The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-07-07
Resolutions 90 dst
Continued From Page One)

from Japan on payment of duties
based on foreign values deprives the
Government of much needed revenues,
deprives our workers Of necessary
job opportunities, is contrary to the
law, as there is no longer any free
market in Japan and no longer are
goods freely offered for sale in the
usual wholesale quantities; and
Whereas, A license is required to
import into or export from Japan, pot
terry ware; therefore be it
Resolved, That this convention call
upon the Secretary Of the Treasury to
properly enforce the law and to allow
entry of Japanese goods only where
tariff duties are paid on the basis of
the value of such goods in our own
country.
(2) Whereas, The Reconstruction
Finance Corporation having loaned
Federal monies to some concerns that
bargain collectively with their en-
ployes, has now instituted policy of
loaning other Federal monies to en-
ployers who deny their workers the
right Of collective bargaining, and it
is further understood that the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation has
loaned Federal monies to some con-
Germs such as the Shawnee Pottery
Co., or American Acoustic Co. Of
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, which concern has
offered to sell comparable articles in
competition with those employers who
accord to their workers the right OF
collective bargaining and who pay to
their workers decent wage, thereby
jeopardizing the opportunities of such
concerns marketing products of work.
ers treated fairly and repaying to the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Federal monies which such concerns
have borrowed; therefore be it
Resolved, That we instruct our Of
ficials to protest the loaning of Fed
eral monies to concerns which deny
to their workers the right of collective
bargaining and to call upon the Re-
construction Finance Corporation to
demand immediate payment of Federal
monies loaned to the Shawnee Pottery
Co. or the American Acoustic Co. and
failing to have the Reconstruction FL
nance Corporation comply with this
request, to call upon President Frank
lin D. Roosevelt to take the necessary
steps to prevent this chiseling concern
from undermining and destroying the
wage and working conditions which
now prevail as result of years OF
collective bargaining with our employ
ers; and be it further
| Resolved, That our National Off
cials enlist the aid Of the United States
Senators Donahey and Bulkley OF
Ohio and any other member of the
Senate or House of Representatives to
bring this matter directly to the at
tention of President Roosevelt.
(3) Whereas, Many thousands OF
American workers have been deprived
of their means Of livelihood, have beer
Thrown on the 5proverbial jGnk heal
through the mechanization of indus
try; and F,
Whereas, The American Federation
of Labor has this matter under con
sideration, realizing the need of i'm
posing upon the power used tax suf
ficient to care for these workers de
prived of their jobs and which work
ers are too old to acquire other trades
therefore be it
, Resolved, That our delegates to tn
; American Federation of Labor Con
vention be instructed to support
policy which will provide for thes
workers deprived of their job oppor
tunities through the mechanization O
industry.