The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-06-05
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the opinion that employees and manu-
facturers could best regulate wages
and hours in industry and was against
allowing politicians to have this
power.
Reviewing the division in labor, Mr..
Ornburn remarked that there was no
reason for it since the AFL holds
yearly conventions and any fancied
wrong could be righted within COM
paratively short time. The minority,
not being able to have their way, set
up dual organization which he liken-
ed to defeated candidates in a city
election setting up new city hall and
starting to do business in competition
with the rightly elected officials.
Because of the unions, he declared,
the workers now live better than the
millionaires of some years ago. High
school was almost impossible for la
boring mans son few years ago be-
cause the father was unable to sup
port the family without the sons help.
| Now a college education is within the
grasp of most youngsters.
Telling of the hardships encounter
ed by the pioneers of the movement,
the former cigar maker stated most
younger men in the movement cannot
understand the hardships endured and
therefore take the union for granted
He told these members they were
stockholders in one of the greatest in
stitutions on earth, the n. B. of O. p.
and urged them to attend a meeting
of the board of directors at every op-
portunity.
In Mr.. Ornburn's opinion practically
all manufacturers are willing to be
fair, but small minority are "bad
boys" just as it is a small minority
that gives labor a bad name. These
are kept in line by the unions, thus
aiding the other manufacturers as we'll
as the workers.
Citing the record of the pottery in
dustry, he asked why the same phi
losophy of collective bargaining
couldn't work in all industry
While against delegating too much
power to Washington, or looking there
for help in emergencies, the speaker
stated the AFL is interested in state
and Federal laws to help all workers.
organized or not. By way of example
he pointed to the Ohio workmen'S
compensation act, the first in the ma
tion and sponsored by the AFL. Pre-
vious to the act, he said, an injured
workers only recourse was through
the courts and this meant the end of
his job Now the case is reviewed by
the commission and justice given. Bet.
ter than this, however, is the fact that
the act has been responsible for un-
thought of safety devices and meas
ures saving thousands and thousands
Of lives.
| With So cents of every dollar being
coast, Mr.. Ornburn reported that if
Bridges is deported all CIO union
lists will lay down their tools until
the L. S. Government relents. He
declared anyone who made this threat
should be placed in the L. S. army
before sundown.
Turning his attention to the women
Mr.. Ornburn announced that organ
lied labor was pulling a two-horse
load with only one horse hitched to
the wagon. While they are getting
money through collective bargaining
they should hook up collective buying
to make an unbeatable team.
With S5 cents of every dollar being
spent by the women, they are the
ones who must cooperate. He urged
the women to purchase only union la
beled products and services, which OF