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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-06-27
Steamship Firm Signs
AFL Radio Union Pact

New York, N. Y.-The Marine Di-
vision of the Commercial Telegraph
ers Union, A. F. Of l.. affiliate, an
nounced the signing of an agreement
with the Isthmian Steamship Com
pany, subsidiary of the United
States Steel Corporation, covering the
radio officers employed on the COM
pany's vessels ,totaling 27 cargo ships
in intercoastal and round d-the-world
services.
The agreement provides for a pref
erential hiring clause, two weeks va
cation yearly with pay, the new union
freight ship wage scale of $13O per
month and recognition as radio Off
GERS on shipboard. The officers on the
tankers will receive from $140 to $3.50
a month.
Louis ]. Kleinklaus, secretary treas
urer of the union, said the agreement
was the result of a secret election
among the radio officers conducted by
the National Labor Relations Board,
in which the union polled 25 votes out
of the 27 cast, defeating the CIO
American Communications Associa-
ton.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-06-27
HOURS INCREASE BAD MEDICINE

A RGUMENT that longer work hours are neces-
= sary to forward the national defense program
is given a knockout blow by the American Fedora
ton of Labor in it's latest monthly business survey
The federation points out that as long as the
nation has large surplus labor supply, production
can be increased without lengthening the work
week. 1t says the idle work force in April was
lO,255,OOO, partly because our working popula-
tion has increased by more than 100000 in the
last ten years and also because there has not been
enough new jobs to create work for all those laid
off by machines"
with our present unemployment, and with
productivity increasing at the normal rate" the
adds, 1--WE have work force and plant
capacity enough to raise the national income from
the 1889 level of $4,000, 600 900 to 500 900 OOO,
900 without increasing prices.
"No increase in work hours is necessary. To
lengthen hours with 100000 unemployed would
be to lose our gains and preserve our unemploy-
ment."
This would seem to effectually dispose of the
contention that we must increase hours of work
to boost production of munitions of war
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-06-27
WHAT NEXT?

Out in Merced, California, two
husbands got tired of turning ice
cream freeZers by hand every time
their families wanted the home
made dessert. They put their
heads together and wondered why
"churner thing" could not be in
corporated into electric refriger-
ators to provide the necessary
agitation and cold to freeze ice
cream. After month of expert
mentatiOn, the two husbands filed
an application for patent on
device they designed. AS worked
out now, it is made so that it can
be built into the freezing cOmpart-
ment of an electric refrigerator
and operated by an auxiliary mo-
tor which powers a churn to agi-
tate the contents. The ice cream
is frozen by the same coils now
used in electric refrigeratOrs.
After freezing the ice cream to
desired consistency, the machine
is geared automatically to stop
churning of the mixture. Result?
Husbands can stay in their easy
chairs.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-06-27
SENSITIVE PEOPLE
(FrOm Editor and PubliSher)

WHEN the German Consul General at Boston put
w the Evening Traveller on the consulate's
"black list" in retaliation for an editorial which
savagely criticized Hitler, he was using tactics
which the Nazis have employed with some success
in Europe For nearly five years before hostilities
began last September, Germany's neighbors, even
England, were repeatedly warned that their press
must treat Der Fuehrer with respect and the plain
cor else" had it's effect until the very eve Of the
war. No ruler during the past 200 years has been
SO sensitive to foreign press criticism, so quick
to demand that democracies control the press in
dictator fashion, as has Herr Hitler.
The weeks news produced another incident
the affinity between Nazi and Com
munist techniques. A barrage of threats, libel
actions, etc, is descending on the Philadelphia
Evening Public Ledger, which has been exposing
Communism and it's practices to the light in it's
news columns. What the Communists lack in num-
bers they make up in ability to create noise, strife
and the effect of great strength, and no group in
this country is faster on the trigger which sets off
demonstrations"
They are sensitive people, these wavers of the
Red Flag and Wearers of the Brown Shirt Sensi-
tive indeed, in the defense of privileges they could
enjoy in no other land under the sun, privileges
which they often to undermine the civilization
that guards the right of free expression.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-06-27
AFL Opposes Federal
Appropriations Cut

Washington, D. C.-Strong oppo-
sition to the announced intention of
Senator Byrd of Virginia to force a
ten per cent cut in all Federal appro-
priations was voiced by the American
Federation Of Labor
In telegram to all members of the
Senate, President Green declared such
action would be wholly unwise and
added:
"The consequent decentralization of
public morale would work untold harm
and endanger the whole economic
structure of our nation. We urge that
you oppose any reduction of appro-
priations or any reductions of wages
or salaries of Government or other
workers"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-06-27
LABOR STANDARDS

IMMEDIATELY following the Presidents pre-
sentation of his defense proposals, began pro-
posas for the lifting of labor legislative standards
and safeguards These suggestions ignore the ex-
periences of the World War where in the first re-
action to gigantic undertaking all labor re-
strictions were scrapped, only to find as result
Of defects in war production that they must be re-
stored and observed vigorously. So now we face a
stupendous job which will tax our resources to the
uttermost. We must plan for effective, sustained
production. Human labor power is essential. It's
skill, experience, Judgment and labor capacity are
needed, not for brief squirt but for months ahead
Ito be able to meet daily work requirements, come
what may.
For this long time pull safeguards and regula-
tions are indispensable. Adjustments in standards
may be needed from time to time but the need
for adjustment and the extent of adjustment
should be determined in consultation with repre-
sentatives of the workers.
After Great Britain liquidated all hours stand
ards in World War production, it had to appoint
Ia committee on health of munition workers That
committee reported:
"The country cannot afford the extravaganza
of paying for work done during incapacity from
fatigue just because so many hours are spent on
lit. Misguided efforts to stimulate workers to
feversh activity in the supposed interests of pro-
duction are as useless as would be the cheers OF
partisans encouraging a long distance runner to a
futile sprint early in the race"
The Industrial Health Research Board which
Health of Muniton Workers, has issued a report
on Industrial Health in War which makes these
recommendations:
() Avoid over-long hours and continuous work
without intervals for rest.
(2) Allow Sunday rest and ordinary holidays.
81 Take measures to alleviate boredom, e. g.,
by varying the work and by providing distractions,
such music, that do not too greatly ALLEVIATE the
attention.
(4) Study the arrangement of the work to cut
out necessary movements and effort.
(5) Keep an eye open for danger signals, such
increase in sickness absence, accidents and la
bour wastage.
The report in connection with consideration of
"Labour Wastage,' which is highly important
where most efficient use of man-power becomes
urgent, enumerates these reasons for high labor
Wastage rate:
l. Competition by different firms for a limited
field of labour. This operates chiefly with ju-
venes in areas where there are several firms en-
ploying the same type of labour. /.
2. Poor selection by the firm.
3. Disagreeable conditions.
4. Too long hours.
5. Too much unrelieved routine.
6. Incompetent management.
This list indicates conditions to be avoided in
our defense production program.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-06-27
l39 More Agreements
Signed BY Machinists

Washington, D. C.-H. w. Brown,
international president of the Inter-
national Association of Machinists, A.
F. of l.. affiliate, announced that in
five weeks the association had signed
l39 new and renewed agreements with
employers. Many of the agreements
carry wage increases, vacations with
pay, seniority rights and other i'm
proved work conditions. The length of
the work week ranges from 36 hours
to as hours, with the 40-hour week
predominating.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-06-27
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

we see by the papers that Cover
nor Lehman of New York has ordered
the State Planning Council to begin
Immediately an inventory of the
States industrial resources as related
to the national defense program. Ac-
cording to the story, the order was
issued after conference with the
chairman of the Council.
After that body has made it's report,
public hearings will be held to which
leaders of labor and industry are to
be invited.
The chairman of the State Planning
Council has expressed some concern
over an alleged migration of industry
from the State within the past two
years. In the same breath he indi-
Gated that he was anxious to deter
mine whether or not some industries
might leave the State because of it's
proximity to the Eastern seaboard and
it's position on the Canadian border.
The industrial resources inventory
will parallel similar survey now un-
der way by Freda S. Miller, State In
dustrial Commissioner so that all the
facts will be known. Miss Miller is
using as the basis for her study the
we'll maintained data of the New York
State Department of Labor.
When Governor Lehman asked the
Council how soon it could begin it's
survey, the answer was tomorrow"
x x X
The newspaper reading public of
New York City has been greeted by
a new daily newspaper, PM. Accord
ing to preliminary reports, editions Of
the first few days were sold out before
they reached the streets.
In tabloid dress, sans paid adver-
ising, the paper is printed on a three
color press, in itself an innovation in
daily newspaper publishing.
There are no headlines, no datelines
and no comics. The paper sells for a
nickel.
The big innovation, of course, is the
fact that the newspaper industry has
been introduced to a daily newspaper
publishing three editions per day, and
which will depend for it's revenue sole
ly upon street sales and subscriptions.
While officials of the paper are re-
ticent about their operating costs,
those in a position to know say that
the paper will make a profit for it's
owners when it passes it's 200,000th
subscription.
In many other ways, the paper is a
journalistic innovation. The news dis
patches, even from the press services,
have no usual leads in the strict news
paper sense. The news is interpreted,
explained and editorialized. The policy
of the paper seems to express liber-
atty and social consciousness not
usually found a part of the policy of
the average daily newspaper i'll New
York or elsewhere.
The first days edition ran to about
80 pages, stapled in the manner of a
magazine. To all outward appearance
it is a magazine, daily news maga-
zine.
To some informed observers, PM is
blazing a new path in Americas jour
nalism, although cutting the new path
may be hard job. Perhaps ten years
from now, all Of the nations press will
resemble PM in form and makeup.
After all there has to be beginning.
1t is anybody's guess, but as always
the newspaper reader will have the
final say because without readers
there can be no paper
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-06-27
"BUY AMERICAN"

We're living in a wondrous land,
Have everything at our command
And everyone can have the work,
If we our duties do not shirk.
l speak of buying union goods!
1t don't cost any more
Than to buy the cheap-made stuff we
see
That comes from foreign shores.
Now everybody wants to live
And live the best they can.
So let us buy, and buy, and buy,
But, Buy American
james Gusky Green
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-06-27

Business activity here holds to good levels. The
production indexes will shoot up as the arms pro-
gram swings into gear. That of course, will be an
artificial boom, of the kind which usually ends in
a tremendous crash--but in the meantime, it
should just about solve the unemployment prob
lem.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-06-27
Truths Pondered While
Riding At Anchor.
MR.. MODESTUS
"WHAT WORKS IS RIGHT"
. THE CULT OF BRUTE
FORCE
. FRANCE MAKING PEACE
> BUT NOT IN THE HEART

] , BUT NOT IN THE HEART
Is Hitler normal?
And is the rest of the world all
wrong?
There is a school of philosophers
called Pragmatists-.
Who teach that "What works is
right
That failure, or success is the acid
test of doctrines
Of course, the battles are not all
done, yet
But it is not too soon for those not
on the firing lines
To face in all mental frankness in
ner questions
Questions the Films, Poles, Czechs,
Danes, had to face
X X X
Nazi-ism is the cult of brute force
It's antithesis illustrated by non-re-
sistance of Danes
Knowing they could not find ade-
quate answer, or force
Danes accepted the logic of, their
situation
Submitted to the iron heel without
battle
Poland was not realistic enough to
adequately prepare
Felt and talked too much of ancient
Polish heroes
Norway was not only betrayed: Nor
way was asleep at the switch
Norway's innocence of Hitler's plans
was so deep it was guilty
Between the sorry plight of King
Haakon-
And the present pass Of Britain and
France
Main difference seems to be in size
of the stakes
And America, our America, is little,
If any, different
We have been like landlubbers at
sea
Without our pacifistic blind spots to
mislead-
We would not have known the signs
VI coming STORM
1t has been to us cataclysmic, with
out precedent
And we refused to believe plain
signboards-
Published announcement of a world
conqueror-
Really believed that Europe is
none of our AFFAIRS
Even, now, millions of Americans
laugh at the idea
Of Hitler trying to conquer our
United States
But our military men admit they
could not stop him
If inside the next year he lands a
modern army of 100000
And starts to cross the continent
from Atlantic to Pacifist coast
Business men
Thought machines were just to
make money
Making food, clothing, necessities of
human life
That was something incidental, to
be done if it paid
But Hitler has shown that machines
have greater potencies-
That profit in money is too slow a
use for mechanization-
When machines can be used to rake
in nations
Like chips on gambling table
That is why American specialists in
mechanization-
Suddenly are concentrating on Hit
ler's technique
In application of mechanism to
military war
Instead of comparatively innocent
money wars
X X X
France: making peace with Hitler ?
Not in the heart of her people
That is the pocketbooks and bond
holderes talking
There can be no quiet of peace with
the Hitler gang in the saddle
What Britain may do, even Britain
does not know
Doubtless Chamberlain took his UNI
brella to King George lately
Tory talk again or appeasement
and another Munich
Silly: believing Hitler will keep any
agreement
X X X
America, too, is not yet awake
Would not believe the alarm clock
striking at Munich
Now it is late! Hitler's schedules
are going through
He is remapping Europe; promising
to do so for America
Machines cut time to fragments:
Blitzkreig does not wait
And America has no lightning rods
as yet.
AF. Ooy,ococ Fo1oyr,l
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-06-27
WISDOM

Politics is the art by which po-
liticians get money from the rich,
and votes from the poor to pro-
tect one against the other.
Oscar Ameringer.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-06-27

WESTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Operatives BURT H. HAISLOP. JOHN McGILIVRAY
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EASTERN CHINA WARE STANDING CoMMITTEE Eo,r,,,,
X. CHAS. GOODWIN
WHEATLEY JOHN BALDAUF. Jr. WM OWEN
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-06-27

DECORATING STANDING COMMITTEE
N. B. of P JAMES SLAVN HUGO MILLER ROLAND HORTON
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CfAS F. GOODWIN M. LYNCH ARTHUR WELLS
McGILLVRAY. LOUIS PESLOCK. F. HAYNES
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-18
THAT TALKIE WAR:

Everybody was making speeches
In England, France, Germany, Can
ada, and elsewhere. Mainly, they
were fight talks, intended to con-
vince neutrals, enemies, and home
publics that this was not a phoney
war. Premier Reynaud of France
was especially insistent that the war
was genuine, and broadcast as
much by radio to the United States.
He assured Americans that the al
lies would win, and would inaugu-
rate a real peace.
In Germany, Airmaster Goering,
Fibmaster Goebbels, and Labor-boss
Ley also talked their heads off. The
usually well-balanced Goering said,
in a speech to some of his student
flyers, that Germany was going to
strike deadly blow in the western
theater of war, whenever Herr Hit
Ter decided to finish off the allies.
It all sounded very impressive.
Pudgy DR.. Ley, ever bellicose, got
off some of his generally pungent
observations, which tend to take an
anti-capitalist angle.
Prime Minister Chamberlain said
he was 80 times" as confident as
he was last September, and he and
his generals gave the impression
that, somehow, they had out-bluffed
the Nazis on the western front. Ac-
cording to these gentry, Hitler had
lost his golden opportunity for an
overwhelming Blitzkrieg attack, and
that from now on the Fuehrer was
going to get it, economically, in the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-18
INVASION:

Europe's long dormant warfare
suddenly sprang into action. First
sign was a North sea battle in which
a German troop transport was lost.
If the world wondered how troops
happened to be moving in the North
sea, the answer was not long in COM
ing. Realistically, Danes watched
their little nation occupied by Ger
mans. A few hours later Nazi
troops, planes and warships descend
ed on Norway, which Immediately
declared war and asked for British
French aid. Neutral for the moment
were Sweden and Finland, caught
between the Russ-Nazi pincers. I'M
mediate object of the German at
tack: To defeat Britain's North sea
blockade and safeguard Swedish
steel shipments bound for Germany.
Immediately the European air was
filled with question marks. Would
this sudden turn of events draw Rus
STA and Berlin closer together in a
common drive against Scandinavia?
Most important, what reaction would
this abortive Nazi attack bring from
Italy, sole major European power
still at peace2
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-18
rMaadl{aQba
hERgf G0-QQuND
NAVY TEAMWORK

WASHINGTON. - On March 20,
1917, tall, husky young man from
Perth Amboy, N. j., heard Theo-
dore Roosevelt speak at rally in
Madison Square Garden, New York.
When the youngster left the meet
ing he was so fired with patriotism
that he stopped at the first recruit
ing station and enlisted in the navy.
He rose quickly. Because of his
knowledge of seamanship, gained as
a kid on the Jersey coast, he began
his service as bosun in command
of coast patrol boat. A little later
he was commissioned an ensign and
ordered to a transport which car
ried thousands of troops to France.
Today this youthful patriot sits at
a desk in a second floor office of the
great, sprawling, white succeed
Navy building on upper Constitution
avenue, the acting boss of the navy.
That Lewis Compton is acting boss
of the navy is known to few even
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-18
SeIf-PreserUation Vas
Farmers First Thought

The old farmer and his wife Wis
tied the menagerie. When they
halted before the hippopotamus
cage, he remarked, "Darn'd curl
Gus fish, eh, MAJ"
"That amt no fish," she an
nounced, chats a reptile!" And
so the argument began. 1t pro-
crossed to such a point of such
violence that the woman began be-
laboring the husband with her UNI
brella.
The man lodged and ran, with
the wife in pursuit. Finding the
door of the lions cage slightly
ajar, he popped in and covered
behind the biggest lion. On the
other side of the bars stopped his
wife, and shaking her umbrella at
him, shouted, "Coward!"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-18

lower right corner a distance
equaling the length of the skirt
from A to the left edge of the
paper and mark point c. Connect
these points with. lines drawn, as
shown.
NOTE: The new 32-page edi-
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-18
N JAMES
in the news

Mahatma Gandhi, in India, told
lowers that, if they started up
civil disobedience campaign before
he gave the word, they could get
along without him as leader. This
was exactly what some of the young
er, more radical Indian leaders-like
Subhas Chandra Bose-wanted to
do. Bose was very vocal, in favor
of complete independence for India,
and that right now!
Wang Ching-wei, Japanese puppet
chief in China, was burned in effigy
in New York's Chinatown. Some
$500 local Chinese participated.
Wang Ching-wei and his rival, the
patriot Chang Kai-shek, were the
two bright young men of the Chinese
George Washington, DR.. Sun Vat
sen.
Finland and Russia resumed dip
lomatic relations, and Ivan Zotov
was named as new Russian min
lister to Helsinki. He was moved
there from the same job in nearby
Latvia. Zotov is considered hostile
to the allies.
Edmund Won Hermann, German
ambassador to the Argentine repub-
lie, took panning from the Buenos
Aires foreign office, relative to the
escape of three informed German Of
ficers from the dear-departed Graf
Spec, suicided pocket-battleship.
About nm Caravan coop,op u,ara
informed by Argentina in December,
and Argentines fear that break
Always will harm their country's
carefully guarded neutrality.
American socialists, meeting at
Washington, D. c., gave Norman
Thomas an unopposed presidential
nomination. It was his fourth.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-18

neck. Intensifcation of the block
ade, the English chieftains stressed.
Chamberlain re-shuff1ed his cabinet,
but seemed to satisfy nobody very
much. Winston Churchill, first lord
of the admiralty, who now wears a
yachting cap, was made director of
all three unified armed services.
Churchill and Chamberlain never
have been friendly, and Churchill's
elevation was received with mixed
emotions.
Following young Minister Crom-
wells "boner" in Canada, came an
other unfortunate" speech by Cor
don Conant, attorney general of
Tory-minded Ontario. Conant spout
ed that the allies might lose if the
United States did not enter the war,
and that Canada had better exert
every effort to snare Uncle Sam in
the tolls of Mars. Secretary Hull
was annoyed, as were congressman,