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Directors Contìnue Fight for Detter
Stute Puy Scute
December 20, 1947
The meeting of the board of direc
tors in the headquarters office * at Sa
lem was Called to order by President
L. R. White at 10:00 a. m., who stated'
that this meeting was scheduled by the
November meeting of the directors.
The roll was called by the secretary
and the following officers and direc
tors were present: L. R. White, presi
dent; Bjarne Ericksen, junior past presi
dent; J. E. Morelock, vice-president;
Ruth Jaynes, secretary-treasurer; V. G,
O’Neil, director of public relations;
Floyd Query, director of laws and
legislation;. Allen French, director of.
District No. 1; R. W. Southwick,
alternate director for District. No. 2;
Frank L. Hall, director, of district No.
3; E. F. Chidsey, director of district
No. S; E. E. Johnson, director of dis
trict No. 4, and Hugh Taylor, director
of district No. 3, arrived later.»
President White called for the read
ing of the minutes of the previous
meeting. Mr. Ericksen made a motion
that the reading of the minutes be dis
pensed with and that if there were
any corrections that they be noted on
the mimeographed copy handed to each
officer and director. Motion carried.
Mr. Chidsey asked that a correction
be, noted in the last paragraph on the
first page of the mimeographed copy
of the minutes. His statement that “he
thought it possible to retain Mr. Smith
at a lower figure” should have been
followed by the words “if he could af
ford it.” Mr. Chidsey explained that he
did not wish Mr. Leo Smith to think
that he was instigating a move to re
duce his salary. Correction was so noted.
R. M. Smith, director of civil serv
ice, and L. A. McCoskrie, director of
district No. 6, arrived.
C o m m u n ic a tio n s
The secretary read a letter from Sa
lem Chapter N o ., 1, dated Decembe?
18, 1947, as follows: -
Mr. Loren White
President, O.S.E.A.
Salem, Oregon
Dear Sir:
At a regular meeting of , Salem
Chapter No. 1 held December 19, 1947,
the following motion as amended was
unanimously adopted: ;
'That the board of directors be re
quested to instigate a state-Wide news
paper publicity campaign in support of
thè employees’ objectives and with par
ticular reference to salary problems. If
it becomes necessary to use paid space,
Salem Chapter expresses its willingness
to cooperate in the cost thereof.’ |
It is requested that this matter be
presented to the board of directors a |
their December 20, 1947, meeting and
that positive action be taken at this
meeting.
Very truly yours,
(SGD) EDWIN A.- PEASE -
President
Salem Chapter No. 1, O.S.E.A.
Secretary also read a communication
of December 10, 1947, from the Board
of Control to President White relative
to the requested increase of $42 as
cost of living' adjustment, which re
quest was presented to the Board of
Control on December 9 by represen
tatives of the Association. The Board
of Control stated they were in sym
pathy with the request, but that at
present there were no funds for such
an increase.
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President White stated he also had
received a communication from Gov
ernor Hall but that he did not have
the letter with him but would present
it before the meeting was over. The
governor had expressed himself as be
ing highly in accord with the Associa
tion’s request for salary increase and