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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-09-21
OHIO CONSTRUCTION
NEWS
(By Ohio Labor News Service)

(by Ohio Labor News Service)
United States Housing Authority Of
ficials at Washington have earmarked
$10,O81 900 for four low-cost housing
projects in three Ohio cities, with con-
struction expected to begin this fall on
at least one of those contemplated.
Although Cincinnati West-end site
has been selected, details Of $5,000,-
900 housing project for negro families
have. not been decided by the Cincin-
natl Metropolitan Housing Authority.
Two new housing projects for Cleve-
land has been assured through ear
marking by the USHA of $3,582, 900 in
loans for their construction. Locations
Of the newly contemplated projects, to
house 715 families, have not been an
nounced.
Bids for construction Of 81 1896
housing project, consisting of 324 units
in SO buildings on a 80 acre site, are
expected to be asked this month by
the GAINESVILLE Metropolitan Housing
Authority, reports state.
Plans are being prepared by the u.
5. Public Building Administration for
/ public health service laboratory to
)e constructed at Cincinnati at cost
IF $275,OO, according to reports.
Work is expected to start within
two months on construction of a $780,
600 commercial building on East 185th
Street near Mohawk, Cleveland, re-
ported contemplated by a company
headed by Anthony Visconsi. Two 9TH
er projects costing $50O,O0O are also
contemplated by the same company,
reports state.
Work will start this fall on construc-
ton of an addition to the U. S. post
office building at Mansfield, according
to reports. The addition will cost an
estimated $1S0,OOO.
Plans are being prepared for con-
struction Of 100000 airplane fac
tory at Middletown by the Aeronauti-
cal Corporation Of America, which will
move from it's present location at Lun-
ken Airport, Cincinnati. Construction
will probably be started in October, ac-
cording to reports.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-09-21
Wilmington Bakers Win
Closed Shop Agreemen.

Wilmington Del. - (AFLWNS). -
Officials of Bakers Union Local No. 6
of the Bakery and Confectionery
Workers International Union of Amer
lea, affiliated with the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, announced the
negotiation Of closed shop agree
ment with the Huber Baking Com
pany. The contract, covering II en-
ployes, includes 40-hour week, wage
increases, seniority rights and vaca-
tions with pay.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-09-21
Continuous Show Sunday
WAGE-HOUR VIOLATION
COSTS SHOE FIRM 5000

Boston. - (ILNS). - The Adams
Shoe Manufacturing Company OF
Webster and three of it's officials were
fined total of $4,000 when they
pleaded guilty in U. S. District Court
to violating the wage hour law.
The company was fined $4,000;
President Joseph Sterin of Worcester,
$500; and Harry Miller of Boston,
foreman, $1,000.
Defendants were given until Oct. 8
to make restitution Of $1,000 in back
wages and overtime. The company,
which manufactures women's shoes,
employs about 1875 persons.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-09-21
HIGHER PAY GAINED
BY DENVER PRINTERS

Denver, Colo.-(AFLWNS).-Den-
yer Typographical Union No. 49 ac-
cepted the counter proposition from
the publishers of the Rocky Mountain
News and the Denver Post offering
an increase in wages of $2.10 for day
work and $1.9O for night work, bring
ing the day scale up to $45.55 a week
for day work and $4825 for night
work, 36 hours to constitute work
week
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-09-21
LUMBER WORKERS SIGN UP

Spokane, Wash. -(AFLWNS).-
Officials of Local No. 1852 Of the A.
F. of L. Lumber and Sawmill Work
ers Union announced the negotiation
of agreements with the Diamond, Ohio
and Federal Match Companies and
the Spokane Woodworking Company.
In addition to improving the con-
ditions under which the men work, the
agreements guarantee seniority rights
and provide protection against dis
elimination of any nature.
The Federal Match Company con-
tract requires improvements in the
plant designed to add to the safety
and comfort Of the employees.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-09-21

When the trends OF output and en-
ployment for the past three decades
are shown in juxtaposition, it appears
that both production and labor re-
quirements increased steadily through
1929. In the decade which ended in
1929, however, there was an impor-
tant change. Although employment
continued to increase in primary pro-
duction activities, the rate of increase
Jagged notably behind the growth of
output. Since 1882 production has re-
covered the depression losses. The
number of wage earners employed in
primary production, on the other hand,
is still notably below the predepres-
sion high :.
"The reasons why have been
the success of the industry in finding
and migrating to new flush-produc-
ton areas and the brilliant achieve
ments of technologists that have en-
abled the capture Of a large portion
of gas and oil reservoirs with lessen
ing unit outlay of human labor :"
In conclusion it is pointed out that
the known supplies of petroleum,
coupled with the chronological i'm
provements which make a greater
proportion Of the supply recoverable,
indicate a continued healthy existence
for the industry. This is further SUBJ
stantiated by the prospect of an in
creasing demand for both gasoline
and natural gas fuels, and for the
many petroleum by-products developed
in the research laboratory.
"Both short and longtime outlooks
indicate that additional workers will
be required in the petroleum and
natural gas industry" the report con-
cludes. "The increase will follow in
part the expected continued growth of
demand for motor fuel and lubricants,
and in part to other factors, such as
the shortening of the standard work
week, tending to counterbalance a
continued increase in output per
man-hour owing to improved techno-
logy. For the next decade and half,
the prospects appear fairly clear.
"The demand for unskilled labor in
most branches Of the industry is dis
appearing rapidly. For the bulk of
the industry's labor force youths with
high school education or it's equivalent
are preferred as new employees.
There is little hope for unemployment
of older, unframed workers who have
lost their jobs in the industry"
The report is published as a book
of $50 pages, illustrated, with numer-
Gus charts and tables, and with a
statistical appendix. 1t is the sixth
in the Production, Productivity and
Emplo- ment Series of the WPA Ma
tional Research Project on Reemploy-
ment Opportunities and Recent
Changes in Industrial Techniques. 1t
was prepared by o. E. Kiessling and
H. O. Rogers, with the assistance of
a group Of government and industrial
experts, under the supervision Of
David Weintraub, director, National
Research Project.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-09-21

I steer my bark with hope in the
Head, leaving Fear astern.-Thomas
Jefferson.
Evening star., 1939-12-14

to the act-probably in the midst Of
the 1910 session Of Congress.
Persons close to the investigating
group said consideration might be
given to bill which would prevent
unions of national bank employees
from afilliating with national labor
organizations and which would for
bid unions in the public utility field
from doing anything to "coerce" or
"embarrass" the Government.
Advocates Of such restrictions con-
tend that, II national labor Or
ganization were afdliated with
unions in banks throughout the
country, it could paralyze the Ma
tons business by calling . bank
closing strike. They argue also that
public utility employees might coerce
the Government by calling a strike
and creating q ''blackout" in the
National Capitol.
That the proposed curbs would
encounter vigorous opposition with
in9the committee was made appar-
ent by Representative Murdock,
who is regarded by his friends as an
administration supporter.
He said 1t was inconceivable to
him that patriotic American work.
ers would do anything to destroy
their Government.
Its true that once in while
we find some member of organized
labor who may be radical, who may
have communistic or Nazi tenden-
cies," Mr.. Murdock said. But Ger
Evening star., 1939-12-14

tured out of the whole cloth. I was
not even in Charleston on Labor
Day, 1898. I spoke that day from
the same platform as United States
Senator M. M. Nicely and Vice Presi-
dent Philip Murray of the United
Mine Workers at Fairmont. I am
sure their testimony of what I said
that day will be completely contra
dictory of the obvious untruthful-
ness of the statement contained in
the memorandum of Phillips. I
wish also to protest the unfairness of
your committee in permitting the
public villification of my character
and that of the United Mine Work.
ers of America, particularly so when
the only basis consists of the unso-
licited use of my name on piece Of
paper found in somebody's files. I
am sending this telegram to be made
part of your committee record
Coal Miners Testify.
Willard Enke Of Mulberry, Kans,,
led the parade of the IA coal miners
to the witness stand. He told the
committee he lost his job with the
Aston Coal Co. of Pittsburg, Kans.,
for refusal to join the United Mine
Workers in August. 1898. He ex-
planned he knew of no closed-shop
agreement at that time between the
company and the United Mine
Workers.
Mr.. Enke said L. J. Carter, gen.
eral superintendent of the company
and a foreman, came to his home
August and told him he was being
replaced because he did not belong
to the United Mine Workers He
said they informed him the COM
| pany was forced to hire United Mine
Workers only.
Herman Eccher, also Of Pittsburg,
who followed Mr.. Enke said he had
Evening star., 1939-12-14
Labor Board
Continued From First Page.)

knowledge of the committee and
the consent of the committee"
Il want to set you straight, Mr..
Congressman, the tall, baldish law
yer, added, "that what I do is not
based on any opinion or conclusion
that I may have"
No Effort to PREJUDICE.
Chairman Smith sought to
"straighten the situation out" by
stating "for the record" that there
had been no effort in the committee
to "prejudge issues that have arisen
or may arise" Questions as to con-
clusions that will be reached, he
added, will have to wait until testi-
mony is all in.
Among the points Mr.. Toland said
the committee must decide was
whether the Labor Board could "re-
fuse" to determine collective bar
gaining units in cases where en-
ployers may have delegated their
bargaining powers to an employer
association. The committee heard
testimony yesterday that the board
had refused to recognize individual
bargaining units in the coal industry
where Statewide associations of en-
ployers existed.
Mr.. Toland added that he had two
witnesses under subpoena whom he
expected to testify that an employer
contracted with a labor union with
Gut the knowledge or consent of the
pmployes-or at least large num-
Der Of the employees"
"Cowardly Procedure Protested"
Prior to the exchange between Mr..
Murdock and Mr.. Toland, the COM
mittee spread on it's record a tele-
gram from New York, signed Nor
ris Watson, 444 West Twentieth
street" and saying: Protest your
un-American, cowardly procedure"
1t was addressed to Chairman
Smith.
Il am advised" said Mr.. Toland
"that the individual who signed the
telegram is an official of the Amer
tcan Newspaper Guild, affiliated
with the Congress Of Industrial Or
ganizations."
II hope" Mr.. Smith commented
smiling, that counsel for the COM
Evening star., 1939-12-14
lChurch WMGo
Ion Block to
| Pay Mortgage
By the Associated Press

~ tue AbSOClbttu FIeS1.
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 14.-subur-
ban Swissvale's big Methodist Epis-
copal Church is going on the auction
block to satisfy an 1855 mortgage
Judgment has been entered
against five trustees, and their per.
sonal property will be endangered II
sheriff's sale January 2 does not
bring enough to cover the debt.
None Of us knew we were person
ally responsible with our property
when we signed the mortgage 10
years ago." said Trustee Morton H
Pope, a school panitor.
None Of us understood. No work.
ingmen like us would ever take that
responsibility alone If we knew what
we were doing"
The church was built in 1929 at
a cost Of $121 900. After compile
ton $4,000 was borrowed on a
mortgage. Payments haven't been
met since 1894 because, as Trustee
James p. McKarney puts 1t:
I'VE are all plain, simple, ordinary
Evening star., 1939-12-14

mittee will conduct himself In
more appropriate manner"
III do my BEST" Mr.. Toland re-
piled.
Partially Changed.
Earlier, Mr.. Ozanic had charged
that coal operators, at a secret con-
ference in New York last spring,
reached an eight-State wage agree
ment covering the Appalachian re-
gipn with John L. Lewis, c. I. o.
chieftain, and that the members of
his union were not given an oppor-
tunity to select their bargaining
unit. In some instances, he pointed
out, his organization, rather than
the rival United Mine Workers &C.
/. o., represented a majority of the
miners.
The witness described the contract
as "a union shop contract" and said
1t was made without the consent or
approval of the mine workers it
covered. He suggested that the
committee subpoena eight labor
and union leaders and find out what
the National Labor Relations Board
had to do with the contract.
Chairman Smith said the COM
mittee would consider his sugges-
tions.
Those Mr.. Ozanic asked to be
called before the committee are:
Hugh Hawthorne, vice president
OF the Pocahontas Fuel g. Coal Co.;
Don Rose, counsel for the Pitts
burgh Coal Co.; Arthur B. Bud
Welser of the Davis Coal & Coke
Co.; Robert D. Campbell of the
Island Creek Coal Co.; Earl E.
Hauck, chief counsel of the United
Mine Workers; Thomas C. Town
send, counsel for the West Virginia
Mine Workers; Lee j. Pressman,
chief counsel for the c. I. O., and
John r. Steelman, conciliator for
the Labor Department. =,
If you call these men you win
find out what was done in that ex-
ecutive session and what the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board had
to do with the signing Of that union
contract" he declared.
The witness told the committee
he didn't recall a single decision
favorable to his organization from
the N. L. R. B. in the last IA months,
and declared the only place where,
the progressives had obtained an
election was in the mines of the
Wisconsin Steel Co., in Benham, KY.
Mr.. Ozanic. however, praised
Philip G. Phillips, N. L. R. B. re-
gional director in Cincinnati, as "a
fair administrator" but said he
could not control the board in
Washington.
Bitner Telegram Read.
Later, Chairman Smith read into
the record a telegram from Van A.
Bittner, president of District II,
United Mine Workers, fatty deny
Ing the accuracy of a memorandum
placed in the record yesterday by
Mr.. Toland.
The memorandum quoted Mr..
Phillips as writing to Nathan Witt,
secretary OF the Labor Board, that
ivan Bittner told a meeting in
Charleston, w. Va. on Labor Day
last year that organizers of the
United Mine Workers should treat
a progressive organization with more
contempt than they would Pinker-
ton Fink and shoot them down fast
er than they would shoot rabbit"
The telegram follows:
Il wish to deny completely and
emphatically any such statement as
attributed to me in a memorandum
OF Philip G. Phillips and read into
the record of your committee yes
terday. This so-called memorandum
| is absolutely false and manufac-
Evening star., 1939-12-14

filed complaints with the Labor
Board against the dismissal of Mr..
Enke and three others from the
Aston Coal Co. He said the COM
plants and a petition for an elec-
tion at the company was dismissed
by N. l.. R. B.
Tells Of "Check or"
G. o. Crouch Of Sharon, w. Va,
an employe at the Wyatt Coal Co.
mine, said he was member of the
Progressive Miners Union, but had
been forced by the rules of his COM
, pany to pay assessments and dues to
the United Mine Workers under a
"check-off' system. Under the
"check-off system, he explained,
dues and assessments are deducted
from the pay envelope.
In the midst Of his testimony Mr..
Crouch was asked if he was present
when Mr.. Bittner had made state
ment at a miners meeting that
organizers of the United Mine
Workers should shoot down the Pro-
gressives' organizers faster than
they would shoot a rabbit"
Il was present in Charleston, w.
Va, when Van A. Bittner made that
statement" Mr.. Crouch replied, and
added He stated to them that
they should use the Progressives like
they did Baldwin thugs"
In response to another question,
Mr.. Crouch declared that the state
ment of Mr.. Bittner was made in
the fall of 1898.
Reliable sources predicted earlier
that the committee would consider
recommending restrictions on union
activities IN banking. public utilities
and other vital industries,
The question will come before the
committee, these sources said, when
| it discusses proposing amendments
Evening star., 1939-12-14
Senotor Curowuy
Reported IMPROVING

Senator Hattie w. Caraway, i'll al
Emergency Hospital since last Sat-
urday, was reported today as gain
ing, hospital attaches stating she
had spent a comfortable night"
She underwent an abdominal
operation at the hospital Saturday
after becoming i'll while returning
to the Capital from her home in
Jonesboro, Ark, last Friday.
Evening star., 1939-12-14
Two Named to Bourd
Of Central Mission

The Board Of Directors of the
Central Union Mission last night
elected Col. w. o. Tufts, former
president Of the Goodwill Industries,
to membership on the board.
Also elected to the board was DR..
Wilson Compton, secretary-manager.
Of the National Lumber Manufac-
turers' Association. Other officers
are E. H. De Groot, jr., president;
William H. Ramsey, vice president;
Harry Hoskinson, treasurer, and
Austin M. Cooper, secretary.
The meeting was held at mission
headquarters, 624 Indiana avenue
NV.
Evening star., 1939-12-14
Pastor Away, Wife Gets
Couple Another Porson

By the Associated Press.
CH1LDRESS, Tex.-Obliging Is
the word for Mrs. Orion Carter, the
wife Of the pastor at the First Meth
odist Church.
When a young couple from out
OF town called at the parsonage to
be married, the minister wasn't at
home
So Mrs. Carter ran across the
street to the home of the Rev. G.
H. Farmer, pastor of the Central
Christian Church. and brought him
to read the service.
Evening star., 1939-12-14
Railway Asks Court
To Affirm Award
In Black Tom Case
Hearing Here Is Based
On S, 900, ,322 Verdict
Anninsf Germnnv

The validity of the award of the
Herman-American Mixed Claims
Commission in the Black Tom IN. j.
explosion case was put up to Justice
Jennings Bailey in District Court
today.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Co.
asked the court to award it summary
Judgment, under the new Federal
rules for civil procedure, and to
sustain the commission's action Oc-
tober 80, which awarded the railroad
$4,000, 1922 as an outgrowth of the
hres and explosions which wrecked
It's railroad terminal at Black Tom
Island July 29-30, 1916.
The original plaintiff-the z and
Assets Realization Corp. of New
York City-contends the October
award is invalid because the German
commissioner had withdrawn from
Its deliberations.
Mitchell Opens Argument.
Former Attorney General William
D. Mitchell of New York, who with
Richard H. Wilmer is attorney for
the railroad, gave Justice Bailey an
outline of the case in his opening
argument.
Mr.. Mitchell told the court the
z. and F.. Assets Realization Corp.
brought suit as a holder of an
award rendered some time ago
against Germany which asked that
Secretaries Hull and Morgenthau be
prevented from paying award to the
railroad.
The German commissioner, Mr.
Mitchell said had resigned on the
theory the commission could not
proceed further. But the commits
sion ruled it had power to act, he
said, and set aside, on ground Of
fraud, previous decision rendered
at Hamburg, Germany, that had
relieved Germany of liability.
On June Is, Mr.. Mitchell con-
tinued, the commission set aside
the former decision of the commits
sion and held that the United States
had made out its claim.
z. and F. Received S839,99
Notice of the commissions Octo-
Der meeting. Mr.. Mitchell declared,
was given Germany, but no repre-
sentative of that country was pres
ent.
The plaintiffs contend the COM
mission had no power to reopen the
case under the agreement and no
power to act after the German
commissioner had resigned, Mr..
Mitchell pointed out. He added,
however, that the commission de-
cided correctly after it reviewed the
evidence and its decision is binding
on the United States and Germany.
The z. and F. Corp. had received
awards totaling $839,998.
Evening star., 1939-12-14

people whose lives depend on the
factories. When the factories were
shut down and there was no busi.''
ness and work, we just couldn't keep
1t going"
Evening star., 1939-12-14

tainly the great majority Of Ameri-
can workers are good citizens Just
as much as any big industry or any
banker"
Evening star., 1939-12-14

LABOR INQUIRY-Con-
trastS at National Labor Re-
lations Board hearing yester-
day are caught by Star Staff
Artist Sudduth. At right,
above, flanked by mine union
officials, is colored miner, who
appeared in working garb.
The feminine sex was we'll
represented among the spec
tatorS, as shown below.
Evening star., 1939-12-14

mittee will conduct himself In q
more appropriate manner"
III do my BEST" Mr.. Toland re-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-31

pa-but she was selected as the most
beautiful girl in the Big Ten-which
takes in a lot of beauty.
And as though beauty and brains
were not enough, she became a
campus leader-vice president of the
senior class and all sorts of things
like that.
In short, Miss Council was THE
woman on the University of Michi-
gan campus last year. Her prom
inence got her a summer job in
New York and a chance to choose
among three permanent jobs.
If she were advising younger girls
Cast year she was In charge of
freshman orientation week at the
University of Michigan), here is
what she would tell them
ADVICE FOR FRESHMAN
"Pick co-educational school, by
all means. Learning to get along
with men Is all part of living and
growing up.
III you are asked and can af-
ford 1t, join sorority. But live
In a dormitory your first year.
do everything there Is to do. BY
working in groups you learn how 10
lead when 1t Is your turn.
Keep up your grades. After all,
your parents are sending you to
college in the hope that you will
learn something from your teach
ers.
Don't be misled by all the talk
about the loose morals of goods.
The pendulum has swung the other
way. College students today are
serious-not rah-rah and irrespon-
sible."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-31

etiquette. Does the question of
Fingers versus Forks" worry you?
Use fork for club and three deck
er sandwiches, for layer and frosted
cakes, French pastry.
These foods are eaten with the
fingers; crisp curls of bacon, celery
and radishes, olives, Saratoga chips,
cookies, plain cakes.
What should you do with your
napkin as you rise from the table
at a dinner party? Tuck it, half
folded, under the edge of your plate.
The answers to dozens of other
questions on table etiquette are
given in our 32-page booklet. Has
pointers on table. setting, tells
what's correct at formal dinners,
restaurants and clubs, teas and buff
fet suppers-a guide to make you at
ease anywhere.
Send 10c in coin for your COPY
Of GOOD TABLE MANNERS to the
Waterbury Democrat Home Service,
6S5 Sixth Ave-, New York, N. Y. Be
sure to write plainly your, NAME,
ADDRESS, and the NAME Of book
let.