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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-10-23
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of building, the labor cost on it, is
less than one third Of the total cost.
Curriers' bid is better than a thousand
dollars per unit less than the nearest
union contractor. That price would
be impossible, no matter what method
was used to put these houses up.
"Following the announcement Of
Currier being the successful bidder
on this contract, there came another
announcement, that Currier had
signed a fve-year closed shop con-
tract with the CIO Construction
Workers Union at no adjustment in
wage scales in the community. This,
of course, is not in accordance with
the truth. His CIO friends that he
just signed a contract with attempted
to strike his plant year ago, and
picketed it for three months.
"At the time Currier signed this
contract with the United Construction
Workers. Union, the CIO union had
no membership in his plant. The
American Federation of Labor unions
in Detroit had a verbal agreement
with the contractors and building ma
terial supply dealers Of Detroit, that
Currier is member of, to recognize
the American Federation of Labor
unions as the bargaining agency for
the employees of those who belong to
the association. Currier signed q
closed-shop contract with the CIO
without any Of his people being mem
bers, and he placed the head of the
Currier company union at the head OF
the CIO Construction Workers Union
"Instead of Mr.. Arnold, if he is an
honest public official, concerning him.
self with the opposition of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor unions at
Detroit to prevent Currier from get
ting this contract, l challenge him to
investigate the conspiracy between
the CIO and the Currier Lumber Com
pany to violate the National Labor
Relations law.
"This is an illegal combination tc
deprive the Currier employees of THEN
rights under the National Labor Re-
lations law. Make sure, my friends
| Currier is not a construction contrac-
tor; he never has been a construction
contractor. He is a building -materia'
supply man who makes the bulk of his
revenue from the loans of money that
he is handling in Detroit for the east
ern bankers, and he has been giving
the legitimate building supply con
/ tractors in Detroit the worst kind Of
unfair competition"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-10-23
4 Job For
Organized Labor
By RUTH TAYLOR

There is one job which needs to be
done today which organized labor is
in a position to do better than any
other group. 1t is to definitely COM
bat the increasing tension and touchi-
ness on the part of individuals and
groups throughout the country.
The pledge Of candidates for men,
bership in the American Federation
of Labor is "never to discriminate
against fellow-worker on account
of creed, color or nationality" This
is excellent, but now it must go
further. The hand of fellowship must
be extended to all if this tendency to
group resentment is to be curbed be-
fore it becomes menacing.
We have to face the fact that there
is strong tendency to carry per-
petual chip on the shoulder. Many
sincerely anti-Nazi Germans and anti
Fascist Italians have been so rebuffed
because of their names and accents
that they have been and are being re-
lentlessly driven back to nationalis-
tic feeling. There is a distinct and
definite discrimination against Jews in
certain fields and in certain localities,
and an equal discrimination against
Catholics in others. Organized labor
already has evidence of the class feel
ing stirred up against it in certain
quarters-and, let's be fair-there are
certain places where the feeling
against any employer is just as
strong.
The result has been the separating
into groups for mutual protection
and these cliques are increasingly re-
sentful of what they consider tactics
not in accord with their self con-
ceived rules of fair play. Such ten
dency to congregate in groups is the
greatest danger this country can face.
1t is through this same method that
many of the countries overseas were
so honeycombed that they fell ready
victim to the merciless invader.
"Divide and conquer" was a practical
slogan centuries before Hitler put it
to such effective use.
SIN unity there is strength" must
not only be motto for this country
but mode of life. And labor as the
strongest single force must tackle the
job of wiping out this dangerous
loneliness and group spirit. If or
ganized labor puts into practice it's
pledge against discrimination, carry
ing it out in daily act and speech, it
will set in action a force of public
opinion which will wipe out the causes
of tension and will unite all the peo-
pie of all the country as Americans
ready to protect the principles of free
dom. Let labor lead the way!
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-10-23
NBOP's importance
Emphasized By IS
Members Are Reminded Of
Coins In Conditions: Death
And Sick Benefits

Trenton, N. AT the last meet
ing of Local Union No. 35 many
topics of interest were up for discus
sion and members who were absent
missed something worthwhile. A re-
port was given by President M. Caro-
Ian on the progress Mr.. Collins has
made with the Brotherhood group in
surance plan with the Scammell firm
in regards to the collection Of
premiums.
1t was also reported that two girls
working on one of the machines had
refused to affiliate with the local
union. The local has authorized the
members to refuse to handle the work
done by these girls unless they join
the local. Also two of the ware push
ers are behind in their dues and un-
less they pay up they will be suspend
ed and their names published in the
Herald. The local will take the same
course with these men as it has with
the two non-union girls.
Some of the weaker members Of
this local don't realize the import
ance of organized labor and the good
they derive from it. Take for in
stance the collective barg ainin n G
clause, also the N. B. of o. P. death
insurance and tuberculosis funds. If
they are in good standing and con-
tract this dreaded disease, they have
the advantage of sanatorium treat
ment until they are cured.
| think many of our new members
don't know of these different funds
set aside by the Brotherhood in their
behalf, or they would become better
members and attend the meetings and
take an active part in the workings
of the local. They don't stop to think
of the conditions they were working
under before their plant was made 100
per cent union. They also forget that
members who belonged to the Broth
erhood for years made big sacrifice
by going on strike last January to
better the conditions and pay of many
of these workers who had never be-
longed before the strike. Now, if any
one gets behind in his or her dues and
assessments they had better pay up
or it will cost them a considerable
sum in case they are suspended.
We hope to see large crowd al
the next meeting, Monday, October 27
Don't leave before the meeting ad-
journs, as it breaks up the doingS
that are going on at that time and il
takes considerable time before it be.
comes quiet again and business is
resumed. o. G.. 35.
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LQIrIS r. THILL

Sebring, Ohio.-Louis B. Thill, So,
a pioneer resident of Sebring, died at
10:05 p. m. Tuesday, October ID, in
Alliance City Hospital of pneumonia
and complications III one week, he
was removed to the hospital Monday
when his condition grew serious.
Coming to Sebring 40 years ago
from East Liverpool where he was
born Feb. IL, 1883, Mr.. Thill was en-
ployed as a caster at the Royal China
Company. He was a member of Local
a., National Brotherhood of Operative
Potters and of the Elks Lodge in AL
lance.
Surviving are his wife at the home,
1875 East Pennsylvania avenue, Sc
bring; two children, Louis Jr., men,
ber of the State Highway Patrol sta
toned at Norwalk; daughter, Mrs.
Ethelyn Fuchs of La Porte, Ind; a
sister, Mrs. Anna Elsman in Alliance.
Funeral services were conducted by
Dr. Vernon P. Martin, pastor of the
Presbyterian Church, assisted by
Rev. William J. Grossman, pastor Of
the United Presbyterian Church, at
the late residence at 2:3O p. m. Fri
day. Burial was in Grandview Gene
terry, Sebring.
WILLIAM b. REED
William Brunton Reed, %, former
Chester High School athlete, was
found dead in bed Wednesday at 6:3C
a. m in the home of his parents, Mr.
and Mrs Orris Reed, 1875 Carolina
avenue, Chester.
Hancock County Coroner DR.
Thomas Bruce Of New Cumberland
announced that death was due to q
heart attack.
Mr.. Reed, robust and hearty, ap.
parently had been in the best OF
health. He had worked Tuesday or
the might" trick as wareboy at the
Taylor, Smith and Taylor pottery, re
turning home about midnight.
He shared a bed with his brother
Robert Reed, who discovered hin
dead when he awoke this morning tt
see the time. He had been dead ap
parently only short time.
The young man was graduated from
high school in 1888. He worked as {
gasoline station attendant for abou
year and a half, and about si1
months ago accepted job at the pot
terry. He was registered for the draf
but had not been called for examina
ton.
Besides his parents, he leaves thre
other brothers, Donald Reed, Pau
Reed and Francis Reed, and two sis
lers, Charlotte Reed and Catherin
Reed, all at home.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-10-23
MINIMUM PAY ORDER TO RAISE
WAGES OF FOUNDRY WORKERS

Warrington, d. c. 0LNS).-Ap-
proyal by Administrator Philip B.
Fleming of the Wage and Hour Divi-
sion, L. S. Department of Labor, Of
recommended 40 cents an hour min
imum wage for the gray iron jobbing
foundry industry has been announced.
A wage order putting the minimum
into effect Nov. 3 will be issued
shortly.
The recommendation was unani-
1nously made by committee equally
representative Of the public, and the
employers and employees in the in
dustry. The 40 cent minimum will in
crease the wage rates Of about ID COO
Of the l75, coo workers in the industry.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-10-23

Lana Turner that Rhett Butler look in Cables
eve agan The Turner appears opposite Gable for the
first time Honky Ton rousng tale of love and action in
qodmnng Gable likes his ladies be dressed to the ht
and although hasn't quite finished her dressing the at
the left through Clark has put diamonds her nar
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-10-23
FIGHT RISING COSTS

San Diego, Calif.-The Painters
Union has declared war on skyrocket-
ing rents, food and commodity prices
and is circulating petitions asking
government action to curtail such ris-
ing costs here. The San Diego County
Central Labor Council has endorsed
the movement and A. F. of l.. unions
are helping to circulate the petitions
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-10-23
WAGE-HOUR DECREE

Newark, N. j. QLNS).-Federal
Judge Thomas G. Walker has granted
an injunction against the American
Insurance Co., in the first court action
taken by the Wage and Hour Divi-
sion, U. S. Department of Labor to
enforce wage-hour regulations among
insurance workers. The courts con-
sent decree enjoined the firm, en-
ploying 500 in it's home offices here
from violations of the wage-hour law
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-10-23
HIGHER FARM WAGES SEEN

Itahaca, N. Y.-Prof. w. I. Myers,
head of the Department of Agricul-
tural Economics at Cornell Uni
versity, predicted here that farm
prices would follow an irregular up
ward trend for the duration Of the
war and that the present serious
shortage of farm labor would become
worse, forcing in payment of higher
wages on farms.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-10-23
PAGE THREE

"The inconsistency of govern
ment functionary widely propaganda
ing his personal bias by scurrilous at
tacks on labor in vicious articles and
demagogic speeches is both obvious
and deplorable. 1t is crude effort to
provide his anti-labor detectives with
the prestige of his public office. We
condemn it without reservation"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-10-23
JOB FOLLOWS HIM INTO ARMY

Pueblo, Collaborating of some out
going bales Of wire was the last job
that AL Pevny, shipping clerk in a
steel plant, did before leaving to join
the Army. The first job that Pevny
performed after reaching a Texas
camp was the uncrating Of those same
bales of WIRE
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-10-23

Foreman (on excavation job): Do
you think you really are fit for hard
labor?
Applicant: Well, some of the best
judges in the country have thought
SO.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-10-23

WANTED-Two experienced mould
makers. Steady employment. Call or
phone John S. Duffy, 31O0, Edwin NJ
Knowles China Company, Newell
West Virginia.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25
Administration Not PIdn- hing for Any Escorts
 Across Atlantic, Yet
pATR0l VESSELS ARE
 OPERATING ON OCEAN
American Ships Will Go Into Seven Seas for De-
 fense, # Necessary

WASHINGTON, April 25.--Presl- dent Roosevelt today declared that the American Neutrality Patrol ves- sells will operate as far into the waters of the Seven Seas as neces- sary in defense of the American Hemisphere.
 This was the statement made by the Chief Executive at a conference with the newsmen.
 However, the President further stated, the Administration is not thinking of any escorting conveys at this time. He also said there is possibility that Greenland it partly occupied by an Axis force but he did not know about this. The Presi- dent replied in the negative to the question whether occupation might be by Fifth Columnists.
 The esident declined to be drawn into any specific comments designed to amplify his views on the convey situation but said for one year and a half, vessels of the Neu- trality Patrol have been operating as far as 1000 miles into the At lantic Ocean from the eastern shores of Maryland. He said there are err roneous reports and assumptions the patrol is operating approximately 300 miles from the American coast.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25
NIGHT RAID BY BRITISH
 SUCCESSFUL
Loads of Bombs Dropped on Ijmuiden, Also KieI
 and WiIheImshdven

LONDON, April 25.-- Royal Air Force bombers attacked the im- portant iron and steel works in Ijrhuiden, The Netherlands, and dropped loads of bombs last night. The bombs struck the blast furnaces and must have done great damage, according to the fliers reporting to the air ministry.
 British bombers also smashed through heavy antiaircraft fire to dump heavy cargoes Of explosives and fire bombs on Kiel and Will helmshaven shipyards with good re- suits, it is announced.
 The Air Ministry says 100 Ger man aircraft is the known toll of destroyed craft by British guns and planes this month. It is admitted the British have lost 75 planes dur ing the same period
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25
Ship Hifs 0nporfIand
 Canal Rock
Chd6on Piles Up Early in Morning-SdIvdge ves-
 sel Going 10 Scene

STEWART, B. O., April 25.-A sal wage vessel and scow is expected to arrive today at the side of the diesel ship Chacon, in Portland Canal, 16 miles south of Hyder, where she struck rock early Wednesday morn- ing.
 The freight will be transferred to the scow and the Chacon will then be refloated and lowed to Ketchikan for repairs.
 The Viga, sister ship to the Cha con, picked up the mail and express and took the shipments to Hyder.
 The Chacon carried only about IA tons of freight, largely machinery for the Riverside mine at Hyder.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25
'Lei the Coast Guard
 Do H." Is New Slogan;
 "5emper parafus" Moito

proved an act of Congress setting up the Revenue Marine. It had ten boats and just one duty--to pre- vent smuggling. In l848, the Unit ed States life-saving service was set up. In 1915. these two were merged and given the name Coast Guard. As late as 1921, the Coast Guard got its first airplanes a few obsolete old crates cast off by the Navy. In 1939, the Lighthouse Service was absorbed
 There hardly has been year in the last hundred that the Coast Guard hasn't added men, ships and duties.
 Today, it has a personnel of about 10000, including more than 600 commissioned officers, and is planning to add about 5000 en- listed men by the end of 1922
 It has 485 cutters. Anything longer than 26 feet, with a con- manding officer, is a cutter-the larger vessels are l25 to 327 feet There are seven of the big ones commissioned in 1886 and com parable to Navy .gunboats. They have cruising radius of 12,00( miles. In addition to the cutters the Coast Guard has Al lighter vessels and $500 small boats ranging down to surf boats and dories. It has about 60 planes and pilots and crews to man them.
 But look what has happened to it's duties. After the Titanic went down. the Coast Guard estab-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25
I(kE5 FAv0R5
 MORE MINERAL SURVEY WORK

An increase in the appropriation for Geological Survey work in AL aska is favored by the Department of the Interior and has been rec commended repeatedly by Secretary Ickes, Alaska was in formed today in a letter from Acting Secretary A. J. Wirtz in reply to a memorial of the 18th Territorial Legislature asking that the appropriation be doubled.
 In his letter to Secretary of AL aska E. L. tBob) Bartlett, Wirtz said:
 "The proposal meets the full endorsement of this Department. In fact, for many years the Sec retary has repeatedly recommended an increase for this important work. and for the past three years he has recommended even larger amounts than those suggested in the memorial, though, for financial and other reasons, such increases have not been granted"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25

WASHINGTON. For many months, dapper little Russian Am bassador Consta tine Oumansky used to complain privately that he could not get an audience with Cor dell Hull, Secretary of State.
 All I see is Sumner Welles," grip ed Ambassador Oumansky. ''The matters I have to discuss should be taken up with the Secretary oi State personally"
 But what the usually astute Ann bassador did not know was that MT Hull disliked all things Russian, did not want to discuss Russia, or be reminded of Russia. He classified the Soviet with such institutions as carpet-baggers, John L. Lewis, Hull's Cabinet colleague Harold Ickes, and the Civil War guerillas who attacked his father. MT Hull has one of the choicest vocabularies in Washington and when he turned it loose on Rus- sia he really outdid himself
 All of which is by way of empha- sizing the change which took place the other day when Cordell Hull ac- tually issued a public statement in praise of Soviet Russia.
 That statement was issued not be- cause MT. Hull's basic feelings to- ward RuSsia had changed, but only because there are very few nations left in the world today which may be potential bulwarks against Hit Ter. Russia is foremost among them and MT. Hull openly and obviously was wooing the hated Soviet.
 That incident, more than almost any other recent development in Washington, Is a tell-tale indication of the seriousness with which Cabi- net members view the desperate plight of the British and the very dangerous situation of the United States.
 Real. fact is that many military strategists doubt whether the Brit ish can hold out until September.
 The consider the British situation far worse than last June, when France fell. The nthere still remain ed a few European nations which might stand against Hitler. But
 tcontipued on Page FOur)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25
AXIS SUBS TO STRIKE
 AT (oNv0YS
Fascist Newspaper Makes Threat on Proposed
 American Plan

ROME. April 25.--The representa- tive Fascist newspaper Il Popolo Di Roma declared today that Italian and German submarines will attack United States conveys to Great Britain if Washington goes so far as to send them across the Atlantic.
 The newspaper said it is reported America plans to extend it's air and naval patrol to the mid Atlantic for complete conveying and this "step will then mean that the Axis submarines must speak"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25
Two Cabinet Officials Come Out for Safeguarding
 Aid 10 British
STRONG RESISTANCE
 BEING ADVOCATED
Pointed Declarations Are Made by Secretaries
 Hull and Knox
(By Associated Press)

Two key figures in. President Roosevelt's Cabinet last night called for more active steps to aid Great Britain, on of them declaring: We cannot allow our goods ito be sunk in the Atlantic,' and the other de- manding resistance, whatever re- sistance will be effective"
 Secretary of State Cordell Hull in Washington address said ways must be found" to insure that aid reaches its destination "in the short est time in the maximum quan- tity."
 Tn an even stronger pronounce ment in New York, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox declared: This is our fight. We must see the job through. We can no longer occupy the immoral, craven position of asking others to make all the sac- rifices for this victory which we recognize as so essential to the Unit ed States. Our manhood, our self respect demands we shall assume our part of the burden"
 Secretary Knox asserted: Hitler cannot allow our war supplies to reach England. He will be defeated if they do.' He further declared, "It makes a vast difference to the United States who wins the present struggle in Europe. The difference IS whether we stand with our backs to the wall with four continents against us, with the high seas lost. and alone defending the last freee territories on earth, or whether we keep our place in an orderly world"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25
Invasion Armies Route AL lies in Famous Ther-
 mopylde Pass
SEVERE LOSSES ARE
 REPORTED INFLICTED
Heavy Artillery Is Brought Up by Ndzis-Ports Are
 Being Air Rdided
(By Associated Press)

The British rear guard troops, hopelessly outnumbered, have fallen back from the bloody "hot gates of Thermopylea Pass and Hitler's invasion armies are lurching for ward for the final drive on Athens and southern Greece.
 Hitler's High Com m nd says bluntly the Nazi units have thrown the enemy out" of the historic pass, overcoming the strongly fortified defense were handful of British and Greeks held out for more than two days. The German break through the pass, however, came 48 hours after Berlin prematurely de- clared Wednesday morning that the pass had already been taken and