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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-06-09
Collins Elected To
Represent L. u. 1873
All Members Urged To Be
Present At Next
y Meeting

An exceptionally interesting meet
ing was held by Local Union No. 1873
in room Of the N. B. 0. P. building
last Thursday. We wish to thank the
brothers who were present and we
would like to see more of the boys
come out
The local needs the help of each and
every member and in turn it helps all
who are on it's roll.
Attend the next meeting, June 16
and bring your dues books. Pay up
if you can, and if you are unable, tell
the officers. This must be done right
away or suspensions will be handed
out. The local can't afford to carry
brothers who are unable or unwilling
to meet their obligations.
Brother G. E. Collins will represent
this local in Atlantic City at the an
nual convention starting June 27. The
local wishes him the best of luck.
20. G. 1873.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-06-09
Court Order Gusts CIO
From A. F. of L. Quarters

Harrisburgh, Pa. ILNS). - The
Dauphin County Court, in suit
brought by the Pennsylvania State
Federation of Labor, ordered the
Pennsylvania Industrial Council of
the CIO to vacate Immediately the
state federation headquarters near the
capitol.
The property, appraised at $1,000
was occupied many years by the state
labor federation, affiliated with the
A. F. of L.
After the charter of the federation
was revoked in February by A. F. OF
L. President Green, possession of the
property was held by John A. Phillips
longtime head of the state a. F. OF
l.. organization. Phillips acted for the
Industrial Union Council which the
CIO had chartered.
Subsequently Phillips was elected
president Of the CIO council at state
CIO convention. The A. +. of l.
unions reorganized at a special con-
vention and named James L. McDev-
lit, president of the Philadelphia
Building Trades Council, as state fed
Grafton president.
TIL new A. F. of L. federation open
ed temporary headquarters in a hote,
pending outcome of the property suit
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-06-09
Field Agents Are
Assigned To Posts
(By Ohio Labor News Servre)


Columbus, o. - Eighty-two field
agents of the Ohio Unemployment
Compensation Commission were as
signed to their respective districts
last week, as the first step in the Com
missions program to prepare for pay
ment of benefits to unemployed work.
ers after January /, 1889.
The SO counties of the state have
been divided into Is districts for the
purpose of expediting activities of the
field agents in checking payroll rec
ords of employers of three or more
workers who come under the unem-
ployment insurance law.
In existence only a little over
year, the Ohio unemployment compen-
sation act already covers $4,000 en-
ployers and provides protection for
million and half workers, with more
being added daily as work of the field
agents progresses.
Workers know if they are working
for an employer subject to the law,
because all employers liable for con-
tributions and complying with the law
have certificates from the Commission,
which they are required to post where
they may be seen by their employees.
Chief duties of the field agents are
to examine payroll records of con-
tributing employers to verify their
compliance with the law and to con-
tact new employers to determine their
liability for contributions to the un-
employment fund.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-06-09
Hershey Employees Won
By the Federation Union

Washington, D. C.-The destructive
tendencies Of the Committee for In
dustrial Organization and the abso-
lutely sound practices of unions affili-
ated with the American Federation of
Labor are we'll illustrated in the in
formation contained in the following
telegram received by President Will
liam Green of the A. f. of l.. from
A. A. Myrup, secretary-treasurer of
the Bakery and Confectionery Work
ers. International Union of America
from the unions national headquar-
ters in Chicago:
"We are pleased to advise you that
after years experience with irrespon-
sible and raiding c.. |. O. leadership
and inexperienced company union lead
ership the employees of the Hershey
Chocolate Company have turned to the
A. f. of l.. and are now being organ
lied by our international Union. APP
proximately 5000 workers are in
volved. Again it is proven that dual
unionism and raiding tactics do not
pay.
The plant of the Hershey Chocolate
! Company is located at Hershey, Pa.
Information supplied by officials of
the Bakery and Confectionery Union
revealed that following a deep seated
disgust with extreme company and
employer paternalism, but moved by
desire for self-help a number of the
Hershey employees applied for char
ter from the Bakers Union in Febru-
ary, 1887. But before the union was
firmly established the c. |. O. broke
into Hershey and with "high sound
ling phrases" and irresponsible prom
ises raided and captured this group
Of workers." whereupon the bona fde
| A. +. of l.. Bakers Union withdrew
from Hershey and left them to the C.
[. O. crowd.
But after one whole years expert.
ence with the irresponsible C. |. O.
leadership and equally inexperienced
company union leadership the Her
shey employees eventually turned to re.
sponsible and constructive A. f. of l.
leadership under the Bakery ano
Confectionery Workers international
Union with the certainty that a ma
jority of the company's employees will
very soon be carrying union cards.
The developments leading up tc
the successful organization campaign
among the Hershey Company EN-.
ployes have been under the direct SUI
pervision of International Secretary.
Treasurer A. A. Myrup of the Bakery
and Confectionery Workers Internati
onal Union, assisted by special Inter
national Representative Charles Nc
Closky, Business Representative o.
Local No. 11o.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-06-09
Hurlun Mine Terrorism
Plotted In Whisper Room

London, Ky. QLNS).-Opening the
case for the government in the Har-
Ian County prosecution, Brien Nc
Mahon, Assistant Attorney General,
said that while the craftsmanship of
the thugs Of Harlan County was not
up to Kentucky standards, they had
managed to kill several men.
His opening speech was singer.
He told of the "Whisper room" in the
court house, where mine managers
met with Sheriff Middleton to plot
beatings and terrorism. He told of the
assessment of half a cent a ton on
coal mined in each mine as a gang
fund, to keep the unions out of Har-
Ian.
"Unthank was the chief deputy"
said Mcmahon. ale led the thugs
around the county to threaten, beat
and in some cases, to kill. And he
got his orders, gentlemen, from man
who sits in this courtroom today"
But Charles |. Wawson, chief coun-
sci for the defense, former federal
Judge who resigned because he hated
the New Deal, declared that murder,
kidnapping and violence were not the
issues. This, he said, was trial for
conspiracy.
Meaning, apparently, the old pick
pockets remark to the policeman:
"You may be right, but you gotta
prove it,"
Before the trial opened, the Clover
Splint Coal Co. threw itself on the
mercy of the court, announcing that
it would not contest the charges.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-06-09
Seumen's Union No. 2l420 Succeeds
Int'l. Seunen's Union on Atlantic Coust

means of informing you officially that
the successor union, affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor, to the
International Seamen's Union, COM
prising seamen on the Atlantic and
Gulf, is called the American Fedora
tion Of Labor Seamen's Union No.
21420 and as such is entitled under
the law to act as the sole bargaining
agency for those of your employees
designated in the foregoing order.
"On behalf of the American Fedora
tion of Labor and of it's American Fed
Grafton of Labor Seamen's Union No.
2142O, | ask a conference with you in
which the union would be represented
by Mr.. Patrick Ryan and by bargain
ing committee composed of Mr.. Robert
Chapdelaine, president of the Union,
and Mr.. Robert Lynch, secretary of
the Union, for the purpose of negoti-
ating contract with you.
Grange Does Not Represent A. F. of
L. Seamen
81 understand that letter has been
sent to some steamship companies
purporting to be signed by the Inter-
national Seamen's Union, David E.
! Grange, Vice President. Last August
David E. Grange rendered his written
resignation as vice president, member
of the Executive Board, international
Seamen's Union and as president of
the Cooks and Stewards Union, condi-
toned only on acceptance by me. In
September l accepted Mr.. Oranges
resignation and SO notified him, SO that
he no longer has any connection with
the international Soa rop,c I-n;np
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-06-09

Washington, D. C.-The following
letter was recently sent by William
Green, president of the American
Federation of Labor, to all steamship
companies having collective bargain
ing relationships with the Interna-
tional Seamen's Union of America, an
A. F. of l.. affiliate in process of re-
organization:
"The National Labor Relations
Board has entered an order dated
February 10, 1898 as a result of an
election conducted by the Board
among the unlicensed personnel en-
ployed by you, Certifying the Inter
national Seamen's Union of America
or it's successor affiliated with the
American Federation Of Labor as the
sole bargaining agency for the unli-
censed personnel employed in your
deck, engine and stewards depart
ments, except wireless and radio oper-
ators, electricians on electrically driven
ships and Juniors who hold licenses on
vessels operated out of Atlantic and
Gulf ports by you.
Phrasing of Seamen's Ballot
The words 'or its successor affiliated
with the American Federation of La
bor' following the name international
/ Seamen's Union of America were in
serted by the National Labor Re-
lations Board as a result of an argu-
ment made before the Board in Sep
tember, last, by the American Fedora
tion Of Labor counsel, Charlton Og-
burn, Esq, in which he stated to the
Board that the international Seamen's s
Union was being reorganized and ask
ed the Board to defer for two or three
weeks the beginning Of the elections
until the new name of the organiza-
ton could be placed on the ballot. The
Board, in it's order dated the 18th of
September 1897, denied this request
but stated that the ballot would be SO
phrased that the American Federation
of Labor union, on those lines where
it received majority of votes would
be certified by the Board as the sole
bargaining agency although this
American Federation Of Labor union
was other than the International Sea
mems Union.
Status of New Union
Gas President of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, l am taking this
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-06-09
Cereal Workers Wage War
On Anti-Union Post Co.

Battle Creek, Mich.-The struggle
Of A. F. of l.. Federal Labor Union
No. 20977 Cereal Workers and Allied
Industries, affiliated with the National
Council Of Grain Professors, against
the anti-union policy Of the Post Com
pany here, a subsidiary of General
Foods Corporation, is receiving such
whole-hearted support from organized
labor generally that union members
are confident of ultimate victory for
justice for the employees of the COM
pany.
Following long continued opposition
of the Post Company to enter into an
agreement that would safeguard the
rights of the employees, Federal Union
No. 20977 announced on January 27
that it had placed the company on the
unfair list and urged other A. F. of
L. unions to assist them in their fight.
The action of the Federal Labor
Union was endorsed by the Battle
Creek Federation of Labor and the
National Grain Professors Council.
According to Meyer L. Lewis, presi-
dent of the Grain Professors Council,
General Foods Corporation, which it is
! alleged has manifested unwillingness
to favor the unionization of it's sub
sidiary, manufactures the following
products: Post Toasties, Bakers Cocoa
nut, Bakers Chocolate, Minute Tapioca,
Swans Down Cake Flour, Calumet
Baking Powder, Log Cabin Syrup,
Whole Bran Flakes, Grape Nuts,
Grape Nut Flakes, Posts 401e Bran
Flakes, Instant Postum, Sanka, Max
well House Coffee, Jell-O, Certo, La
France, Satina, Diamond Salt, Hus-
kies, and other products.
Mr.. Lewis pointed out that the prod
ucts of w. X. Kellogg, General Mills,
and Ralston Purina, covering much
the same field as those of General
Foods Corporation and its subsidiary,
the Post Company, are union made in
accordance with A. F. of L. standards.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-06-09
Bus Strike Brings Out
Pickets On Horseback

New York City QLNS).-Pickets on
horseback gave a novel note to strike
of Garden State Bus Line drivers at
the Bridge Plaza, Fort Lee, N. j., and
along Route a.
Wearing full blue uniforms, the
drivers presented their case to the
public with signs draped sandwich
style over the horses flanks. The
signs declared the Garden State Bus
Line was unfair to organized labor.
The strike case has been heard by
the National Labor Relations Board.
The strikers are members of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-06-09
Terrorism Follows
Terrorism at Hdrldn
Government Witnesses Are
Threatened During
Cool Triul

London, KY. (ILNS).-The most
interesting developments of the Har-
Ian County case must be pointed out
but it cannot be told as yet with any
completeness. Two government wit
nesses, recalled after testifying, start
ed to tell how they have been threaten
ed and intimidated since. They said
enough to dispel any doubt that the
mine owning gangsters are trying to
escape punishment for past terrorism
by more terrorism now; but the de-
fense objected and the Judge took mat
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-06-09

ters under advisement before they
could really tell their stories.
Otherwise, the case went on piling
up record Of persecution that would
have interested Torquemada. Eleven
successive witnesses told how they
had been fired, bounded away from
other jobs, beaten, kicked, dubbed, ar
rested without warrants and run out
of the county. All said that they had
claims pending before the NLRB fo1
back pay; and all testified that, once
fired for union activities, the power of
the coal association was sufficient to
keep them from getting any other job
in the county.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-06-09
Federal Wage and
Hour Bill Is Drafted
Conference Committee Is
Narned to Harmonic Sen
ute and House Bills

Washington, D. C.-The action of
speaker Bankhead of the House of
Representatives jim appointing seven
cJnferees on the Wages and Hours
Bill, originally passed by the Senate
and drasticallv amended by the House
to meet with the seven Senate confer
ees already named to harmonize the
differences between the two measures
means that the conference committee
will draft new Wage and Hour Bill
probably differing materially from
both the Senate and the House text.
In addition to Mrs. Mary T. Norton
of New Jersey, chairman Of the House
Labor Committee, Speaker Bankhead
appointed the following representa-
tives as conferees to represent the
House: Robert Ramspeck, Georgia;
Glenn Griswold, Indiana; Kent E.
Keller, Illinois; Matthew A. Dunn,
Pennsylvania; Richard j. Welch, Cali
fornia, and Fred A. Hartley, Jr., New
Jersey.
The Senate conferees are: Ebert D.
Thomas, chairman of the Senate Com
mittee on Education and Labor, Utah
David I. Walsh, Massachusetts; James
E. Murray, Montana; Claude Pepper
Florida; Allen j. Ellender, Louisiana
William E. Borah, Idaho, and Robert
M. La Toilette, Jr., Wisconsin.
Inasmuch as the amendment to the
Senate bill adopted by the House OF
y Representatives struck out everything
after the enacting clause, the confer
ees have the authority under congress
ional rules to write an entirely new
Sill and submit it as conferees re-
As1,ort to both Houses. The report is
not subject to amendment and must
either be adopted in it's entirety or re-
committed to the conferees with in
structions to make specified changes.
The differences which the conferees
will undertake to adjust are very
drastic.
The House bill authorizes the Secre.
tary of Labor to apply graduated wage
to be engaged in interstate commerce
The wage standards under the House
bill begin at Is cents an hour for the
first year and change thereafter ir
three annual steps to 40 cents an hour
The hour standards begin with a A
hour week and are reduced by two an
nual steps to a 4O-hour week. These
wages and hours are universally ap
piled without differentials to every
section of the country. The House bill
is administered by the Secretary o1
Labor, with the enforcement vested il
the Department of Justice.
The Senate bill sets up Labo1
Standards Board of five member!
which would apply minimum wage ant
maximum hour standards after in
vestgating conditions in each industr!
and locality. The Senate bill bars th'
Board from fixing maximum hour
les than 40 hours per week and mini
mum wages in excess of 40 cents pc
hour, but permits differentials be
tween various areas. Differentials o
a ny sort are banned by the House bill
- The exemptions from the provision
of the bill differ largely in the Senat
and House texts.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-06-09
Record Crowd
Continued From Pace One)

and the boxing bouts, battle royal and
wrestling match at 700.
Tea pots will be given away, din
ner sets and roller skates will go the
same way. A Packard automobile will
be driven home by some lucky lad OF
lassie.
You will bump into friends you
haven't seen since you attended the
Last picnic. Many buzzing bee will
bid you parked along the famous
dora midway This is the one day
of the year you can forget all trouble
and be certain of a real day Of pure
enjoyment.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-06-09
Joining Union Cost
Life Of Son, Sfofes
Harlan. ky.. Miner

London, KY, OLNS).-Boyd Isom
told the jury trying the Harlan County
coal operators that joining the union
apparently cost him the life of his
baby son; and that he was twitted with
this after the child's funeral by Harry
Bennett, superintendent Of the Harlan
Central Coal Co., and a defendant in
the case.
Isom told his story only after a bar
rage of objections by the defense
which Judge Ford overruled. He told
of the baby's death and then, asked
again what Bennett had said to him,
he answered.:
"He said if l hadn't joined the union,
I'd got doctors treatment for my
baby"
"Don't you know that your baby
was treated by the company doctor all
during it's illness?" demanded Mr..
Dawson, one of the many attorneys
for the defense.
Only One Treatment
"No, sir" returned Isom. 81 know
~ ulOil SCC Ilo CACQCIiCIIC3 OlIiy OiiNS
at the beginning"
"Why, you know that nobody was
ever refused medical treatment as long
as he remained in camp, don't you?"
persisted the lawyer.
81 know it was refused to me-" said
Isom.
The evidence of concerted efforts to
dominate all the lives of the coal
miners and to hound and harass in
every way those who even looked to-
ward union proceeded steadily.
Lincoln Lowe testified that when he
was straw boss at the Harlan Central,
the foreman gave him slip with the
names of four union men, and told
him to assign them to part Of the
mine where the coal was so thin that
they could not make living.
Alex Hawk, negro worker, said he
was discharged for refusing to sign
a yellow dog petition, asking the COM
pany to discharge union workers.
Perjury Plot Charged
Aside from Isom's testimony, the
real excitement came outside the
courtroom. AS court opened in the
morning, agents of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation took two defendants,
Merle Middleton, one of the numerous
relatives of the former sheriff, and
Lee Hubbard, pool room owner and
former deputy, out of the room to the
office Of a U. S. Commissioner, and
arraigned them on affidavits charging
them with subornation of perjury. An
employe Of the poolroom was brought
in at the same time, and received the
same treatment.
Everyone in the county except the
jury knows of this, and that it was
brought to a head by the evidence
which Ernest Huff, young coal
miner, was not allowed to give to the
jury. The arraigned men tried to
bribe him to contradict his first testi-
mony. The cases will go before the
grand jury in October.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-06-09
MILLMEN WIN STRIKE

New Orleans QLNS).-The' strike
of workers for the National Sash and
Door company ended when the plant
reopened under settlement with the
Millmen and Millwrights union A.
F. of L. affiliate. The strikers won
union shop agreement, an increase
in minimum wages Of mechanics from
4o to 5o cents an hour, 50-hour week
and time and half for overtime.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-06-09
PACKERS SIGN

Toledo, o. (OLNS).-Two Local
meat packing companies | asst week
signed closed shop agreements for one
year with the Amalgamated Meat Cut
ters and Butcher Workmen of North
America, AFL affiliate. More thar
200 employees are covered by the
agreement, which calls for pay in,
creases ranging from 10 to Is per cent
and one week vacations with pay.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-06-09

Busby Grimm, llS-pound Cleveland
Terror, will battle Sammy Taormina
of Akron in the picnic windup.
Bushy has string of victories over
such worthless as Ross Fields, Joey
Baldin, Jackie Ward, Willie Davis and
Joey Ross Of New York. He is out to
stop Sanlny's steady climb to the top.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-06-09

Hitler seems to be learning some
thing that most of us knew before,
that Czechoslovakia is a small country
but ready and able to fight
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-06-09

Demand the Union Label.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-16
Growing With Your Child
University of Minnesota Institute of Child Welfare

white Waters and Black" is at once
more hilariouSly amusing and exciting
than anyone would suppose a scientific
expedition in South America could
possibly be.
Coming to autobiography, Peter Freu-
chen's "Artic Adventure" holds top
place in recent years for sheer grit and
courage under seemingly impossible
conditions How even that stout fellow
lived to tell the tale is the amazing
part. From Ireland, eternally and
mistily romantic, comes Maurice o.
Sullivan's Twenty Years A-Growing, -
the story of his own boyhood, and such
a different boyhood from that expert
enced by any American boy. Still
another unusual story is that w. H.
Hudson tells in Ear Away and Long
Ago." which gives many glimpses of the
famous naturalist's boyhood on the
South American pampas. And, to wind
up with the life of a very American
boy, there is Lincoln Steffens' boy on
Horseback" part of his longer auto
biography specially prepared for young
people.
The teen age boy or girl who hasn't
read these books has many long hours
of complete absorption ahead of him,
and some memories that will never
leave him.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-16
Bids Accepted on Big
Pike Lake Project on So.

Accepted bids running considerably
under estimates, N. w. ElSberg, state
highway commissioner, has announced
the letting of new block of highway
project contracts totaling $500, 9o2.74 for
state road improvement which include
the big Pike Lake project out of Du-
luth.
Awards were made in ten counties
on bids opened February 18 and May
20 and 81. Several bids were rejected
and will be advertised in the near
future.
The st. Louis County projects on the
list are given as:
Grading-T. H. So, length ~ miles,
from Duluth to six miles west, to Whit
mas & Borg, Bovey, for S127,44O.51 out
of matched federal aid and state funds
Work to start at once.
Aggregate base-T. H. So, length ~
miles, from Duluth to six miles west
to w. w. Magee, st. Paul, for 1922 SO
out Of matched federal aid and state
funds. Work to start at once.
Monolithic culvert-T H. So, six miles
west of Duluth, to Runquist Construc-
ton Co., Duluth, for $739O34 out of
matched federal aid Work starts
Aug. l.