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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-15
Green RePudia+es Lewis SIur On Labor;
Pledges Government Full A. F. Of L. Aid
Labor Institute In
Jersey To Present
Excellent Speakers
Local Union No. 96 Hard On
Secretaries: Third Takes
Post In Month

Perth Amboy, N AT the regular
meeting of Local Union No. 96, Friday
evening, election of national officers
was held. President Louis Turkus
presided at this meeting which was
fairly we'll attended.
There seems to be an epidemic in
this local of losing secretaries. In one
month Brother Paul Jankovich was
drafted into the army and Brother
Jack Kovacs took up his duties as sec
retary. Now he has taken a position
with the General Mills Company as
salesman. We have selected Brother
John kish as our new secretary, and
we are confident he will make a good
one. Brother kovacs was an active
member, so we are very sorry to see
him leave US.
Brother Lybeck, Central Labor
Union delegate, reports that the In
stitute of Labor which is conducted
by Rutgers University in cooperation
with the New Jersey State Federation
of Labor and the Workers Education
Bureau of America will open it's
session Monday, June 9, at 900 a. m.
and will hold regular sessions each
day up to and including, Thursday,
June IL. This year the institute will
devote it's time to instructions on La
Dor and National Defense. Among the
speakers invited are: DR.. j. Douglas
Brown, Professor of Economics,
Princeton University; DR.. Mollie Ray
Carroll, Division of Labor Standards,
U. S. Department of Labor; DR.. Robert
c. Clothier, president, Rutgers Univer-
sity; DR.. T. z. Koo, secretary of the
World Y. M. C. A.; Raymond Gram
Swing, News Commentator and Pub
licist; Robert J. Watt, International
Representative, A. F. of L. and many
others. There will be no registration
or attendance fee. The only charge
for the institute will be for meals and
lodging.
This is the eleventh Annual Labor
Continued on Page Two)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-15
A. F. L. Head Asks Murray II
Lewis Speaks For CIO Or
Himself Only
C1O CHIEF SILENT
Attitude Of All Labor Is Now
Brought Into Question
BY Lewis

Harrisburg, Pa.-On behalf of the
American Federation of Labor, Presi.
dent William Green Indignantly re.
pudiated and disavowed every word
of the statement by John L. Lewis
that the U. S. Government need not
"expect too much cooperation from
labor"
81 assure the Government of the
United States," Mr. Green empha-
sized, "that it can expect the fullest
cooperation from all of the members
and officers of the American Fedora
tion of Labor in the national defense
program. l say that without reser-
vations of any kind"
Addressing the convention here of
the Pennsylvania State Federation of
Labor, President Green pertinently in
quired whether Lewis was speaking
for himself or for the CIO. He put
this question squarely before Philip
Murray, CIO president, who was the
guest of honor at the dinner at which
Lewis made his remarks.
"The nation has not heard a word
from him Murray since," Mr.. Green
pointed out. "Silence, as all of US
know, means consent"
The text of Mr.. Green's reply to
Lewis follows:
''The attitude of American labor to-
ward the national defense program
has been brought into grave and Sc
rious question. 1t has been questioned
not by capital, not by business, not
by Government, but by one who pro-
fesses to be leader of labor. l refer
to John l.. Lewis.
Speaking in this city the other
night, Mr.. Lewis issued this warning
threat to the Government of the
United States: Don't expect too much
cooperation from labor
81 feel compelled to answer this
statement promptly and unequivocably
because it is of the utmost Importance
in these critical times that the people
of our country should know and un-
derstand the real attitude of Ameri-
can labor toward the national defense
program.
"On behalf of the five million men,
bers Of the American Federation of
Continued on Page Two)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-15
Hitler Scheduled
For Bad Beofinq
At Annual Picnic
Girls To Toss Rolling Pins At
Reichsfuehrer On Sport
Program

Adolph Hitler is in for a terrific
drubbing come June IA, and that isn't
an idle prediction. The Potters Picnic
Committee has made all the arrange
ments and you can be certain that the
ears of the former house painter will
be knocked off to put a grand finish
to the sports events in the afternoon.
The life-size dummy of the man
who has taken Hess place at the
head of the Nazi party is all ready
to be hauled out on the field at ap-
proximately two o'clock to weather
the storm of rolling pins the husky
females will toss his way. Those who
saw the rolling pin throwing contest
last year realize that Adolph is in for
very bad day. Some of the girls
can throw the things hard enough to
give the Reichsfuehrer a pain in the
neck way back in Berlin's best bomb
raid shelter.
Leaving nothing incomplete, the
committee has ordered their pins from
local woodworker so the handles will
hold up under the terrible punishment.
If you are male you will want to have
select seat in the grandstand for
this choice bit, and if you are of the
so-called weaker sex you can hardly
be expected to miss this opportunity.
In this issue Of the Potters Herald,
you will find an entry blank for the
tap dancing contest. George Turner,
chairman Of the event, states that all
dancers wishing to enter the contest
must send in an entry blank properly
filled out.
The beauty of the big Oldsmobile
8 Custom Cruiser has been attracting
Continued on Page Two)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-15
Increases Granted
On Akron Plants
M. A. Knight and US. Stone
ware Employees Receive 8
to IL Per Cent

Wage increases Of eight to twelve
per cent were gained by the employees
Of the NJ. A. Knight and L. S. Stone
ware plants of Akron when a new
contract was signed last Tuesday
after many conferences with officials
of the firm. The conference committee
was headed by Second Vice President
Frank Hull the final day of the ne
gotiations.
Previous meeting during which the
locals committee was led at various
times by Hull, Vice Presidents George
Turner and Charles Jordan, had set
tied many points at issue. The con-
tract will run for one year.
The services rendered by the n. B.
of O. P. and the three officials sent
to Akron were appreciated by the
p,aO,herchin
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-15
British Labor Is
Pledged Full Aid
BY New York AFL
Three-Qudrters of q Million
Workers Answer Green's
Recent Appeal

New York, N. Y.-The Central
Trades and Labor Council of Greater
New York, representing 100000 A. F.
of l.. trade unionists, pledged whole
hearted support to the appeal of the
American Labor Committee to Aid
British Labor, of which William
Green, A. F. of L. president, is hon
orary chairman.
Speaking at the semi-monthly meet
ing at Beethoven Hall, Thomas Muir
tina, president Of the Council, urged
every affiliated union to cooperate to
the utmost $50 that substantial sum
may be raised to make the lot of
our embattled British brothers lit
tie easier"
"The trade unionists of Great Brit
ain are fighting our fight and we
would be traitors to the trade union
movement if we let them down now,"
he asserted.
James C. Quinn, secretary of the
Council, announced that letters were
being sent to all affiliated unions out
lining how they might cooperate in
the drive. Mr.. Quinn read a COM
munication from Matthew Woll, chair
man of the American Labor Commit
tee to Aid British Labor, stating in
part: "We must act now without de-
lay if we are to give aid in time to
our British fellow workers. Of their
own free will, they are making the
greatest sacrifices of life, home, liv-
ing and working standards, to defend
democracy, the living basis of the la
Dor movement. Bombed out of their
homes, sleeping in subways and other
underground shelters, they work,
fight, live the tension of modern war
fares front line trenches, twenty-four
hours a day without relief or letup."
The Aid British Labor Committee
announced adoption of a resolution
supporting its campaign by the Hotel
and Restaurant Employees Internation-
al Alliance at it's recent convention in
Cincinnati. The Alliance has close to
100000 members with local unions all
over the country.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-15

(The following article by George E.
Leedy and Kenneth G. Crawford is
reprinted from the May 5 issue Of
PM:)
Washington. The Consolidated
Oil Corp, a Sinclair company, an
nounced last week that it had received
a payment of S4,00O,000 from the
Mexican Government. Within the next
two and a half years the company will
get $4,500,00O more. The two pay
ments will settle claims growing out
of appropriation of the concerns
Mexican oil properties in 1888. The
agreement was signed last May
before both Mexico and the U. S. A.
had held their Presidential elections.
The settlement was arranged by
Pat Hurley, former Secretary of War;
William Rhodes Davis, the oil opera
tor, and John L. Lewis, the labor
leader. Just how these three men
happened to get together over Harry
F. Sinclair's Mexican troubles we do
not know. The story credited by oil
men is that Mr.. Sinclair, eager to re-
gain possession of his Mexican prop
critics, retained Mr.. Hurley to conduct
the negotiations. Mr.. Hurley, know
ing that Mr.. Davis and Mr.. Lewis
had co-operated in Mexico and were
on good terms with the Cardenas
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-15
Enthusiasm Mounts For Brotherhood
Group Insurance Throughout Trade
Local No. 45Pleused
With New Contract
Practical Joker Places Shot.
Gun Shell On Bisque Car;
Found In Time

Trenton, n. J.-Local Union No. 45
had a very good meeting Friday
evening in spite of the fact that cleo
tions are over for little while. One
matter which was discussed at the
meeting was payment Of dues and as
sessments. Surely brothers when we
are working full time there is no ex-
cuse for getting behind.
You would be the first to yell if
you did not get all that was coming
to you, so how about stopping the
close figuring on assessments Next
Friday all those who are behind in
dues without a very good reason will
have their names read off. One ex-
cuse given for chiseling on assess
ments is that someone else is doing it;
that is very childish reason. All col
lectors have been told to stop fighting
and arguing with anyone who refuses
to pay up, just turn their names into
the local. We will take care Of them
One man recently complained he had
lost eight dollars because he had to
loaf one day, but when he pays his de-
fense he pays at the rate Of four
dollars per day. Something very fishy.
Some complain that their dues are
too high. To those members we have
just one thing to say, bring the COM
plant up on the floor of the local
meeting. You are privileged to air
your views on any matter. Do you
ever stop to think of the time some
of the men are giving every week
so that we can have fairly good wages
and working conditions. They too
would like to spend Friday evening
at home by the radio, or at a movie
with the family, rather than give
their evening to Strengthening out af-
fairs for unappreciative members Of
the local.
Should this appeal to your honesty
and good craftsmanship go unheeded,
the local will be forced to take drastic
action, but we hope this will not be
necessary.
The new insurance plan offered by
CONTINUED on Page Twol
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-15
cIO BLOCKS NEW|
SHlP-YARD PACT
Demand To Be Represented
Exclusively Forces AFL to
Quit Conference

Washington, D. CA nefarious
scheme by the CIO to squeeze Amer
lean Federation of Labor unions out
of the Atlantic coast shipyards was
frustrated by the officers Of the Metal
Trades Department.
The CLOS high-handed procedure
imperiled efforts of the Office of Pro
duction Management to establish uni
form wages and working conditions
and prevent strikes in the Eastern
shipyards.
Such stabilization already has been
worked out on the West Coast where
an agreement has been negotiated by
A. F. Of l.. unions and the shipbuild-
ers which boosts wage scales an aver
age of IL cents an hour and provides
for mediation of all disputes.
In an attempt to establish similar
setup in the East, the Office of Pro-
duction Management called confer
ence in Washington with representa-
tives of labor, employers and the Gov
ernment in attendance
At the outset, leaders of the CIO
Shipbuilders' Union demanded that
the representatives of A. F. of L..
unions be denied either voice or vote
in the negotiations and be permitted
to attend merely as observers. They
made the false claim that the CIO
represented a majority of the work
ers in Atlantic Coast shipyards and
asserted that gave them the right to
speak exclusively for labor in the ne
gotiations.
Objections of A. F. of L. repre-
sentatives brought forth a compro-
mise offer under which the Federation
would be given a voice in the deliber-
ations but no vote.
This proposal was fatly rejected by
the Federation spokesmen who with
Continued on Page Twol
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-15
Urged ToLookFor
Button On Clerks
Members Of Organized La.
Dor Requested To Buy
Only From Unionists

Due to a critical situation among
the retail clerks caused by the AFRO.
gance Of some merchants and the tota'
disregard Of union principles by some
clerks, it is imperative that all mem.
bers of organized labor make certain
that the clerks in any business estab.
lishment are members of the retail
clerks union.
The only way in which this can be
determined is by the button worn by
all members Of the clerks union who
are in good standing.
Evening star., 1941-07-31
Murray Urges President
To Reappoint (. 5. Smith

Philip Murray, president OF the
c. I. O., yesterday urged President
Roosevelt to reappoint Edwin S.
Smith to the National Labor Rela-
tions Board, declaring failure to
do so would disastrously discourage
public officials who are selected to
administer labor legislation in a
manner consistent with its basic
policies"
Mr.. Smith is the surviving men,
Der of the three originally appointed
to the board, neither of the others
having been reappointed, although
Warren Madden, former chairman,
was named to the Court of Claims.
The provision of the Labor Act
can be rendered meaningless through
weak administration Mr.. Murray
wrote the President. 1T is therefore
essential that the type of admins
tration represented by Mr.. Smith be
continued"
At the same time, President Muir
ray called on all c. I. o. affiliates
to work for the resppointment of
Mr.. Smith. whose term expires
August q, emphasizing that he has
demonstrated his ability as an able
and effective member of the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board"
despite "the most vicious attack
from anti-labor groups"
Mr.. Murray also warned of "ad-
verse administration of the Wagner
Act and added that this dangerous
development is evidenced in recent
reversals by majority of the board
of earlier established precedents. -
Evening star., 1941-07-31

by Robert G. Caldwell, dean Of
humanities Of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, were Vice
President Wallace, Archibald Mac
Leish, librarian of Congress; Waldo
G. Leland, director of the American
Council of Learned Societies, and
John w. Studebaker, commissioner
of education, Federal Security
Agency.
Earl N. Bressman, assistant di-
rector of the ONCE of Foreign Gull
tural Relations, Department of
Agriculture, and Fred j. Kelly, chief
of the Division of Higher Educa-
ton, Office of Education, Federal
Security Agency, were appointed
to serve on a committee to advise
regarding agricultural education,
to stimulate the interest of United
States land grant colleges in inter
American studies and to explain
the aims of the proposed institute
of tropical agriculture. Knowles A.
Ryerson, dean of the College of
Agriculture, University of Cali
fornia, is chairman of this COM
mittee.
The committee on exchange Of
fellowships and professorships,
headed by Stephen P: Duggan. di-
rector of the Institute of Interna-
tional Education, New York, in
Evening star., 1941-07-31
Nozis Charge u. S. Helps
10 Expdnd Communism

BERLIN, July 81 P).-Harry Hop
kins' offer of United States support
to Soviet Russia makes America a
party tothe -Soyiets efforts to thrust
Communism into the heart of Eu-
rope. an authorized German spokes-
man said today.
The United States Is perfectly
informed about the conditions of
terror imposed by the Soviets in the
territory Russia recently occupied" }"
the spokesman said in comment on
the Moscow visit of the lease-lend
co-ordinator.
BY supporting such efforts any
third party of course makes itself
equally responsible for this assault
on civilization"
Evening star., 1941-07-31
Eight in D. {. Named
To Aid Latin Cultural
Relations Program
Educators and Officials
To Act as Advisers to
Rockefeller Bureau

Names of eight Washingtonians
appeared today on four committees
named by President Roosevelt to
advise the Government on plan
ming and executing the program to
improve cultural relations with
Latin American nations.
The committees, including IS edu-
Gators and other national figures,
we're named for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1912, They will
work with the State Departments
Division of Cultural Relations,
headed by Nelson Rockefeller.
Among those named on the
General Committee, to be headed
Evening star., 1941-07-31
silk Lacking, Factory
At PhiIodeIphid Closes

PHILADELPHIA, July 81 (P)-Lack
of silk and other material forced
the closing today of the Courtland
mill of the Gotham Silk Hosiery
Co., Inc, which employs approx
mately 800 workers.
Another of the company's knitting
mills here employing about 1900
will have to curtail production with
In q few days If the shortage of
material continues, William K.
Leader of the G. I. o. American
Federation of Hosiery Workers said
he had been advised by Samuel F.
Rubin, assistant to the president Of
the firm.
Closing of the Gotham plant, Mr..
Leader said, is only the first in an
anticipated series of shutdowns re-
Eulting from the Government order
freezing Japanese assets in this
country.
Evening star., 1941-07-31

He said he would see other Soviet
officials, later. .
The first talk was described as
cordial and there was a general
impression on both sides of con-
flaence intthesgeneral war situation.
Shortly after Mr.. Hopkins left
thesKremlin to spend the night at
theEmbassg residence Moscow had
a three-hour alarm as German
planes tried to raid Moscow, but an
offlcial communique said they were
beaten of and one raider was shot
AYtAe Cd dhf&ence were vyacheslav
Molptos, Sevih Foreign Commissar,
and unitedsT States Ambassador
Laurence A. Steinhardt.
The Soviet official press referred
to Mr.. Hopkins as President Roose-
velt,s. "claesst friend" and printed
his brpadSaSt from London Sunday,
in wAchehe pledged immediate
AmerNh aid to Russia.
Evening star., 1941-07-31
Silk Priorities Order
To Conserve Stocks
For Military Uses
GruduuI Diminution Of
Civilian ALLEGATIONS
Planned by O. P. N.
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated tTeSS.
A priorities order is in preparation
which will curb Substantially. If not
completely. the flow of raw silk into
hosiery mills and other civilian man.
ufacture, Once of Production Man
egement officials said today.
The order, expected in a short
time, probably will provide for a
deep initial cut in silk consumption,
followed by gradually diminishing
ALLEGATIONS to mills until the civilian
use of the imported fiber is vir-
tually halted, it was said, in order
to conserve existing stocks for mil
ltary purposes.
Concern for the 175,000 employees
In the silk industry. who would be
thrown out of jobs if mills were abb
ruptly ordered to cease operations
entirely, is a principal factor be-
hind the plan for the gradual dimi-
mutton of civilian ALLEGATIONS. an
o. P. M. priorities division official
said.
While military demands are not
heavy. defense leaders were said to
feel that the small quantity of silk
stocks in the country and the
prospect of complete cessation Of I'M
ports from Japan because Of the Far
Eastern crisis make conservation
program necessary
Is Weeks supply.
On July there were only about
Is weeks supply Of raw Silk-sbout
$1,000 hales-in public warehouses
and in the hands of mills. Normal
consumption is 5000 bales q week,
Military uses. including parachutes
and powder bags, normally account
for only about 5 or 6 per cent OF
this consumption, and both War
and Navy Departments have reported
that stocks apear ample, considering
that ravon or other substitutes could
be adapted for parachute use.
The tension between this country
and Japan. source of 81 per cent Of
American silk imports, is regarded
with varying DEGREES of seriousness
by o. P. M. officials, but consider
able group Is represented as feeling
that the Government must act on
the assumption that no more silk
will be forthcoming from Japan.
This view was bolstered yesterday
when the Tatuta Maru, after lying
off San Francisco for six days,
finally put into port on the under
standing that she could discharge
her passengers and carry back her
s2,500,000 cargo of raw silk.
Price Ceiling Ordered.
The Office of Price Administration
and Civilian Supply already has an
nounced that price ceiling would
be placed on raw fiber to check the
soaring rise of silk prices which de-
veloped last week.
The priority action under consid-
Grafton would be an extension to
last weeks order freezing all stocks
of raw silk and limiting the process
ing of thrown silk-silk which has
been twisted into thread for weav-
ing-to consumption levels set last
week. The order forbids warehouses
and mills except under authority Of
the priorities director, but does not
prevent deliveries from ship to i'm
porters.
To consider the unemployment
problem likely to result from curtail-
ment of silk supplies. representa-
tives of the silk industry and textile
unions will meet here tomorrow in
q conference called by Sidney Hill
man, o. P. M. associate director.
Evening star., 1941-07-31
Author Forum Speaker

Muriel Draper, author and student
of drama, will speak on AN Amer
ican Culture for John Doe" at the
first summer garden forum of the
Washington Cooperative Bookshop
at 720 Twenty-first street NV. at
8 o'clock tonight. - - 7.'A'H
Evening star., 1941-07-31
Nozis' French Base
Is Built on Plans
Drawn by Hitler
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, July 31.-Adolf Hit
ler himself drew the plans for
a German naval base on the
French west coast described as
"the largest ever built" Ger
man propaganda company re-
porter's dispatch said yesterday.
Fritz Todt, builder of Ger
many's Siegfried Line, handed
Hitler's original sketches to the
commander of the U-boat force
recently when the navy took
over the completed works, the
dispatch said.
The construction was the
work of the Fuehrer, His flrst
plans were followed" Todt was
quoted as saying.
Evening star., 1941-07-31

cludes Albert l.. Barrows, executive
secretary of the National Research
Council, and Mr.. Leland, member Of
the general committee.
The fourth committee-on adjust