davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-07-31
Organizing Drive
Mapped By ALL.
More Thuri 200 Organizers
Meet In Washington
Opening Session

Washington, D. C.-The American
Federation of LahTf has launched a
new, nationwide organizing cam
paign.
More than 200 organizers from
every part Of the country met in the
American Federation of Labor Build
ing to map plans for the drive which
will seek to unionize unorganized
workers in all industries. Among the
fields where special efforts will be
directed are aviation, shipyards,
chemical plants, rubber and textiles
At the opening of. the two-day Sc
sion, President William Green in
keynote talk stressed the Importance
of labor cooperation with the Gov
ernment in maintaining uninter-
rupted production in defense indus
tries. He declared that it is the pol
icy of the American Federation of
Labor that strikes must be avoided
at all costs.
Secretary Treasurer George Meany
also told the organizers that in build
ing new unions they must teach new
members discipline and employ ne
gotiation, conciliation and mediation
before taking strike action. He ex-
planned how Federal agencies such
as the National Labor Relations
Board and the National Defense Me-
diation Board can help to avoid
strikes.
Frank Fenton, A. F. of L. Organ
ization Director, emphasized the need
of co-ordinating the organization
drive with the efforts of more than
1000 organizers employed by ma
tional and international unions. He
also pledged that the central labor
unions in each of the large cities
would aid in the organizing drive.
The balance Of the first session was
devoted to reports from the organiz-
ers on the progress of organizing
work in their districts. Substantial
gains Of new members were reported
from every section. The total A. F..
of L. membership is now at the high
est point in it's history.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-07-31
Pro-Union Vote Hits
New Record In June

Washington, D. C.-Anti-union
propaganda in the press, in Congr IS
and on the public platforms hasn't
fooled the workers, National Labor
Relations Board reported.
During June, over 80 per cent of
134, ,107 workers who voted in collec-
tive bargaining elections cast their
ballots for representation by unions.
This pro-union percentage was de-
clared to be the highest for any
month in the six years since the board
began operating.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-07-31
Locul rs To Elect
Officers August Ia
Packers Plan Party To Be
Held The Same
Evening

The regular meeting of Local Unior
No. 25 was held with small attend
ance, due to the terrible hot spell we
have been having. The meeting was
short and to the point.
The committee from Laughlins re-
ported the price settled on a plate car
ton.
We are having trouble with one Of
our members who has been notified tc
pay his defense assessments or be
suspended.
Plans were made for the party tc
be held in connection with the election
of officers at the August IA meeting
The committee in charge is composed
(Turu fn Pnnc Trn1l
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-07-31
Ridge, SdlsberrY
Endorsed By LU 86
Wdrehousemen Back Pot.
ters In Race For Council.
Treasurer

The regular weekly meeting Of Lo-
cal Union No. S6 was called to order
by President Joe Hester with "kid'
Wood in the vice chair There was
a very good attendance despite the
hot weather.
This local goes on record as en-.
dorsing Brother William G. Ridge fol
Councilman-at-Large and Brother
George Salsberry for City Treasurer
Both men are members of the Broth.
erhood.
We wish to inform the members OF
this organization that Brother Ridge
ran for Councilman-at-Large two
Turn 10 Pa0e Tsvol
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-07-31
Bonding Is Arranged
Through Headquarters

The National Brotherhood of Oper-
atlve Potters has made arrangements
to have all defense secretaries bond
ed through the national office under a
blanket policy.
1t is not necessary for any individ-
ual local to concern itself with this
matter.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-07-31
LAbOR'S SERVICE TO DEFENSE
IGNORED BY PRESS, SAYS GREEN
MANY INSTANCES OF UNION COOPERATION UNDER
HARDSHIPS CITED BEFORE CONGRESSIONAL
COMMITTEE

WASHINGTON D. C-Organzed labor is rendering vast
W to the national defense without cent Of cost
the Government President William Green of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor told Congress.
At the time he declared that workers parotcaly
carrying despite shocking hardshp which and should be
eliminated
These revelations made before the Toan Committee
vestgang defense migration which President Green submitted
survey working conditions defense industries which
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-05-21
PRESIDENT ASKS
LONG WORK Week
FOR MACHINES
Asks That All Machines and
Machine Tools Be Pooled for
Use in Defense Industries;
Does Not See Need for
Lengthening Work Week.

WASHINGTON.-FP) = Operation
of American industry on "a hours a
day, seven days week basis was
asked of OPM directors Sidney Hill
man and William S. Knudsen by Pres
ident Roosevelt May 2.
In letter to Hillman and Knudsen
the president asked that:
1. Every useful or potentially useful
machine tool and machine in the
country be pooled for use in defense
industries.
2. These machines and tools should
be used where they are or transport
ed to where they can be used.
g. The nation be recanvassed for
skilled workers and, if need be, skilled
men taken from the armed forces.
The president, who made the letter
public at a press conference, said he
did not see that operation of machines
on a full time basis would require
lengthening of working hours, set at
40 a week under the wage-hour law.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-05-21
APM PICKETS
ATTACKED AT
WHITE HOUSE

WASHINGTON - The Perpetual
Peace Vigil in front of the White
House is holding firm.
A brutal attack by soldiers and ma
rines at 3 a. m. Monday morning,
May II, during which signs were
broken and pickets assaulted, failed
to stop the line.
Pickets have marched resolutely
for "a hours day since p. m. Fri
day, May Q, when the vigil began.
The peace light carried by the lead
ing picket has never been extin-
guished during that time, despite the
attacks
The Perpetual Peace Vigil is spon-
sored by the American Peace Mobili-
cation as protest against American
involvement in war. From four to
ten pickets have been on the line
since the vigil started; more than 200
people from several states have par
ticipated.
Silently and solemnly the vigil line
marches along the gates at the Penn
sylvania Avenue side of the White
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-05-21
u. S. CHAMBER
OF C0MME:RC
CHANGES TUNE
Tones Down It's Customary
Resolutions Condemning La
Dor and Only Asks for State
and Federal Cancellation and
Defense Mediation Boards.

WASHINGTON.-(FP)- Consider.
ably lessened belligerency toward la
Dor was expressed by the 18th annual
meeting of the US chamber of com
merce in resolutions passed May 2.
Instead of the resolutions passed
last year calling for repeal of the
wage-hour act, drastic amendment of
the labor relations act, and changes in
the social security act, the chamber
adopted mildly worded, for the
chamber, resolution on employment
relations
The resolution said employers and
employees are under corresponding OBJ
legations to arrive at adjustments Of
employment controversies without
any impairment Of production"
1t asked for use of state and federal
agencies of Cancellation and the ma
tional Defense Mediation board.
The chamber proposed "morator-
ium against any disputes which will
interrupt the free flow of materials
to defense plants or the manufacture
of all elements required for complete
national defense, whether by way of
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-05-21
CONGRESS GETS
TAX Views OF
THE C. |. O.
Calls Attention to Reduction
in 1910 of Percentage of Tax
Collections According to
Ability to Pay and Con-
sumption Taxes Hit Hard.

WASHINGTON Three ma
jor principles which labor believes
should govern the new tax program
were presented to the house ways and
means committee May 2 by CLIO Pres.
/ Philip Murray
Murray, in a statement read by
Ralph Hetzel Jr., head of the CLOS
economic division, proposed:
/. Relief from all income taxes for
all incomes below the 1889 exemptions
of $1,000 and $780, and the lifting
of all excise and sales taxes from
commodities that are not clearly lux
ury goods.
2. No additional excise or sales
taxes and no extension of income
taxes or surtaxes on incomes below
1889 exemptions of $1,000 and $1,000.
3. All new tax income should at
this time be collected from increased
taxes on high individual incomes,
estates and growing corporation prof
its. This includes taxes on excess
profits, undivided profits, tax exempt
securities and inheritances.
''This is a period" the CLIO presi-
dent said, when everything possible
must be done to strengthen the foun-
dations of democracy.
Nothing could so seriously weaken
our morale than to place heavier bur-
dens upon the common people and
the working people in taxation while
the wealthy individuals and corpora
lions continue to pile up great in
comes and profits without being eff
fectively restrained by taxation"
Murray contended that the tax rec
ord of the federal government in the
last 10 years has been Shocking in
the Increased burden put upon work
ing people.
In 1880, he said, $50 of all federal
tax income was raised by taxes on
individual incomes, corporations, in
heritance and gifts while about 1920
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-05-21
TRESPASSINC AT THE CAPITAL
By A. I. HARRIS

made a quiet study of these figures
and finds that the percentage of rejec
lions are greater in the rural com
munities that have been undergoing
hardships and privations in recent
years than in communities that are
better off. These figures haven't been
given out as yet, but undoubtedly will
be presented to the conference.
Reactionaries in congress already
have served notice that they will
make a determined fight to cut down
on all non-defense government ex-
penditures, even though these expen-
ditures are drop in the bucket as
compared to the billions that are be-
| ing voted. But it is becoming more
and more obvious, especially in view
of the draft board revelations, that
social security is vital to national
health, and that national health is
vital to defense.
Congress, it is indicated, may take
favorable action on the administra-
ton request for S150,000,000 for
schools, hospitals, and recreational
facilities in over-crowded defense
areas, where the mushrooming growth
of small communities makes it i'm
possible for these communities to pro
vide tho needed facilities. This, how
ever, even if approved, would not be-
gin to solve the general problem
Meantime, congress is keeping social
security in cold storage.
"Get Tough" Foreign Policy
Nobody on Capitol Hill-not even
the isolationists - doubts that the
United States Navy soon will be con-
voying vessels carrying war supplies
to Great Britain. Things are moving
so fast in that direction, that an
nouncement of a convoy policy may
have been made by the time that this
column reaches print.
Isolationists have been asking the
most of the Presidents assertion last
fall that conveys mean shooting, and
shooting means war" But whether
shooting means war in the old-fash-
Toned sense is another question.
Nobody doubts that nazi submarines
Continued on Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-05-21
! s5H7avs4~es7sF
RIkES ARE
MOSTLY In
NEWSPAPERS
BY JEANETTE RANKIN

why doesn't Congress do some.
thing about the strikes which are in
terfering with the country's defense
program
That question is asked in many let.
tiers coming to my office and also to
all other members of Congress. To
the ordinary citizen, who depends al
most wholly on the newspapers for
his facts, it must seem at times as
though the whole country is at an
industrial stand-still because o (
strikes. This, however, is not true.
Committees OF the House Of Rep
resentatives have been holding hear
ings on this question, and the facts
developed are startling. These hear
ings developed:
l. Almost all labor disputes have
ben settled by the Labor Departments
Cancellation service and the Defense
Mediation Board before any strikes
occur
has an almost 100 percent record of
settling strikes before the men have
been out of the plant for more than
a few days.
8. In most cases strikes are caused
by refusal of the employers to obey
the law of the land which DEGREES
that workers must be granted the
right to join the unions of their choice
and bargain collectively with manage
ment through such unions.
4. Those strikes which have oc-
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-05-21
CAM0UFLAGED
ATTACK CHARGED
TO dies

/ "a camouflaged attack upon the
drive of the United Automobile Work
ers to organize the Ford Motor Com
pany" was charged to Rep. Martin
Dies today (Tuesday) by Rockwell
Kent, world-renowned artist, vice pres
ident of the International Workers
Order and President of the United
American Artists, CLIO.
Mr.. Kent's charge came in letter
directed to local and central labor
unions in which he called upon these
and other progressive organizations
to support the International Workers
Order in defense of its membership
rolls The letter was part of nation
wide campaign resulting from the
recent attempt of the Dies committee
to capture the TWO membership lists
by subpoenaing the Insurance Com
missioner of Michigan to produce
them.
AS Mr. Kent issued the call, the
National Office of the TWO, 80 Fifth
Avenue, announced that one powerful
Detroit local union of the United Auto
mobile Workers had already pledged
its support to the TWO. The Dodge
local No. 3, JAW forwarded copy
of its letter to the head of the So
called Committee on Un-American
Activities which declared:
Eve have been informed . that
your committee has subpoenaed the
Commissioner of Insurance of the
State of Michigan to produce list of
the names and addresses of the mem
bers of the International Workers
Continued on Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-05-21
FINANCIAL
SET-UP In STATE
TO BE CHANGED
Governor Announces That
Financial Structure of the
State To Be Overhauled |;
Recommended by Govern
mental Expert.

Need for consolidation of the yari-
Gus divisions of the states financial
structure is one of the first consider
atoms to be placed before the gov
ernor's advisory committee on reor-
ganization of the states government
at the meeting of the body scheduled
for May &C. The governor states that
existing Implications In this field of
the states business results in loss of
efficiency and economy, and this fea-
ture will be the first to be examined
by the committee.
D. l.. Robinson, said to be a govern
mental expert has spent some time
here investigating Montana's struc-
ture Of government and has been in
conference with the governor several
times. Mr.. Robinson will submit a
report of his findings in the survey
he has made in the near future with
recommendations for changes to be
made.
The study made by Mr.. Robinson
was made on the request of the gov
ernor in compliance with the act of
the recent session of the legislature
which authorized and directed that a
study be made in order that the gov
ernor's recommendation for stream
lining" the state government might be
carried out.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-05-21

eyouth groups which were
brought into contact with the
N. Y. A.
While admitting the purpose of the
conference was to plan program of
coordination of the various agencies
particularly interested in child health
and protection, DR.. Tascher, whose
part in the first days program had
been a discussion of Social and Eco
nomic Backgrounds and their influ-
ence on education for child health
and protection, he contended that the
program of the conference was broad
in its intent as outlined in the dedi-
cation in the program which stated:
This conference is dedicated to the
children of Montana that their rights
may be protected and the strength of
the Nation preserved through its abil-
ity to cherish and advance the prin-
ciples of democracy"
AS part of the course of instruction
offered to students under DR.. Tascher
some time ago, survey of sociolog-
iCdi anu ocOlOIllC DdChBTOuHuS VI
youth in Montana was made and the
results of the survey were compiled
as manual for the guidance of those
interested in educating and training of
youth. DR.. Tascher explained that
this manual or handbook compiled by
people with training in sociology and
economics, had been approved by the
National Youth Administration. More
over, several people former students
under him in those subjects, among
whom was Arlyne Plumb had been
engaged by the N. Y A. in capacities
which called for such special training.
DR.. Tascher affirmed that he was
convinced that Arlyne Plumb had en-
deavored sincerely and effectively to
put into practice, principles based on
trained understanding of the needs of
youth, and had been called a crack
pot sociorogist" because of her efforts
even though they had been proved
sound and workable. He declared
further, that if that view was to be
accepted by agencies of the people
and by the people generally, he stood
convicted of being a "crackpot sociol-
ogist" himself.
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-05-21
Public Health Revelations May
Compel Social Security Action

There still are hopes-very dim, tC
be sure-that the present congress
may take time out to consider some
badly needed social security legisla-
tfon, which the public health and wei
fare of the American people demand
But unless some vigorous and con
centrated efforts by the administra-
ton and liberal leaders on the Hill
are Immediately forthcoming, these
hopes will soon die out.
A rather comprehensive legislative
program, covering the fields OF unem-
ployment insurance and public assist
ance, has been prepared by the So
cial Security Board. This program
would increase unemployment insur-
ance benefits without increasing the
tax on employers and extend it to
cover domestic workers, agriculture
labor, and seasonal workers as well
as other groups not now covered,
endeavor to bring about greater equal
ization of old age assistance pay
ments, aid to dependent children, and
aid to blind, by increasing federal
assistance to states unable to proper
ly finance these programs, and have
the federal government re-enter the
field of direct relief.
The National Nutrition Conference
for Defense, called by the President
for May 26, 81 and 2S, is expected to
provide some stimulus for the pro-
gram. At this conference, which will
be held in Washington, will gather
leaders from all parts Of the country
representing medicine, public health,
social work, industry, labor, agricul-
ture, nursing, education, community
organization and similar fields. The
need for extending social security as
defense measure is expected to re-
ceive major consideration.
Recent draft board revelations that
AZ percent of our young men have
been rejected for physical reasons
have aroused some of the complacent
lawmakers. World War l reflections
for physical defects were SO percent,
then regarded as dangerously high.
The Department OF Agriculture has
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-05-21

cred that one OF Its witnesses,
a retired brigadier general
representing construction COM
panies in Washington, had des-
troyed certain of his records
| because he remembered previ-
Gus congressional investiga-
lions of the ALLEGATION of con-
struction contracts by the War
department.
| Thomas l.. Stokes, former Pulitzer
prize winner and correspondent for the
Scripps- Howard papers, at the same
| time revealed apparent pressure by
Sen. Claude Pepper d., Fla.) on the
administration on behalf of an oil
company which was underbid by an
other company in which Rep. Hatton
Summers d., Tex had an interest.
Pepper is one of the leading advo-
Gates of war now" in the senate
while Summers is chairman of the
house Judiciary committee who re-
Gently made the front pages with
I'LL cat VI luC ClCOtl ~ Cndli LII BUM
ers.
r. G. Marshall Jr., who retains his
rank in the reserve corps, who was
chief of the army's construction divi-
sion in the world war and who re-
signed in 1910 to become general man
ager of the building industrys trade
association, the Associated General
Contractors, was the witness who adj
mitted to the senate committee that
he had destroyed some of his records.
Among the documents which he
said he had destroyed was a contract
with the Consolidated Engineering
Co. of Baltimore under which he stood
to get 1917 of the $4,000 fee granted
the company for managing construc-
ton at Fort Meade, Md.
That company, he admitted, was
only one of several that received War
department contracts and were repre-
sented by him here as Washington
consultant."
Marshall said he destroyed the con-
tract when Pres. John A. Stafford of |
the company expressed the fear that |
its existence would prevent the COM |
pany from getting the $21, 10000 Fort
Meade project
The War department requires, it
was explained, an affidavit that the
company had not paid anyone to so
licit or otherwise assist it in obtain
ing contracts.
Explaining why he had stripped his
files, Marshall said, Il had a very
vivid recollection of the Graham com
mittee and thought the fewer records
had the better off I'd be-"
The Graham committee was a con-
gressional committee that in the early
1920's investigated contract awards
made during the world war when Mar
shall headed the War departments
division.
Under questioning Marshall said he
had maintained close personal rela-
Lionships with members of the War
departments construction advisory /
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-05-21
ANTI-LAB0R
DRIVE IS
DANGEROUS
LaFollette Says Industrial
Democracy Threatened by
Group Which Promotes Ma
tional Disunity Under Pre-
tense of Promoting Defense.

WASHINGTON.-(FP) - The drive
to destroy and weaken labor's rights
is the most dangerous menace to ma
tional defense according to Sen. Rob-
ert M. LaFollette prog, Wis., who
for four years has been chairman of
the senate civil liberties committee.
Under the pretense of promoting
national Defense" he declared, "a
group of persons, either ignorant or
malicious, are working to pass a death
sentence on industrial democracy.
"The nation at large is either asleep
to this danger or numbed by the OBJ
vious propaganda that has reached a
new high in promoting national dis
unity under the pious garb of patriot
ISM"
LaFollette, vino spoke at testi-
monial dinner to him given by the
Workers Defense League, declared
that "it would be one of the tragic
ironies of history if in the process of
preparing for the defense of our ma
tional democracy, we blindIy sacri-
feed it in a legislative lynching bee.
This would be the inevitable re-
suit of many Of the labor bills being
introduced under the color of defense
in congress and the various state leg
islatures.
"The record of their sponsors in
the press and Congressional Record
viii indicate that they are anti-labor
in origin.
"The passage of these bills would
be the first token of appeasement to
the dictators, at home and abroad"
Continued on Page Four)