LABOR SCORES ITS SECOND VICTORY IN FLORIDA PRIMARY; WIN SCHOOL POSTS
Labor Scores Its Second Victory in Florida Primary; Win School Posts J aekson ville Chooses Unionists; Is Blow to Reaction JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Union-minded voters in this largest city of Florida...
...April awards add $377,-516 to the level of monthly payments bringing it to $1,173,933 a month...
...Three weeks earlier the labor vote had named W. Daniel Boyd, one of the 40 dismissed members of the American Federation of Teachers (AFL), as new superintendent of schools...
...D. C—Over 21,150 persons were added to the old-age and survivors Insurance rolls in April, bringing the total number of persons now awarded regular monthly benefits to 62,364...
...labor forces obtained a 3 to 2 majority that insures rehiring of 40 teachers fired last year for union activity...
...By rapturing two places on the school i oard...
...Under Florida law this would necessitate a write-in vote...
...As a sequel to the primaries, there is a report that the real estate and banking interests plan to run an independent slate to oppose the labor candidates for the school board in the November election...
...Boyd is president of the Jacksonville Federation of Teachers, recently organized and a source of alarm to real estate owners and banking interests...
...Nominated and assured of election are Ted Dcwitt...
...said that talk of the independent school board s?ate was "a laugh " "Maybe they'll have to change their own undemocratic election laws which bar my name from the ballot and forre my backers to resort to the write-in," he said...
...In reporting these figures the Social Security board noted that the number of claims from retired workers over 65 years of age and from their wives past 65 was exceeding advance estimates by nearly 20 per cent-Claims from widows, orphan children, and other dependents in the case of the death of the breadwinner were lagging behind estimates...
...Melson's weekly publication attacked Harold Cohn, managing editor of The Jacksonville Journal, and has also assailed the American Newspaper Guild (CIO), which has a contract with the Journal...
...The vote was 20.044 to 19.471...
...C O. Andrews in the U. S. senate conest...
...Percy L. Thomas and W. C. Rivers, the two board members beaten by the labor candidates, both wailed publicly ever the decision of Boyd to appoint Herbert Heimovitz principal of unndon highschool...
...A provision drafted for the express purpose of keeping minority parties off the ballot deciares that only a party which has polled more than 5 per cent of the entire vote for a statewide candidate in either of the two preceding general elections may be given a place on the ballot...
...The selection of Heimovitz was doubly painful to the defeated board members, since the new principal was secretary of the teachers union and one of the 40 unionists who got the axe...
...A. W. Trainor, independent labor candidate opposing Sen...
...21,150 More Get Old Age Pension WASHINGTON...
...In past years Kl»r*.-supported candidates have won the Democratic nomination just as surely as Democratic nominees won in the final election...
...Union-minded voters in this largest city of Florida gave another licking to reactionary msiness interests and the Ku Klux Klan in the second primary election...
...Sam Melson, editor of the Herald Tribune, was beaten in a race for the state legislature by Chaiira Luckie, a young tabor-mlnded attorney...
...member of the Building Trades Council, and James Ross, railway unionist...
Vol. 10 • June 1940 • No. 23
