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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-12-07
GOVERNMENT FIRE INSURANCE

GOVERNMENT ownership and operation of fire
- insurance, usually the monopoly Of private
Interests in most countries, is regarded rs eS-
Isenta public function by the Government of New
Zealand, which is controlled by the organized la
Dor movement Of that country.
Although the New Zealand Fire Insurance Of
Ifice is supported and administered by the Labor
Government, it is not the child of the New Zea-
Hand labor movement. In 1905 following com
|plaintS regarding the high cost of fire insurance
imposed by private companies, the Conservative
|Government of New Zealand established the Gov
Iernment State Fire Insurance Office primarily tC
|reduce the premiums charged by the private in
ISurance companies, this object being accomplished
by distributing the profits Of the State Office
periodically to the policyholders. According to
the last annual report of the State Fire Insurance
Office $4,000 pounds approximately $175,O00) in
lproits returned to the policyholders in 1888
while the estimate for 1889 is 10000 pounds. The
report states that since the establishment of the
State Fire Insurance Office in 1905 the profits dis
|tributed to pocyholders total 1898 pounds Cap
IprOXimately S2,094 990)
In statement summarizing the benefits from
the protit-shaling system i'll "a years which evi-
Identity include the reduced premiums charged by
Iprivate companies in competition with the State
Operated system, the Fire Insurance Office recent
ly said: "'The total saving to the insuIing public
10y reductions IN rates and rebates brought about
10y the State Fire Office since it's inception in 1905
exceeds 16,5OO,O0O pounds"
To Indicate the efficiency of the State Fire In
Surance Offie in reducing the cost of insurance to
pOlicyhoders the annual report includes figures
showing the net reduction in the premium on d
dwelling insured for 500 pounds ($2,5OO) over a
twenty two year period, beginning with the year
before the Fire Insurance Office began business
and ending with 1886.
In 1904 the cost to the pocy-holder for 500
pound policy was pounds 2 shillings, 6 pence; in
1908, 2 pounds, | shilling, pence; in 1923, one
pound, Is shillings pence; in 1924, / pound, IT
shillings, pence; in 1926, l pound, Is shillings
g pence in 1888, pound II shillings, 3 pence; in
1886, pound 3 shillings, 5 pence.
In commenting on these figures, the report
said: "The premium in 1886 represents reduction
Of 62.5 per cent compared with the premium
charged in 1904 before the State Fire Office was
Established
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-12-07
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Employment Increase of 100000
Reported From May To November

Washington, D. C. GLNS).-Pre-
liminary Department of Labor figures
show a gain in factory employment
of $4,000 in the period from mid
October to mid November, Secretary
of Labor Perkins reported.
The increase, Miss Perkins said,
was largely in steel, cotton textiles,
electric machinery, aircraft construc-
ton and slaughtering. Normally, she
said, seasonal employment declines
in the canning and apparel industries,
resulting in a loss of approximately
1856 600 jobs in the period.
Non-agricultural employment in the
United States, the secretary said, has
increased by 100000 from May to
November. The increase in mid-No-
vember, she added, was smaller than
those which occurred between August
and September and September-Octo-
Der but was at a greater rate than in
any month during the period of ris-
ing employment of 1886 to 1887 ex-
cept in December, 1886.
Increases in aircraft construction
and steel, Miss Perkins said, probably
were due to domestic needs and the
national defense program and not war
orders. She said the European war is
still too recent to be reflected IN in
creased industrial orders.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-12-07
ADMINISTRATION OF LABOR LAW

A recurring problem which came before the A.
+. Of l.. convention in connection with reports
on the administration of laws enacted to give La
Dor rights and to protect it's welfare was that of
the personnel administering the laws. Necessarily
the training the understanding and the persOnali-
ties Of those charged with such administration,
have much to do with the results obtained
Public officials charged with administering the
rights of Labor certainly need to know what La
Dor wants and why, and how it is accustomed to
go about getting justice. These officials need to
know the labor movement and the democratic pro-
cedures it is accustomed to follow. Administrators
are not for the purpose of changing the phllos-
ophy OF the practices of the labor movement but
to carry out the purposes of law as a service to
the labor movement and society. Administrators
need to know how Labor feels and why it wants
what it wants. These things can only be learned
in the experience Of life and service to the labor
movement Persons qualified by this type of eX-
perience should be in key positions. Academic
training is good in itself but it is not an acceptable
substitute for experience. For those in key po-
sitions practical experience in the field with which
the law deals must be a definite requirement IN
order to raise the level of administrative achieve
ments.
The administration of labor law has suffered
seriously because Of the surplus Of persons with
only academic training and no practical expert
ence in labor problems or the conduct Of unions,
from communists and other radicals for whom
their jobs are only opportunities to serve Their
revolutionary causes, from others with only buSl-
ness experience or experience IN some unrelated
field.
We have been greatly disturbed by efforts to
build up in the government personnel departments
and procedures that reflect only the standards and
understanding Of the efficiency experts in buSl-
ness. This sort Of objective and conception of the
business of public administration fall far short
of the social purposes of the work to be done and
objectives of human welfare which can be served
only in proportion us personnel and procedure re-
fleet understanding of human experiences and
ideals and sympathetic desire to serve. While we
want efficiency in administration, the efficiency
expert" trained for competitive business is more
apt to hinder than further efficient administration
of law in the furtherance of human welfare EX-
perience with these ideals and purposes comes
from other fields than competitive industry.
The Federation holds that there can be no sub
stitute for experience in the labor movement as
experience to qualify key administrators Of labor
law.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-12-07
A, +. l.. CEMENT WORKERS WIN
SWEEPING VICTORY OVER c. |. O..

Chicago (ILNS).--The American
Federation of Labor has won another
overwhelming victory!
Local No. 105, United Cement, Lime
and Gypsum Workers International
Union, A. f. of L., has defeated the
Steel Workers Organizing Committee,
CIO, in collective bargaining cleo
tion conducted at the Buffalo, N. ",
plant of the National Gypsum Co.,
second largest firm of its kind in the
country. The A. F. of l.. union re-
ceived 81 votes, the CIO, 40.
Much of the credit for the victory,
which paves the way for a contract
with the A. F. of L. union, goes to
Samuel r. Diskan, vice president of
the international union, and Neil J.
Cunningham, A. F. of l.. representa-
tive.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-12-07
WE MUST GO TOWARD BETTER
DEMOlR

(By MIS- Florence Kerr, Assistant Com, WPA)
IT seems to me that our pride as Americans is
based not alone on what we have done; it is
based on what we can do, on what we are going
to do. Indeed, should like to put it in the strong
est possible terms, and say that our pride should
be based on what we have got to do in America, or
go down as the greatest failure in the worlds his
tory.
Within the space of a few hundred years we
have taken a virgin continent, and turned its
prairies into dust-boWl, destroyed its forests
polluted its rivers, and filed its cities with tester
ing sumS. We have flied our factories with the
most modern machinery and have thrown ten mil
lion people out Of work.
Wells that the end of the story? No--for
Europe has shown us what lies ahead in that di-
rection---we know that out of the poverty and
misery of the masses come relationships and wal
I'VE have already begun the long hard climb in the
other direction toward better democracy.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-12-07
BROAD MINDED UNION GENEROSITY

Vt is interesting to note the ALLEGATION OF $40
600 for refugee relief, by the International
Ladies' Garment Workers Union.
There may be those who will say that this is
Just the Jews giving to their Acknowledgements
But this is emphatically not the case. Note that
the largest amount was given to the Joint distri-
button committee which is the chief distribution
committee in central Europe, its efforts being dl-
vided among the refugees in Germany, Poland, and
Austria, as well as other points In that general
area. Other aOcatiOnS are for Catholic refugees
from Germany, $l5,OOO for Christian German
refugees QrotestanD $4,000; for Italian ref
ugces, $15, 900; Jewish Labor Committee, $4,000;
American Red Cross, $4,000; trade union ref
ugeeS and eXeS, 100000; and others.
This is a part Of the American workers reply
to the German and Italian union-snashng pro
grams. Such gifts would be impossible in either
Of these countries, mainly because the free unions
have been abolished in those lands.
The ILGWU has many and great accomplish
ments TO its credit; but none Of them are greater
than this Open-handed generosity to the workers
who are suffering in other nations because of their
allegiance to the ideals of freedom and democratic
self-gOvelnment.
These are not gifts made out Of plenteous in
comes. They come from the dimes of the needle
workers, who value democracy and the insttu-
tions Of free country because they themselves
have dug their own way up out of the abyss which
formerly engufed the workers in their craft. They
know the value the cost, and the potentialltes OF
democratic action. and knowing these, they want
to pass them along.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-12-07
SERIOUS SITUATION CREATED

/ Unthinking acceptance Of the idea
that workers of 40 or over are less
desirable than younger workers Gre
ates a serious situation. Unemploy-
ment mounting with age means that
it is increasingly difficult for older
workers who lose their jobs to secure
new ones. Yet there are workers who
during the middle years of life, are
saddled with heavy responsibilities
and their lack of employment means
both deprivation and added burdens
for the young.-Virginia State EN-
ployment Service.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-12-07
Bakery Workers Get Back Pay

H11dueIP111e, d-l111 dgIee11IeHC
with wages retroactive to August /,
1889 has been signed by Bakery Work
ers Local 6, an affiliate of the Bakery
and Confectionery Workers Inter-
national Union of America, with the
Ward Baking Company. The agree
ment also provides for a closed shop,
hire through the union, time and one
half overtime rates for work over 40
hours in any week, over ten hours
daily, and other improvements.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-12-07
WPA PAID FOR HOLIDAYS

Washington, D. c. QLNS).-Pre-
holiday pay checks for about 100000
WPA workers who normally would
not be paid until after Christmas will
be distributed December %, WPA
Commissioner Harrington announced
here. Another large group of work
ers, who normally would be paid De-
cember 81 or January l or 2, will re-
ceive their checks on December so, he
said.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-12-07
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

Death from the sky menaces no
American workers. In European ma
tions at war, the menace is ever pres
ent and precautions against airplane
bombing attacks are in themselves a
serious nuisance and even grave evil
in many cases. What the "black-out," !"
one of the chief defenses against sue
cessful bombing attacks at night
means in the way of difficulties for
labor and industry is indicated by a
recent discussion of the subject be-
tween representatives of British or
ganized labor and government off,
cials.
Industrial ill-effects of the "black-
out" particularly as regards ventil-
alton, eyesight and output, were taken
up with the Home Secretary, Sir John
Anderson by delegation from the
Trades Union Congress General Coun-
Gil, headed by Sir Walter Citrine, gen.
eral secretary. Representatives of
British industry and commerce were
also present.
x X X
The Home Secretary agreed that
the "black-out" was a nuisance, but
was based upon strategic reasons. The
Air Staff naturally wanted any at
tacking airplanes to be at maximum
disadvantage. The search-light sys-
tenn only worked to the fullest advan-
tage in complete darkness. The prin-
cipal argument against switching out
lighting by means of a master switch
was that in most of the towns street
lighting was not on an Independent
circuit, he said.
From the industrial point of view
some relaxation had to be given to the
switching yards of railways and in
docks where diffused light had been
substituted for direct lighting, he ad-
mitted. He agreed that in some in
dustrial factories the "black- out" in
terferred with ventilation, but thought
that this could be overcome by ap-
propriate means.
Representative of docks, shipbuild-
ing, cotton textiles, the pottery and
printing industries themselves pressed
the Home Secretary, urging that the
half-an-hour after sunset would not
result in any glow in the sky and
would enable the working week to be
arranged without invoking Sunday la
Dor. The impossibility of weaving col
ored yarn by artificial light, the effect
of working young women and girls in
the darkness, the effect of gasoline
rationing upon the bus services, were
mentioned.
In reply Sir John Anderson said at
first glance it did seem as if it were
reasonable proposition to impose
lighting restrictions half -an-hour after
sunset, but the Air Staff reported that
this particular time was very danger
Gus.
On behalf Of the Trades Union Con-
gress General Council, Sir Walter Cit
rine agreed that there was a limited
choice in the matter, but he reminded
the Home Secretary that industry
could not produce materials for the
prosecution of the war without some
relaxation. Other members of the
General Council stressed the effect of
the "black- out" on the ventilation of
factories, sugar beet factories, etc.
The meeting ended with the init
nation from the Home Secretary that
the matter would be further discussed
at the next meeting Of the National
Joint Advisory Council, on which la
Dor is represented.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-12-07
Truths Pondered While
Riding At Anchor
MIR. .MODESTUS

. CUSTODIAN OF THE
MAGMA CARTA
. TO MAKE US REMEMBER
O WE HAVE MANY REASONS
TO CELEBRATE TWO
THANKSGIVINGS
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-12-07


TO CELEBRATE TWO
THANKSGIVINGS
Westward!
Britain's Magma Carta--
Delivered to Librarian of Congress.
One of the four original documents
signed by King john
Brought by Lord Lothian, Ambass-
ador of United Kingdom
God knows what may happen to the
British Isles
Archives Of Anglo Saxon history
and liberties
During this mid-European reversion
So America is given custody Of
these lares and penates-
| Perhaps to remind us, that such lib
critics as we have
Sprang from such sources as
Guarded of old by hard-handed
| barons-
Plus skill of Saxon bowmen and
pikemen-
And, that the British Navy is still
Our first line of defense.
X X X
Perhaps we need the warnings
Fate of the Czech mechanics, and
their sons
Fate of the naughty Poles, trans
planted now
Fate of Austrian scientists and
musicians
Menace now facing stouthearted
Finns-
Furnish samples of the plague
Fastened also on merchants, work.
ers, scholars
In whose veins run even diluted
drops of blood of Judah
AS well as those cleaner-minded
Germans
Who still fear God more than Hit
Reason enough
For two Thanksgiving days in
America
Insulated, as we are, by 5000 miles
of salt-sea channel
In these days when 20 miles of
Dover Straits
Becomes only meandering creeks
equivalent
For stopping of wars terrors-
This Magma Carta--
Is one of those scraps of paper
Which still perpetuate foundations
of that democracy
Which Anglo Saxons understand
and evaiuate-
To be whatever justification there
exists
For the regimentations inevitable in
the use
Of modern mechanisms and their
concentrated powers
King Johns barons accomplished
much the same effect
AS now is aimed at by the more in
telligent "managements"-
Namely: essential decentralization
of property control
Which had become vested in kingly
hands
To detriment of that social struc-
ture--
Depending upon larger liberty of
life and labor
X X X
Developing forms of property
Called for development also of con-
trolls
Looking to more beneficial uses of
Englands wealth.
In those days of King John and the
managers" of England
More intimate integrations of the
common life
Arising in our day, from common
dependence upon use of properties
Need closer attention from our
barons of to-day
TO whose too careless custody now
is entrusted
This westward-passing torch of
freedoms vanguard
These idle millions of our youth
Whose heritage of tools have been
attached to central power
Approach another Runnymede.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-12-07
WHAT NEXT?

A Diesel-electric locomotive, de-
signed for freight service, has
been built by the Electro Motive
Corporation as a "bold challenge
in the field where the steam loco
motive is in its most favored po-
sition." The engine will soon be
tested in service.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-04-01
TEAL BRINGS
NAVY filters
FROM SITKA
Ninety Men 10 Have Week.
end Recreation Leave
in Capital City

The Navy tender Teal. 1t. R. B.
Pirie commanding, arrived in Ju-
neau early this morning from the
Sitka Naval Airbase with a party Of
Navy filters on weekend recreation
leave.
Thirty-five officers and men came
over from the flying personnel of
the base, under 1t. Comdr w G..
Johnson, commanding the Squad
ron VP 20, and So officers and men
of the Teal personnel also are
aboard
The bird boat will remain in port
until tomorrow evening, then re-
turn to the Sitka air base.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-04-01
IENhkEE MANS
DISAPPEARANCE
Is TO BE pp0BED
Search Authorized by us.
Commissioner Wright
al Sitka

A. Dermott O'Toole, who notified
officials yesterday of the disappear
ance Of Benjamin J. Shoemaker OF
Tenakee Inlet, today (was author
lied by U. S. Commissioner William
w Knight of Sitka TO send out
searching party for the elderly PEN
sioner.
Shoemaker left Tenakee in a small
open boat three months ago for his
cabin, 25 miles away and though
he had supplies for only one month,
has not been heard from since.
OToole, agent for the Department
of Public Welfare at Tenakee, was
told by Commissioner Knight to en-
ploy a supervisor and an extra man
to go by power boat to the region
to investigate Shoemaker's disap-
pearance.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-04-01
DART IS BACK
FROM RUN, TO
CHANGE CALLS
Going on Summer Seized
uIe Now, Making "a
Stops on Each Trip

The little motorship Dart operat-
ing out of Juneau on weekly
schedule to Petersburg, Kake and
ether ports south of here, returned
to its berth at the Ferry Float this
morning after its last short trip of
the winter season.
Two passengers came in, George
Bach and Chris Tankin from Taku
Harbor.
Beginning Wednesday morning,
the Dart goes on its weekly long
run schedule for the summer. tax
ing in more ports in four and a
half days than the average steamer
takes in three sailings from Seattle
to Seward
The Dart leaves here at O'Clock
in the morning and makes its first
stop at Taku Harbor. From there
it goes to Harbor Island. Sumdum
Sawyer's Landing. Windham Bay,
Entrance Island. Five Finger, Fan
shaw. Petersburg, Tmnabout Island,
Kake, Saginaw Bay, Washington
Bay, Pillar Bay, Tebenkoff Bay, Port
Alexander, Port Conclusion. Port
Armstrong. Big Port Walter, Little
Port Walter. Port Herbert, Deep
Cove, Baranof, Tyee. Pybus Bay,
Brothers Island. Gambler Bay.
All Of these ports are touched once
~, Tho fr{r, oyI ro,,,a If tg,os,, ,,,,,-.-
making a total Of around "a stops q
"trip in four and q half days, serving
fox farmers, fishermen, canneries.
mines and prospectors in off-the-
beaten-track ports that seldom see
a big steamer.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-04-01
HosPITAL N oTEs

Allen Hermann, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Rex Hermann, was admitted to
St. AIMS Hospital for surgical care
this morning.
Harley Rutherford was dismissed
from surgical care at st. AIMS Hos
pital yesterday afternoon.
Arnold Shaw was admitted for sur
gical care yesterday at ST. AIMS
Hospital
Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson was dis
missed from medical care at the
Government Hospital today.
Mr. and Mrs. NJ Williams are the
parents of pound baby girl, born
at the Government Hospital this
morning.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-04-01

Takes Is
Outbound

Twenty-Five persons embarked on
the southbound steamer Mount Nc
Kinley last night when that vessel
stopped briefly in Juneau to let of
seven passengers for here from
Westward ports.
Arrivals from Seward-Paulme
Eldridee. Mrs. NJ. KrOm.
From Cordova-Herb Dunlop Os-
car Hart
From Yakutat - Mr. and Mrs.
George Ellis. Susie Ellis.
Sailing for Seattle were Mr.. and
Mrs. Ed Olson. Mrs. S. Eheberg, Mr..
and Mrs. T. 1. George, Mr.. and Mrs.
George R0ney. c. NJ Martin Della
Hill. Mrs. E. L. Noren, r. F. Murphy,
MI. and Mrs. E. L Marin. Ms.
George Greenwalt. W PuOdinketo
and wife. David Lee Moran E. r.
willard. NJ. A. Habon, Joe Dunn,
George c. Peterson.
For Ketchikan-J G. Shepard. A.
C.-Blaek. r. Cayannaugh Eddie Mel
son, J. S. Barnett.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-04-01
DOUGLAS
NEWS
MOVIE FILMS SHOWN
AT SCHOOL BY DUNHAM

Alex Durham, Juneau high school
Principal was a visitor at the Doug
las school yesterday forenoon for
the purpose of showing his collection
of motion picture films secured by
him on his trip through the Interior
last summer.
The final morning period from IL
to IL o'clock was given over to Mr..
Durham Among the many interest
ing scenes shown were views taken
in Mt Mckinley Park, herds of REIN
deer and caribou, flowers, dog races
and ice carnival at Nome
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-04-01
Screen Test Answers

I. (a) David copperfield; (b) Mu-
tiny On the Bounty; (c) Ruegles of
Red Gap: (d) The Call of the Wild.
2. Romeo and Juliet. Midsummer
Nights Dream, The Tanning of the
Shrew, and AS You Like 1t
3. Underworld.
4. The Castles.
(a) Mariene Dietrich: (b) Joe e.
Brown, Joan Crawford and Martha
Raye-any ONE will do; tc1 Clark
Gable; (dl ZaSu Pitts; (e) Greta
Carlo.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-04-01
HERE FROM ANACORTEs

Mrs. Chester Loop, formerly Miss
Jackson. arrived here early
this week from Aanacortes. Wash,
to visit with her parents Mr.. and
Mrs. Peter Jackson Later, she eX-
poets her husband, who is fisher
man. to come north in his own boat
for his summers work.