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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-07-25
PERSONALS

Howard Tucker, of Washing
ton, D. c., is spending his vaca-
ton with Mr.. and Mrs. H. C.. Tue
ker.
Elder I. w. Kilby and family,
OF WEIGH, w. Va, visited rela-
tlves here over the week end and
attended services at Helton
church.
DR.. and Mrs. L. o. Gibson. of
Statesville, were the guests of Mr..
and Mrs. R. w. Hardin Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Garland Jonas
and daughter, Camilla, of Jack
sonville, Fla, are spending some
time at the Speers.
Miss Carol Dean Owen, of
HOLLYWOOD, Pa, is visiting her Sis
ter, Mrs. j. Paul Miller this week.
Johnnie and Max Payne, of
West Jefferson, are visiting in
Boone.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Clingman,
of Winston-Salem, visited Mr.. and
Mrs. Ed. M. Anderson here this
week. Mr.. Clingman is connec-
ted with The Winston-Salem
Journal in the editorial depart
ment.
Deputy Sheriff J. E. Shumate,
of Crumpler, was in town yester-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Hash and
two children, of Pennsylvania,
visited Mrs. Hash's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. H. c. Tucker last week.
Mrs. Matte Treadway, of Co.
lumbus, Ohio, arrived Saturday
to spend several weeks with rela-
tives in the county.
Mrs. Don Taylor, of Kingstree,
S. c., and Mrs. Louis Wilkins, Of
Spruce Pine, were called here
last week because of the illness
of their father, w. R. Jones, who
makes his home with his daugh
ter, Mrs. Edgar Jones.
Richard Griggs is spending his
vacation at his home in Jefferson.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. r. Dawsey, of
Dothan, Ala, are spending some
time with friends on Beaver
Creek.
James Stanley, of Chapel Hill,
spent the weekend at home. Mrs.
Stanley returned to Chapel Hill
with him.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pete Johnson and
son, of Washington, D. c., are
visiting relatives in the county.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. E. Kilby, Mr..
and Mrs. H. w. Owen, Mr.. l.. J.
Kilby, Mr.. and Mrs. Orie Kilby,
Mrs. Frank Clark and Mr.. and
Mrs. Eli FISHERMAN, all of Penn,
visited relatives in the county
last week.
Mr.. Edwin Foster spent several
days here this week as the guest
of friends.
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and largest attended of any of the
other five.
A number of prominent speak
ers appeared on the two-day
program. They included DR.. r.
B. House, dean of the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
who was introduced by w. B.
Austin; c. B. Blalock and James
Dalton. motor magazine editor.
Mr.. Hafer presided over a
luncheon at which time Robert
L. Thompson made talk on the
states advertising program.
T. R. Wolfe, of Albemarle, was
elected president of the Associa-
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-07-25
Auto Dealers
Convention Was
A Big Success

Over $50 persons attended the
sixth annual convention of the
North Carolina Automobile Deal
ers Association at Blowing Rock
Monday and Tuesday.
Lem Hafer, Ashe county Chew
rolet dealer, was in charge of all
arrangements for the convention
and this gathering was the best
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-07-25

Messrs. J. D. Parsons, of De-,
Ridder, La, o. K. Parsons, of
WEIGH, La, J. E. Parsons, and J.
G Parsons, of Roanoke, La, have
been visiting Messrs. M, M. Lewis
and Robert Lewis at Fig, for the
past few days. They returned
home this week. - '--'
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ton. Mr.. Hafer was reelected
director. .,-.~-~-.-...,
Tom Duncan j and Raymond
Francis, of the Duncan Motor
Company here, also attended the
convention, and helped with ar
rangements. Et4t
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-07-25
REA Directors
Met In County

The directors of the Caldwell
Mutual Corporation met in regu-
lar monthly session at the Bro
mine-Arsenic springs hotel last
Saturday.
According to reports submitted
by Supt. Messick, the Coop is
getting along fine and is meeting
all financial obligations as they
come due.
The directors enjoyed a splen-
did luncheon served at the hotel.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-07-25
SINGING CONVENTION SUN.

The Ashe county singing con-
vention will be held at the West
Jefferson Baptist church this
Sunday afternoon, Coleman
Payne has announced.
A large crowd is expected. The
convention will start at 1870 o.
clock.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-02-08
|Old Age Insurance Should Cover Farmers Domestics
Emploves of Charitable and Educational Institutions

Federation in declaration demanding
the extension of old age pensions to
agricultural workers, domestics, and
employees of religious, charitable and
educational institutions.
Many Groups Still Barred From Old
Age Pensions
On the specific subject of old age
insurance coverage, the convention
said:
"The Advisory Council on Social
Security, committee composed of
representatives of labor, employers
and the public, after careful study,
that the employees of
private non-proft religious, charitable,
and educational institutions excluded
from old age insurance should be
brought under coverage Immediately;
that maritime employment be in
cluded; that farm and domestic en-
ployes should be covered if admins
tratively possible by January l, 1910;
and that the old age insurance pro-
gram should be extended as soon as
feasible to include other groups not
now covered, studies being made of
the problems involved in including
self-employed persons and govern
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-02-08
Redl Action Token
By Local Union l3l
All Delinquent M e m b e r S
Must Pay February 29 Or
Be Suspended

1t has happened time after time that
Local Union No. 131 has shown too
much leniency. regarding it's delin-
quent members. But now the action
is pay up or get out. The secretary
has list of those eligible for suspen-
sion. After February 20, those not
paid up in dues and reinstatements
will be suspended. NO EXCEPTIONS.
We are sorry such measures are
necessary, but brothers you know
that you have to pay your dues and
assessments.
Our meetings have been we'll at
tended lately and many important dis
cussions have been on the floor. We
are extremely anxious to have some
resolutions for our committee, so
everyone get their thoughts down on
paper as we only have until May l to
get the resolutions into headquarters.
Glad to report Brother Buchheit
who was recently operated on is get
ting along fine. We hope to see him
up and around in the near future.
Suspended members will be listed
in the paper next week. O. c. 131.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-02-08
Foes OfLubor Are
Assdiled By Green
"Hireling Propaganda Mon.
gers" Hit For Smearing
Labor Movement

y Washington, D. CA merited con-
demnation of those enemies of or
ganized labor who use the rare de-
Elections from upright conduct by
union members to besmirch the entire
trade union movement featured the
address, of President William Green
Of the American Federation of Labor
at mass meeting at East St. Louis,
Illinois, celebrating the forty-frst
anniversary of the East St. Louis Cen
trail Trades and Labor Union.
After reviewing the many achieve
ments for working men and women in
higher wages, shorter hours, unem-
ployment compensation, workmen's
compensation, safe and sanitary fac
tories, and in allied fields of economic
and social conditions gained by the
American Federation Of Labor since
it was established nearly sixty years
ago with an initial membership of
5000, Mr.. Green said:
"These great advances did not just
happen. These great objectives were
not achieved without a struggle. The
men and women of organized labor
and their elected leaders have been
forced to fight bitterly for every inch
of progress. All sorts of weapons,
fair and foul, have been employed
against them. They have been ha-
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-02-08

The new Social Security Act which
became effective January l extended
old age and survivors pensions to a
large number of persons who were ex-
cluded from the coverage Of the orig
inal law and liberalized pension pay
ments. But there still remain hun
dreds of thousands of workers, equal
in right to those entitled to pensions,
who are barred by Congress from the
benefits prescribed by the law.
We keep on repeating the slogan
that there are no classes in the United
States, but when Congress enacts leg
islation barring certain groups from
the Federal old age pension system,
it would seem that Congress itself, by
legislative fiat, establishes at least two
classes of workers. In the first class
are those who are given security in
old age by Federal pension. In the
second class are those who are barred
from security in their old age by de-
nying them Federal pension.
The legislative program of the
American Federation of Labor to
remedy this gross injustice in the So
cial Security Act was definitely set
forth by the 1889 convention of the
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-02-08
McCrorY Girls Vote
Down Clerks Union
Members of Organized Ld-
Dor Urged to Aid Fight
Against Firm

Empolyes of the J. G. McCrory Co.
voted three to one against affiliation
with the Retail Clerks international
Protective Association (AFL) at an
election held under the supervision of
the National Labor Relations Board at
the Travellers hotel last Tuesday
night.
Working conditions and wages be-
ing exceedingly poor at the store, the
girls employed there were among the
first to demand organization during
the recent campaign staged by the
clerks union here. The management
of the store at once took steps to dis
courage any affiliation with the local
by raising the pay, adhering strictly
to the closing time and forming So
cial club for the girls. This, of
course, was company union plan.
BY various forms Of intimidation,
girls were all won away from the
union with the exception of a faithful
seven who can fully realize that the
Improvement in wages and hours sud-
denly experienced by the girls was
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-02-08

mental employees.
"In the current amendments to the
Social Security Act, the officers and
members of crews on American YES
sells except those whose contracts are
entered into abroad and who never
touch at an American port in the
course of their employment, are in
cluded in the provisions for old age
benefits. However, all persons en-
gagged in the fishing industry are ex-
empt from this provision, except per-
sons in salmon and halibut fishing
and officers and members of crews of
fishing vessels of more than ten tons.
Inclusion of all fishermen will be
easier when the program is expanded
to cover self-employed persons or in
dependent contractors.
Importance of Coverage Extension
Emphasized
"The extension Of coverage is i'm
portant because the old age insurance
system is compulsory for workers who
are included and no provision is made
for refunding payments made by
workers who are covered for a few
years but not long enough to become
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-02-08
Anniversary Plans
Started By Local 6
Wheeling Organization To
Celebrate 49 Years In
Brotherhood

Wheeling, w. Va.-President George
Grimm Of Local Union No. 6 is re-
questing all members of the Wheeling
organization to be present at the reg
ularly monthly meeting on Monday,
February 10. Plans will be discussed
for celebration of the locals 49th
birthday. Local Union No. was or
ganized April 27, 1891. We believe
49 years affiliation with the National
Brotherhood Of Operative Potters is a
very good record.
The "March of Dimes" at the plant
was quite successful last pay day
when many of the members added
their bits of silver to the fight against
lnfantile Paralysis. All those who
have not yet contributed to this
worthy fund are urged to do so just
as soon as possible. The locals re-
cording secretary is making the COL
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-02-08
Jordan Appointed To Bodrd
Exhibit At Fair Continued
ORGANIZATION Plans Formed
Sebring Man Accepts Post
Vacated By Seventh
Vice President
HIT UNORGANIZED
Erection Of Unfair Sanitary
Equipment By Unionists
Is Discussed

Charles Jordan, of 245 East Michi-
gan Avenue, Sebring, Ohio, was the
unanimous choice Of the Executive
Board to serve the unexpired term of
Seventh Vice President William Wat
kin when that official handed in his
resignation at last weeks regular an
nual eastern Board meeting.
Vice President Jordan, who has al
ready accepted the position, is the
first representative Sebring has had
on the Board since 1885 when T. NJ.
Woods retired as sixth vice president.
Born in St. Louis, the new official
lived his youth in East Palestine
where he entered the trade and has
spent the past 12 Of his SO years in
Sebring.
He is president of Local Union SO,
Sebring Volunteer Fire Co. and the
Sebring Labor Board, which is COM
prised of the city's four Brotherhood
locals for the purpose of thrashing out
common problems. Meeting once a
month, the Board has been doing an
excellent job.
Mr.. Watkin recently left the trade
when he was appointed Safety-Service
Director for the city of East Liver
pool. His new position made it inn
possible for him to continue in the in
dustry. Well-known throughout the
trade, Local 29's president was elected
to the Executive Board last August.
The pottery exhibit at the Worlds
Fair which made such hit in the
Home Furnishings building last year
will be continued in 1940 Members
of the Executive Board believe the
display is of great benefit in breaking
down the tendency of Americans to
patronize foreign dinnerware manu-
facturers.
Plans were made for an extensive
drive on unorganized shops in all
branches of the trade. A campaign to
bring organization to these plants was
thoroughly discussed and approved by
the members. Action will start i'm
mediately according to President
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-02-08
Inventor Asked To
Answer Problem Of
Machine Increase
Member Would Have Lu-
Dor. Capital and Inventors
Discuss Problem

Paden City, w. Va. - Due to an
article I read recently, relative to
machine installed, or to be installed
at the Scio Pottery, l am again
prompted to discuss the machine age,
or evolution in industry. The present
number one economic problem, accord
ing to the information contained in
this article, states that one revolution
of the shaft, takes care of the work
of several jiggermen, and their help
is completed at saving in labor cost
of SO. &c.
This news is not wholly surprise,
as it is generally known that such in
ventions have been in the process Of
being perfected for quite sometime.
What is amazing, to my way of think
ing, is the fact that no invention has
been conceived, as yet, for an equit-
able distribution of the products of
these machines. True, we have legis-
lation providing unemployment insur-
ance, old age security and public works
projects, which provide for base ex-
istence. l am not endeavoring to dis
credit the good these acts have done.
l do, however, contend that these en-
ployers, who, are always eager to
gasp every opportunity to displace
labor, should be just as eager to solve
the problem of the workers displaced
by the machines. If they believe in
the principles of democracy, then, they
should be consistent and go the limit
to protect these principles.
The future of the principle of priv
ate ownership and less control by
government will depend upon how we'll
this problem of machine displacement
Of workers is solved. 1t has been pro-
posed that the machine be taxed high
enough to adequately provide for the
workers displaced by the machines.
But many people seem to think this
is not the proper approach to the
problem, that a reduction in hours
without any reduction in wages as in
come is the proper solution. If this
is the solution, why not have the 80
hour week now, and not 40 years from
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-02-08
Providing Employment For Jobless
Millions Is Nations Paramount Dutv
AFL Executive Council For
Creation Of Ndtional Ad-
visorY Council
SHORTER WORK WEEK
Urges End Of Government
Action in Hindering Pri-
vute Enterprise

Miami, Fla.-The Executive Council
of the American Federation of Labor,
meeting here in it's midwinter session,
adopted a declaration calling on the
nation to end unemployment and pro-
vide work for the millions of working
men and women now in the jobless
army.
AS one method to achieve this COM
mendable objective the Council recon-
mended that unnecessary government
restraints on br~;ness expansion cease
in order to create employment by
larger industrial activity.
The Executive Council also urged
the gradual establishment of the six
hour day and five-day week without
reduction in weekly wages, but insist
ed that until unemployment is reduced
the Federal Government must stand
the cost of relief for those not en-
ployed in private industry.
In addition, the Executive Council
recommended that Congress establish
a national advisory council on unem-
ployment composed of representatives
of various groups to develop an in
tegrated attack on the unemployment
problem.
Following is the text of the decla-
ration adopted by the Executive Coun-
Gil:
Unemployment still is the most
acute domestic problem of the ma
tion. No orderly and intelligent ef-
fort has yet been made to determine
the facts with regard to unemploy
ment, it's causes, it's extent, it's cure.
AS nation we have not hesitated to
spend billions for the relief of those
who are unemployed but we have ne
elected to take the necessary steps to
reduce and end unemployment.
Therefore, the American Fedora
ton of Labor refuses to accept the
idea of chronic or permanent unem-
ployment. To admit this would be to
admit the failure Of democracy. We
believe that a democracy owes basic
obligation to it's citizens to provide
them with opportunity to work and
achieve a progressively higher stand
ard of living.
"The Executive Council instructs
the officers of the American Fedora
tion of Labor to call upon both politi-
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-02-08
Trade Treaty Act
Hit By Rep. Lewis
Points To Wages Paid Pot
ters in Japan As Com
pared to Americans

Washington, D. C.-The Ways anG
Means Committee of the House OF
Representatives that has been con.
Quoting hearings for some two weeks
past on a Bill to extend the Reciprocal
Trade Agreements Act, which expires
on June l next, has now opened its
hearings for the purpose Of permit
ting members of Congress to speak
either for or against the Bill.
Congressman Earl R. Lewis, coop
Grating with N.B.O.P. officials, ap-
peared before the Committee and pro-
tested against Reciprocal Trade Agree
ments Act and it's extension and
pointed out to the Committee that it's
effects in allowing importation Of for
eign made articles and agricultural
products to come into our markets has
been disastrous to farm prices and to
labor, especially in the pottery and
handmade glass industries. He also
pointed out that wages paid in the
potteries and glass houses of Japan
and other foreign lands are but a
small fraction Of the wages paid in
America and that consequently jap
anese and other foreign ware have
taken a large proportion of our
markets, resulting in irregular, inter-
mittent work or no work at all in
American factories and almost the
lowest prices in history for many
American products.
He also protested against permit
ting Russian coal to be imported in
the East, taking the markets that
would otherwise be supplied by Amer
lean coal and throwing American coal
miners out of work. He further pro-
tested against importations of foreign
made steel, which in certain parts of
the country have almost driven Amer
lean steel products out of our own
markets.
Mr.. Lewis stated that since the
Japanese war in China and the Euro
pean war started, certain foreign
products that formerly took large
share of the American markets are no
longer coming into this country, per-
haps due to the fact that workers in
those foreign lands are engaged in
the manufacture of munitions of war,
but he pointed out that as soon as
either of those conflicts is ended the
danger. to America will be renewed, if
the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act
is continued.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-02-08
Antitrust Curbs
On Unions Scored
"Politicul Prosecutions" I.
Declaration Of A. F. L.
Spokesman

New York, N. Y.-Francis P. Fem
ton, director of organization for the
American Federation of Labor, de-
clared in an address before the Ford
ham University labor law congress
here that the Sherman Antitrust Act
never intended to apply to labor unions
and that the Federal investigation Of
unions under Assistant Attorney Gen.
eral Thurman Arnold "has all the ear
marks Of prosecution for political OBJ
jectives instead of for the furthering
Of social welfare"
In addition, Mr.. Fenton assailed the
"despotic and cruew attitude of some
employers and asserted that organized
labor was the only factor that could
protect the continual existence Of the
capitalistic system as we know it."
Taking for his subject Labor Law
and It's Bearing on Democracy" Mr..
Fenton recalled that when the Sher-
man Act was passed the late Samuel
Gompers, then president of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, appealed
to Senators to write in a provision
expressly excluding unions from the
application of the law. But Senators
told Mr.. Gompers, Fenton contended,
that this was not necessary, as it was
not the purpose Of the law to apply
to unions.
Now, Mr.. Fenton, said comes the
proposal "to reform trade and labor
practices in industry by prosecuting
under antitrust laws" He declared
that it would be dangerous prece-
dent" to establish identical treat
ment for unions and economic trusts
or monopolies."
"There are complete and adequate
remedies in law to punish the GRIM
inals in industry" he asserted. "The
punishment of crime and other mis-
deeds is not the way to improve stand
ards of fair trade or labor practices.
That is the function of self-govern
ment in industry. Nor is the anti
trust division of the Department Of
Justice a proper agency to determine
relative methods Of efficiency in pro-
duction."
(Continued on Pare TwO)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-02-08
New Appointment
Pldn Wins Support
Cleveland Federation In
vites Suggestions From
Any Interested Groups
(By Ohio Labor News Service)

Cleveland, O.-Cleveland Fedora
tion of Labor officials sponsoring a
proposed constitutional amendment
for reapportionment of the Ohio Leg
islature in order to bring about more
equitable representation, have found
lively interest in that subject.
Civic, religious, fraternal and busi-
ness groups were represented at a
conference held February 7 in the Ho-
tel Hollenden, Cleveland, to offer sug-
gestions relative to the proposed
changes in Ohio's constitution and
methods of obtaining said change.
Started by President Ruddy, of the
Carpenters District Council, with the
idea in mind Of arousing the urban
population to an awareness of the
handicap under which they are labor
ing in all matters affecting state leg
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