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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-11-07
Your Government
and Mine
BY DIR. CHARLES STELZLE

The Declaration Of Independence
gives to all Americans the right to
"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Hap
piness." These are regarded as our
natural rights. But in the course Of
events some things which were re-
garded by many as rights" have
been restricted or limited. This was
natural, as our civilization became
more complex.
We long ago decided that there is
no absolute individual right to do any
particular thing, or to conduct ones
business, or to use ones property, as
one pleases, if such license were in
conflict with the law of public neces-
sity. Furthermore, we decided that
we may exercise our personal liberty
only insofar as the exercise Of that
right does not interfere with the lib
erty, safety or comfort of others. AS
the number of people in the community
increased, as a matter Of necessity
each mans personal liberty decreased.
The question of personal liberty was
a comparatively simple matter when
all men lived in sparsely settled areas,
but as others arrived, personal liberty
was decreased.
However, each new arrival made an
added contribution to the common
good, so that life and happiness for
all were enlarged and enriched. All of
which means that there is no such
thing as "simple Democracy" The
simplest form of government is that
Of an Autocracy, which gives one man
the absolute right to rule the lives
of all the people. Against this form
of government Americans have per-
sistently rebelled.
Complex as our American Democ-
racy may be, and limiting as it may
the rights of all Of US, nevertheless, in
actual practice, we place all of our
rights into a common pool, from which
each of us draws as occasion may re-
ruire. and by the common consent of
all the people. This is the American
Continued on Page Six)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-11-07
All Members Asked
To Back President
Duffy States Election Over.
All Should Unite In
American Style

President James M. Duffy of the
National Brotherhood Of Operative
Potters, when asked to comment on
last Tuesdays baDati2s, gave the fol-
lowing statement. "The election is
over. The highest tribunal in the land
has spoken and l, like all other good
American citizens, accept the verdict
without any taint of i'll will.
81 shall continue, as in the past,
endeavoring in my way to serve our
country and further the cause of or
ganized labor.
81 performed my duty conscientious
ly last Tuesday as l am certain all
other members of the organization
likewise did In true American fashion,
it behooves all of US to unite more
strongly than ever before in support
of the Presidents aims and purposes
to defend our nation against all perils."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-11-07
Sebring 100 Percent
Union Labor Town
Those Selling Service Must
Join Union Or Face
Unfdir Stigma

Sebring, O-Work continues to be
very good here for the members of
Local Union No. Al. Local union meet
ings are we'll attended and much in
terest is manifest.
New hospital benefit rules were
adopted at the last meeting to care
of those members who are taken to
camp for military training
Discussion on the settlement of
prices on the big or speciality jig
gers for the help was carried on and
members interested were disappointed
at the length of time that elapsed be-
fore settlement.
Sebring has reputation of being
a 100 per cent union labor town. Pot
ters, enamel workers, box makers,
BARRIERS, bartenders and so on, all en-
joy union wages and working condi-
tions and patronize those who go
along with this set up, believing this
is the best solution of all our prob
lens. Now when any person or group
of persons have service to sell to
union workers these people should af-
filiate with their respective union if
they expect to deal with union people,
or face the possibility of having the
fact made known that they are unfair
to organized labor.
By the time this gets to print, we
all will know the results of Tuesdays
election and l hope friends of labor
who aspired to office have all been
successful. Union members | know
have done their part to live up to
their slogan to elect their friends and
defeat their enemies.-O. c.. a.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-11-07
Ransbottom-m
Employees Vote For
Firm-ba Union
Company Officials Bitterly
Opposed To Union
Principles

Nelson Mccoy and Robinson Rams
bottom employees, members of Local
No. 1876, National Brotherhood Of Oper-
ative Potters, located at Roseville, O.,
voted in an election under the di-
rection of the National Labor Re-
lations Board on November 4 to de-
termine the question of representation
for collective bargaining. This move
was initiated by the management of
the Robinson Ransbottom Pottery and
was the elimination of sinister and
under-cover activity on the part of the
officials of this company since the
organization of Local No. 1876. These
officials bitterly opposed the union
ization of the employees, with the re-
suit that the Brotherhood at no time
had majority of the workers at the
plant. Morton Ransbottom, chief ex-
ecutive of the company, participated in
all the wage conferences which took
place for discussion of the wage con-
tract for the employees of the art and
novelty shops of the Crooksville and
Roseville district. He, personally, al
ways signed whatever agreements
were effected.
The idea of employees exercising
their constitutional right to organize
is very distasteful to Mr.. Ransbottom
and his associates. Years of domin-
alton on the master and servant basis
have so imbeded themselves into his
heart that he could not bring him
self to the place where acceptance Of
democratic principles upon which to
build an employer-employe relation
ship would be satisfactory.
Mr.. Ransbottom was always able to
employ stooges, who for "mess of
pottage," so to speak, betrayed their
fellow workers.. This element was
constantly antagonistic towards union.
ization Of the plant. 1t was more
than surprising when Mr.. Nelson Nc
Coy of the Nelson Mccoy Pottery
adopted the Ransbottom methods. This
gentleman proved himself very adept
in this system for the destruction of
truly-American collective bargaining.
These men have offered as a surface
reason for promotion of the company
union set-up the fact that recurrent
and regular cessations of work have
occurred resulting in loss of employ
ment. They have determined to
change from the National Brotherhood
of Operative Potters to the so-called
employe representation plan. 1t is true
there were many strikes at these
plants, but it takes two to make an
argument. The firms extreme un-
reasonableness has been more than
fifty per cent of the cause for the un
fortunate strikes.
Another detrimental influence in the
situation was that Of a so-called effici-
ency engineering outfit with Ralph
Lind, former Regional Labor Board
director at Cleveland, Ohio, as the
representative. This is one of the
aspects of governmental regulation in
employer-employe matters, with the
placing in key positions of persons en-
Continued on Page Three)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-11-07
Striking Workers
Vote TOGO A.
Electrical Workers Choose
"A. F. Of L. BY Landslide
Vote In N. Y.

New York City GLNS).-In an
eighteen-to-one landslide, Local 3 OF
the International Brotherhood OF
Electrical Workers was overwhelming
ly chosen as the exclusive bargaining
agent of l SEQ employees of the Leviton
Manufacturing Company in what Off
cials of the National Labor Relations
Board said was one of the most or
derly elections in the history of that
body.
The vote was ,299 in favor of the
union and only 70 votes were cast in
opposition. Of the 1,499 workers
eligible to participate in the election
only 1O4 abstained.
Police Show Hostility
The Leviton workers have been on
strike since August 27 in one of the
most bitterly contested labor disputes
here in recent years. In the begin
ming of the strike streets near the
plant literally swarmed with police,
mounted, on motorcycles, in police
cars and on foot. Recently, however,
repeated protests by union officials
have resulted in a changed attitude
on the part of certain police officers.
Men and women, many Of them
with children in their arms, partici-
pated in the election.
The conduct of the strike has won
enthusiastic praise for Local 3 from
many of New York's outstanding la
Dor leaders. The strike has been car
ried on under the direction and super
vision in charge, and former internati-
onal president of the l. B. E. w.
End of Speed-up Asked
Strike benefits of 81 a week were
paid to each striker. The union also
maintained free restaurant for
strikers, their children and depend
ents.
The unions demands include recog-
milton of the union-now settled as
a result of the election-a minimum
weekly wage of SIG, abolition of an
inhuman speed-up system of produc-
ton and improved sanitary facilities.
Despite the decisive results of the
election, union executives were united
in saying that the strike would con-
tinue until union contract was sign
ed. So far the management has con-
sistently refused to meet and negoti-
ate with union representatives.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-11-07
Longshorenen Renew
Atlantic Coast Pact

New York, N. Y.-Joseph P. Ryan,
president Of the International Long
shoremen's Association, A. F. of l..
affiliate, said the union was prepared
to renew for another year it's agree
ment with the steamship companies
operating along the Atlantic Coast out
of New York City. The longshore-
men employed on the piers of the
coastwise lines receive 95 cents an
hour and $1.421a an hour for over
time, and work a 44-hour week.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-11-07
Anti-Picket Low
Killed In Oregon
Upholds A. F. L. Claim That
Statute Violated Right
Of Free Speech

The Oregon Supreme Court in a
precedent-making decision Of great
consequence to labor declared the
Oregon Anti-Picketing law invalid.
This law, passed two years ago by
referendum vote, made in a crime for
single worker or a minority group
of workers to peacefully picket an
employer with whom they were in
dispute.
The American Federation of Labor
and the Railroad Brotherhoods joined
in a suit to have the law declared
unconstitutional. The litigation was
in charge Of Joseph A. Padway, coun-
sci of the A. F. of L., and Mr.. b. A.
Green, counsel for the Oregon State
Federation of Labor The lower court
upheld the law, whereupon the case
was appealed to the Supreme Court
Briefs and arguments We're presented
to the Court on behalf of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, the Oregon
State Federation of Labor and the
Railroad Brotherhoods.
ilC pi iiiSIpdl dItdCh OlI LIlc Id" was
that it denied to a minority group of
workers the exercise of their consti-
tutional right of freedom of speech.
The Oregon Court agreed with this
contention and based it's decision on
the Thornhill case wherein the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor made SINH
lar attack on the Alabama Anti
Picking statute. The United States
Supreme Court declared the Alabama
law invalid on that ground, and the
Oregon Supreme Court followed the
United States Court in the Thornhill
case.
In outlawing the Oregon law the
Supreme Court of that State said
"By the decisions in the Thornhill
and Carlson cases, it is now estab-
lished that picketing as an incident to
labor dispute is at least in some of
it's phases an exercise of the right of
freedom of speech. -.
"The Supreme Court has announced
broad construction of the guaran-
ties of freedom of speech and the
press, and applying this conception to
laws aimed at picketing, has held that
publicizing the facts of a labor dis
pute in a peaceful way through ap-
propriate means, whether by pamph-
let, by word of mouth or by banner
Continued on Page Two)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-11-07
Woge-Hour Heads Right
To See Pay Rolls Upheld

Washington, D. C.-The Supreme
Court ruled that Montgomery, Ward
E. Co., Chicago mail order house,
must permit the Wage and Hour Di-
vision to inspect its pay roll records
in connection with the administration
OF Fair Labor Standards Aet on 1885.
The court refused to review a deci-
sion by the Federal Circuit Court of
Chicago which ruled that pay rolls
may be requisitioned as one of the
functions Of the Wage and Hour Divi-
sion in its routine enforcement activi-
ties.
Montgomery, Ward & Co. had chal-
lenged the Wage-Hour Administrator
authority to examine the payrolls of
1000 employees at the firms branch
store in Kansas City, Mo. The COM
pany contended the administrator was
attempting unreasonable search and
seizure" prohibited by the Fourth
Amendment to the Federal Constitu-
tion and that the Wage-Hour Divis-
ions subpoena violated the firms
right under the Fifth or "due process
of law Amendment. The Supreme
Courts action denied the validity of
these contentious.
Shortly after the courts ruling,
Col. Philip B. Fleming, Wage and
Hour Administrator, issued a state
ment asserting There can be no eX-
cuse for any employers refusing ac
cess to pay roll records to Wage and
Hour Division inspectors in view of
the courts refusal &. to review the
Montgomery, Ward decision"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-11-07
St. Louis Strike Called
By A. F. L. Building Trades

St. Louis, Mo.-A strike voted by
business agents of the A. F. of L.
Building Trades here to obtain 100
per cent unionization of the construc-
ton industries in St. Louis and St.
Louis county resulted in approximately
$4,000 building trades workmen walk
ing out. The strike was voted follow
ing a struggle with strikebreakers in
front of a nonunion construction pro-
ject in which one picket, a union
plasterer, was dubbed to death.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-11-07
l.038.229 Now Employed
By u. S. Government

Washington, D. C.-The Civil Ser
vice Commission reported that under
the pressure of the national defense
program the number Of Government
employees total 1,O3S,229 at the end
of August, with monthly payroll of
S159,218,015. The commission said
that 14,677 persons had been added
to the payrolls during the month.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-11-29
INTERVENTION EoLlY

Gen Charles G. Dawes. former
vice pre- iteat and former ambas-
sadar 10 Great Brl'ain. warns that
Intervention iu the European war
by tie United states would be an
az 0l nati0aa' folly.
DE eecm ends az the United
State continue aiding Britain By
mel DDS short W var despite the
tenc-nc} Of such aii % bring Amer
ici into the war iie says the war
viii a'inIe Until a ucccssfui
nafa n.1e.ade starves into surren-
dtf either Gesmauy or England. In
terFe-fion by the United States
would only prolong and intensity
this terrible situation. not relieve
IL"
This same view is expressed by
some ~ the suffering people them.
selves. a correspondent who re-.
Gently returned from France states
that French people told him Amer.
lea should not send food Food
shipments "ill only help Germany.
they told him.
As an ii.u tration 0f how thor.
oughly Germany Is collecting sup.
plies from conquered nations. this
correspondent relates his experi.
ence IN attempting 10 secure a small
amount Of coal He asked a dealer
for ten pounds for use 10 a small
stove in his room. he was told that
not that much coal remained In
France
No dou5t this was something OF
an exaggeratiOn. but the fact that
no coal was available for heating
purposes led him 10 believe that
Germany had dipped pretty deeply
into the national bin. and there was
no doubt IN his mind, he said, but
that Germany will confiscate relief
supplies as fast as they arrive in
any OF the subjected countries.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-11-29
lRv Frank McNanEhtonl

Washington, Nov. % UP -
The Electoral College may per-
form its last function when II
casts its third-term ballots on
Dec. Is.
Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, R.,
Mass. and other members OF Con
gress have announced they Will
submit resolutions for constitu-
tional amendment to abolish the
college as an "outmoded" relic OF
government.
They prefer, instead, to rest the
election decisions upon the popu-
lar vote. The Electoral College
system, its opponents argue is
cumbersome and useless.
1t was set up by the Constitution
before the formation of political
parties, on the theory that the
voters would choose as Preslden-
tial electors the best and wisest
men in their states. These electors
would then. wisely, choose the
best man for President. and the
second best for Vice President.
Electors Early Pledged
When Thomas Jefferson estab-
lIshed his Republican party--nOw
the Democratic party - 1t became
the custom for the electors to
pledge themselves in advance Of
the election to vote for a certain
candidate. and this defeated the
theory OF the electoral college.
Each state has the number of
votes In the electoral college that
it has members of the house and
senate. These electors will meet
in their state capitols on Dec. 10
the first Monday after the second
Wednesday in December-and vote
as they were pledged.
They will send one copy OF their
vote to the president of the senate,
two copies to their state secretary
OF state. two copies to Secretary of
State Cordell Hull, and deposit the
remaining copy with the federal
Judge OF the district in which they
met.
Then, on Jan. 6, both houses OF
congress will meet In a joint ses-
sion in the House OF Representa-
tives chamber with the president
OF the senate-Vice President John
y. Garner-or in his absence, the
president pro tempore, presiding.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-11-29
Electoral College Likely
to End After December 10

The presiding officer will open
each state ballot and announce the
results. Official tabulators will
carefully inspect the ballots and
note the result.
Winner TO be Declared
After compiling the result. they
will hand the Official total to the
president OF the senate. and he will
then declare President Franklin D.
Roosevelt reelected for a third
term.
Opponents Of the electoral col
lege system also have pointed out
that as 1t operates a minority can
didate may win the bulk OF the
electoral college vote. Political
statisticians have figured that the
Republicans, because OF the way
their following is spread, can win
with 40 or as per cent of the pOpu-
lar vote. President Rutherford B.
Hayes, and Benjamin Harrison
won with minority votes.
Statisticians estimated that \
switch Of per cent of the popular
vote would have given Wendell l..
Willkie. victory. yet President
Roosevelt won a landslide in the
electoral college.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-11-29
The Common Wart

The common wart is known as
verruca vulgaris - the vulgar
wart! Then there is verruca jul
venilis-the wart of the young;
and verruca plantaris-the wart
Of the bottom Of the foot.
1t is generally believed now that
they are all due to form of in
fection-a virus, but it has GER
lain peculiarities. 1t is almost i'm
possible to say where one acquired
The infection because the latent
period between contact and the
appearance of the wart may be
:welve to twenty months. Multiple
warts tend to spread in linear
manner along the lines of scratch.
Either common or juvenile
warts respond to local apDlica-
inns - ,,,-.- , -, -t~~
tiseptic such as ammoniated mer-
curry, salicylic acid. sulphur or re-
sorcin will work. My own family
remedy is formaldehyde. Get .
half-ounce bottle and tip it up so
as to wet the cork and touch the
wart lightly with the moistened
cork four or five times day.
The X-ray and electro-dessica-
tion-a sort Of electric cautery-
are to be used when the simple
means fail.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-11-29
DeliriouS Woman, Dead
Couple Found on Boat

Suya, Eli Islands, Nov, Cup
From a delirious woman, crazed by
hunger and thirst, authorities today
sought the story of the deaths of
her three companions aboard the
tiny sailing boat on which they left
California seeking romance and
riches.
The woman was Mrs Fern Thomp-
son. 80, OF Salt Lake City Her
companions were her husband. Rob-
ert, 35. a pearl diver OF San Pedro.
Cal, Delton Comfy. rs, and his wife.
Eve. 20. OF San Francisco.
Aboard the 2S-foot sloop Wing On
when 1t was found on a reef on the
northwest coast OF Vanua Levu Is
land were two bodies, a man and
Mrs. Comfy. 1t was not established
II the man was Comfy or Thompson.
Police authorities believed the
fourth member OF the party had
been buried at sea or swept over
board in a typhoon.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-11-29

Ii would seem, from study OF
Greek Victories over larger and bet
ter.equpped Italian armies. that a
master military st.ategst has come
upon the European war scene IN
the person of Greece's premie-,
Gen. John Metaxas.
The 70-year-oid. bespectacIed
Metaxas, a distinguished pupil 'of
the Potsdam. Germany, Military
Academy. must have figured out
what the British and French hsa
commands had not-that the only
hope OF beating the AXIS powers
mecnanized war machines was with
-hly mobile, elastic defense
force. able to operate N independ-
ent units.
THIS strategy seems TO be the
secret of Greek victories In the
mountains. rayines and valleys
along the Albanian border.
Although he is said to be vel.
pleased with the first results OF the
is too seasoned. and realistic 10 be-
lieye that the issue has been se,-
tied. He believes that the hardest
blows Will come when Italy throws
the full force OF her reserves and
her air armada into the fight.
II Greece can Withstand such a
blow. Benito Nusso.ini's Fascist
regime may fall
Metaxas became premier IN 1886
Until then he was best known as !,
militarist. AT Potsdam he had
earned the nickname Little Mott
Ike, after the celebrated German
strateg.st famous for foresight In
the Balkan war OF 1912, he had been
chief of operations.
AS a polit cal leader, Metaxas SET
about to unite all political parties
and pledged to keep Greece out OF
War. But he never overlooked the
possibility that Greece might have
TO fight. He built the "Metaxas
Line bordering Bulgaria. He fol
lowed a good neighbor" foreign
policy but kept an eye on the lta-
lians and when he learned they
were grading OF military highways
through Albania toward the GreeE
border he began Planning a recep-
ton for them.
Il = ~7Suassa. eOnditicns slons tho.
Albanian border and decided that
the best strategy for Greek troops
would be to keep 10 the mountains
instead Of engaging massed Italian
formations in the open field. Much
OF mis- mountain strategy was based
on his study OF the spanish war.
He studied the reports OF his OBJ
servers in Spain and decided that II
the Italians attacked the mountain
Gus Greek frontier, they probabl
would use the same methods they
did IN their successful campaign \
the -.euees against the BasQues.
The .oeic Of his reasoning is at
teste- Jl by dispatches from the
FROM BOW.
" as was horn in Ithaca.
"bi-t-i.-ce OF the legendary
sua' tIst Ulysses. He is shost.
stou. sid mas umin- He has keen
gra. -s ana his health appears
exc. though he works Is to Is
hours day.
Tie sIperlses every phase Of the
military operations from general
headquarters. He eats when the
time allows People cheer hin
e,e.s tine be Us seen on the street.
lis attire usually includes a gray
SUI winged collar Hamburg hat
ana walking stick. a contrast y
the uniformed and rain bowrib con-
ed King George and general stan
OH efs AIS manner is calm and
- reass ring