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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-22
S+eeIman Condemns An+i-S+rike Bills:
Saws Government Wants Free Labor

pulsion is weaker than the enthusiasm
of a free people" He said the aboli-
ton of the right to strike had been
the entering wedge for totalitarian-
ism in the European countries follow
ing that system.
DR.. Steelman described the accom-
plishments and duties of the concilia-
tion service and the National Defense
Mediation Board and emphasized that
"the basic labor relations policy of
your government remains today a pol
icy of free agreements freely arrived
at by free labor and free enterprise" +"
"This is the policy of democracy"
he continued. ut is the policy, too,
of that purposeful efficiency which
democracy alone can engender." DR..
Steelman said that in the voluntary
cooperation of our self-governing men
and women is to BE found America s
best and most efficient answer to the
vaunted efficiency of any alien sys-
tem."
The greatest danger facing the
United States, DR.. Steelman said, is
the failure of many persons "to real
ize the danger we are in"
DR.. Steelman said that preliminary
figures for 1910 indicate that during
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New York, N. Y.-Dr. John R..
Steelman, director of the United
States Cancellation Service, warned
against anti-strike legislation in an
address at the annual luncheon Of the
New York State Society of Profess
sional Engineers at the Commodore.
He urged cooperation of labor and in
dustry in the defense effort and said
that tyranny abroad cannot be "at-
tackled by abandoning democracy at
home"
"Strikes could be prohibited by
law" DR.. Steelman said. 'Tt would
make them illegal, but it would not
stop them." He added: "You cannot
legislate or decree or command peace
and harmony and efficiency. 1t is a
human relations problem"
DR.. Steelman said that the United
States now is engaged in race
against time in the defense program.
He said the nations major task is to
increase production, because war is
increasingly an economic affair and a
question of who can produce the most
the fastest.
Indicating that he believed any eff
fort to force labor to accept anti
strike legislation would impede pro-
duction, DR.. Steelman said that "com-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-22
Local Union 3O.C.
Visits Idord Park
Improved Playground Add
To Fun At Potters Picnic.
Says Falls Scribe

Beaver Falls, Pa.-Local Union No.
33 met Tuesday evening, May 13, with
what we considered a disappointing
turnout for election of national Off
GERS and our delegates to the conven-
ton. Delegates elected were Harry
Shook and William Rose; alternates,
Florence Graham and Walter Cowan.
The members also gave the present
officers very nice vote.
Two members, Frank Mason and
Any Fills, battersout, were suspended
for nonpayment of dues. These men
left the pottery to work in the steel
mill. | cannot understand why any
one would leave and not pay dollar
or two to get a withdrawal card, be-
cause they may come back some day,
then they will have to pay reinstate-
ment fee.
We are pleased to report that AL
bert Howard, who has been a patient
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-22
Try Cooling Off
System At L. u. 66
Local Union Serves Group
All The Ice Cream They
Can Consume

Crooksville, Ohio.-This is Local 66
broadcasting. Everyone who attended
the May 20 meeting of this local en-
joyed their fill Of ice cream. | believe
it was served to cool the members off
after the red-hot session.
Brothers Joe Murry and Forest
Welch are the delegates elected to the
convention in Buffalo.
Everyone seems to be on a buying
spree, Brother Doug Moore has pur-
chased new Harley-Davidson motor
cycle and he certainly makes the dust
fly in the packing shed talking about
the new wheel. l think we should
elect him official errand boy for No..
&C. Lyle Talbot has new Mercury
which is making all the girls fall for
him. We hear Bill Moore has a new
Chevy ordered to haul back his fish
from the old Muskingham this sum-
mer. Brother Bill Thomas is now the
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-22
Hdrkers And TS6T
In Group Insurance
Members In 5 Pldnts Now
Covered: Four Additional
Shops Solicited

With the employees of the Harker
Pottery Company and the Taylor,
Smith & Taylor Company now covered
under the group insurance policy of
the National Brotherhood Of Operative
Potters along with those Of the Paden
City Pottery Co., Hall China Co. and
Sterling China Co., the solicitors have
completed their work in four other
plants. Just as soon as tabulation
and other minor details are completed,
coverage will be effected in these
plants also.
In response to last weeks article in
the Potters Herald in which it was
stated coverage could be gained quick
ly by voluntary application, Local
Union No. 76 Of Buffalo sent in to
Headquarters for all supplies and in
formation. The necessary application
blanks and other supplies were for
warded at once. Undoubtedly the Of
ficials of the local will be able to con-
tact the required rs per cent of the
employees and have coverage effected
before the solicitors are able to move
into Buffalo.
All other locals outside the East
Liverpool district are invited to fol-
low the lead Of No. 76 if the members
are interested in gaining the many
benefits to be had under the plan.
Francis P. White, agent in charge
of solicitation, will journey to Trenton
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-22
Green confounds An+i-Lobor Critics
With Devastating Barrage Of Facts
April Jobs Up R%
Over l94l In Ohio
Increase of 391o In Private
Industry Shown Over
Previous Month

Columbus, O., May 13-Jobs in pri-
vate industry for Ohio workers in
creased 80 per cent in number dur
ing April over the previous month,
and " per cent over April, 1910, H.
G. Atkinson, administrator Of the Ohio
Bureau Of Unemployment Compensa-
ton, reported today to Governor John
w. Bricker.
These gains marked the second sue
cessive month in which placements by
the Ohio State Employment Service
were higher than in any month since
October, 1888, Administrator Atkin-
son revealed. Private job placements
during the first four months of 1941
are 60 per cent above the correspond
ing period Of 1910, he added.
A total of 25,716 jobs were filled
last month through GO full-time branch
Offices operated by the BUG. Of this
number, 1852 were placements in
regular jobs, an increase Of 16 per
cent over March, and II per cent more
than in April a year ago.
Temporary jobs in private industry
filled by the BUGS employment SER
vice division last month totaled 1904,
1876 per cent more than in March, and
1873 per cent more than in April, 1910.
Although efforts of the Bureaus
employment service division to regis
ter workers for defense jobs resulted
in new applications increasing 16.5
per cent and renewed applications 1877
per cent in April over March, the ac-
tive file Of workers dropped 1875 per
cent last month, the report stated.
This was due to increased place
ments by Bureau offices, and return
of workers to employment through
their own efforts, Administrator At
kinson said. A total of 277 ,004 work
ers Of all types were registered with
Bureau Offices at the end Of April as
available for employment.
AS result of the shutdown of
mine operations during April, new
claims for unemployment compensa-
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Testimony Before Judiciary
Committee Cledrs Away
False Accusations
SILENCE TAUNTERS
Truth On Fees And Strikes
Given House Members
In Report

Washington, D. C.-President Will
liam Green earnestly defended the role
of the American Federation Of Labor
in the national defense program be-
fore the House Judiciary Committee,
marshalling devastating barrage of
facts to silence an attempted blitz-
krieg of unsupported accusation and
innuendo by anti-labor witnesses.
Reading $1,000 word statement to
the committee, Mr.. Green produced
detailed and unassailable evidence to
show that American Federation of La
bor unions have not engaged in eX-
tensive initiation fee rackets and have
not seriously impeded the defense
program by unnecessary strikes.
Taking up the case Of each union
that had been accused of charging
new members excessive initiation
fees, Mr.. Green proved from the rec
ords that the charges were untrue or
grossly exaggerated. Summarizing
this position of his testimony, he said:
GAS general rule, large initiation
fees have been charged in only ex-
ceptional cases and have been dras-
tically reduced or altogether suspend
ed in the operation of the defense
program. The fact that the fees and
dues charged are necessary is shown
by the extensive benefits which the
American Federation of Labor has
made available to it's membership. The
fact that the practices of fair, equita-
BILE and not restrictive can be attested
by 100000 members of the American
Federation of Labor who have come
into the membership of our organiza-
ton, who form a representative cross
section of the American wage earners
and who in the final analysis control
and determine the policies of their
unions.
at must be remembered that new
members who join the union and pay
their initiation fee become benefci-
aries and participants in the funds
already accumulated in the local
treasury and available for sickness,
death, accident and unemployment
benefits. In addition, it must be re-
allied that newly admitted member
of a union becomes a beneficiary of
wages and working conditions which
it has taken generations of unionists
to establish, and for which the union
has fought over many years. When
the union worker gains the benefits
of union condition, he owes debt to
his union for the immeasurable sacri-
fees and suffering sustained by those
before him, in strikes, discharges for
union activity, and discrimination on
the part Of hostile employers. 1t can
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-22
Lindbergh's Right
To Speak Must Be
Respected BY u. S,
Principles Of Democracy
Give Him Right To
Give Views

In a vigorous editorial, the Labor
World, owned and controlled by the
Chattanooga Central Labor Union, de-
fends Charles A. Lindbergh's right to
speak. In the same issue, the editor,
IT, r. Cuthbert, in an editorial express
ing his personal views, declares the
United States must "wake up" and
get into the war against Hitler.
The editorial said that Cuthbert's
views on going to war had changed
and that now 1--WE say to labor and to
the world that we must get into this
war, regardless of cost or sacrifice.
Let England take licking, and sure
as tomorrow's sun, our time will come
to face Hitler, alone, in a world of
defeated and helpless nations already
under his heel"
Warning On Intolerance
The editorial on Lindbergh says:
owe want to warn against con-
dition that probably precedes all war
periods. That is the tendency to
squelch, sometimes by the tar and
feather route, sometimes by imprison-
ment, those people VINO say Things
which they believe but which the ma
jority disbelieve.
"Take the Lindbergh case. We
think that vast majority Of this
country hate him for his declarations
that this country is not prepared to
fight, that England cannot win, and
that we should tread lightly. Senator
Wheeler is also in the same class of
unpopular speakers.
"We do not agree with Lindbergh.
Even if we cannot expect to have an
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-22
NufionuI Meefinu
Called To Discuss
Problem Of Foods
Forty Per Cent Of America
Not Properly Fed.
Says Report

Washington, D. C. ILNS-Seven
hundred leaders in the fields of medi-
cine and public health, social work,
nursing, home economics and nutri-
ton, agriculture, education, labor, in
dustry, government and community
organization have been invited to at
tend the National Nutrition Confer
ence for Defense which President
Roosevelt has called in Washington,
May 26, 81 and %, Paul V. McNutt,
Federal Security Administrator an
nounced here.
"The purposes of this conference"
McNutt said, "are to report on the
present state of human nutrition in
the United States and to outline the
effects of inadequate nutrition on the
health, efficiency and morale of our
people. The conference will make
recommendations to the President for
an immediate program of action.
ain this time of national emergency,
the health of all the people is one of
our gravest responsibilities. Only a
nation of healthy people can be strong.
And people are healthy only if they
are adequately fed. How we'll fed is
America? Not we'll enough, not
nearly we'll enough for our own Sc
curity."
In commenting on this conference,
Surgeon General Thomas Parran said,
81 regard this meeting as of first i'm
portance. Every state and every
community in this country has citi-
zens who do not get the food they
need for proper health and vigor. This
conference must tell us how to trans
late our knowledge of nutrition into
everyday reality for all the people.
Forty per cent of the American
population are not properly fed. The
ill-health results mean slowing down
of industrial production, danger to
military strength, and lowering Of
the morale of millions.
america must speed up human
power as we'll as mechanical produc-
ton. Both England and Germany
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-22
Plan Offered For
Running Machines
On 7-Doy Week
McDonough ofMetul Trades
Department Presents
Solution

Washington, D. C. - President
Roosevelt's demand that defense
chieftains take immediate steps to
put industry on 24-hour daily, sew
en-day week basis, brought forth an
immediate and favorable response
from the Metal Trades Department of
the A. F. of L.
Joseph S. Mcl.s0ugh, secretary
treasurer of the Metal Trades De-
partment, declared his organization
had long favored such a policy and
added:
owe can show the Government how
it can be done on sound and prac-
tical basis. The plan was presented
to the public by me in a radio broad
cast over the Columbia network on
Jan. 2G. 1t provided for seven-day
operation Of vital machines by the
simple expedient of staggering days
off.
"This is possible without sacrificing
the 40-hour week which we must
maintain so long as there remains a
huge army Of unemployed. Our plan
provides for fve-day, forty-hour
basic work-week, sixth day at over
time rates and the staggering of the
day-off so that the machinery can be
kept in almost continuous operation.
"Machinery can be kept going all
the time; men cannot. We are con-
ident that our plan presents a prac-
tical solution for this important de-
fense problem"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-22
Buses To Leave Broadway
Terminal Between 8
And 10 A. M.
BABY SHOW AT IL A. M.
Judging To Start Promptly
To Avoid Restlessness
Among Tots

The big day in the potters' calendar,
the annual picnic at Idora Park, being
but matter Of three weeks in the
future, the committee has things
shaping up very we'll indeed Even
minor details have been polished off,
and there is nothing to do now but
sit down and wait for the best time
Of your life.
Buses will leave the Broadway ter
minal starting at o'clock in the
morning, pulling out just as soon as
they are filled. The last bus will leave
at 10 o'clock. Returning, the buses will
start from Idora at 7 p. M, leaving
when filled until the last one pulls
out at ll:l5 p. m.
There has been a change in the
schedule for the baby show. 1t will
start promptly this year at II o'clock.
At past outings, the show has always
been scheduled for II a. M, but it has
always been understood that the gates
would not be closed until 1870. Not
SO in 1941, however; the nurses will
start their rounds to judge the babies
at exactly II o'clock and no one will
be permitted to enter a baby after
that time.
Minerva, a club that made big hit
with the fans in the four innings it
was able to show last year before the
rains, will tangle with a team rep
resenting the Hall China Co. This club
will be the pick of the City league
and good fast game Of ball is as
sured. Lineups Of the two teams will
appeal in, the Potters Herald before
the picnic.
The fight card is being lined up and
should be ready to present to the fans
in next weeks Herald. There will be
twenty furious rounds with profession
al boxers in the ring. While the con-
testants may not be on a par with
Billy Conn or Joe Louis, they will be
we'll matched and are guaranteed to
give plenty of action.
Since there may be but one meeting
night left, you will undoubtedly want
to look over your dues book to make
certain your accounts are straight.
The only possible way you can be
eligible to compete in the drawing for
the paid-up dues book drawing is to
have a book with you that can pass
muster. The first prize will be 500
in cash. Second price, 10O-pc. War
wick china set, third, fourth and fifth
prizes, 53-pc. Warwick sets, next five
prizes, one-year paid-up dues. You
can hardly afford to forget your book.
There will be something doing all
the time from the time the baby show
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-22
ALL IN READINESS FOR 18th
ANNUAL PICNIC ONJUNE ID
Green Gets Medal
For Defense Aid
Legion Also Honors Willkie.
Knox And Knudson At
Mass Meetinq

Paterson, \. 1.-THE American Le-
gion Of Passaic County conferred q
medal upon President William Green
Of the American Federation of Labor
"for distinguished service in counsel
ing arbitration in Industrial disputes
to aid national defense"
At the same time medals were
given to Secretary of the Navy Frank
Knox, Wendell Willkie and William
knudsen, co-chairlnan Of the Office Of
Production Management, for distin-
guished services in the national de-
fense program.
In an address before mass meet
ing of Legionnaires gatherd for the
occasion at Valley View Hospital near
here, Mr.. Green declared that the no.
strike policy of the American Fedora
ton Of Labor on national defense
projects has been more than 80 per
cent effective.
Mr.. Green revealed official War De-
partment figures showing that in the
Army's vast construction program
now nearing completion, which en-
ployed a half million men at it's peak
and will cost more than 81 100000, 900
labor difficulties caused loss of only
14,875 man-days out Of total Of 49,
100000 man-days worked This per
centage of delay was so infnitesimally
small that it amounted to only three
one -hundredths of one per cent.
81 consider this one of the out
standing achievements Of the defense
program" Mr. Green said. Credit is
due to the War Department and to
Secretary of War Stimson who gave
the American Federation of Labor
convention last November the direct
assurance that 'the practice and
procedure of collective bargaining
through freely chosen independent
unions will not be sacrificed Even
more credit is due to the Building and
Construction Trades Department Of
the American Federation Of Labor
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-22
MdnY Fish Eaters
Expected At Salen1
Amateurs. Under Direction
Of Bruce Cope. Ready To
Please Crowd

Salem, Ohio.-The members of Lo-
cal Union No. AZ and the fish fry
committee are all in readiness for the
annual affair to be held Saturday eve
ming May "a. The serving will begin
at five p. m. and continue until seven,
in which time the committee expects
to serve large crowd of fish eaters.
This year there will be new
master of ceremonies, none other than
Bruce Cope. He has full charge Of
the amateurs and expects to put on a
good show for the crowd.
Jitterbug, Charles Everstine, is in
the navy now. He is here on leave
and should be at the fish fry Saturday.
We expect he has picked up some new
dance steps in his time off, if the navy
boys have any at the present. Wait
until he is shipped to Honolulu he will
come back doing the Hula. He looks
nice in blue.
We have received word from Broth
er William Koker of Alliance that he
and his family will be down for the
fish fry. He hopes to get his share
of fish and then later he may sing a
song for the committee. Bill is a
great fisherman and this o. C. enjoys
trip to Canada with Bill and Clara.
We also expect q good crowd from
East Liverpool. We would like to
see as many of our national officials
as possible attend this gathering.
The chair appointed the chairman
for our annual picnic this year,
Brother A. J. Sanders, who will be
assisted by Bruce Cope, chairman Of
the Welfare Club. They expect to set
a date sometime after the national
picnic. See everyone at the fish fry.
20. C. AZ.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-22
Ohio Workers Will
Benefit BY Change
In Unemployed Law
Mdximum Benefits. Number
Of Weeks. Both Increased
Starting Oct. l

Columbus, O., May 16-Liberaliza-
tion of benefits for workers, tax re-
ductions for employers, and admins
trative improvement will result from
the unemployment compensation bill
passed by the state legislature, ac-
cording to H. c. Atkinson, admins
traitor of the Bureau of Unemploy-
ment Compensation. The bill becomes
effective October l of this year.
More than 100000 Ohio workers
are protected by the fund, which now
totals SIT 100000, contributed by ST.
900 employers.
Provisions for benefit payments to
jobless workers are liberalized in
many directions Maximum benefits
are increased from SIS to SIG week;
the number of compensate weeks in
creased from 16 to 1S; the waiting
period, before benefits are payable,
reduced from three to two weeks; and
a minimum of s5 weekly has been es-
tablished, where previously there was
no minimum.
An important change which will
make for better and more efficient
administration was the dropping of
the average weekly wage formula
for figuring benefits. In the place Of
this rule, the bill bases the weekly
benefit amount Of a claimant upon his
earnings in the quarter in which his
total wages were the highest in the
first four of the last five complete cal
endar quarters prior to his applica-
ton for benefits.
The bill provides that the low paid
claimant receive 5 per cent Of high
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-22
Men And Machines
Will Win War, Soys
Head of Australia
Prime Minister Urges All
Out Aid To Britain In
Washington Talk

Washington, D. C. QLNS)-Work-
ers who make the munitions Of war
are the men who will win the war,
Robert Gordon Menzies, Prime Min
ister Of Australia, declared in a
speech before the National Press Club
here. Menzies spoke following a con-
ference with President Roosevelt.
Emphasizing that men and ma
chimes are going to defeat Hitler, the
Prime Minister said:
"This kind Of war is no part-time
business. This kind of war is not to
be won without 100 per cent of the
warlike strength and activity of the
people who wish it to be won in
certain way"
Menzies voiced condemnation of
"the calculators" who advocate the
cautious" way Of employing only 10
or 20 per cent of the income of a
country. Machine power, he said, and
not man power will decide the war.
"The man who is going to win or
lose this war for our cause is the man
who makes the stuff" Menzies stated.
There are people all over the Eng
disappearing world who may never
hear shot fired in this war, who may
never wear a uniform, but they will
be helping to win it because day after
day and night after night these peo-
pie will be working in factories pro-
ducing machines.
Pleads for Realism
"If we are realists, we will not be
thinking half so much in terms of
man-power as we will in terms of ma
chine power.
concentrate on this fact, that un-
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