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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-10-06
Minimum Wage Coined
By Warehouse Workers

Baltimore, Md. (AFLWNS).-The
closed-shop standard union contract
under which warehousemen employed
by H. L. Caplan & Company are now
working is reported as helping to in
fiuence the further progress of A. F.
of l.. Warehouse Employees Union No
21102, due to the harmonious relations
now established under union con-
ditions.
The contract, which has been in eff
feet four months, recognizes the union
as the sole bargaining agent for all
employed in manual labor positions of
the company, establishes the 4S-hour
work week and minimum wages of SIG
per week for all warehousemen. All
formerly getting less than the mini
mum were Immediately raised to the
minimum and others got a 10 per cent
wage increase. Overtime work, in ex-
cess of 4S hours week, brings time
and half.
The contract recognizes seniority
rights, provides for shop stewards, pro-
hibits discrimination for union activity,
establishes a system Of union review
of discharges and sets up adequate
machinery for conciliation and arbi-
tration of disputes.
With regard to holidays the agree
ment contains the following provis-
ions:
"The company shall permit employees
to take holidays on the following days
and there shall be no deduction by
reason thereof: Independence Day, La
Dor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christ
mas Day, New Years Day, or any day
celebrated as such, and for employees
of the Jewish faith, one day of Rosh
Hashanah and one day of Yom Kip
pur. When the above mentioned holi-
days occur during any fiscal work
week, overtime for such week shall be
paid for after 40 hours of straight
time have been worked.
"lf the warehouse of the company
remains closed on any or all of the
above Jewish holidays, no employe
shall receive any reduction in his
weekly pay by reason thereof"
The contract runs to May 26, 1889,
and, unless due notice of change de-
sired is given in advance by either
party, it will automatically become eff
fective for another full year.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-10-06
TOBACCO-WRAPPING TITLE

Neutrality-suspicious. and Williamson
Tobacco Corporation officials say
there is not likely to be a challenger
in these days and times for the world s
plug tobacco wrapping championship
now claimed by 76-years young Andy
Boehnlein, of Louisville. Andy says
ITS all in the fingers" The retired
tobacco worker declared his wrapping
of 2,23S sixteen-ounce plugs in one
day in 1899 never has been equaled
The present title-holder says his work
was not connected with the paper and
foil wrapped around the plugs, but
with the fine leaf tobacco which went
around the lump itself to make it more
attractive. Brown and Williamson
modern machines show marvellous
speed today in turning out union made
cigarettes.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-10-06
EMPLOYMENT LOSS MUST BE
REPORTED, SAYS COMMISSION

Columbus, o. (OLNS).-Workers
who lose their jobs after October l
will have their unemployment record
ed with the Ohio Unemployment Com
pensation Commission under new
regulation adopted by the Commission.
The Commission has ordered en-
ployers in covered industries to report
the unemployment of worker when
the separation from his job extends
longer than a seven-day period, giving
the workers name, social security
number, employment and wage data
and the reason for the loss of the job
Employers are also required under
the regulation to furnish the worker
with copy of the report within "a
hours after the unemployment period
begins. Cause of the unemployment is
important, as it has direct bearing
on the payment Of benefits if the loss
of employment is caused by strike
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-10-06
Chicago News Men
Joining Federation
A:F. L. In Drive To Organize
Chicago Editoridl And
Office Workers
By JOSEPH A. WISE

Chicago QLNS).-The American
Federation of Labor, through the
agency Of Victor A. Olander, secretary
treasurer Of the Illinois State FEEDER
alton of Labor, has made some rapid
moves to checkmate the latest at
tempted activity in Chicago of the
American Newspaper Guild, an affili-
ate of the Committee for Industrial
Organization.
Mr.. Olander has called and held a
meeting of the executives Of all Of the
printing trades unions of the city of
Chicago to map plans for a drive to
enlist the employees of the editorial
rooms and "front Offices" of all Chi
cago daily newspapers under the ban
ner of the American Federation of
Labor. 1t is probable that mass
meeting of these daily newspaper
workers will be held in the near fu-
ture.
The latest attempted activity of the
American Newspaper Guild was to or
ganize the editorial room employees of
the Chicago Journal of Commerce
only financial daily newspaper in the
Middle West The mechanical depart
ments of this newspaper have been
100 per cent unionized ever since the
publication was established more than
two decades ago. John d. Ames, a
nephew Of General Charles G. Dawes
is the publisher.
Olander Acts Promptly
AS soon as Secretary Olander was
notified of the guild move, he depu.
tized a member of the Internationa
Typographical Union who is employed
in the Journal of Commerce compos-
ing room to represent the interests OF
the American Federation of Labor il
| that particular office.
| A contact was made with the edi.
torial room by the A. f. of l.. mar
from the composing room. 1t was as.
certained that two meetings had beer
held on the premises and that com.
mittee had been appointed to draw
up constitution and bylaws. Nc
action on affiliation would be taker
until committee representing the
employees had had an opportunity tc
sit down with Mr.. Olander and dis
cuss the matter.
Opposition to Guild
The American Newspaper Guild has
succeeded in placing it's membership
cards in the pockets of few of the
employees of the editorial rooms of the
Chicago Journal of Commerce. There
| is, however, healthy opposition
among these employees to the CIO
There also is some sentiment for &
"go-it-alone" 'policy-an attempt tt
organize without affiliation with either
the A. f. of l.. or the CIO. Mr.. Olan
der will not oppose this latter policy
if it is followed, he said.
Secretary Olander is optimistic fol
an outcome favorable to the A. f. o1
l.. in this particular newspaper office
as the men and women employed there
are of particularly high order of in
telligence. A majority of them arr
specialists in their lines-tinancial
insurance, stock and commodity mar
kets, iron and steel, petroleum, liv,
stock, railroads, motor freight, ships
real estate yachting, drama, etc.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-10-06
On Capitol Hill
BY GEORGE L. KNAPP

| Washington, D. C. (1LNs).-The
unanimous way in which people in
trouble anywhere in this land look to
Uncle Sam for relief-and the speed
and infallibility with which they get
it-are strikingly shown by the New
England hurricane.
New England governors are asking
Washington for $75,000,OO0 of Fed
eral money to finance relief and re-
habilitation. The sum may be raised
or lowered, probably not lowered, by
further study; but there was no hes
itation on anyone's part. Harry L.
Hopkins went up there by plane; and
the WPA will be in the repair work,
up to it's neck.
There are said to be 1900 young
sters in Connecticut who are enrolled
in the National Youth movement.
Eight hundred of them got into the
cleanup game Immediately after the
storm, and the rest of them are at it
now. And it's doing them good.
X x X
How fast is the Atlantic Ocean
shrinking? And for that matter, how
speedily is the time distance dwindling
between Hawaii and the California
! coast?
Some news has come in that is
making several persons in Washing
ton ask themselves these questions.
Tests have shown the giant Douglas
DC-4 airliner surprising all expecta-
tions. 1t was guaranteed to make
240 miles an hour; and the report says
that it exceeded this figure "by COM
Portable margin" 1t climbed to $4,000
feet altitude with a full load; and one
third of the way up, was climbing
more than 900 feet a minute. That
was with all four engines going; but
with two of them cut off, and with a
load of more than 10000 pounds, it
climbed to 1000 feet.
The Atlantic was wide ocean when
Columbus crossed it; thetrip took him
more than two months. 1t shrunk
vastly when Lindbergh went from
New York to Paris in about 33 hours.
The DC-4 could make the trip in Ia
hours, and carry SO persons-42 pas
sengers and crew Of 8-instead of
one. And it would take quite lot of
bombs to make 10000 pounds.
Some people in Washington are
wondering just what the chaps who
build and run such things are doing
to isolation. And the rascals aren't
half through.
X X X
Practically none Of the comments
on the Presidents "purges" say that
the President gained one Of the two
cases in which he was most deeply in
terested. He wanted Davy Lewis to
come to the Senate; and he was right
in the desire and greatly disappointed.
But he also wanted most potently to
tie can to Congressman John O'Con-
ner; and that was done with neatness,
completeness, and dispatch.
O'Connors may possibly come back
to the House on the Republican ticket
for he got the Republican nomination,
But that is not the point. What every
New Dealer wanted was to- get him
out of his strategic post as chairman
of the Rules Committeeman that is
done.
Congressman Adolph J. SABBATH sue
ceeds to that post. BY birth, he is a
Czechoslovak Jew; by election, he has
been representative from the Fifth
District of Chicago for 81 years.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-10-06
C.. II. u. & THE N. l.. X, B.

Washington, ID. C.-N. l.. X. b. has
on it's desk petitions for certification
of c. T. u. (an A. f. Of l.. affiliate)
as the sole bargaining agency for
Postal Telegraph employees in approx
mately GO cities, on which hearings
have been held and on which a decis-
ion has been awaited by C. n. u. for
sometime. The A. C. A. (CIO aftili-
ate) recently filed petition for a natl
onal election in the Postal System.
Consideration of this petition by the
Board is holding up it's decision on the
cases that have already been heard.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-10-06
TEXAS

Washington, d. CAS- labor tax
study committees are created by Cali
fornia, Utah and Idaho to analyze and
warn their executive boards of new in
equitable tax measures harmful to la
boris interest in state legislative pro-
grams next year, the total Of State
bodies affiliated with the A. F. Of l..
having taken similar steps now rises
to 27,
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-10-06
wherein YOU GET THE LOW DOWN

C. Mortimer Crumbly, A. S. D., was
so chagrined after his dismal show
ing two weeks ago he didn't come
close to the office last week. He still
feels pretty low after stating that
Notre Dame was just another team
and that Southern Cal and Louisiana
State looked like great clubs this year.
He also made crack about the "days
when Ohio U could be counted upon
to take Illinois in the opener are gone"
/ After an aspirin or two he decided
to try his luck again, so we give you
the Doctors latest for what it is
worth.
The Cubs have made very gal
liant drive to win the pennant in the
final couple of weeks while the Yanks
have been looking mighty poor, but
there haven't been any chips down.
The Yanks, in addition to having a
sweet murders row, plenty of pitch
ing and good fielding, have way of
trouncing any team making bid to
show supremacy over them. They
simply can't be tanned when the stakes
are high. The hunch players will like
the Cubs because no team has been
able to capture three championships
in row, but lunches and precedent
aren't going to mean much this year.
Look for the Yanks to win in five at
the outside.
Dartmouth Princeton - Dartmouth,
ranking with Pitt and Cornell in the
East, will make Princeton's Tiger
carry her tail between her legs.
X X X
Pitt t-Dusquesne-The Dukes always
gun for this one, but they aren't car
rying the right shells this year. Pitt
will outgain their city rivals in addi-
tion to outscoring them. Last week
they didn't seem to bother about the
yardage, just the points,; 2S Of them.
X X X
Army COlumbia-Nothing is known
of the Cadets strength this year, but
everyone knows about Luckman. The
Lion should scratch the Mule plenty.
x X X
6l0
Irish can only take about three teams
to Dixie, poor Irish. They don't figure
to need the eighty-odd warriors they
used last week, however. But don't
look for high score.
X X 4
Penn -Yale-Yale will be tough after
losing last week. Penn took her root
ers back to the good old days last
Saturday against Lafayette. This will
be one of the days hardest fought
struggles, but Yale seems to have a
way with Penn and should eek out a
win.
X X X
Holy Cross s-Manhatten-Holy Cross
is just below the top rung, in the East
and may even be right behind Pitt. AT
any rate the Crusaders are too tough
for good Manhattan outfit.
X X X
Texas A. & M.-Santa Clara-Ne
team on the Coast looks better thar
the team that took Stanford so neatly
last week. They are going to have
their hands full with the Texans but
should still look plenty good Saturday
night.
X X X
Tennessee-Auburn-Auburn shoule
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-10-06
WORLD CONFERENCE ASKED

London ULNS).-George Lansbury
former labor leader, headed peace
pledge union delegation in asking the
government to invite all world powers
to conference for revision of treaties
The union manifesto, delivered to
No. 10 Downing street, said that the
Czech crisis required world confer
ence.
Treaty revision, it said, "will only
succeed if the British government is
prepared to regard the question OF
colonial possessions and our economic
policy open for drastic revision"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-10-06
THE LABOR PARADE

Washington, D. C.-The labor Pa
rade" for October presents |. M. Orn-
burn, SecretaryTreasurer of the
the Union Label Trades Department
of the A. F. of L., reporting to the
Convention which will convene in
Houston next week, on "56 years of
progress with the A. F. of L." 1t also
deals with dramatic incidents of that
period including child labor legislation
and a dramatization of the Triangle
Shirt Waist Factory fire which the A.
F. of l.. claims helped lay the found
alton of modern housing programs.
The program will be heard over more
than 100 stations.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-10-06

It's every mans business to know
his business, and if he doesn't know
his business he hasn't any business to
be in business.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-10-06
Home Education
THE Child's First School 10 the
Family"-Froebel

Issued by the National Kinder
garten Association, 8 West 10th
Street, New York City. These arti-
cles are appearing weekly in our
columns.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-10-06

In nearly every field of business en-
terprise, the first man on the scene
has great advantage over his COM
petitors.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-10-06

If you owe debt, pay it; if yol
owe grudge, forget it.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-10-06

Whoever does thing best ought to
be the one to do it.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-10-06

Success is almost as hard to MAIN
tain as it is to acquire.
Evening star., 1938-04-17
Maginot
CONTINUED From Page C-1.)

lives in or around the Maginto area know
that when war comes they will be the first
called and, within few hours, will vanish
into "the line"
Behind the Maginot area lies the Gin
visible defense"-rebuilt roads, tunnels
driven through mountains for better rail
transportation, telephone lines laid UNDER
ground parallel to existing lines, any num-
Der Of peacetime improvement" built
with wartime in mind.
Before the main part of the line are
several kilometers of undefended safety
0one," and beyond that the frontier which
Frenchmen fear will be crossed some day.
Elaborate Plans for Invasion.
The French high command, ready for
an emergency, has elaborate plans for
invading Germany as we'll as for defend
ing French soil against German attack
Suppose-and many Frenchman wor-
ries about such supposition-Germ
attacks Czechoslovakia and France decides
to go to the aid of her ally.
BY air Frances crack bombers and
fighters can leave their underground air
ports behind the Maginot line and fly
to Czechoslovakian airports.
Others would remain on French soil,
reinforced by planes from the interior
Within less than an hours fight from
the Maginot area are the great German
industrial centers Of Essen and Dusseldorf.
Berlin q less than two hours away.
Evening star., 1938-04-17

Sending aid by land to Czechoslovakia
is impossible, but If France makes war on
Germany to aid her ally the Franco
German frontier is a war frontier which
France could cross.
That's where the Maginot line comes in.
Part of the force is super army" of
trained veterans ready to move into ac-
ton at any point, with equipment to carry
on as an attacking unit.
The underground garages of the Maginot
zone are filled with fast motorized equip
ment-trucks, motor cycles. armored cars
and tanks of all descriptions.
Under the protection Of guns shelling
the German rearguard and q powerful
air force blasting and strafng q way for
them these troops could move swiftly to
the attack
Engineers attached to the garrisons
carry their own steel pontoons with them
and are expertly trained in throwing
bridges across rivers under the protection
Of mobile anti-aircraft guns.
They could make the passage of the
Rhine on the east possible even If the
bridges were blown up, and once across
the Rhine across the northern frontier
the attacking army could use Germany's
own autostrads and highways unless held
pack.
Modern armies carrying the war into
the enemy country have a difficult fuel
problem with their motorized units, but
French experts believe they have solved
1t with the wood-burning trucks and
armored cars now used in the French
army.
French engineers say the wood-burners
Evening star., 1938-04-17

are as fast and dependable as gasoline
consuming vehicles with the added virtue
that the wood they consume can come
from French or German forests
As the super army" attacks troops from
the central part OF France. men mobilized
in the Maginot area would be moved into
the greeb chain OF fortresscs to act as
base troops, ready to maintain the defense
II the attacking forces are thrown back.
Even today. when Frenchmen point out
that the primary object OF the Maeinot
line is defensive. the troops which man
it are ready even If the warning They're
coming should be changed to up and
at 'em"
The men on Frances Maginot line have
been hand picked by army experts who
known the military saw" that "A line is
only as strong as the men defending it."
British War Minister Hore- Belisha called
the Notifications "ss perfect as the ingenu-
ity of men can make them," but he didn't
forget the men.
Il was also impressed" he said "by
the patriotism, morale and endurance of
French soldiers, who are the backbone Of
France"
OF Frances army, about 10000 strong,
some 100000 are garrisoned in the Maginot
line, with about 100000 other troops in
Continental France.
Within 48 hours after war is declared,
it has been estimated in some military
quarters, about a quarter Of a million
civilians with from a year to two years
military training behind them could re-
port for duty in the forts.
Evening star., 1938-04-17
Protests Psychological
Experiments on Animals.

To the Editor OF The Star:
Johns Hopkins scientist tells the mem.
bers of psychological society" Of his de-
ductions from experimenting on dogs.
Dogs, he announces, can be made to suffer
nervous breakdowns and neuroses. To in
duce this state it is necessary to worry. be-
wilder and torment the dog over a period
OF time. This process is called condition
ing" (We called it something else when
we were young-and were punished for
doing it,
The unscientific mind asks what possible
good all this achieves? 1t even makes
some Of us wonder If some scientists do not
carry over into adult life the impulse that,
as small boys, made them tear of flies
wings. To what good? To what end?-we
simple folk ask.
Many readers who read the article re-
Gently appearing in The Star, are asking
that. Every dog owner knows how nervous
an animal dog is and can readily imagine
how very easy it would be to change him
from friendly, trusting pup into CLASSY
eyed. terrified, nervous wreck-just by sys-
tematically tormenting him. Bad treat
ment makes any animal, or any human
being, nervously inadequate-everybody
has always known that this was so. So
what is the point of this "conditioning?"
What purpose does 1t serve? Would the
curative treatment OF nerve-shattered
dog be the same as for the breakdown Of
an imaginative woman-or highly y-str,ng,
overworked man?
ETHEL SIGSBEE SMALL.
Evening star., 1938-04-17
Joint Dictatorships Have
Always Failed in the Past.

Joint Dictatorships Have
Always Failed in the Past.
To the Editor Of The Star:
IF THE "hegemony" leadership of Eu-
rope should fall to Hitler and Mussolini
what then? Why, according to past ex-
perience, the two will quarrel, and but
one dictator will remain Rome, in the
century before Christ, was twice ruled by
"three-man relationships" (triumvirates)
In the first instance it was Julius Caesar
who finally became sole ruler; in the sec
ond it was Octavianus, known as Caesar
Augustus.
When France after the turmoils of the
revolution, at last established stable
government 179D, there were at first
hve directors, then three consuls and
shortly only one, Napoleon, later self
appointed Emperor.
After Napoleon defeated Russia G807)
and Prussia he entered into a gentlemen's
agreement with Alexander l. Russia was
to dominate the East, Bonaparte the West.
This beautiful friendship lasted five years.
Then came the Russian campaign, the re-
treat from Moscow and Waterloo U8l2-
1879.
When the Congress Of Vienna u8l5)
created the loosely knit confederation of
the German states Austria and Prussia
were designated as jointly presiding pow
ers. There were difficulties from the start.
Austria considering herself the senior
partner. Her Ambassador to the Diet
at Frankfort was the only one who
smoked during the proceedings. The rest
did not dare to light up. Bismarck. when
appointed l85D as the Prussian dele
gate, knocked that venerable precedent into
cooked hat. He smoked more and stronger
cigars than the Austrian As for beer
and whisky. he could hold enough to put
10 dry Congressman under the table.
and by 1866 he was still sufficiently sober
to kick Austria clean out of the house.
Partnerships" in high matters OF state
don't seem to work out. The "ethics of
the profession" run something like this:
No definite tie-ups. Vague assurances.
Play fast. play loose Work both ends
against the middle. Fool them, and in
the end kick them all in the Stats. Divide
ct 1mpera-split them up and keep them
guessing FRED. VETTER.