National Reports

...Michigan Democrats promptly labeled their bill the Eisenhower-Williams program...

...The petition never went beyond the press-release stage, but it fulfilled its purpose...

...The theater management says he had earlier indicated he would be on the job, but was held in the union office and not allowed to report for work...

...Mandatory coverage was extended to employers of 6 or more workers, instead of 8 or more, as previously...

...WFMT's owners were horrified to discover that, although these executives would contribute personally, they would not throw any of their accounts to the station...

...A few cities, notably Flint and Lansing, are not suffering at the moment because of the Ford and General Motors sales race...

...The generosity of those who brought the U-boat is rarely matched...

...The theater stayed dark until another picture—a production in Sovcolor—could be scheduled...

...The only workers who will receive benefits equal to half of weekly earnings are those who earned less than $50 per week—a distinct minority of the unemployed...

...The latter, a commercial enterprise in the upper-income North Shore suburb of Highland Park, is more comfortable than Grant Park but lacks imaginative programming...

...No member of the AFL Moving Picture Operators Union can be found to run the projector in the theater that booked the film...

...Extraneous noises, the bane of outdoor concerts, are about equally divided between the two...

...Possibly the scandals of recruitment and subsidization, which have caused other schools to take a second look at their athletic programs, seem more attractive to U-of-C executives than the scandal of heterodoxy and "pro-Communism," with which they have been so long burdened...

...Concerts given in Grant Park's bandshell, on the lake front just south of the downtown Loop, are free and popular...

...Faced with high welfare rolls, the councils of 25 municipalities containing 46 per cent of the state's population passed resolutions endorsing more liberal unemployment-compensation benefits...

...The original 1936 act specified that benefits should be computed as 50 per cent of a worker's average weekly wage, with up to 66 per cent for very low-income workers...

...This was a last-ditch tactic after the State Senate had passed the Teahen bill, which would have granted meager benefit increases to unemployed parents of dependent children but no increase at all to a majority of the unemployed...

...the owners ask back...

...At present, management lawyers, with the cooperation of the American Civil Liberties Union's Chicago branch, are huddling with the international union and the top AFL leadership...

...Cutbacks in military production have involved most of this region's products, and unemployment has risen steadily since August 1953...

...Many of these listeners are advertising executives...

...These were endorsed by the CIO in full-page advertisements which also noted that the practical alternative to more liberal benefits from the $439 million in the Employment Security Trust Fund would be increased expenditures from state and municipal general funds...

...All is not lost, however...

...Elsewhere along the cultural front, Chicago is moving into another summer of open-air music and straw-hat drama...

...The union's power stems from the fact that it has a complete monopoly in Chicago...

...Booking was canceled on receipt of a protest letter from Edward Clamage, chairman of the State American Legion's anti-subversive commission...

...Overall, unemployment appears to be leveling off, but most discharged workers cannot find new jobs...

...Governor Williams announced a committee to draft a petition that would initiate a constitutional amendment fixing unemployment - compensation rates at two-thirds of weekly wages...

...A surprise move was the Democratic threat to place the issue on the November ballot by popular initiative...

...Construction of an educational television station has been repeatedly postponed because its sponsors cannot raise a minimum of $100,000...

...Unemployment compensation was the crucial issue in this year's legislative session...

...Indeed, enactment of HB 65 was an unusual demonstration of what a resourceful legislative minority and its allies occasionally can accomplish when conditions are opportune...

...This gain was largely offset by elimination of the elective-coverage provision...

...WFMT's listeners are devoted to its widely varied programs, which range from lectures to Dixieland jazz, from Palestrina to Honegger, from bawdy ballads to full-length opera...

...And Chicago's high-brow FM station, WFMT, has been forced to shorten its broadcasting day to eight hours and appeal to its listeners for a $75,000 operating fund...

...In reserve, pending the outcome of these negotiations, is a suit charging restraint of trade and asking damages and an injunction against the union boycott...

...It is fast becoming a Chicago legend...

...Under the terms of its contract with the Theater Owners Association, the local must provide a projectionist upon the request of a theater...

...Musically, Chicago summers are more exciting...

...History lovers contributed about $200,000 to bring the ship here...

...It also controls the supply of projectionists...

...The Cinema Annex has asked for a substitute projectionist, but none has reported...

...On the basis of Michigan's average 1953 industrial wage, the maximum benefits under HB 65 will be 34 per cent of weekly wages for a single worker and 49 per cent for a worker with five dependents...

...The film was originally scheduled at the Hyde Park Theater in the University of Chicago area...

...The University of Chicago has announced plans for raising an athletic scholarship fund to bring big-time football back to the Midway...

...On March 15, it stood at 9 per cent in Detroit, 10 per cent in the Upper Peninsula, and 11 per cent in other areas...

...2) liberalizes the dependency definition...

...The bill (1) extends the maximum duration period for unemployment benefits from 20 to 26 weeks...

...The showing was then moved to the Cinema Annex, a West Side house that specializes in Soviet films...

...The summer's greatest event so far has been the arrival of a captured Nazi submarine, which will be placed on display at the Museum of Science and Industry...

...This sub, the U-505, was boarded and captured in June 1944 by a task force composed primarily of Chicago-area men...

...Too high-brow, too untried, they say...

...And a major gain for labor was the broadening of the dependency definition, previously restricted to dependent minor children, to essentially the same scope as under the Federal income-tax law...

...Conference football, abandoned as part of a brave new educational experiment, now assumes a new allure...

...Then, if you can keep from being carried off by outsized, bloodthirsty insects, you can see sometimes capable performers go through usually second-rate plays...

...Too high-brow for whom...

...For example, they exploited President Eisenhower's general recommendation that state employment-security laws be strengthened to assure "that payments to the great majority of beneficiaries may equal at least half their regular earnings," with a maximum benefit period of 26 weeks...

...In fact, the act merely constitutes a recovery of ground lost since 1941...

...Attendance hazards along the citronella circuit include, first of all, finding the theater itself...

...Over 216,000 "redundant" Michigan workers-8per cent of the labor force—now understand the meaning of the new phrase, "rolling readjustment...

...Such a proposition on the ballot would have guaranteed a phenomenal off-year election vote...

...Teahen bill...

...It controls the source of jobs through a closed-shop contract with the Allied Theater Owners Association...

...3) raises maximum weekly benefits from the present $27 for a single person to $30, and from the present $35 for workers with four or more dependents to $42...

...Nevertheless, the new bill is far from satisfactory to labor and definitely is short of President Eisenhower's recommendations...

...In addition, Ravinia boasts a restaurant, more convenient transportation, technically superior work and better acoustics...

...Summer Comes to Chicago land By Albert N. Votaw Chicago Chicagoans are faced with an unusual censorship problem involving the film Salt of the Earth, which was made under the sponsorship of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union, one of those expelled from the CIO as Communist-dominated...

...The grounds are thoroughly sprayed, thereby guaranteeing insect-free listening...

...A railroad usually contrives to interrupt Ravinia concerts with a passing freight or two...

...Although music-lovers have a tendency to look down their noses at plebeian Grant Park, programs there include a wider variety of musically interesting offerings than do those at more fashionable Ravinia Park...

...National Reports Michigan's New Unemployment Law By Howard D. Hamilton Lansing, Michigan A two-year struggle to raise unemployment benefits to approximately their prewar level ended here when the State Legislature approved House Bill 65, amending the employment-security law...

...HB 65 overhauled the employment-security act from preamble to end and included numerous innovations in addition to those already mentioned...

...Indeed, HB 65 is a partial labor victory only when viewed in the perspective of the former law and the...

...In contrast, Grant Park offers a continued, if subdued, background of passing auto traffic, plus an occasional airplane...

...On opening day, the projectionist did not show up...

...industrial and construction workers will average only 40 per cent of weekly wages...