The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-07-14
Convention Unanimously Adopts
Executive Boards Resolutions
Considered By Committee
on Officers Report At
Final Session
READ BY CUNNINGHAM
Committee Recommends the
Use of Organizers Where
Necessary

The three resolutions introduced in
the Annual Convention by the Execu-
tive Board to insure the job opportuni-
ties of the American pottery work.
ers were unanimously adopted by the
delegates when brought on the floor Of
the convention at the final session by
the Committee on Officers Report.
The first of these resolutions in
structs the Brotherhood's delegates to
the A. F. of l.. to support a resolu-
tion to sufficiently tax the power used
in operating labor saving machinery to
support the workers deprived of their
jobs because of this new machinery.
The next instructs the officers to
demand that the Treasury Department
enforce the law and base the tariff
on the value Of the imports here rather
than in the land where the merchan-
disc is manufactured and where no
''free trade" exists.
Monies loaned by the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation is the basis for
the final resolution. The Corporation
loaned money to fair firms and now
have started to aid firms unwilling to
deal with organized labor. By aiding
an unfair competitor, the RFC will
find that it will be impossible for the
fair firms, paying recognized wages,
to compete with those paying below
the scale and therefore impossible to
pay back the loan.
Pointing out the steady decrease in
unorganized plants in the pottery in
dustry and making recommendation
that the Executive Board be given the
power to appoint as many organizers
as needed until the next convention,
the Committee on Officers Report ex-
pressed the feeling of the delegates
and officers in that extensive organic
alton efforts should be carried on
whenever advisable. California, be-
cause of the number of new plants
coming into being throughout the
state, was specifically mentioned.
The Committee also made rec
ommendation that the Brotherhood
take part in the 1889 Worlds Fair in
New York in cooperation with the
manufacturers. The complete report
read by Chairman Paul Cunningham
follows:
We, the committee on "Officers Re-
port" submit to the 46th Convention
of the National Brotherhood of Oper-
ative Potters the following report:
We recommend that the auditors re-
port for the year 1878 be accepted
and that the delegates of this conven-
tion give special notice to the increase
of funds and membership for the past
year.
We, the committee, on Officers Re.
port wish to stress to the members
and delegates to the National Brother
hood of Operative Potters the import
ance of the Japanese boycott move
ment, started in the ranks of the N
B. o. P. by our most worthy presi
dent and his associating officers; ant
bring to mind the publicity and worl
brought to the membership through
this movement which has reached tn
homes, business and other vital point
of our great nation. We further rec
ommend that this convention go OF
record as adopting some permanen
method of keeling before the minds O
the people of our great army of work
ers and buyers the need and import
ance of buying Made in Americ'
Ware And that every honest way o
battle to this the menace to the Amer
ican workers be carried on until ever
possible weapon has been exhausted.
General and China Ware
The committee on Officers Repor
recommend to this convention that tn
trade, as a whole, follow the constitu
ton of this organization and brin
their disputes on division of work etc
to a settlement through the prope
channels, and that the shop committee
of each and every local union exhaus
every possible means of settlement G
all disputes before they are brougf
to the attention Of our Executiv
Board. We also recommend that a
local unions adhere strictly to sectio
81 of the constitution.
The Scammell China Company
The committee on Officers Repol
wish to commend our first vice pres
dent on his efforts and success in tt
sanitary trade during the past yea,
and recommend that the same unit
ing efforts be put forth in the comm
year to organize those shops that {
far have resisted the efforts put fort
We also recommend that some depen'
able assistance be given to our fir
vice president in this, his district,
bring about a condition of compile
organization in the sanitary trade.
Walsh -Healey Act
We wish to commend Preside
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