KENNEDY VOTINGRECORD

According to national AFL-CIOCOPE, the Democratic nominee forPresident, Senator John Kennedy ofMassachusetts, has a perfect votingrecord from organized labor's pointof view on labor legislation.A COPE voting tabulation issued

prior to the Democratic NationalConvention shows that Kennedyvoted in the interests of trade union-ists on 33 key labor-management is-sues since entering Congress in1947, "and against, not once."Kennedy voted against the Taft-

Hartley Act of 1947 when he was amember of the House. He also votedagainst the infamous McClellanamendments to the Labor-Manage-ment Reporting and Disclosure Actof 1959.The same COPE voting tabulation

gives Kennedy a 90.2 per cent scoreon his overall record, having 175good votes, 19 bad and 29 absences.

In sharp contrast with Kennedy'srecord is that of his running mate,Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B.Johnson. On key labor-managementissues, Johnson's record is only 45.9per cent favorable to organized la-bor. He voted wrong 20 times, right17, with 3 absences.Johnson's total record from la-

bor's point of view is somewhat bet-ter, with a 62.5 per cent score. Hevoted right 145 times, wrong 87times and was absent 16 times.

Vice President Richard Nixon, onthe other hand, appears to be com-pletely out of the ballpark, to theright of right field. The almost cer-tain Republican nominee has a 6.7per cent score on basic labor-man-agement issues tabulated by COPE.He has only one good vote, 14 badand was absent once. Nixon's over-

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kly Vol. 2-No. 26July 22, 1960

News LetterPublikhed bf Califoria Labor Federaion, AFL.CIO

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June Jobless Figures Underscore Economy'sDrag -- Recession Threat

June unemployment figures released nationally and in California haveunderscored warnings of the AFL-CIO, the national Democratic Party plat-form and maverick-Republican, Nelson Rockefeller, Governor of New York,that the economy is expanding at half the rate necessary to provide fullemployment and prevent another serious recession.The nation's unemployment rate

in June hit the third highest level increases in the number of workers withfor the month in the postwar years, jobs.according to the U.S. Department As Perluss pointed out, the over-the-of Labor's report on the disturbing year rise in unemployment was due toLaorsreport on e i g "the failure of job opportunities to de-job situation. velop rapidly enough to absorb theThe jobless rate nationally, ad- growth of the labor force."

justed for s e a s o n a influences, Normally, with the expansion of thejumped from 4.9 percent to 5.5 per- labor force that occurs at this time ofcent in June. This was exceeded in the year as school graduates and sum-postwar Junes only by the 7 per- mer workers enter the labor force, un-cent and 6 percent of the recession employment among experienced regular

years of 19f58 and 1949 respective- labor force members dips sufficiently inyearsand 19match 4res5pectiven- May and June to offset in large measurely, and matched the 5.5 percent of the effect of the summer entrants into1954, also a recession year. the labor force.In California, Director of Employment The pace of industrial activity did not

Irving H. Perluss has announced that increase rapidly enough in June, how-the number of unemployed rose to 325,- ever, to permit this offset to occur.000 in June, which was 20,000 above the Nationally, the Labor Department re-figure for May, and 91,000, or 39 per port shows that employment actuallycent above a year ago level. The jobless rose to a record high of 68.6 million,rate was 5.1 per cent of the labor force while at the same time unemploymentfor June, as compared with 4.9 per cent increased by 964,000 between May andin May, and 3.8 per cent a year ago. June to a total of 4.4 million.The jobless announcements rocked the The 4.4 million jobless is the second

state and the nation, because the jump highest total in postwar Junes, toppedin unemployment occurred in the face of only by the 5.4 million in 1958; it com-

COURT ARM USED AGAINST FARMWORKERS; ORGANIZING DRIVE CONTINUES

In a court action which spottedthe hand of anti-union grower tac-tics, a Yuba County Superior CourtJudge last Saturday issued an un-usual temporary restraining orderdirecting the Department of Em-ployment to send strikebreakersthrough the picket lines of the AFL-CIO Agricultural Workers Organiz-ing Committee at Dantoni Orchards,a 550-acre pear operation east ofMarysville.

Sought by the DiGiorgio FruitCorporation, which owns DantoniOrchards, the order restrains theState Director of Employment, Irv-ing Perluss, from refusing to sendworkers to the strike-bound ranchpending the court's final ruling.Missing in the order was the usual"s h ow c au s e" provision, underwhich Perluss said he could havecontinued to withhold workers from

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pares to 4 million jobless in June, 1959.The key to the California situation was

provided by John F. Henning, Directorof Industrial Relations, in his report oncivilian employment for June.There occurred in June, according to

Henning, a normal June to May increasein employment in farming, wholesaling,transportation of crops, retail trade, con-struction, recreation activities and infood processing and lumber manufactur-ing.

Total state civilian employment thisJune was also up 152,000, or 3 per centover June, 1959, with trade, governmentand services continuing to chalk up larg-est increases from the same month lastyear. But, for the first time in 19 months,Henning pointed out, factory employ-

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all score is 22.9 per cent-19 right;64 wrong; and 9 absences.On civil rights issues, a point of

focus with the nomination of John-son as Kennedy's running mate, theCOPE voting tabulation gives sub-stance to fears that the "strong"Democratic civil rights plank hasbeen weakened.Kennedy's record on civil rights

shows he voted right 15 times, wrongonce, with 5 absences. But Johnson,by contrast, has only three goodcivil rights votes, 20 bad, and wasabsent once.

Printed below is the COPE score-card for Kennedy, Johnson and Nix-on, which gives their voting recordsby separate categories of issues.

COURT ARM USED AGAINST FARMWORKERS; ORGANIZING DRIVE CONTINUES

(Continued from Page 1)the struck ranch pending final courtruling set for this Friday, July 22.A spokesman for DiGiorgio Farms

immediately hailed Perluss' reluct-ant compliance as a victory for thegrowers with the statement that"growers are now in a position toget the assistance they need and towhich they are entitled from thestate agency."

Perluss said, however, that the StateAttorney General's office would opposethe court action at the Friday hearing.Dantoni Orchards is the only struckoperation to which referrals are beingmade.The court order left the AWOC pick-

ets standing with the arm of government

Voting Records of Kennedy. Johnson & Nixon(R means Voted Right or Paired Right; W means Voted Wrong or Paired Wrong;

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Agriculture ....................................... 5 61 5191 1 0 0 3 0Civil Rights ................................. 1 11 5 312011181211Civil Service, Postal Pay ................ 5 0 21 8 01 2 2 1 1 0Consumer ........................................... 91 1 4 4 5 1 1 4 1Controls: Prices, Rents and Wages 21 0 1 13 4 2 5 110 1Defense .................................. . 2 00 5 0 J 0 1 2 l 0Education ................................ 3.. 01 01 611010111Health .................................... 2. o 0 0 6 1] 1 01 311Housing ........................................... 15 1 518 l 1I0005 0Labor ....................................... .10 10 0l 31 82 1 1 6 11Labor-Management ........................ 23 01 0 0 141 12 1 0 880Offsjiore Oil .................................... 14 0 02113 0 1 0 1 4 1 0Public Power, Natural Resources 113 7 1 2 15 1 1 1 2 1 0 01 0Public Works ................................... 3 10 3 1 1 i 0 0 0 0Small Business ............................... 1 2 0 1 0 11 I0 10010Social Security,

Public Assistance, etc. ................ 6 1 2 6 0 2 040Taxes ......2............... ..................... 991141 01 11 812Unemployment ......................... 11 0 0 7 31 03 1101110Veterans .....................................1 20 2 01 01 0 1 010Miscellaneous ........ ........... 1 5 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 2 1Total ........................... 175 19 29 145 87 16 19 164 9

VOTING PERCENTAGESKennedy .............................. 90.2%R-175 W-19Johnson .............................. 62.5%R-145 W-87Nixon ........................... 22.9%R- 19 W-64

VOTING PERCENTAGES ON LABORAND LABOR-MANAGEMENT LEGISLATION

Kennedy ........................ 100 % R-33W-0Johnson.. ..................... 45.9% R-17 W-20Nixon .................. 6.7%R-1 W-14

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being used to help provide the strike-breakers.

Picket lines, however, were immedi-ately extended to another DiGiorgio-owned operation, the New England Or-chards, which is reported to be theworld's largest pear grove in the world,and even bigger than the Dantoni Or-chards.According to AWOC spokesmen, Di-

Giorgio is one of the few holdouts againstAWOC's minimum wage demand of $1.25per hour in the "river area" pear harvest.The pear harvest otherwise is proceed-ing under the AWOC minimum rate.The DiGiorgio Fruit Corporation, re-

flecting the anti-union attitude of giantcorporate growers, forced the strike ac-tion by refusing to negotiate with AWOCrepresentatives.

Despite the order against EmploymentDirector Perluss, union officials reportthat very few referrals are being madeby the Farm Placement Service, and thatmost strikebreakers are being recruitedfrom housewives and school children inthe area.The developments during the week re-

flected a growing tense situation withthe major peach crop ripening quicklyin valley heat.

It has now become clear that the anti-union growers will attempt to use thecourts as a major tactic to force the De-partment of Employment to violate theprovisions of the disputed Wagner-Pey-ser Act, which prohibits the referral ofworkers by the Farm Placement Servicewhere a strike is in progress. The Cali-fornia Labor Federation is keeping inclose touch with the developing situa-tion.Meanwhile, growers are prevailing on

county boards of supervisors to "mobil-ize" their sheriffs' offices to maintain"peace and order." Despite a completelack of any indication of violence on thepart of farm workers, anti-union growergroups are continually raising the sub-ject.

In Yuba County, the sheriff has beenordered by the Board of Supervisors toprepare for working his deputies in 12-hour shifts on an overtime basis. Inneighboring Sutter County, the sheriffhas been authorized by the county super-visors to add four deputies for the nexttwo months. This would cover the criti-cal peach harvest.

In addition, the Sutter board adoptedan emergency ordinance, effective imme-diately, forbidding carrying or using dan-gerous weapons in any area where thereis a labor dispute.The anti-labor bias shows in one of the

clauses of the resolution adopting theordinance, which reads:"Whereas labor organizers have threat-

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1960 Calif. Labor Federation Scholarship WinnersThe students at

right are the six win-ners of the 1960 highschool scholarshipcompetition spon-sored by the stateAFL- CIO.Each receives a

$500 award to be de-posited in the accred-ited college or uni-versity of the win-ner's choice. Awardswill be presented atthe Sacramento con-vention of the Fed-eration scheduled for :lil;August 15-19.The six students

were selected from a ifield of 387 highschool graduatingseniors who partici- Mapated in the 1960 .ii.......competition exami- i..lnation administeredthrough public and Xprivate schools inthe state.The judges who

selected the winners, x"without knowledge .Eof the student's iden-tity, were: Arthur M.a iiii:Ross, Ph.D., Direc- iiiiiii:i iitor, Institute of In- i -ii.idustrial Relations,University of Cali- Ifornia, Berkeley;Frederick A. Breier,Ph.D.,Associate Pro-.fessor of Economics, iii..University' of San X_iiiFrancisco; Curtis Al- Iler, Ph.D., AssociateProfessor of Eco-enomics, San Francisco State Col-lege.Four of the six winners come

from trade union families.The following are brief biograph-

ical sketches of the winners:Jo-Ann Scull-Redlands High

SchoolJo-Ann Scull, the daughter of a mem-

ber of the Plumbers Union in Riversideand San Bernardino Counties, has an out-standing scholastic record at RedlandsHigh School. Besides achieving honorsin public speaking, debates and otheracademic activities, she has won twoother scholarship awards, including onesponsored by her father's local union.Jo-Ann has enrolled at the University

of California at Davis.

ilyn Davis

ilia Black

Edmund R. Manwell

Myrna C. Wooters

During her attendance at RedlandsHigh School she was active in the schoolband, the Future Teachers Club, theWorld Affairs Club, and was presidentof the 4-H Club, among other extra-curricular activities.Robert O. Loveless-Polytechnic

High School, Sun ValleyRobert Owen Loveless ranked among

the first twelve in his graduating classat John H. Francis Polytechnic HighSchool, and was the school's Seal Bearer.His mother is an elementary schoolteacher in Los Angeles, and a memberof the AFL-CIO Teachers Local 1021.

Robert, who plans to attend UCLA,was a semi-finalist in the National MeritScholarship competition and won a $200UCLA Regent's Scholarship and a $600State Scholarship. He is a member of

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Jo-Ann Scullthe Thomas Jefferson Young DemocratsClub in San Fernando, and plans to beactive in precinct work during the com-ing campaign.His other extra-curricular activities in-

clude chess and forensics.

Myrna C. Wooters-El Cajon ValleyHigh School

Myrna Celeste Wooters is an honorgraduate at El Cajon Valley High School,and the winner of her school's highestaward, the sterling "E". She plans toseek a teaching credential and then alaw degree. Myrna has been a memberof the California Scholarship Federationfor three years, and an active participantin student government.On the community level, she has been

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fraternal groups, as well as a hospitalauxiliary and the Girl Scouts. A mem-ber of her school's band Specialty Corps,Myrna marched with her group at theDemocratic National Convention in LosAngeles. As yet she has not indicatedwhich college or university she will at-tend.

Marilyn L. Davis Sanger UnionHigh School

Marilyn Lee Davis, the daughter of amember of Local 1245 of the Interna-tional Brotherhood of Electrical Work-ers, was graduated from Sanger UnionHigh School with honors. She rankedfirst in her graduating class and wasnamed valedictorian.

Marilyn plans to attend Fresno StateCollege. She has a life membership inthe California Scholarship Federation,and was voted by her classmates as "thegirl most likely to succeed."She has held various class offices. Her

extra-curricular activities have includedswimming, band, choir, and membershipin various service clubs.

Cecilia D. Black-Capuchino HighSchool

Cecilia Diane Black is the daughter ofthe chairman of District Lodge 89 of theInternational Association of Machinists.A top student at Capuchino High School,she was selected graduation speaker bythe faculty and senior class, named out-standing graduate of 1960, and was editor-in-chief of the high school's Year Book.While attending C a p u c h i n o High

School Cecilia won a scholarship fromthe American Field Service for sixmonths' study in Europe and spent thefirst half of her senior year in Torino,Italy. She has also received a Bank ofAmerica Award for achievement in theliberal arts and language fields, and was

recently awarded another scholarship atthe University of Chicago, where sheplans to use her Federation-sponsoredaward.

Cecilia is a lifetime member of theCalifornia Scholarship Federation andPhi Beta Cap, a charter member of"Quill and Scroll" (international jour-nalism society) and also a winner of hon-ors for many extra-curricular activities.Upon obtaining a Master's degree, she

plans to work for the United Nations.

Edmund R. Manwell-MarysvilleHigh School

Edmund Ray Manwell has a near-per-fect higi school scholastic record, andhas been accepted with honors to enterthe University of California, where hewill study a pre-law course.A winner of the Danforth Foundation

Award for leadership, he has won recog-nition for a number of academic andextra-curricular achievements. Edmundwas a finalist in the National MeritScholarship Program, won his school'saward in the Bank of America LiberalArts Third-zone event, and was namedvaledictorian of his class.As holder of the highest service award

from his high school, Edmund has beenactive in both high school and commu-nity musical functions and a winner ofathletic awards.Edmund is also a life member of the

California Scholarship Federation, hav-ing served as president of the Marysvillechapter and participated as a finalist forthe Seymour Award of the ScholarshipFederation.

June Jobless FiguresShows Economy's Drag

(Continued from Page 1)ment this June was below a year ago asyear-to-year losses in aircraft and pri-mary metals outweighed gains in elec-trical equipment, missiles and othermanufacturing industries.The California labor force, consisting

of the employed and those persons avail-able for and seeking work rose to an all-time high of 6,340,000, up 84,000 fromMay and up 243,000 from June last year.Economists in the state and across the

nation have been quick to recognize thepolitical overtones implicit in the em-ployment-unemployment figures as theyrelate to the growing national campaignissue that has focused the nation's atten-tion on the economy's grossly inadequategrowth rate under the Eisenhower-NixonAdministration.The AFL-CIO, the Democratic Party,

its nominees, and Rockefeller agree thatat least a 5 per cent annual expansionrate is essential, which is almost twicethe average rate of growth that hastaken place annually since 1953, whenthe Ike Administration went to work onthe economy.

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within the county by unlawfully pre-

venting farm workers from freely seek-ing and obtaining employment in cropharvests; that the health and welfare andwell-being of the county is dependentupon successful harvesting of such crops;and if the crops are not harvested theentire economy of the county will beruined ..."

In another development concerningthe peach crop, the California CanningPeach Association has turned down AW-OC's offer to negotiate wages and work-ing conditions for peach pickers beforethe harvest reaches its critical stage.The AFL-CIO organizing committee

had asked the association to arrangemeetings with growers in the interest ofan "expeditious and orderly harvest."

In the current organizing effort, AW-OC has consistently established reason-able demands and has sought negotiatedsettlements, with strike and picketingaction held to an absolute minimum.Almost without exception, in crop

areas where concerted AWOC effortshave been made, virtually all growershave been able to reach agreements o-understandings with the union.The exceptions have uniformly been

the major growers, like the DiGiorgioFruit Corporation and their anti-unionassociations, which have attempted toagitate otherwise cooperative growersand to break the union drive by usingboth domestic farm workers and import-ed Mexican Nationals as strikebreakers,with the assistance of government.

In the face of the refusal of the Direc-tor of Employment to cooperate in thisscheme, the Yuba County Court actionis now being tested as an obvious tactic.

In related activities, the anti-uniongrowers are also working in the variousharvest areas to establish grower associ-ations for the recruitment and poolingof strikebreakers.AWOC effort, on the other hand, re-

mains essentially an effort to channelthe revolt of farm workers against yearsof accumulated abuse into an organiza-tional form which will materially im-prove wages and working conditions andat the same time secure growers of a

dependable supply of domestic labor toharvest the state's rich crops.As we go to press, union spokesmen

report that the peach harvest areas areflooded with skilled but tense harvestworkers awaiting for the major croppicking to begin.