The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-08-04
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hutchet Out
The Truth
o PEACE IN EUROPE
. HANGS ON STRING
q THE DISCOVERY
o IT'S OLD NEWS

European situation has taken turn
for the better, Prime Minister Cham
berlain of Great Britain says.
But turn is not permanent, it is to
be feared.
AS long as European governments
continue to take more and more of
national incomes for military purpos-
es, peace in Europe rests on precar-
ious basis.
The harassed peoples, with their
standards of living sinking lower and
lower as armament burdens increase,
are likely to strike savagely at each
other in an effort to cast off their
crushing loads.
Same tendency for the govern
ment to take more and more of
the national income is evident in
America, though here much lar
ger proportion goes for construc-
tive purposes than in Europe.
Can America stop the process be-
fore it brings serious lowering of
living standards?
If it can, America may in the future
be the sole hope of civilization.
X X X
Beats hell what some people can
discover.
David J. Saposs, NLRB economist,
finds that anti-labor employers are
seeking to line up public opinion to de-
feat labor unions in attempts to bar
gain collectively.
Trade unionists have known this
ever since there was a labor move
ment.
Some daily newspapers, however,
evidently thought Mr.. Saposs had
made a "discovery'' and played up his
report as something new.
If they had consulted labor execu-
tives, they would have learned that
Mr.. Saposs' report was cold stuff,' but
well worth printing.
Labor is glad to have the report
publicized, as it lends force to what
trade union spokesmen and publica-
tions have been saying for genera
tions.
x X X
Before Mr.. Saposs was born (he's
52) labor papers were telling the
story of employers attempts to enlist
public opinion against organization of
the workers.
Labor papers are still telling the
story, in this year 1888.
Year in and year out, they present
the case for labor organization in
plain, convincing terms.
To the labor press must go much of
Dor matters in the last 60 years and
for the changed public sentiment now
reflected in legislative recognition of
labor's rights to organize and strive
for better conditions.
X X X
That the American people want
peace and are more determined than
ever to prevent this country from be-
ing drawn into another foreign war
is self-evident from recent polls of
public opinion.
The polls indicate that the majority
of voters want this Government to
pursue policies which will mean peace
clear, independent and non-commit-
al policies which do not go down the
road to war; The parallel of events
now with 1917 has awakened a grow
ing conviction that Congress should
legislate for stricter neutrality; that
. the war-making powers should rest in
. the hands of Congress-; that the United
States must keep hands off other ma
. tion's wars.
Voters interviewed in a poll con-
Quoted by the Institute of Public Opin-
ion showed 50 per cent in favor of
stricter neutrality laws to keep this
country out of war.
Seventy-three per cent favor ref
erendum before war can be declared,
Queried on the question, (Which
I plan for keeping out of war do you
have more faith in; having Congress
/ pass stricter neutrality laws, or leav-
: ing the job up to the President?', the
+ overwhelming majority replied, 'Have
A Congress pass stricter neutrality laws" "