The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-12-26
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That recent wild nuctuation Of the
Georgetown Seismograph needle was
caused by the Presidents believing
when he learned during the Vultee
strike how really embarrassing some
of his rosy-hued advisors can be
Just before he was piped aboard the
Tuscaloosa he told some inner circle
confidantes that William Knudson
and not Leon Henderson would be
named the big defense chief, or "pro-
duction director" when he returned.
Knursen would then have full au-
thority and responsibility to get re-
suits from U. S. industry
And while we're on the minor item
of defense, our pony express rider
brings in pouch full of coded mail
revealing that the same strike lead
ers charged as being Communists by
Attorney General Jackson and Martin
Dies are now planning to work on
the Santa Monica Douglass Aircraft
plant, which turns out those pretty
bombers which annoy the NaZis so
much. :. Nor are Tovarishchi Wynd-
ham Mortimer and Michner overlook
ing the Ryan Aeronautical Co. in San
Diego, North American plane fac
tories, and the important Menasco and
Harvill Die-casting plants. About
10000 workers are involved.
A real tip-off Oh the whole West
Coast situation can be found in the
Chicago statement of ace government
conciliator DR.. Steelman, who pointed
out that the "union struck for pub
licity purposes to prevent it from
| falling apart because it had only a
few members to start with"
A tip-off on Phil Murray's attitude
toward Lewis and the pro-Axis crowd
in C1O can be found in the November
20 edition Of Steel Labor, official S.
w. O. c. newspaper. Communism is
attacked :. and there is not a single
mention of John Lewis in an edition
published Immediately after the con-
vention closed.
Before long the public will discover
that silent revolution is taking place
| inside CIO. Lee Pressman, counsel to
the organization, is nearly out. Len
DeCauX, publicity director and editor
| Of the G. l. O. news, is next. How
long the purge will remain quiet de-
pends on when the Axis bloc decides
to blast at Murray. Other Stalinites
will soon find themselves, like Morris
Watson, on the outside unable to look
in. Herr Watson, by the way, is now
slated to be Nsr.Nor representative
of Labor's Non-Partisan League.
Meanwhile the Stalinite bloc inside
| C1O continues to sabotage aid to Eng
land. Joe Curran's Industrial Coun-
Gil of Greater New York, virtually
Communist Party subsidiary, has
planned campaign against the sale
and transfer of U. S. Ships . and
will use as slogan, with typical
unmitigated gall, "a betrayal of natl
onal defense"
There are fifteen members of the
CIO executive committee who owe
their first allegiance to foreign gov
ernment.
On the Washington grapevine is the
news that Harry Mills already has
reversed the trend of the National La
Dor Board and that board member Ed
win S. Smith almost burst a blood
vessel when both Mills and Leiserson
voted to reconsider the certifcation of
ClO affiliate International Longshore-
mems and Warehousemen's Union,
Harry Bridges stronghold upon which
the Tovarishi pinned their hopes of
controlling the U. S. merchant marine.
The NLRB move opens the first real
drive on Communist domination Of the
vital waterfront sector.