THE MIHGAN -DAILY ICKINSON ON CIO, AFL: Merger Seen as Contrilrtion To U.S. Economic Stability ,i CAMPUS BRIEFS Dr. Donald Brand Is Na Professor of Gegrap iy By BRUCE SCHWARTZ Merger of the two most power- ful labor federations in the coun- try, the CIO and the AFL, would be a sizable contribution to Amer- ican economic stability in the opinion of Prof. Clark Dickinson of the economics department. Proposal for consolidation of the two groups was made in a letter from AFL president William Green at the meeting of the fed- eration's executive council in Jan- uary. The amalagamation pros- pect seems to have been shelved for the present, however, inas- much as CIO inaction has been taken by Green as a rejection of the proposal. The combined strength of the two unions would be about 13 1/2million. "Jurisdictional disputes between unions competing for the labor world have been the cause of numerous major strikes with one union attempting to boycott another," Prof. Dickinson said, adding: "For this reason the American public has had to contend not only with labor-management dis- putes but also with inter-labor difficulties. The comparative un- ity among British and Swedish unions, however, gives us an ex- agerated idea of labor harmony abroad. Attention to splits in Canada, Mexico, and pre-war Ger- many, for example, would show that American division is not so unusual in world labor experi- ence." The National Labor Relations Board has been charged with the Job of conducting elections within plants where CIO and AFL inter- ests have conflicted to decide which would represent the work- ers but, according to Prof. Dick- inson, these decisions have not always been accepted by both un- ions. Prof. Dickinson declared that the merger, if effected, would re- unite two groups of unions which have been going their separate ways in the organized labor field since 1936. At that time there was only the American Federation of Labor dominating the labor scene. By then, however, a committee calling itself the Committee for Industrial Organization had form- ed within the AFL and adopted more aggressive tactics in organ- izing mass-production industries than the AFL held proper. Fin- ally the AFL issued an ultimatum which this committee would not accept, whereupon the Congress of Industrial Organizations struck cut on its own, Prof. Dickinson ex- plained. .( One of the major causal fact- ors for this split was the diverse manners in which the two factions wished to be organized. The AFL has committed itself more gen- erally to organization by craft or trade, while the CIO adheres to industry-wide organization, that is, all the workers within a given industry, Prof. Dickinson said. The two unions, Prof. Dickinson pointed out, present certain di- verse patterns of structure, per- sonalities and ideologies which will be difficult to reconcile. "Besides the different bases of organiza- tion," he declared, "this consoli- dation presents the obstacle of who would get the influential pos- itions in the single union. Such grand scale reorganization would be certain to result in some offic- ials either being reduced in power or squeezed out of jobs altogeth- er." The IO and AFL have also fol- lowed quite different policies in regard to politics, Prof. Dickinson said. The CIO has attracted peo- ple of leftist tendencies and has looked more favorably on the la- bor-party idea, he explained, while the AFL has been less active inso- far as affiliating itself with any particular party is concerned, al- though it does support its share of lobbyists in the state and na- tional governments. "There are other internal fric- tion spots such as per-capita tax amounts to be paid union heads which are* creating dissension within union ranks continually and which no doubt contributed to the CIO-AFL spit," Prof. Dick- inson stated. Nevertheless, despite these many many obstacles and the current stalemate, Prof. Dickinson believes a merger is not impossible and would have a highly beneficial effect on the country as a whole. -Daily-Wake 'BELOW DECKS' STAFF-Students comprise the majority of The Daily composing room staff this year. Pictured above with Ken Chatters, shop foreman (extreme left) are (left to right) Bernard Wright, Joe Marble, Sherman Poteet, Walter Leonard and Roy Gross. ** MEET THE DA ILY SHOP STAFF: Production Side Manned by Students _ ,. By MACK and CHUCK WOODRUFF The statement in the masthead of The Dailythat the paper is "edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan" contains more truth than usually meets the eye. From the day in 1890 when The Daily began, the editorial, sports,, women's and business staffs have been manned 100 per cent by stu- dents. But this year the produc- tion side of The Daily-type set- ting, makeup and ad composition is also largely student-operated. Handle Skilled Jobs These "below decks" student members of The Daily set-up work at skilled jobs during odd hours of day and night and do their study- ing on the run. Radio Contact With Pole Is Maintained ABOARD THE MT. OLYMPUS, March 1-(IP)-Navy communica- tions engineered a new achieve- ment in the polar skies during this Antarctic expedition, keeping in almost' constant radio contact with Washington over the conti- nents and oceans between the cap- ital and the bottom of the world. The modern radio teletype and the familiar staccato of the Morse code have been the voice contact between Washington and Little America and have managed to knit together an exploratory fleet whose ships and planes were some- times as much as 3,000 to 6,000 miles apart. In the first 12 weeks the Mt. Olympus communications depart- ment handled 16,000 messages, in- cluding official dispatches, 400 words news stories and private messages topped by one marriage proposal to which the .girl said "maybe." According to Ken Chatters, shop superintendent, and veteran 'of 16 years with The Daily, the pre- sent crew of student-printers is of journeyman calibre. "It takes several years of experi- ence in the trade to become a good printer or linotype operator; de- pending on individual ability," Chatters said. Most of the stu- dents on The Daily composing room staff learned their trade in high school, and one apprenticed at The Daily during the summers. Afternoon Shift Bernard "Doc" Wright, ad com- positor and lino operator worked at The Daily before the war. His job was interrupted by a 19-month "holiday" in Belgium, France and Germany, after which he returned to thg composing room. Last semester, Wright had the shift from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. When asked how he managed to eat, sleep and go to school, he said it presented quite a problem, but with his classes scheduled in the after- noons he managed all right, even getting "a chance to see my wife now and then." He is a, sopho- more in the literary college and now works on the afternoon shift. Walter Leonard, a teammate of Doc's on the, afternoon shift, has been with The Daily for ten years. He learned his trade on weeklies in Iowa and Illinois and is a form- er University enginering student. Leonard recently purchased The Chelsea Standard, weekly paper, where he will take over as editor and publisher in April.. He says it has been a "life-long ambition" to own his own paper. Pre-Med Student Roy Gross, news-makeup man and linotype operator, started last summer with The Daily. He learned his trade working sum- mers at the University Printing Department. Gross, a pre-med student, is carrying a heavy sched- ule and intends to enter Medical School in the fall. He said that finding time to eat and sleep is a big problem. "What makes, things tough," he said, "is that I live in Dexter, and they didn't figure on me when they made out the bus schedule." Gross has the late night-early morning shift, and manages to find transporta- tion with a friend who works nights at the Ann Arbor Press. Joe Marble, junior in the en- gineering'school, worked at The Daily before the war. A linotype and news make-up man, he learned the trade in Colorado on his father's newspaper. Marble. who works on the night shift, hits the books before going to work at 10 p.m. and sleeps in what free time he has before his late morn- ing class. He is a member of Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity. Sherman Poteet, another victim of the graveyard shift, learned the trade in high school at the age of 14. Poteet is a sophomore here. and finds it less difficult than his colleagues to get along. "I just do my school work between classes," he said. New Yorkers to Have 8759 New Apartments NEW YORK, March 1-(AP)-1t.It won't be long now before 160,000 applicants begin to learn who has hit the jackpot-a shiny, new apartment-in Stuyvesant Town, the nation's largest post-war hous- ing project. The first apartments will be ready next fall and leases will be signed about four months in ad- vance. The project will not be' completed until 1948. Music Prograpt . . A program of piano and violin selections will be presented at 8 p.m. today in the International Center, following the supper for foreign students and friends at 7 p.m. in the Center. The musical program is open to the public. * * * Jewish Music Wek .. In observance of Jewish Music Week, a record concert will be given at 8 p.m. today in the B'nai B'rith Hil Foundation. The program will consist of "Schelomo" by Bloch, "Rhap- sody in Blue" by Gershwin and the Bruch "Kol Nidre." Nursing Lecture .. . "Trends in Nursing" will be the subject of a talk to be given by Emilie Sargent, director of the Detroit Visiting Nurse Association. at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in the public health school auditorium. Open to the public, the lecture will be followed by. a tea. MCF Discussion ... The Mgchigan Christian Fellow- ship will hold a panel discussion on the "Significance of the Reur- section" at 4:30 p.m. today at Lane Hall. Filpts on Russia .. . Two films, "Peoples of the USSR" and "Soviet School Child," will be shown at 4:10 p.m. tomorrow in Rc*ham Amphitheatre. This is the fourth In a series of movie programs presented by the University Extension Ser- vice Bureau of Vsual Education. U' Will Enter Hearst Contest The University yesterday be- came an entrant in the fifth an- nual national oratorical compe- tition sponsored by the Hearst newspapers. A total of 10,775 undergradu- ates are eligible for the contest which comprises two divisions- the "junior" division for fresh- men and sophomores and the "senior" division for juniors and seniors. Two students, who will repre- sent the University in the Detroit area contest, will be selected by the speech department. They will be awarded $50 U.S. Savings Bonds by the Hearst newspapers and will have a chance to compete for other awards in the state, zone and national competitions. Subject of the orations, which will be limited to six minutes, will be "Patrick Henry, Patriot and Statesman:" Jerry Pettit, former managing editor of The Daily and now fea- ture editor for the Detroit Times, is in charge of the contest in, this state. NEWS Dr. Donald D. Brand who will become professor of geography at the University at the beginning of the summer session, was the for- mer head of the department of anthropology at the University of New Mexico. Born in Peru, Dr. Brand received his education in California, ob- taining his bachelor's and doc- tor's degrees in geography fromI the University of California. Rrom 1929 to 1931 he was a field as- sistant and traveling fellow in peography in Mexico. He then served as a teaching fellow in Black, blue and white bra (1.59), girdle (4.95) or panty girdle (5.50). Nylon and Rayon Hose. Anklets - Cottons (from .35), wools (1.00) and spun nylons (1.50). Slips. 32-44. (2.79) * geography at the U California, becoming and lecturer there in In 1934 Dr. Brand University of New V sistant professor o geography, rising to department in 1936, professorship in 1939 took a two year leav from the University o: in 1944 to serve as c rapher for the Smith tute in Mexico. Hold Those . ('1 i H. 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