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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-05-11
Ornburn Reports Good
Union Label PROGRESS

Washington, D. c.. (AFLWNS).-I.
NJ. Ornburn, secretary treasurer of
the Union Label Trades Department
Of the American Federation of Labor
returned from a trip to Milwaukee
Wisconsin, and Canton, Ohio, where
he addressed enthusiasts Union Label
gatherings.
At Milwaukee, the Wisconsin State
Federation Of Women's Auxiliaries OF
Labor was formed and a constitution
adopted. The first convention was an
outstanding success.
While Mr.. Ornburn was in Milwau-
kee several manufacturers applied for
the use Of the Union Label.
On May 9, Mr.. Ornburn will ad-
dress the convention of the Brother
hood of Railway and Steamship Clerks
Freight Handlers, Express and Station
Employees at Toronto. On May II, he
will address the convention Of the Or.
der of Railroad Telegraphers in Nil,
Waukee
In Cincinnati, on May 10, he will ad,
dress a mass meeting Of the members
Of the Central Labor Union, Union La
bel League and Women's Auxiliaries
On May 15 and Is, the Executive
Board of the Union Label Trades De-
partment will hold its quarterly meet
ing at A. F. Of l.. headquarters in
Washington, d. c.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-05-11
Federdtion's Membership
Now Totals 3,776,2l8

Washington, D. Crank Morri-
son. secretary-treasurer Of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, announced
that the paid-up membership Of the
Federation on May 2, 1899, was 3,776,-
2lS.
This is an increase Of 1886, ,163
over the membership we had on Au-
gust 81, 1886" he said, adding:
National and International Unions
and local trade and federal labor
unions affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor are required to
pay per capita tax upon their full
paid-up membership. Therefore the
membership figures | have given do
not include members of the affiliated
unions who were unemployed"
The membership figures for Au-
gust 81, 1886, included the unions
which established the C. |. O. under
the leadership of John L. Lewis, and
were suspended from the American
Federation of Labor in September,
1886, for refusing to withdraw from
the Lewis group, which the 4. F. of
L. Executive Council held was a dual
organization. The gains of 1896, ,163
new members since the c. l. O. dualists
were dropped is a definite tribute to
the virility of the policy of majority
rule, democratic procedure and oppo-
sition to all forms of dictatorship on
which the American Federation of La
Dor firmly stands.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-05-11

means additional fans at the box Of
flee. After the first ten principals had
been chosen for "Confessions of a Nazi
Spy," however, Warmers clamped down
on all casting news and announced
that the rest of the players would be
known by number instead of name.
"Simply precautionary measure y
the studio announced.
Still another unusual behind-the-
scenes feature of the production in
volved the script. Invariably studio
is anXious-some even demand-that
all players know their lines from be-
ginning to end before picture starts.
Only ten instead of the usual $50
scripts for Confessions Of a Nazi
Spy" were mimeographed, however.
These were given to six Of the prin-
cipals, the director, supervisor and
two trusted departmental heads. The
rest of the players got only one days
lines at time. Thus, they didn't
know the complete story until the pic
ture was completed
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-05-11
Made In America
CONTINUED From PAGE One)

cartons. Workmen are busy putting
the finishing touches on and it should
be ready for occupation soon.
Wilbur Smith is wearing one of
those big smiles which wont come off
Yes, its a boy, arrived Saturday, May
6. Mother and baby, and oh yes
father, are doing fine.
Brother Mcnamara has been dis
missed from the hospital after being
a patient there for several days, due
to an accident which occurred while
he was working on a ladder. He suf-
fered head and arm injuries and
bruises to the body when the ladder
slipped.
With the big picnic just about one
month away and all the potters
anxious to go, let me remind you to
get your tickets soon if you expect to
drive that "Buick" home. Also re-
member paid up dues book may win
you one of the prizes.-O. C. 122.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-05-11

fits Congress intended them to have
rather than the multiplication Of liti-
cation.
Many thousands of dollars have
been added to workers pay by this
method. In Atlanta, Ga, the other
day single employer paid $6,4l6 to
139 employes-an average Of SAT
apiece-and is now complying with
the law.
Underpaid Employees Can Collect
Twice Amount of Wages Withheld
We began enforcement six months
ago with small headquarters staff
and with only % inspectors in the
field to cover the whole Of this enor-
nous country, an average of less than
one inspector for every two States.
Today we have a field force of 131.
1t is still skeleton staff, inadequate
fully to render the service to which
employees and employers both are en-
titled. We expect to add to the per-
sonnel as money is made available by
Congress and inspectors can be prop
erly trained.
The law, as you are doubtless aware,
gives to the worker who is not paid
at least the prescribed minimum rates
the right to collect through court ac-
tion double the amount of his with
held wages, plus a reasonable attor-
ney's fee. Employers should not for
moment lose sight of that provis-
ion. Aggrieved employees do not need
permission from me or anybody else
to use this avenue of redress, and a
few employe lawsuits could be far
more expensive to the employer than
voluntary, wholehearted compliance.
So much for six months of prog
ress under the Fair Labor Standards
Act. We have tried to proceed eau
tiously, well aware that we could find
few precedents for our guidance. But
slowly and carefully, we have been
forging stout tools for administration
and enforcement. Most of them have
been tested, in the courts and out, and
found good.
We enter the second six months
withe renewed confidence in our ability
to make the law work, secure in the
knowledge we now possess that the
public is behind us, with a firmly
grounded conviction that we can look
to the vast majority of the country's
employers to help us give substance
to the dreams of better and happier
America.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-05-11

lied to spend $28,OO0,OO0 a year for
these grants-in-aid. The amendment
proposed by Senator Wagner increases
the authorization for the annual con-
tributions by S45,000,000. We believe
that Senator Wagner is profoundly in
the right when he says that:
"'This is very small cost in terms
of the economic and social benefits of
slum clearance and low-rent housing,
and in terms of the infinitely larger
expenditures undertaken for other
public purposes that are certainly no
more important than decent housing.
1t indicates that sIum clearance and
low-rent housing constitute about the
most economical method Of stimu-
latjng unemployment, increasing indus
trial activity, and uniting business re-
covery with fundamental social i'm
prOvement
One Million Mechanics Are Jobless
To-day there are more than ,000,-
OCO building and construction mechan-
les totally unemployed and dependent
on work relief for their livelihood.
"The program authorized by Con-
gress today will provide total Of
27O,0CO,C00 man-hours of work at the
site and $257OCO,C0O which will be
paid in wages to laborers employed at
the site Of construction.
''in addition, the present program
Will result in an even larger indirect
employment in the production Of build
ing materials and will yield an even
larger payroll to the workers in in
dustries serving this new construction.
Work for $4,000 Visioned
The proposed amendments will
double these benefits to the building
workers by providing 54O,OOO,0OO man
hours of employment at the site Of two
full years work to 100000 building
mechanics and laborers. 1t will pro-
portionately increase the employment,
the purchasing power and the business
activity in the industries which must
service this construction with ma
terials and equipment.
''The American Federation Of Labor
feels that at this time, when new signs
of hesitation begin to appear in the
trend of activity of our industry and
trade, we can best stabilize the con-
struction revival by the adoption of
the proposed amendments. / am deep
ly convinced that your committee will
fulfill an important public purpose by
giving these amendments unanimous
and unqualified endorsement"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-05-11

Donovan worked in a factory where
they encouraged the staff to put for
ward ideas for the smoother working
of the business.
One morning he was shown into the
office Of the chairman, and announced
that he had thought of a way of in
suring that none of the hands would
be late in the future.
THAT sounds good" said the chair
man, Glow do you propose to do it 2"
"Sure and that's aisy, sorr," said
Donovan. "The last man in blows the
whistle. ."-kreolite News.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-05-11

Washington, d. C.-Unanswerable
and fact -buttressed arguments in ia
vor of the enactment of the bill intro
duced in the Senate by Senator Wag
ner of New York making $SO0,0OO,OOO
more available for loans to local hous-
ing authorities for the construction of
low-rent housing and the promotion Of
slum clearance were presented by
Harry C. Bates, chairman Of the Hous-
ing Committee of the American Fed
Grafton OF Labor, in statement before
the subcommittee of the Senate Com
mittee on Education of Labor, during
the hearings on the Wagner bill.
Pointing out that the low-cost hous
ing program developed by the United
States Housing Authority through the
$SO0,OOO,000 loans authorized by Con-
gress in 1887 and 1888 make good
housing available to small-income
families who otherwise "would be COM
PEELED to live in slums," Mr.. Bates
also emphasized the fact that approx
mately one million workers in the
building and construction industries
are ''totally unemployed and depen-
dent on work relief for their liveli-
hood" The Wagner bill increasing the
loan authorization to SS00,00O,OOO, he
said, would provide employment for
thousands of these jobless workers.
"The Overwhelming majority with
which both houses of Congress ap-
proved the Wagner-Steagall Act of
1887, and the unanimous and enthusi-
astic approval of this law by all rep
resentative groups throughout the
nation had a truly historic signifi
cance," Mr.. Bates told the subcommit-
tee.
"It proved beyond dispute that the
American people became keenly aware
that elimination of slums and rehous-
ing of our lowest income families was
the first and foremost step toward ma
tional economic rehabilitation and
truly sound and stabilized recovery.
Housing Authority Achievements
Omitted behind the low-rent housing
and slum clearance program embodied
in the United States Housing Act
were people representative Of all class
es, all groups and all political affili
ations.
"What the United States Housing
Authority has accomplished since No
vember, 1887, the way in which it has
succeeded in solving the widely diver
sifed and complex problems in hun
dreds of communities, has enhanced
the public conviction that loW-rent
housing through local initiative, plus
Federal aid, is sound not only as a
program but also as practical oper-
ating force.
"Aware that the program has so
well withstood the trying test of the
first year of its operation and has en-
listed even wider and more active sup
port in every city and every COM
munity, the American Federation of
Labor is proud to claim its shares of
responsibility in the initiation of this
measure.
Originated by A. +. of l..
"For it was the American Fedora
ton of Labor's convention in 1885 that
focused public attention on the urgent
need to stamp out crime breeding
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-05-11
Additional $500 Billion Is Favored By
AT. Of L. For Low-Cost Housing Pldn

slums, to clean up the areas infested
with dilapidation and disease, which
blighted thousands of our communities
and undermined the standard of living
of millions of American families.
''It was in 1886 that study initiated
by the American Federation of Labor
forcefully brought out the fact that
we must build more than 14,O00C eco
dwelling units in ten years-twice as
many as were constructed during the
entire boom decade of 192Os-if we
were to meet the most essential and
most pressing need for good housing
on the part Of low-income families.
"The United States Housing Act be-
came law year later.
Immense Need For Low Rent Housing
"We are more convinced today than
ever before that this Act provided a
good beginning and that the program
it embodied is sound program. But
today we also realize more keenly than
before that this beginning is pathetic
ally small when measured against the
enormous need for low-rent housing
with which we are still faced.
"The impetus given by the program
already initiated in terms of reemploy-
ment and in terms of sustained busi-
ness activity the program has stimu-
lated, has brought home to us the fact
that we must unswervingly, though
gradually, expand the program so that
in time it would measure up to the
full size of our national need.
Loans Cost the Government Nothing
"We are confident that this can be
done without hesitation because the
program is unique in one important
respect. The loans made by the Fed
eral Government for the construction
of projects initiated and developed by
local communities are, in a very real
sense, investment loans.
"The bill before your committee pro-
poses that authorization of such loans
be increased by 100000, doubling
the initial authorization.
"This money to be authorized for
loans toward portion of the con-
struction of low-rent housing projects
involves no subsidy or other cost to
the Government. Every cent Of these
loans will be repaid to the Federal
Government. Thus, the loan author
ization represents a completely self
liquidating capital investment in con-
trast to outright spending.
Grants-in-Aid to Subsidize Rents
"The United States Housing Au
thority program is unique in another
respect. 1t makes good housing avail
able to the families who, in the absence
of such program could not afford
to live in slums. Yet the program is
so devised as to effectively prevent any
competition of government-assis
housing with housing built by private
enterprise. This is achieved by means
of annual contributions paid by the
United States Housing Authority to
local public housing authorities as a
partial subsidy necessary to bring
rents in the housing projects down to
a level which will make these new
homes available to low-income fami-
lies.
"At the present time the United
States Housing Authority is author
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-05-11
TACT

The vicar had certain truculent
woman parishioner noted for her fond
ness for drop of gin. One day she
went to church hiccoughing with pain
full diStinctneSs.
The parson bore it for few mo-
ments; then, looking at the verger, he
proclaimed, publicly, "Smith, kindly
remove that person from the building"
Smith rose reluctantly to obey. The
congregation held it's breath, expect
ing a scene, but to his relief the wo-
man rose and left without a murmur.
After the service the vicar con-
graduated his man on the tactful way
he had removed the cuIprit.
"How did you manage it," he ask
ed
"Well, sir" said the verger, & just
went to her aud whispered, Come ON,
ma; come out and have one with me- "
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-05-11
HIS USUAL WAY

Outside the storm ragged. The deaf
ening thunder rolled and Lightning
flashed almost continuously. Presently
a bolt struck Mr.. Allen and knocked
him completely out of bed. He rose,
yawned, rubbed his eye5, and SAID, "All
right, dear; I'll get up."-Leigh Burr.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-05-11

There's difference between i
breezy man and bag Of wind.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-05-11
Continued From Page One)

and we took refuge in the Mumbo jum-
bo of old shibboeths.
Evening star., 1939-04-23
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"STAYS PUT"

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Evening star., 1939-04-23

p 4 YHlLE the Central Asiatlc
"" Expedition was at Wolf
w Camp in the middle of the
Cobb Desert, one of our Mongols came
to my tent with a newborn gazelle
in the sleeve of his coat. The tiny
creature was only a few hours old with
body no larger than that of a half
grown kitten; yet even then its slender
legs could carry it over the ground
faster than a man could run.
We named it ''Skippy" and for six
months the little fellow lived with US
- became as tame as cat. At first
Lieutenant Bill Wyman fed it every
two hours all through the night and
day on goats milk from a nursing
bottle rigged up from the surgeons
supply box. Finally it was adopted
by a she-goat that had lost its kid.
Skippy and the goat gave us never
ending amusement besides good deal
of information on the habits of desert
antelopes.
When old Nanny finally weaned
Skippy, he lived on camel sage and
the leaves of thorny bushes scattered
Evening star., 1939-04-23

the vegetation that they eat. As this
is broken down during digestion, one
Of the products is water, which IS
sufficient for their bodily needs. The
desert-living mice, rats. hares and
ground squirrels not only do not drink
but few. if any, perspire.
We recently installed group OF live
desert pocket mice in the subway
entrance hall of the Museum. The ami
mails are white although they are not
alblnos. They live among the vast
dunes of nearly-white gypsum IN New
Mexico and have lost their color -
as means of protection by blending
with their surroundings. In the Mu-
seum's Department of MammalogS,
the animals we're fed a diet of thor
oughly dried seeds. They thrived on
this unappetlzing food and would
never touch water. Each time liquid
was offered they filled the dishes
with sand.
In the COBB Desert we found that
even the wild ass rarely. if ever, drink
On one vast stretch of the Cob where
there was TO water for hundreds of
miles. except for few deep Mongcl
wells, there were literally thousands
of wild ass and gazelle.
The ability to exist without water
appears to be peculiar to rodents and
other herbvorous mammals As far
as know, all flesh eaters must drink
Evening star., 1939-04-23
FIRES THAT NEVER BURN
Continued from preceding poss

overhead No more The introduction
of a profit incentive might easily tend
to warp the judgment of the experts
To save you and me and millions of
people everywhere from red fingered
fire, there must be only one basis for
judging an articles fitness: does that
article stand up when put to the kind
of use that dumb and careless people
may give it?
How can you and make most use
Of this valuable service? BY dong two
things: first. look for the Laboratories
label on things we buy; second. know
what the label means. - and does
not mean.
lfyou find it on an electric razor, for
instance. 1t does not mean that that
razor will shave you the way you like
to be shaved 1t may. or 1t may not,
If it's found on an electric rcfrIgera-
tor, it does not mean that's the only
refrigerator for you to buy. Under
writer's Laboratories does not try to
tell ANYBODY what razor, refrigerator.
or anything else to buy. The label
means simply that this article has
been found to meet certain high stand
ards of safety with regard to fire or
hazards to life and property.
Probably there is not man, woman
or child in the United States who does
not live with greater safety. twenty
four hours out of the twentyfour,
because of | Undcrwrltcrs'L Laboratories
The fires that never burn represent
savings of hundreds of millions of
dollars every year.
Evening star., 1939-04-23

but | feel sure that no liquid would
have tempted him.
Skippy was simply running true to
the form of many desert animals.
particularly rodents. Never, after
they are weaned, do they drink. This
is one of the marvellous adaptations OF
nature. The animals obtain consider
able amount of carbohydrates from
Evening star., 1939-04-23

in clumps over the desert. ! was par
tlcularly interested to see whether or
not Skippy would drink water During
the six months he was with us he
never touched drop. He would sniff
at the pan from which the goat was
drinking and then turn away without
even moistening his lips. We never
offered him milk after he was weaned
Evening star., 1939-04-23

Explosions might be called fires IN
which the combustion is extremely
rapid One day woman who lived IN
an apartment house found weevlls IN
the flour she was going to use to bake
cake She opened the incinerator
door and dumped the flour down the
shaft. In matter of seconds the flour
touched flame, and an explosion fol-
lowed that rocked the building. blew
off every incinerator door and seriously
injured the cake-baker.
Wherever there is dust or infiam-
mable gas. a spark from any source
may cause an explosion. In a hospital
operating room. tor example. if there
is any free ether floating about. Or in
-four mill, if there is much flour dust
in the air. Or even in an aluminium
mill - you wouldn't think metallic
dust could explode, but it can.
Now, wherever there is an electric
motor, switch or other electrical
apparatus, there may be sparks. Yet
motors and switches often have to be
used in places where dust or inf1am-
mable gases are circulating. Let dust
and spark get together - and zoWie.
The problem, then. is to build motors.
say, that Contlne any possible ex-
plosions within the motor housing.
Underwriters Laboratories tests mo-
tors by actually causing explosions
with various sorts of gases, and they
also test the ability of motor castings
to keep out dust.
In fact, there's hardly an article you
can name that could ConCeivably
cause or feed a fire, or extlngulsh one.
that the Laboratories has not tested.
not merely once. but dozens and hun
drcds of times. Nearly all types of
radio sets. for example, have been
tested, and most makes are now
approved.
You'd hardly think that anybody
would be fool enough, or careless
enough, to go off on a three-wecks'
vacation and leave the radio going
full blast. But people have been
known to do it. And an approved set
is expected to run that long, or longer,
at top intensity, without getting hot
enough to start fire.
A high percentage of vacuum clean
ers have been approved. Also all
automatic sprinklers. Air conditioning
apparatus is undergoing constant tests
to meet the required standards before
being placed on the market.
Underwriters Laboratories has
tested incubators for babies and for
chickens. permanent-wave machines.
electrically heated blankets. insecti-
cides, tear gas devices and bullet
proof" glass, dishwashing machines.
electrical eyebrow tweezers. moving
picture projectors and films. lanterns
and flashlights, lightning rods. die
tating machines, OIL furnaces. kitchen
ranges, sewing machines, even tooth
brushes.
Standards used in testing articles
are not set by whim or guess. They
are the product of industry confer