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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-04
Labor Union Movement Major Aspect
Of Democratic Principle In Industry

Tile follO4ving Labor Sunday Message
is abbroved by the Esscu.iVe Commit
tee Of the Federal Council of Churches
of Christ in Amrrica and issued
through its Department of the Church
and Social SerVice.
The Christian concern for democ-
racy, based on Jesus teaching of the
dignity and essential brotherhood Of
all the children of God, long an in
fluence in political institutions, has
more recently begun to find express
sion in economic and industrial re-
lations. This concern supports the
right of the common man to voice
in determining the conditions under
which he works. The labor union
movement, like political democracy
has it's imperfections; yet it is the
major expression of the democratic
principle in industry. Employers in
increasing numbers are freely grant
ing to labor the right to organize and
are working out constructive rela-
tionships with unions on the basis OF
mutual confidence. In many indus.
tries, the men and women who work
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-04
Trade To Vote On
Wage Increase For
National President
Locals May Bdllot During
Any Regular Meeting
Until October 4

The trade will vote on the recon-
mended increase for the office of
president of the National Brotherhood
Of Operative Potters this month.
Copy for the official ballots has
been placed in the hands of the print
ers by Secretary-Treasurer John Nc
Gillivray and should be sent out from
Headquarters Friday.
Saturday, October 4, will be the
last day voting will be permitted and
ballots must be returned to the ma
tional secretary-treasurer by Tuesday,
October IA. Voting may take place
during any regular meeting from the
time the ballots are received until Oc-
tober 4.
Local union secretaries are asked
to contact headquarters if they do
not receive sufficient number of bal
lots within a reasonable period of
time.
A ten per cent salary increase for
the national president was recon-
mended by the forty-ninth annual
convention of the organization in its
final session in Atlantic City last
July.
All members of the Brotherhood
are expected to take an active in
terest in all matters pertaining to the
management Of the N. B. Of o. P. and
it is therefore important that all
should exercise their right to vote.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-04

with their hands and tend machines
are no longer a struggling minority
seeking recognition and a just share
of the profits of industry. They have
become great organic movement,
involved directly in the worldwide
struggle for the preservation and
growth of democracy.
In countries where liberty and
equality prevail as ideals of human
relations, there the labor movement
is strong. Where they are not ap-
piled to industrial relations, there
unions are few and weak. Where de-
mocracy has been discarded, as in the
totalitarian states, there the indepen-
dent labor union movement has dis
appeared. The existence of these con-
trasting situations is not a mere CO.
incidence. Democracy, by the very law
Of its nature, must extend into indus
trial and economic as we'll as politi-
cal relations. Totalitarianism, by ar
equally inherent law of it's nature
must destroy an independent labo,
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-04
Labor And Industry Join In Plm
To Trdin Electrical Apprentices

Washington, D. CA fine example
of union-management cooperation TO
elevate an industry and aid national
defense was demonstrated in Wash
ington. Leaders of labor and of en-
ployers in the electrical industry came
to the nations capital from all parts
of the country, sat down together at
a dinner in the Mayhower Hotel, and
formally launched far-reaching ma
tional standards for the training of
apprentices.
Heretofore, locals of the Interna'
tional Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers and employers had cooperat.
ed in many cities in promotion of ap.
prentice training, but this was the
first time an apprenticeship program
was worked out for the electrical in.
dustry on national scale.
The standards were drafted by q
joint committee of the Brotherhood
and the National Electrical Contrac'
tors Association. Their promulgatior
at this time was looked upon as espe
cially significant because Of the great
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-04
Draft Board Is Told
To Aid In Finding
Work for SeIecfees
MdnY To Be Released From
Active Duty Starting
In September

With the Army planning to release
certain men from active duty, begin
ming in September, State Selective
Service Headquarters has notified the
$50 Local Boards to complete speedily
all necessary arrangements to aid IN
the program for unemployment OF
these returning soldiers.
Lieut.. Col. c. w. Goble, State Di-
rector Of Selective Service, today
called to the attention of all Local
Board that the Selective Training and
Service Act imposes the duty of car
rying out its unemployment provi-
sions upon the Selective Service Sys-
tenn, as we'll as upon the former en-
ployers of these men. He quoted from
a directive issued by National Head
quarters, as follows:
"Under the amendment to the Sc
lective Service Act, the Army will
soon be discharging certain men over
% years Of age. The Government has
the obligation Of helping to find gain
full employment for all men who are
transferred from active service to the
Reserve, irrespective of whether they
have been Selectees, National Guards
men or members of the Regular
Army.
"In meeting this obligation, the
services of the Government are to be
made available not only in restoring
men to their former positions, but
also in helping those men find jobs
who were not employed at the time
they entered the service.
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-04
MOP Organizes
Cdnddidn Pottery
Employees ofSovereign Plant
Signed TuesddY BY
Hull And Turner

The. National B9S3harhood Of Op-
erative Potters has added the en-
ployes of the Sovereign Pottery Co.,
Hamilton, Ont, to its ranks as re-
suit Of the constant organizing cam
paign in which the Brotherhood has
been engaged.
The new local, which was chartered
Tuesday evening, is Local Union No
191 and represents all the employees
Of the Canadian plant.
The workers attended a meeting
last Friday night with representatives
of the C. l. O. extolling the virtues OF
that organization and the advantages
to be gained through affiliation. When
they had completed their salestalk
Vice Presidents Frank Hull anc
George Turner of the N. B. Of O. P
took the speakers stand.
At the conclusion of the meeting a
secret vote was taken which resulted
in an overwhelming victory for the
National Brotherhood of Operative
Potters, with over 80 per cent of the
votes cast being in favor of the only
true potters' organization.
With the permission of Manager
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-04

Importance Of training more skilled
workers for defense production.
Spokesman for both the union and
the contractors association hailed the
event as milestone for the industry
and pledged they would do all in
their power to make the training pro-
gram success.
Assistant Secretary of Labor Dan
w. Tracy, who is also chairman of
the Brotherhood's Executive Council,
voiced jubilation over the achieve
ment in an address to the gathering.
"Apprentice training has been clos
est to my heart for long time," he
said. "We had difficulty for many
years interesting employers in the
problem, because there was almost
always a big supply of skilled labor.
"Now the story is different. The
demands of national defense have
created a great interest in apprentice
training. Employers, more than ever
have become convinced of the need OF
such training. This is a job for EN-.
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-04
Teachers Meefinq
ExpeIs Three Red
Dominufed Locals
One Philadelphia and Two
New York Locals Ousted
BY Convention

Detroit, Mich. - The twenty-fifth
annual convention of the American
Federation of Teachers completed by
an overwhelming voice vote the ex-
pulsion from the organization Of
Locals and 537 Of New York and
1872 of Philadelphia, accused Of being
nominated by communists.
A proposal from the floor to set up
a commission further to explore the
matter was likewise defeated, after
Miss Mary McGough, chairman of the
credentials committee, argued that
the convention had no right to take
action contrary to the referendum
which expelled the locals last June.
John D. Corners of New Bedford,
Mass, vice president of the fedora
ton, declared that the membership is
the highest authority and the conven-
ton only secondary and that any bona
fide teacher in New York or Philadel-
phia is eligible to membership; all he
has to do is to fill out membership
application card.
The convention received q message
from DR.. John Dewey, teacher and
philosopher, now 81, who said:
"If I were present in person
should want to pay my especial re-
CARDS to old friends with whom l was
associated in the past and who never
yielded the least ground in their bat
ties for teachers, for the labor move
ment in association with teachers anc
for the freedom of unionism from
subjection to foreign political in
fluences."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-04
Wage agreement Is
Signed By L. u. $50
Vice President Jordan Aids
Red Wing Potters In =.
Negotiations

Red Wing, Minn.-The members of
Local Union No. $50 play a most i'm
portant part in the labor activities of
this community. Starting off with our
annual Potters' Steamboat Excursion,
which was a great success, we ended
the summer with our annual Labor
Picnic at the Welles Creek Gardens
in July. This event is important to
the members of No. $50 as the money
made is used to help pay for our
Labor Temple. 1t won't be long be-
fore we will have building we can
call our own. In past years we hardly
knew where we were going to hold
rent one hall after another.
The flower show and parade spon-
sored by the Goodhue County Horti-
cultural Society of Red Wing was
watched by thousands of interested
spectators from the surrounding COM
munities.
The potters had a beautiful float in
the parade under the banner of Buy
American. 1t was built in the form
of large battleship and placed
fourth with lot Of stiff competition
The Central Trades and Labor
Council had float built in the nature
of huge dinner bucket, this was fol-
lowed by many labor men carrying
their dinner pals.
We have, with the help of Vice
President Charles Jordan, negotiated
a new wage agreement which was
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-04
Discharged Kokomo
Employees Receive
$4,000 Back Wages
Employees Reinstated to End
Seven Year Old Fight
By Brotherhood

The Kokomo trouble, which has
nung fire these many years, has final
ly been settled to the satisfaction of
the members of Local Union No. 26
and the Brotherhood officials who
have fought the case through from
the beginning, seven years ago.
The sum of $4,000 for back wages
has been turned over to the 36 dis
charged employees of Kokomo SAM
tary Co. Of Kokomo, Ind, and their
former jobs returned to them. How
ever, few took advantage of this last
clause-mcst perferring to remain AZ
their present employment.
President James M. Duffy of the
National Brotherhood of Operative
Potters and Glenn McCarter, secre-
tary of l.. U. 26, headed the commit
tee representing the employees at the
meeting held Saturday in the region
al office of the National Labor Re
lations Board in Indianapolis.
Attorney Donovan was the Boards
spokesman while Manager Williams
Treasurer Welsh and Chi
cago attorney, Mr.. Love, presented
the case for the firm.
The decision Of the Labor Board
to reinstate the employees, pay back
wages and disban the Ko-San Club
company union, was made in August
Of 1910, but wage settlement was
not reached until the end of last week
when the employer and employees
agreed upon a just sum.
Back wages are determined by tax.
ing the wage Of the discharged EN-.
ploye while working at the plant anc
subtracting the amount earned al
other employment during his time off
The firm first made an offer Of
$4,000, stating this was the limit tha
could be paid, but President Duffy ant
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-04
Holiday Mems Not
A Thing To L. U. IS
Members Forced To Work
On Saturday To Make
Up For Labor Day

Trenton, N. 1.-THE attendance and
interest at Local Union No. ASS meet
ings are increasing steadily and the
members have promised to be more
faithful now that the hot weather is
about over.
A report of the conference COM
mittee meeting with Mr.. Bentley on
August rs was discussed at great
length and we were glad to hear Of
the adjustments made.
Our members have worked steadily
and hard for long period and they
would like to be relieved of the neces-
sity Of working Saturdays for legal
holidays which really means that we
get no holiday and some have to come
in and take care of their work, either
on the holiday or on Sunday. They
also feel that where a five-day week
is the custom and a holiday comes
on one of these days, that it reduces
the work week to 32 hours and if re-
quested to work on Saturday they
should receive time and one-half fol
that day.
When times are slack there is nc
compunction about our being laid of
and while we would like to oblige anC
make up for lost time when our firms
have plenty of orders, still there is q
limit to human speed and endurance
We may be wrong, but we feel that
there is too much hand-to-mouth bust
ness these days which could be
eliminated by carrying larger stocks
(Tnrn tn PINE Taco)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-04
Demands Full Represents
ton At Peace Conference
At Wur's Close
OTHER SPEAKERS
MednY. Vol. Patterson and
La Gudrdid Address
Delegates

Syracuse, N. Y.-President- William
Green of the American Federation Of
Labor drew prolonged cheers at the
seventy-eighth annual convention of
the New York State Federation Of
Labor with declaration that at the
peace conference which will follow
the end of the war the workers of
the various nations of the world must
be given direct representation.
"When this tyrant running loose in
Europe by the name of Hitler is final
ly defeated and the representatives
of the governments sit around the
conference table," Mr.. Green said,
eve want labor represented, sitting
at that conference table, too.
81 demand that the representatives
of labor from every nation, speaking
different languages, worshipping in
accordance with the dictates of their
conscience, be there to help shape a
new world, new freedoms, new right
eousness and a new future for the
people throughout the world.
"We want written into the agree
ment, in simple language, this: That
workers in every nation throughout
the world shall be accorded the full
and unrestricted right to establish
and maintain free, democratic unions.
That right must never be given up"
Mr.. Green advanced his proposal as
an amendment to the eight-point war
aim program proclaimed by President
Roosevelt and Prime Minister Win
ston Churchill at their recent historic
meeting in the Atlantic after telling
the convention that "the American
Federation of Labor stands behind
> the President and in support of the
eight points announced by him few
days ago."
Other outstanding speakers at the
convention, attended by delegates rep
resenting almost 100000 A. F. of L.
workers, were Secretary Treasurer
George Meany, Vice President Mat
thew Woll, Undersecretary Of War
Robert P. Patterson and Mayor F. H.
LaGuardia of New York City.
In his address, which was the high
light of the convention, President
Green expressed his great satisfac-
tion that the men and women of
American labor in all parts of the
nation understand the issues involved
in the war. "
"Even though we live in America
and the battle is going on on Russian
soil and in other sections Of Europe
far removed" he said, 1--WE know that
there are questions at stake that af-
feet US, our homes and our firesides.
'For that reason the American
Federation of Labor led the way
sounded the note and gave assurances
Of support to our great President
that we would stand with him until
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-04
Congress Urged
Not To Increase
Hidden Hunger
Consumers Group States %
Per Cent Of Income Now
Goes For Tuxes

Washington, D. C. (ILNS).-As-
serting that sales and other taxes al
ready take away % per cent of the
income of Americas lowest income
group, Madeline Ross, representing
the Consumers Union of the United
States, urged the Senate Finance
Committee not to add to the "hidden
hunger" of the poor by imposing
more hidden taxes.
Low income families are prepared
to accept any necessary sacrifice, she
said, but they must first be convinced
that wealthy corporations and indi-
viduals are bearing their fair share
of the defense burden.
Presenting the tax program of the
Consumers Union, Miss Ross asked
for joint tax returns for wealthy
couples, and for a steeply graduated
excess profits tax on all corporation
profits above six per cent Of invested
capital. AT a time when sacrifices
are being demanded of everyone" she
asked, "should not big business be
willing to sacrifice to the extent of
accepting six per cent, plus share
of the excess, as fair return on it's
investments
1--WE are opposed to any sales
taxes" Miss Ross declared "on the
ground that they tax the poor dis
proportionately; that they are direct
ed against the people who are already
paying more than their just share of
the taxes.
~We are opposed, too, to any low
ering of the minimum income exemp-
ton, until every other means of rails
ing the necessary taxes has been ex-
hausted, until those who are profteer-
ing from the defense effort have paid
their share, and until the loopholes
which the rich use to dodge taxes
have been plugged"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-04
AFL Union Signs
California Pldnt
Large Food Packing Firm
Grants Check-OH To
Local 20676

Stockton, Cal,-A notable contract
was signed by the Stockton Cannery
Workers Local 20676, AFL, with the
Flotill Products, Inc, packers and dis
tributors of food products and one of
the largest plants of its kind in Cali
fornia.
The full union contract incorporates
the check-off system of dues collec-
ton, new feature of the contracts
approved by the California Council of
Cannery and Process Workers. 1t also
marks a forward step for the agri-
cultural unions of this state and
establishes a program of mutual CO.
operation beneficial to employer and
employe alike.
It is noteworthy that the first can
merry operator to accept this humane
contractual agreement in behalf OF
employees is a woman. She is Miss
T. Weisberg, president of the Flotill
Products, Inc. After affixing her sig
nature to the contract, the first of its
kind to be signed in the canning and
processing industry in the United
States, Miss Weisberg stated:
81 am happy to be the first indus.
trialist in the agricultural field te
place my signature to such progress
sive and humane contract which will
be an instrument of progress for botf
employer and employe."
Meyer L. Lewis, general manager
of the Flotill Products, Inc, ant
former western director of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, also signet
the contract which he assisted in ne
gotiating.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-27
"A CHINTZ FOR TO HAN CON HER .WALLn

Walls draped with fabric; or '.pa- pered" with it, are also having a vogue in traditional rooms. In a recent exhibition, this theme re- voIved around 8 line from Samuel Pepy's Diary::"I bought my wife a ci1intz for to hang on her wall. ]" Against wall. hung with white flower printed chintz stood a slend- CT ebony four poster flo,Inced and canopied in crisp white organdie.
 Another new room has all four walls papered in off-white chintz, with an old bird4cage-and- basket design sketched in lines of red. Mod ernized period furniture bleached to the tone of old fruitwood is used here.
 The new walls call for new and novel furniture arrangements, make particularly effective backgrounds for soft wood tones.
 One suite, in the new "grayed' or dusty" walnut, has ebony and white ash worked out in checker board squares; in another group, walnut and olive burl-both bleach- ed almost white-are used together in furniture designed along William and Mary lines. Several new bed- rooms use wood of soft middle shades with white, painted wood, while another points up the soft gray tones with turquoise blue leath- CT. One particularly interesting hv- ing room group is inlaid with strips of white holly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-27
By VIM. E. MCKINNEY America's Card Authority

In the 1941 Culbertson System. a double of an opening no trump bid. or of any other no trump bid, is defired as strictly a business" double. Actually, this does not repre- sent great change, because players have always been urged to pass their partners double of one no trump, with a,fairly good hand, but the average player was far too likely to treat a double of one no trump exactly as he would @ double of a suit bid. and take 1t out in his long est suit when he had few queens and jacks in his hand but not much else.
 The l04i rule may impress on people that partners double of one no trump should usually be passed even when they have nothing more than few filierS In three or four suits.
 East's pass iii today's hand would not be justified by the old rule, which required about one and one. half honor tricks. but his pass was proper and his side got the best poxslblo result from it.
 West opened the ten of spades, South son. South then entered
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-27
--WE, THE WONEN---- Here's How NOT to Welcome A Newcomer In Your Town

ing to know one is being called on because a person ALWAYS calls on newcomers and not because he seems especially attractive.
 T REALLY am going to call on you one of these days"
 With tie emphasis on really" there is more than slight suggeS- tion that the person feels he is do- ing the newcomer great favor.
 "You may find it little hard to get acquainted here."
 That is about as warm-hearted and hOSpitable as slamimng a door in a strangers face.
 Have you had a chance to meet many people yet?"
 That is likely to make the strang- CT feels like lost soul who is sitting around waiting to be noticed.
 Has Mrs. So-and-so been to call on you yet?"
 If she hasn't, the stranger is sure to feel that she has been sighted.
 Any of those remarks is all right if you dent care whether or not you are being cordial, and if you aren't bothered about making the stranger think, What a nice friendly person."
 But if you really want to be neighborly, skip every one of these remarks, invite the newcomer to your house and have some congeniai people there for her to meet. That's about the only effective way of mak- ing stranger feel welcome.