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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-09-12
Banner Crowd At
LUNo. 86 Meetinq
Attend Meetings and Have
Better Understanding
Of Affuirs

Local Union No. Sc met Monday
evening in regular session with Broth
er Brady White in the chair and all
officers present. There was a banner
crowd in attendance to hear the report
Of our conferee.
1t is strange how so many members
get interested in their trade around
conference time. 1t seems to me that
PERSONS trade should come ahead
of everything else and it is discour-
aging sometimes to see such a small
turnout at our local meetings.
If you can get interested one time,
you should be interested all the time.
Come to your local meetings have a
voice in the proceedings and don't
spout off around the shop and tell
your fellow workers what they should
do or shouldn't do. 1t is shameful the
way some of our members criticize the
decisions made by the loyal few who
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-09-12
SIGNING OF 2-YEAR PACT ENDS TWELvE-DAY CONFERENCE
.LU $50 Negotidtes
For New Contract
New Line Of Hdnd-Painted
Wore Being Introduced
By Firm

Red Wing, Minn.-With vacation
season over and the temperature COO
again, we are looking for some good
attendance at the future meetings of
Local Union No. $50.
We have been having a little more
than our share of rain this summer
The grass is just as green as it was
in May. Farmers in this vicinity are
reporting bumper crops. The harvest
has been some what delayed because
of the rain, but | think we are in for
some nice weather from now on.
Our annual potter's excursion on
the steamer Capitol was good fnan-
cial success. The proceeds of these
excursions are used to put on our an
nual potters picnic.
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-09-12
A.F.L. Demands
Greater Security
Green Asks SafetY Against
Risks Of Unemployment
In Defense Plunts

Washington, D. C. 0LNS).-Great-
er security against risks faced by de-
fense industry workers is demanded
by the American Federation of La
Dor in an editorial by William Green
appearing in the current American
Federationist.
Opening a campaign for changes in
the unemployment compensation law
to provide better protection for work.
ers who lose their jobs in defense
industries, both government operated
and privately operated, the Fedora
zionist says that the A. F. Of L..
"holds that human welfare should be
the primary consideration" in all de-
fense program planning.
Labor Must Present Claims"
After pointing out that employers
incur certain risks Of loss in defense
contracts, such as experimenting with
new lines, purchasing new machinery,
employment Of workers not trained in
the specific work under production,
the Federationist goes on to say:
Labor must also present it's claims
1ol SCSuIlIy oSolhoC VIC VIC
workers will face. Defense production
will not be permanent work and yet
the most skilled workers are asked
to identify their fortunes with these
short-lived industries.
What Thought For Workers?
workers must transfer their fami-
lies and homes to new places of work.
Plans have been announced to decen-
tralize munitions production, begin
ming with sixty locations in the Mid
die West. Labor full we'll knows the
ghost towns killed by the closing down
of dominant industries and the packs
of workers no longer needed.
what thought has been given for
opportunities for these workers to
live their lives in happiness and with
future opportunities :. we hold that
human welfare should be the primary
consideration in ali our planning. We
are not at war but are undertaking
a defense program that will be con-
tinued in some measure over period
Of many years.
Two Changes Asked
"We therefore demand early con-
sideration of two cardinal features for
the welfare Of workers and the bene-
fit of all classes of our citizenship:
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-09-12
L. u. l33Likes To
Read Trade News
Union Potters Reulize Infer.
ior Products Cdn Ruin
Pottery Trade

New Castle, Pa.-Sanitary potters
Of New Castle seem to want news in
their paper and for many reasons they
do not get much news from other
sanitary shops. The 0. C.'s who are
appointed by the presidents of local
unions do not take their job seriously
enough or perhaps they are too busy
with home problems, automobile riding
or other things, to give the trade what
it needs
There may be some solution to this,
if it is given serious consideration by
the thinkers in our organization. |
feel safe in saying that the officials
of every pottery where the N. B. of
o. P. has local union read with
pleasure and much interest news pub
lished in the Herald by some members
of their shop.
While there are many things which
they do not want broadcasted, there
is news in every shop which potters
like to read and our relationship with
officials of the shops can be improved
by showing our interest in the trade
at which we make our living. The men
in the different departments in our
shop have a great deal of pride in
their workmanship and we, as whole,
have pride in the quality of ware this
shop puts on the market.
Intelligent union men realize that a
pottery can lose its trade by plac-
ing on the market product inferior
in quality and the workman is often
responsible for the flaws found on
ware. 1t may mean a difference of
steady work or half time in their pay
envelopes by the failure of workmen
to show the right spirit of cooperation
in developing their skill and giving the
best that is in them in producing ware
of quality. Some of US have seen
sanitary potteries and other indus
tries go under when officials are
figuring on how much more ware or
work they can get out of a man. There
is a limit to what a man can do and
do right.
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-09-12
RundwdY Prices
Face u. S. Attack
Retdil Industry Wurned To
Prevent UnWurrunted
Increases 49,

Washington, D. C. (ILNS).-If the
retailing industry fails to collaborate
with the national defense program by
preventing runaway prices it may ex-
pect government breakdown" such
as it has never known before, the
industry was warned by one of it's
spokesman here.
The warning was given at con-
ference of retail trade representatives
called by Miss Harriet Elliott, Con-
sumer Adviser on the National De-
fense Advisory Commission.
Cooperation between retailers and
the Consumer Division of the defense
commission was assured by the con-
ference, the commission said.
Retailers "On Trial"
Outlining program for retailer
participation in defense, Fred Laza-
rus, Jr, leading Ohio merchant said
the retail industry is "on trial" and
added:
eff we fail here to obtain substan-
tial agreement on the major outlines
of a program that will enable US to
take care Of civilian needs, we can
look forward to government regula-
tion such as we have never known
before"
"Unless by our own actions" Laz-
arus also said, "we can prevent price
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-09-12
Influence of Buy American Movement
Expanding AS Drive Hits All States

purchase of domestic products is the
best economic antidote for the long
depression with its consequent idle
ness Of ten million persons, has been
we'll substantiated by the progress
made in the last few years. The war,
however, has brought the truth home
to many who had not been previously
convinced. And these persons are dis
covering, as has always been main
tanned, that in a vast majority of in
stances, American made products are
better made and therefore a better
value for the money spent. The COM
ing year should see several millions
of new recruits added to our ranks.
Coincident with the establishment of
new club chapters throughout the
country a parallel organization of
units for women members exclusively
will be projected, Captain Eble an
nounced. A new department has been
organized, known as the Organization
of Womanhood of America" with Mrs.
Harvey Thomas of New York City as
Director. Mrs. Thomas is noted as a
parliamentarian with wide experience
in national, state and city organiza-
tions and is a former president of
the New York City Federation of
Women's Clubs.
"The womanhood of the United
States will be given the opportunity
volunteer for patriotic service every
day and many hours of each day." said
Mrs. Thomas in outlining the new
plans, "by asking continually the ques-
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-09-12

Syracuse, N. Y.-George Meany,
secretary-treasurer of the American
Federation of Labor, assured the work
ers of the land in Labor Day ad-
dress here that the A. F.. of L. will not
permit the standards and rights of
organized labor to be undermined or
destroyed in the present emergency.
He promised the most vigorous op-
position by labor to "those who would
use the present situation to their own
selfish advantage"
Speaking at Labor Day banquet
arranged by the Syracuse Federation
Of Labor, Mr.. Meany said:
"Mr. Hitler has solemnly vowed that
he has not the slightest intention of
injuring the United States, but we
know from experience that the worth
of any pledge by that person is con-
siderably less than nil.
$50 labor, as represented by the
American Federation of Labor, whose
patriotism and Jealous devotion to the
ideals and principles of democracy
cannot be called into question, has
rolled up it's sleeves and pitched into
the job that has to be done to trans
late the defense program from blue
prints to tangible instruments of de-
fense."
Declaring that organized labor is
"keenly aware" of the desire of it's
enemies to use the present situation
to "shackle" the workers of the ma
ton, Mr.. Meany warned that labor
must be dealt with "in accordance with
the rules of Justice"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-09-12
Cutters Battle To
Stimulate Industry
Trying To Increase Use OF
Granite In Federal Con-
struction Work

Washington, D. C. QLNS).-The
use of domestic granite in construction
jobs was the subject of recent con-
ference held in the House Office Build
ing sponsored by Congressman from
granite producing districts and the
Granite Cutters International AS
sociation of America.
Dick Hudson, international repre-
sentative of the union, is taking the
lead in an effort to increase the use
of granite in Federal construction
work and furnish employment for
members of the union.
Local unions of granite cutters ex-
, listed as early as 1920, but the inter-
national was organized in 1877. Its
officers took prominent part in the
organization Of the American Fedora
tion Of Labor, and James Duncan, it's
president, was a vice president Of the
A. F. Of L. from it's inception until
his death a few years ago.
Formerly with more than 10000
members, the international now has
less than 1000 and many of them
are continuously idle. Granite quar-
ries are still in operation in several
sections of the country, but it's use has
been declining for many years.
Hudson states that granite is still
the best material for certain types of
construction, and the present campaign
is for the purpose of bringing it's de-
Nsirability to the attention of Federal
v officials.
The Government, he says, while
perhaps effecting an immediate saving
by the use of substitute building ma
terials, in the long run is adding to
the cost because of the extra expense
of upkeep and replacement. Granite
he points out, is everlasting and will
stand up for centuries under severe
abuse.
At the conference were representa-
tives of quarrying companies, the in
ternational union, and many Congress
men in whose districts granite is
found. The only purpose of the meet.
ing was to discuss ways and means
for increasing the use of granite in
the construction of Federal buildings
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-09-12
Temporary Loom
Notes To Be Sold
Go To Private Bidders Now
Offering The Lowest
Interest Rutes

Washington, D. C.-The United
States Housing Authority announced
today that % more local housing au-
thorities will sell $44,58O,OOO of Tenn
porary Loan Notes to private bidders
offering the lowest interest rates.
The short-term paper will be offer
ed at public sale in two groups, one
to be advertised for opening of bids
on September 10, and the other for
bid opening on September &c.
Since November, 1889, when the
first of these notes were offered for
sale, various local housing authorities
have issued total of approximately
1851 100000 of such notes. Some have
already matured and all such notes
were paid when due. When the cur
rent sales have been consummated,
there will be total of about $685.
OOO,OC0 outstanding and not yet due.
The sale of these notes makes pos
sible substantial savings, because To-
cal authorities will pay interest rates
of less than one-sixth of what the
USHA is required to charge for it's
loans. These savings in interest will
reduce the cost of the projects of these
authorities by at least 2fe, and this
will also reduce the Federal subsidies
which are computed on the basis of
capital cost of the projects.
With part of the lower-interest
funds thus obtained, the local housing
authorities will repay to the USHA
all moneys already advanced on their
loan contracts, together with accrued
interest. With the remainder, they
will meet the costs of construction of
their USHA-aided projects during the
term Of the notes.
The last offering of these short
(Continued on Page Two)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-09-12

AS measure of economic defense
to 20 hand in hand with the national
defense program of the United States,
the "Buy American" movement foster
ed by the Made In America Found
alton, Inc, will take immediate steps
to expand its influence to reach all
sections of the country. A state Made
In America Club will be formed in
each of the forty-eight states with
chapters in all cities and villages
where the interest and the size of the
population warrant.
Membership in each unit will be
limited to two hundred persons with
a minimum of twenty-five, but more
than one unit may be organized in any
community. The announcement was
made today by Captain F. X. A. Eble,
Managing Director of the Made In
America Foundation, the parent or
ganization which sponsors the Made
In America Club units.
"Since the Made In America Club
movement was started seven years
ago. Captain Eble stated, public in
terest has been growing steadily. Re-
cent developments in Europe, begin
ming with the quickened tempo of the
war following the German invasion
of Norway, Belgium, Holland and
France, have accelerated the demand
in this country for products made in
America. The newly aroused surge
of nationalism and patriotism is easily
understood.
"The original hypothesis of the
founders of the movement, that the
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-09-12
SecretdrY-Tredsurer MedneY Declares
Labor Has "Pitched" Into Defense lob

Labor today as in the past is pre-
pared to make whatever sacrifices are
necessary in order that we may help
our government preserve and protect
this nation and it's free institutions"
he said.
"But labor is determined that the
fundamental rights and guarantees of
our Federal Constitution and all of
the gains made by labor because we
have enjoyed those fundamental rights
and guarantees shall be maintained
and preserved.
"These rights and guarantees are
our most priceless possessions as
American workers. They are the
things that make our way of life
worth fighting for. Surely it is not
intelligent to throw them overheard
just at the time when we are get
ting ready to defend them"
The protective features of the Wage
and Hour Law, the Walsh Healey Act
and other labor legislation "shall not
be suspended" Mr.. Meany asserted.
"The minimum provisions of these
laws protect the health and efficiency
of the workers so necessary for the
speedy achievement of a defense pro-
gram sufficient for our needs" he
pointed out.
Mr.. Meany said the American Fed
GRAFTON Of Labor has enjoyed the con-
fidence and support of the American
people for sixty years and is deter
mined to continue to enjoy that con-
fidence and support.
Continued on Page Two)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-09-12
Lubor's Benefits
To Be Preserved,
Sfofes Roosevelt
President Makes Labor Duv
Address At Scene Of
IVA Development

Chickamauga, Tenn-In a Labor
Day address here, President Roosevelt
hailed "the miracle that man has
wrought" by seven years Of labor in
constructing the great dams of the
Tennessee Valley Authority's powe,
projects.
He called this IVA development
"a monument to productive partner.
ship between management and labor
and pointed out that collective bar
gaining and efficiency have proceeded
hand in hand"
Discussing the harnessing of nat
ural resources, the President con-
cluded
'In that development let US always
remember that we must and shall re-
tain the great gains that have been
made for human social security in
recent years. We propose, indeed
not to retain them alone but to i'm
prove and extend them. Most assur-
edly we are determined neither to
repeal them nor to weaken them.
1--WE understand now what we did
not understand in 1917 and 1878
that the building up of Army and
Navy equipment and the training of
men to use it ought not to result in
waste of our national resources, and
at the same time ought not to break
down the gains of labor or the main
tenance of living wages.
"We are seeking the preparedness
OF America, not against the threat of
war or conquest alone but in order
that preparedness be built to assure
American peace that rests on the we'll
being Of the American peonles,
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-09-12
MINIMUM RATES FOR 23 TRADES
SET IN QUEST FOR UNIFORMITY
CONFERENCE ENDS LATE SUNDAY NIGHT WITH FEW
CHANGES IN PRESENT PACT


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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26
THE REAL DEFENSE OF A NATION

"The unbought loyalty of men is the
cheap defense of nations" said Burke,
who might have added that it is the bull
wark upon which the strength of nation
depends in times of peace as we'll as in
days of war.
This thought, we think, is appropriate
to people who dwell amid freedom and
liberty, enjoying the blessings of modern
democratic government. 1t is the glory OF
2 citizen to refuse all forms of bribery, re-
CARELESS of how the payment may be OF
fered.
In the year 1910, when the American
people go to the polls to select President,
and other officials to represent them, 1t IS
important that every voter bear in mind
the sentence quoted. Let ballots be cast
with "unbought loyalty" to our institutions
and faith in the United States that is not
for sale.
While money has played, and will
play, too large part in our political cam
paigns we doubt if it has exercised the Ell
feet that many attribute to the extravaganza
use of funds. Naturally, citizens are IN
fluencedsin their voting by the effects OF
national policies upon their Welfare. This
has been so since the earliest days of the
renublic and is true among the wealthiest
as we'll as the poorest.
Those who proclaim that the entire
American electorate can be bought dis
play their lack of faith in the average
American. Such a charge is an insult to
believers in democracy. In fact, the IN
fluence of money in elections has been
over-exaggerated. 1t is being diminished
by the enforcement of well-timed statutes
which should have the approval of the
people.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26
THE KEY WEST CITIZEN
WILL always seek the truth and print it

WILL always seek the truth and print it
without fear aud without favor; never be
afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right;
always fight for progress; never be the Or
gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique,
faction or class; always do its utmost for the
public welfare; never tolerate corruption or
injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue
commend good done by individual or organ
izASion; tolerant of others rights, views and
opinions; print only news that will elevate
and not cOhtaminate the reader; never COM
promise with principle.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26
MISS THELMA STRABEL

Without fanfare or without benefit of
a publicity man, young woman arrived
in Key West about three years ago and de-
cided to settle here. There was something
IN the atmosphere that compelled her to
choose Key West for her home, when she
might very we'll have had her pick of a
choice building site in any one of hum
dred attractive places in the United States
of Europe.
That young woman was Miss Thelma
Strabel She had begun to make a name
for herself in the world of letters She had
been writing and selling fiction to various
national magazines. She had been given
fine prices for the movie rights to some of
her stories She was rated successful
woman.
Selection of Key West as her future
home was one of the greatest breaks Key
West ever got. Few realized then, except
a small group of intimates, that she spent
the first few months gathering material
for a novel with Key West background,
or locale What she discovered in old
books and documents became part of the
pattern of fine story about fine people
set down in fine locality-Key West.
Today that story Reap the Wild
Wind has begun appearing in the Satur-
day Evening Post 1t will run serially for
six weeks in that publication, which en-
Joys the greatest circulation Of any ma
tional weekly magazine. The fact that
the story has started in the current issue of
the SEP is being advertised in every Sec
ton of the United States and Canada by
the circulation and promotion agencies of
the great publication. Large posters stress
the fact that story with a Florida Keys
background has started in the magazine.
It would be impossible to calculate
the publicity value of that story and that
promotion to Key West and the Florida
Keys The weekly circulation is in excess
of 100000. How many persons actually
read each issue, let alone six issues, of such
a publication is anyone's guess. Certainly
it runs into tens of millions.
So young woman who came here
and liked Key West is giving Key West
and Florida Keys the finest kind of pub
licity. It could not be bought. Key West
is duly grateful, deeply appreciative, but
puzzled what to do about it. How are you
going to express your gratitude and ap-
probation to young woman who does not
want anything for helping the community
in which she has settled?
Key West is very glad Miss Strabel
has settled here. The citizens of the COM
munity will watch the building of her
home at the foot of Whitehead street with
great interest. Perhaps as time goes on a
few of us may meet and personally thank
Miss Strabel, and maybe invite her over to
have snack. The Citizen salutes Miss
Strabel and wishes her the best of every
thing!
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26
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Today's Horoscope
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Today may produce one who
will do wonders in an intellect
ual way; possessed with great
penetration and a good under
standing, and winning honors
and success. But there is dam
ger indicated of a breakdown,
mentally perhaps, inducing mel
ancholia; or the unfortunate ten
deney may be toward over-in-
diligence, both of which may be
overcome by careful /. self-de-
lS.asa.k - ~t3
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-26

Not in the homes of the ultra-rich
where luxury can be provided are to be
found the happiest American homes, but
in the modest homes of the American
workman, the family heads of about 18
per cent of Americas 30,000,O0O families,
whose annual income runs from $3.50 to
$IT50. Fairly good living conditions can
be had with these small incomes, provided
there is capable home management and
careful budgeting: