put on Disability Re tions meeting with translations all sense of group consciousness, and places the individual recent investigation by Or lief in 1937. But that doesn in English, Spanish, and San above the majority.
ganizer Dean of complaints from mean that the union can help Blas. o0o members that they had been out the old timers. Johnson overcharged in the hospitals re complained that he was receiv ACTIVITIES OF THE Every man has right, to think for himself, but no man sulted in the following adjust ing 15. 00 monthly but had 22 has the right to think that what he thinks MUST BE RIGHT ments: years service with the Canal. CRISTOBAL CHAPTER FOR HIS FELLOW. MEN. We have not yet emerged from the afBrother Reyes Es Colona was re Organizer Millowood got on the termath of history greatest war which was fought for no funded 64. 72 ball and today William Johnson by LeRoy Inniss other reason than to make the world safe for democracy. Yet Brother Nabal Archibald was re is receiving 22. 00 monthly ins Approximately 1500 persons today we have our demagogues asserting the right to think for funded 10. 00.
tead of 15. 00 still far from attended a special meeting of the majority, under the guise of thinking for themselves. We Brother John Jennings was re enough.
the Cristobal Chapter held on are unalterably against any mandate, but that given by the funded 15. 00.
February 25, 1948 at the Club majority. What seems to be the paramount weakness of our 000or education committee, Charles Tropical, called primarily to wel thinkers is their inability to realize that only abstract thinkBrother Joseph Jordan was re Russell, director education com come Bro. Max Brodsky who reing that is absolutely devoid of personal norms is of any real duced in force from the Building mittee, and Allan Spencer and cently returned from the United value to progress.
Division. After years of faith Alphonso Alexis, typists.
States after a stay of about eight ful service he was given a meweeks, and to hear his report in diocre clearance. The foreman eman is understood, is embraced in its the interest of the so called silThe purpose of this paper it connection with his activities in BASIC CHANGES SOUGHT.
and supervisor were stubborn(Continued from page 1) Plea To The they would not change the title, and is adapted to all clas ver employees and especially mulated before an employee is Slackers clearance. Finally Organizer ses, and will serve to keep the members of Local 713. This re entitled to rest leave. This means Moore took the case to the third members of the Chapter inform port was very interesting and that he must work fifteen Co workers, we can help our stage and succeeded in having ed as to the work the union is lengthy and contains a wealth of months before he earns a twoOfficers achieve their goal by the mediocre erased doing, while the union newspa valuable information to all mem weeks vacation. It was requested becoming a one man and one good inserted. We hope that per Acción is on the press.
bers of the Local. Of much in that the 240 hour requirement woman organizer; start now Brother Jordan will now find it while the drive is on, go out From recent talks with mem terest was the hearing which he be eliminated or drastically reeasier to obtain another job.
and organize the unorganized bers of the Chapter, it seems had with the Senate Committee duced.
Dorothy Ward, employed by the that the general feeling is that on wages for federal employees.
so that we can obtain our goal Officials also proposed that Camp Bierd Commissary, asked it is their duty to see that the In this instance the poor posiof membership of 20, 000.
the manager for a transfer to basic human needs, economic tion of the silver federal work rest leave be earned at the rate Co workers this Union is spiritual, and physical are met, ers on the Canal Zone was of 17 days per year and sick leave yours, lets make it 100 ACTIVITIES OF THE and to make possible some of the thoroughly explained. The com at the rate of days per year, a strong, for by doing so our RED TANK CHAPTER good things of life through con mittee was told in an emphatic total of 26 days per year. This Union will be respected by all.
tinued support of the union, and manner about the shameful in proposal would allow the emalso, that the indifference of a equality in wages being paid in out having to use his rest leave am appealing to all so that ployee to use his sick leave withby Chris. Harewood.
they will join in this great Perhaps this representative few individuals will not inter the Canal Zone, and of the high may be too optimistic, but de fere with the future of the or prices which the underpaid wor and only in the event of pro struggle for liberation from economic oppression.
velopments in the Red Tank ganization when it is entrusted kers have to pay in the govern longed sickness, where his leave ment owned commissaries for was entirely consumed, would am directing this appeal Chapter reflect considerable im to our posterity.
limited necessities of life, on his rest leave be used for this especially to the younger ones, provement after a diligent can Because of the colision of the which they are barely able to purpose.
let join in this great fight, vassing of all the houses in the chapter meeting of this chapter exist.
now is the time for us to show community in the Local union and that of Gatun, it was decidhow brave we are and join organization drive for a 100 ed by agreement with the memAs usual the program was en Quotable Quote shoulder to shoulder with the membership livened with musical renditions bership, that hereafter, the regolder ones and carry this Two momentous and record ular chapter meeting of this by Mr. Enamuel Dowden who The House Committee on Unstruggle to victory. Let look breaking chapter meetings last chapter, will be on the FOURTH played two numbers on the cla American activities once more out for our future and also month, have produced results TUESDAY nights of every month. rinet accompanied by Mr. Char has been indulging in its favoour children future, lets which bid fair toward a way of les Wareham on the piano. Mr. rite pastime of playing ducks make the working conditions achieving a 100 membership in This chapter has a far way Wareham also rendered two and drakes with the constituon the Canal Zone such that this chapter; both of these meet to go in achieving its goal and piano selections and accompani tional rights of citizens that it when we are gone from this ings have met with unexpected to maintain its present position ed Mr. Granville Barrows, a bari pretends to reverse. Its latest scene of operation our chilsuccess in laying the foundation in the present organizational tonist in a most difficult and selection for one of its smears is dren can proudly say that our upon which an important instru campaign, and it is hoped that beautiful number. The musical Dr. Edward Condon, head of parents have made this place ment was founded.
each individual of the commu treat was very much appreciated the Federal Bureau of Standards. a paradise for all.
nity will make himself or her by the members present.
The instrument referred to is self an organizer, and make the The charges in this case have a particularly sinister appearance Wilmont, Chairmanthe Informer, a news organ of non member a member.
but the reflex result has been the Chapter, prepared and printed by the Publicity Committee The Union Depends crisy from the faces of Repreagain to tear the mask of hypowith a staff of yours truly as editor, Benjamin Soley, assistant sentative Parnell Thomas and Organize the On You his fellow witch hunters.
Are editor, Servicio Rueda, translator, Hubert Thompson, direct Unorganized Harold Ickes. BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL ERNESTO CASTILLERO and you a member?