January 28, 1946 (4 pages)

. a 2 MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1946 JUST WONDERIN’ A NEVAD/Z TITY NUGGET: PAGE THREE Sree ey — ne . alize its successes.It might be that defeat we may be forced into public iil have as its prin oe ee Early Day Firehouse . 5 mame ete ee I wonder if the heavenly orbs ; certain orderly stars might blaze out: ownership of utilities socialism or the development of policies andi Jg Being Renovated % Look down upon this world of strife;at us in energy or smother us with even a new thing which may be methods «to reduce man caused fires anonered by ThE Weenie CO & : And gossip with their neighbor orbs poisonous vapors. Might collide with . called ClOcracy that would be some-;and fire hazards. During last year ee ine work at potas a : Albout the woes of earthly life; a wandering comet, heavenly; thing now under the sun. Solomon to'more than 750 man — fire A a ee es z Anf if the staid, old fashioned stars’ orbs are not so placid as we have/the contrary. prorned See ner Wee ee heean. Ted Lindsay is in charge of . Regard our ways with stern derision been taught to believe, so let us not More, faith in one another less . tional forests. the project. * a And thank the lucky stars that their. waste too much time envying faith in time worn creeds more kind-. Show has named Andrew = BrenThe belfry which bad beeun to % ¢ Affairs are regulated with precision.! them rather let us our ownjly words out spoken are what our ineis supervisor of the Trinity nalean.: will be returned to a verti me “ . nderetand hee os PUBIA a Pe voices saying brother, more hope for! neis a professionally trained fore, a eee = ae eaves ce ee z ings with the world which they inThe United States is at the prescoming days. Less carping criticism . er was first employed by the U. S.\_ y er : Meee naen oe eget 3 = a ee im Meet a degree of ent in a state of turiiilent unrest.) oc. standing aide by aide dur itis forest service in 1926 and his wer: fe a ee aS ae Ba + acorn for tie lack of order and prebefore it ig calmed we shall have 4 paths are narrow that should be!ved as supervisor of the Cleveland ee ee a aa * cision with which our earthly afgood idea about who is to blame fOr snooth and wide The differences. Lassen and Trinity national forests. features will remain, B : oly nem ne eee — eee S oa noes sok ae will we cherish are figments of a dream}! = —_-— = ' Mies ee Picasa = : % ? : sy. know as little of us as we do. of’ place the ame where ye1ONYS. pace : ue : el VNISS iviarle £ terce ie Phe a ¥ them so we all 50 our destined wars. That will be a desivable step forward a a onrj 2WO Boys Found A rd Pobbie Hattox Wed z : SEL : willy nilly oe for the best and . and perhaps from that point we can! alikeness in heart. and mind andj Drunk Along Roadside Weegs cua HiSis § aces = Zo Ky sometimes sala ee short dis-go forward compose domestic! qeeg more truth in daily service are] Hurton Kietter 19 and Norman Grade Valley were married January ‘ For KX € pee se es seas es get to work on TeeOnver. what our country needs,—A. Mer-. winerineton 13. were found early!12th in the Methodist parsonage by z . : : ed precision of the sidereal universe Democracy must be made to fang) ea holes arabe © aed ge Red So ee Sh eet gee, devotion at ‘Einj Oy it S ab i se ys ees ahora ene base tec we are es BENG UE saherh: . we Forest Sunervisors . Barr Meadows. The younger boy*ewas and Mrs. J. ©. Pierce of Pecas era : : vi paid ae Sah Lees one of liberty eH ener Ave Transferred iin ditch, thoroughly wet and uncon-'a graduate of the schools in Hast. % Eat perandi o ight orbs and rebe allow democracy to go down os Regional Forester S. B.Show tom . acinus from too much liquor. land, Texas. She has been employed; ~ cece ; = iday announced the _ transfer on They were brought to the county} as a stenographer. t ose Ss : March 1 of Supervisor S. A. Nashj jail by Undersheriff William Woods. Hattox is the son of Mr. and o WL E es ; of Los Padres national forest at San-. They will be questioned it was an-. Bobbie Hattox Sr. of 603 Mill St.j\4 : ; Hartman Insurance Agency ;ta Barbara to the California region nounced by the sheriff's office, ré: . Ha will be associated with his father . © Our eateons find that despite . headquarters of the U. S. forest sergarding a broken.show window atiin the garage and service ascen eg rationing aaa Wwartinie condi. & ; : . viee in San Francisco. Nash Bouldthe Grass Valley public market from . business. 3 dons the quality of cus meee WRITES EVERY KIND OF INSURANCE {en will direct state wide federal act-. which two bottles of liquor, a bottle . [rece ap t6 the mune high : . ivities in forest fire prevention. of apricot brandy and“a bottle of SECOND SEMESTER OPENS ‘ Studnerds we < has always : . Supervisor Boulden has had 34. rock and rye had disappeared Stones Grass Valley and Nevada City * imaintained: Gar wets come 258 South Auburn Street, ‘Grass Valley Phone 616 . years experience in national forest. which had been thrown through the;schools this morning opened their from the best cattle, lanibs atd : . administration in this state. He haS. window were found inside. second semester of the 1945-46 swine that money can buy. Our OPPOSITE VETERANS MEMORIAL BUILDING . been closely oe with phas= school year. cates — Su2 the + service. to our patrons is built i eS of forest fire control and.is well Mre. John Hodgson of Colfax wasjsemester closing last Friday will be a foundation oF high quali qualified to .fill this position which’a visitor in Nevada City last .week.! made to the students idee wetoch ; and reasonable prices. Ask your neighbors about us. They will tell you. A Letter to the President "HARK etter to the Fresident © soo MARKET : 213 Commercial Street Phone 67 Nevada City — BUY — . VICTORY January 18, 1946 As you know, collective bargaining negoraise such average straight-time pay to $1.29 tiations with the Union broke down at _ the an hour, placing such pay among the highest BONDS Hon. Harry S. Truman White House yesterday afternoon, because Mr. today in all of American industry. HELP YOUR President of the United States Murray then refused to budge from his position COUNTRY The White House that a country wide steel strike must take place, Under our offer of a 15 cent increase, the Washington, D. C. unless steel workers are granted a general wage average weekly take-home pay of our ‘steel Be Good To Yourself increase of 19!/7 cents an hour. Our offer of a workers for a forty-hour week would amount Dear Mr. President: wage increase of 15 cents an hour was again to $51.60, assuming that no overtime is involv: 4 rejected by the Union. ed. This figure is only $4.54 less than the actNevada City Chamber of Your proposal to me in Washington last eve: ual average weekly earnings of these employeCommerce ning that the wage demand of the United SteelThe Union threatened to go ahead with its es, including overtime, in the last full war-year workers of America-ClO be settled on the basis program for a national steel strike at midnight of 1944, when the average work week was of a wage increase of . 8!/2 cents an hour, retronext Sunday, although such a strike will be a 46.1 hours. The difference is really less, because N . active to January . , 1946, cannot, . regret to clear violation of the no-strike provision conwe will undoubtedly continue to have overtime ’ Cw Dea say, be accepted by the United States Steel Cortained in our labor contracts with the Union, in the future, just as we have at the present Under Management of 9 poration for the reasons set forth below. which continue by their terms until October time. In November, 1945, overtime premiums . . JOHN and KIM : @ 15, 1946. to our steel workers aggregated more than $1.,ee an Sine. rans tase As you must be aware, your proposal is aF 300,000. Such reduction of $4.54 in weekly BEER, WINES, LIQUORS most equivalent to granting in full the Union's From the outset, we have recognized how intake-home pay is the natural consequence of a Delicious Mixed Drinks to revised demand of a wage’increase of 191/ cts. jurious a steel strike will be to reconversion and shorter work week of forty hours, and therefore Please Every Taste an hour, which was advanced by Philip Murto the economy of this whole country. Most one of lower production. ray, the President of the Union, at our collective industries are dependent upon a supply of steel bargaining conference with the Union in New for their continued operations. We have done Much as we desire to avoid a steel strike, we CLARENCE R. GRAY York a week ago today. In our opinion, there everything reasonably within our power to cannot overlook the effect both on this Cor; : is no just basis from any point of view for a avert such a strike. If a strike occurs, the reporation and on our customers and American W ATCHMAKER 4 wage increase to our steel workers of the large sponsibility rests with the Union. business in general, of the 1814 cent an hour size you have proposed, which, if put into efwage increase, which you have proposed. Such 520 COYOTE STREET fect, is certain to result in great financial harm When the Government at the eleventh hour a wage increase must result in higher prices for . , TELEPHONE 152 not only to this Corporation but also to users of informed us about a week ago of its willingness steel than have previously been proposed to us f NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA steel in general. to sanction an increase in steel ceiling prices, by the Government. Great financial harm we at ‘once resumed collective bargaining negowould soon follow for all users of steel who As I have tried to make clear to you and other tiations with the Union. Such price action by would be obliged to pay higher prices for their government officials during our conferences the Government was a recognition by it of the steel, higher wages.to their employees, and in Washington over the past few days, there is right of the steel industry to receive price. relief still have the prices for their own products suba limit in the extent to which the Union wage because of past heavy increases in costs, someject to OPA control. Such a high and unjustifidemands can be met by us. We reached thing which the steel industry for many ed wage scale might well spell financial disaster that limit when we raised our offer to the Union months has unsuccessfully sought to establish for many of the smaller steel companies and for last Friday from a wage increase of . 12'/2 cents with OPA. : a large number of steel fabricators and processan hour to one of 15 cents an hour. This would = ; ors. The nation needs the output of these comconstitute the highest single wage increase ever I should like again to point out some pertinpanies. Increased wages and increased prices made by our steel-making subsidiaries. Our ofent facts relative to the wages of our steel which force companies out of business can only fer of 15 cents was equivalent to meeting 60% workers. result in irreparable damage to the American of the Union's original excessive demand of a : people. $2 a day general wage increase. Our offer met Since January, 1941, the average straightee = 75% of the Union's final proposal of a wage time hourly pay, without overtime, of our steel _ In our judgment, it is distinctly in the public R CURVE increase of 1914 cents an.hour. A wage inworkers has increased more than the 33% ininterest to take into account the injurious effect DRIVE N “crease of 15 cents an hour, such as we offered, crease in the cost of living during that period, upon American idustry of an unjustified wage Syne would increase the direct labor costs of oe a gd ee by ia esta — increase in the steel industry. — FOOD P CE i idiaries by approximate teel workers’ wages have kept pace with in* : x A $60. 000,000. ay is eee. sr creased living costs. Such siahads aaiatit-itnne : After a full and careful consideration of your Groceries, Fruit and sum, and does not take into account the higher pay in our steel-producing subsidiaries was proposal we have reached the conclusion above Vegetables . costs we shall have to pay for purchased goods: $1.14 an hour in each of the months of Septemstated. Beer and Wine . and services, when large wage increases generber, October and November 1945, excluding : COR. YORK ane COMMERCIAL 4 ally become effective throughout American inany overtime premium and any amount for corRespectfully yours, NEVADA ony. oS aos dustry, as is inevitable after a substantial inrection of possible wage inequities. An increase _ BENJAMIN F. FAIRLESS, crease in steel wages. of 15 cents, in accordance with our offer, would President, United States Steel Corporation. + United States Steel Corporati . . ~ Bl

. a 2 MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1946 JUST WONDERIN’ A NEVAD/Z TITY NUGGET: PAGE THREE Sree ey — ne . alize its successes.It might be that defeat we may be forced into public iil have as its prin oe ee Early Day Firehouse . 5 mame ete ee I wonder if the heavenly orbs ; certain orderly stars might blaze out: ownership of utilities socialism or the development of policies andi Jg Being Renovated % Look down upon this world of strife;at us in energy or smother us with even a new thing which may be methods «to reduce man caused fires anonered by ThE Weenie CO & : And gossip with their neighbor orbs poisonous vapors. Might collide with . called ClOcracy that would be some-;and fire hazards. During last year ee ine work at potas a : Albout the woes of earthly life; a wandering comet, heavenly; thing now under the sun. Solomon to'more than 750 man — fire A a ee es z Anf if the staid, old fashioned stars’ orbs are not so placid as we have/the contrary. prorned See ner Wee ee heean. Ted Lindsay is in charge of . Regard our ways with stern derision been taught to believe, so let us not More, faith in one another less . tional forests. the project. * a And thank the lucky stars that their. waste too much time envying faith in time worn creeds more kind-. Show has named Andrew = BrenThe belfry which bad beeun to % ¢ Affairs are regulated with precision.! them rather let us our ownjly words out spoken are what our ineis supervisor of the Trinity nalean.: will be returned to a verti me “ . nderetand hee os PUBIA a Pe voices saying brother, more hope for! neis a professionally trained fore, a eee = ae eaves ce ee z ings with the world which they inThe United States is at the prescoming days. Less carping criticism . er was first employed by the U. S.\_ y er : Meee naen oe eget 3 = a ee im Meet a degree of ent in a state of turiiilent unrest.) oc. standing aide by aide dur itis forest service in 1926 and his wer: fe a ee aS ae Ba + acorn for tie lack of order and prebefore it ig calmed we shall have 4 paths are narrow that should be!ved as supervisor of the Cleveland ee ee a aa * cision with which our earthly afgood idea about who is to blame fOr snooth and wide The differences. Lassen and Trinity national forests. features will remain, B : oly nem ne eee — eee S oa noes sok ae will we cherish are figments of a dream}! = —_-— = ' Mies ee Picasa = : % ? : sy. know as little of us as we do. of’ place the ame where ye1ONYS. pace : ue : el VNISS iviarle £ terce ie Phe a ¥ them so we all 50 our destined wars. That will be a desivable step forward a a onrj 2WO Boys Found A rd Pobbie Hattox Wed z : SEL : willy nilly oe for the best and . and perhaps from that point we can! alikeness in heart. and mind andj Drunk Along Roadside Weegs cua HiSis § aces = Zo Ky sometimes sala ee short dis-go forward compose domestic! qeeg more truth in daily service are] Hurton Kietter 19 and Norman Grade Valley were married January ‘ For KX € pee se es seas es get to work on TeeOnver. what our country needs,—A. Mer-. winerineton 13. were found early!12th in the Methodist parsonage by z . : : ed precision of the sidereal universe Democracy must be made to fang) ea holes arabe © aed ge Red So ee Sh eet gee, devotion at ‘Einj Oy it S ab i se ys ees ahora ene base tec we are es BENG UE saherh: . we Forest Sunervisors . Barr Meadows. The younger boy*ewas and Mrs. J. ©. Pierce of Pecas era : : vi paid ae Sah Lees one of liberty eH ener Ave Transferred iin ditch, thoroughly wet and uncon-'a graduate of the schools in Hast. % Eat perandi o ight orbs and rebe allow democracy to go down os Regional Forester S. B.Show tom . acinus from too much liquor. land, Texas. She has been employed; ~ cece ; = iday announced the _ transfer on They were brought to the county} as a stenographer. t ose Ss : March 1 of Supervisor S. A. Nashj jail by Undersheriff William Woods. Hattox is the son of Mr. and o WL E es ; of Los Padres national forest at San-. They will be questioned it was an-. Bobbie Hattox Sr. of 603 Mill St.j\4 : ; Hartman Insurance Agency ;ta Barbara to the California region nounced by the sheriff's office, ré: . Ha will be associated with his father . © Our eateons find that despite . headquarters of the U. S. forest sergarding a broken.show window atiin the garage and service ascen eg rationing aaa Wwartinie condi. & ; : . viee in San Francisco. Nash Bouldthe Grass Valley public market from . business. 3 dons the quality of cus meee WRITES EVERY KIND OF INSURANCE {en will direct state wide federal act-. which two bottles of liquor, a bottle . [rece ap t6 the mune high : . ivities in forest fire prevention. of apricot brandy and“a bottle of SECOND SEMESTER OPENS ‘ Studnerds we < has always : . Supervisor Boulden has had 34. rock and rye had disappeared Stones Grass Valley and Nevada City * imaintained: Gar wets come 258 South Auburn Street, ‘Grass Valley Phone 616 . years experience in national forest. which had been thrown through the;schools this morning opened their from the best cattle, lanibs atd : . administration in this state. He haS. window were found inside. second semester of the 1945-46 swine that money can buy. Our OPPOSITE VETERANS MEMORIAL BUILDING . been closely oe with phas= school year. cates — Su2 the + service. to our patrons is built i eS of forest fire control and.is well Mre. John Hodgson of Colfax wasjsemester closing last Friday will be a foundation oF high quali qualified to .fill this position which’a visitor in Nevada City last .week.! made to the students idee wetoch ; and reasonable prices. Ask your neighbors about us. They will tell you. A Letter to the President "HARK etter to the Fresident © soo MARKET : 213 Commercial Street Phone 67 Nevada City — BUY — . VICTORY January 18, 1946 As you know, collective bargaining negoraise such average straight-time pay to $1.29 tiations with the Union broke down at _ the an hour, placing such pay among the highest BONDS Hon. Harry S. Truman White House yesterday afternoon, because Mr. today in all of American industry. HELP YOUR President of the United States Murray then refused to budge from his position COUNTRY

The White House that a country wide steel strike must take place, Under our offer of a 15 cent increase, the Washington, D. C. unless steel workers are granted a general wage average weekly take-home pay of our ‘steel Be Good To Yourself increase of 19!/7 cents an hour. Our offer of a workers for a forty-hour week would amount Dear Mr. President: wage increase of 15 cents an hour was again to $51.60, assuming that no overtime is involv: 4 rejected by the Union. ed. This figure is only $4.54 less than the actNevada City Chamber of Your proposal to me in Washington last eve: ual average weekly earnings of these employeCommerce ning that the wage demand of the United SteelThe Union threatened to go ahead with its es, including overtime, in the last full war-year workers of America-ClO be settled on the basis program for a national steel strike at midnight of 1944, when the average work week was of a wage increase of . 8!/2 cents an hour, retronext Sunday, although such a strike will be a 46.1 hours. The difference is really less, because N . active to January . , 1946, cannot, . regret to clear violation of the no-strike provision conwe will undoubtedly continue to have overtime ’ Cw Dea say, be accepted by the United States Steel Cortained in our labor contracts with the Union, in the future, just as we have at the present Under Management of 9 poration for the reasons set forth below. which continue by their terms until October time. In November, 1945, overtime premiums . . JOHN and KIM : @ 15, 1946. to our steel workers aggregated more than $1.,ee an Sine. rans tase As you must be aware, your proposal is aF 300,000. Such reduction of $4.54 in weekly BEER, WINES, LIQUORS most equivalent to granting in full the Union's From the outset, we have recognized how intake-home pay is the natural consequence of a Delicious Mixed Drinks to revised demand of a wage’increase of 191/ cts. jurious a steel strike will be to reconversion and shorter work week of forty hours, and therefore Please Every Taste an hour, which was advanced by Philip Murto the economy of this whole country. Most one of lower production. ray, the President of the Union, at our collective industries are dependent upon a supply of steel bargaining conference with the Union in New for their continued operations. We have done Much as we desire to avoid a steel strike, we CLARENCE R. GRAY York a week ago today. In our opinion, there everything reasonably within our power to cannot overlook the effect both on this Cor; : is no just basis from any point of view for a avert such a strike. If a strike occurs, the reporation and on our customers and American W ATCHMAKER 4 wage increase to our steel workers of the large sponsibility rests with the Union. business in general, of the 1814 cent an hour size you have proposed, which, if put into efwage increase, which you have proposed. Such 520 COYOTE STREET fect, is certain to result in great financial harm When the Government at the eleventh hour a wage increase must result in higher prices for . , TELEPHONE 152 not only to this Corporation but also to users of informed us about a week ago of its willingness steel than have previously been proposed to us f NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA steel in general. to sanction an increase in steel ceiling prices, by the Government. Great financial harm we at ‘once resumed collective bargaining negowould soon follow for all users of steel who As I have tried to make clear to you and other tiations with the Union. Such price action by would be obliged to pay higher prices for their government officials during our conferences the Government was a recognition by it of the steel, higher wages.to their employees, and in Washington over the past few days, there is right of the steel industry to receive price. relief still have the prices for their own products suba limit in the extent to which the Union wage because of past heavy increases in costs, someject to OPA control. Such a high and unjustifidemands can be met by us. We reached thing which the steel industry for many ed wage scale might well spell financial disaster that limit when we raised our offer to the Union months has unsuccessfully sought to establish for many of the smaller steel companies and for last Friday from a wage increase of . 12'/2 cents with OPA. : a large number of steel fabricators and processan hour to one of 15 cents an hour. This would = ; ors. The nation needs the output of these comconstitute the highest single wage increase ever I should like again to point out some pertinpanies. Increased wages and increased prices made by our steel-making subsidiaries. Our ofent facts relative to the wages of our steel which force companies out of business can only fer of 15 cents was equivalent to meeting 60% workers. result in irreparable damage to the American of the Union's original excessive demand of a : people. $2 a day general wage increase. Our offer met Since January, 1941, the average straightee = 75% of the Union's final proposal of a wage time hourly pay, without overtime, of our steel _ In our judgment, it is distinctly in the public R CURVE increase of 1914 cents an.hour. A wage inworkers has increased more than the 33% ininterest to take into account the injurious effect DRIVE N “crease of 15 cents an hour, such as we offered, crease in the cost of living during that period, upon American idustry of an unjustified wage Syne would increase the direct labor costs of oe a gd ee by ia esta — increase in the steel industry. — FOOD P CE i idiaries by approximate teel workers’ wages have kept pace with in* : x A $60. 000,000. ay is eee. sr creased living costs. Such siahads aaiatit-itnne : After a full and careful consideration of your Groceries, Fruit and sum, and does not take into account the higher pay in our steel-producing subsidiaries was proposal we have reached the conclusion above Vegetables . costs we shall have to pay for purchased goods: $1.14 an hour in each of the months of Septemstated. Beer and Wine . and services, when large wage increases generber, October and November 1945, excluding : COR. YORK ane COMMERCIAL 4 ally become effective throughout American inany overtime premium and any amount for corRespectfully yours, NEVADA ony. oS aos dustry, as is inevitable after a substantial inrection of possible wage inequities. An increase _ BENJAMIN F. FAIRLESS, crease in steel wages. of 15 cents, in accordance with our offer, would President, United States Steel Corporation. + United States Steel Corporati . . ~ Bl