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, 1941-01-16
Union suggests
New Year plan
in Dept 276
BY O. e.. Lantz

Plans to maintain union stand
ards against future attacks, are
being worked out in Frigidaire
Department PIG, where the union
has distinguished itself in the
handling of numerous grievances,
The union suggests four
points in this department, to
serve as a goal for the future,
and to suggest the means by
which Department zig EN-
ployees al counteract any
move to deprive them of the
gains they have won.
First, a constant effort to main
tain and raise wage levels. Second,
resistance to increasing speed-up
and reduction of present excess
speed in production. Third, con-
tinued and extended use of the
grievance procedure. Fourth, in
tensive activity by all members in
the department to secure 1000
membership.
With these points taken into
consideration, and with Coop
Grafton from other depart
mentS. DEPARTMENT PIG expects
to secure a truly happy and
more prosperous New Year.
, 1941-01-16
Union ends
abuse on Track ]
in DEBT 227

Effective action by the UE ended
a serious abuse on Track I, in
Frigidaire Department 227, when
the employees called on their
Union Committeeman. The Com
mitteeman secured a just settle
ment after a hot meeting with de-
partment supervision.
The problem on this Track
was of getting the employees
a just share of time. The man
had been sent home early
several times. When they were
told not to come in one Mon
day, it was more than they
would take.
The union has secured a settle
man providing a guaranteed six
hours of work each day for the
entire Track 1.
BE WTSE-ORGANIZE
, 1941-01-16
FRIGDARE
Frothin9s

WHO IS THE TALL, DARK Fore
man in Department 20, who goes
gumshoeing around behind the
men with a stop-watch in his
hand?
We have another business
man in the TOOL ROOM,
since HAROLD WINKLER has
established himself in a billiard
parlor. Wink says he sells
nothing but union products,
and no "red wing"
+
Who is the Junior Foreman in
Department PIG who keeps an eye
on the second hand on his watch
when it's time to 60 to work; and
who, when he compares his watch
with the other fellows at quitting
time, usually finds that it is fast?
Il
A certain fellow in DIE RE-
PAIR must have found that an
apple for teacher was a good
idea, because he's been bring
ing one in for the boss every
day. This is no high-schOOl!
4
A musical disappointment was
given Gus Jordan, Foreman in
Department 211, for Christmas.
Gus wanted a flasher diamond
ring to replace his present one,
and he had his stooges show some
sample trays of diamonds around
the department as a hint. But
Gus was presented with an auto
radio instead, and is he burned
up! Is that gratitude?
r
Who, In Department ZIG,
keeps speeding up the spray
chains every few minutes,
until the sprayers can't get
enough porcelain on or get 1t
on uneven?
, 1941-01-16
Men, girls
face big problems
in DEBT 227
BY w. E. Ebright

Serious problems are facing the
workers in Frigidaire Department
227, and the union is calling for
the cooperation of all the men
and women in the department to
get them solved. Most of these
problems concern an unequal dis
tribution of the hours of work in
the department.
For example,, on the Range
Switch job, the Foreman told
the girls that they were behind
schedule. The Foreman then
sent out of the department for
more girls to speed up pro-
duction. AS a result of this
speed up, the output of
switches got way ahead Of the
production line, and the girls
on the switch job LOST two
days Of work!
In addition to this transferring
of employees into the department,
with resulting loss of work for
Department 227 workers, the
supervision has placed second
shifts on the production lines In
this department when there was
not enough work to give the first
shift forty hours.
AL these things are done
for . purpose. They are done
, 1941-01-16
Defense filters
annoy new Delco
groom at gate

The defense filters got in the
way of a young married man at
Delco last week, much to his
embarrassment. That man was
Woodrow Cohan, Delco Depart
ment At, a small town boy who
married a small town girl, Mar
jorie Glass.
Among good wishes and
other things which came
Woodrow's way, was a collec-
ton of trinkets the boys sat
down at his machine. That was
embarrassment, but Woodrow
got over it and got everything
all wrapped up in one bundle.
Armed with his pass to get by
the guard, Woodrow prepared to
leave after work. But when he
came to the guard, who'd apparent
ly been reading too much about
bombs, he got suspicious and call
ed for an inspection!
A little time lost, and more
embarrassment for Woodrow!
, 1941-01-16
Your body is
capital
BY Jack Fiske

Each and every man and woman
employed by Delco is a stock
holder of General Motors. Your
investment in this great corpora
ton is the efforts that you put
forth day by day. You must pro-
tect this investment even as the
company protects its property by
safe guards. Your safe guard is
your Union.
Your Union is the ideas of
a number of people COM
bined. An individual who adds
his moral and financial help
to this sentiment swells the
volume with which its voice
speaks. There can be no doubt
, 1941-01-16
Packing men
hands cut, torn
demand gloves

Employees on the packing group
at Frigidaire are demanding that
the Company furnish them gloves
to protect their hands, and have
taken this grievance up through
the union. This grievance is of old
standing on this group.
Many workers have shown
the safety man in this section
that they have cut and torn
their hands ON splinters on the
job, yet management has re-
fused to supply them with
proper gloves. This is true de-
spite the fact that management
has handed out gloves gener-
ously in other departments to
PROTECT COMPANY MA
TERIALS.
This practice has raised a Sc
rious question in the minds of the
packing employees-Does General
Motors consider it's materials more
valuable than its mems hands?
Does General Motors believe that
hands can be replaced more easily
than materials? The men demand
an answer, in the form of a settle
ment of their grievance.
BE WISE-ORGANTZE
, 1941-01-16

now in the mind Of each Of us
that this voice is heard.
Change and progress Is con-
stantly with us and Il will
continue.
Now, the strength that mott
Yates the body is not endless.
Health and the ability to enjoy
life need not end when the energy
to work is exhausted. Therefore
your capital which is your body
should produce more than the
bare necessities of life. It should
produce enough additional income
to maintain and enjoy life in later
years. Buildings and machinery
produce these things for the
owners Of a company, but only
with your help.
We need the same things in
life as the larger stockholders.
They need not be on as large
a scale but In proportion.
You are entitled to enjoy life
after work is done. The Union
is the voice through which you
ask for those things. Help to
swell the voice of your Union,
and you ask for your own de-
sires through millions of
tongues.
nC uvrcr 0D~ aHyvwr
, 1941-01-16

the Union hi-woy
to q better life
By Mary Hartman

Over the radio the other night
came a story of a certain Catholic
priest who turned the st. John
valley, in Maine, into a thriving
and prosperous valley. Father
Soussi won the confidence and
cooperation of the residents of this
valley, and really made it pay,
Father Soussi's words when he
left the area were:-"Work to-
gether, and you will succeed,
work alone and you perish!'
That motto is true in everything
we undertake.
We are working at Delco to
keep body and soul together.
We do not think enough Of
the days to come after our
armament program is over. In
union there is strength! When
critical times come i'm the flu
ture, it is only in our Co
. operation i'm our Union that
{ we will survive with the
benefits we deserve. Each and
every one should ponder on
these things and join with us!
Whether you have forgotten,
ignored or disbelieved in us, is
your loss, sooner or later. Union
of all is our motive, good will
our goal, and steady service our
method.
, 1941-01-16

BE WISE-ORGANTZE
, 1941-01-16

BE WISE-ORGANIZE
, 1941-01-16

to make the employees in this
department GLAD to get work,
no matter what the speed-up,
when the rush comes. It's q
way Of keeping the employees
from making legitimate pro-
tests on the speed-up, for the
employees need the money and
cannot complain when they
have work.
BE WISE-ORGANIZE
, 1941-01-16
DELCO
NEWS
AND
VIEWS

A QUESTION has arisen in the
minds of the Department az and
So Inspectors-Does their Fore
man back up to receive his pay?
How about il, Louie?
Apparently c. 0. HUTCH
ms has Forgotten that he
worked with his hands once,
too. How about it, Hutch?-
Be a little more fair In your
dealings with the Committee,
and stop calling names!
We should all congratulate
Jesse "Warbucks" Brandenburg,
of Receiving, for helping the UE
reach a near 1909 membership
in his department. His old-style
foreman's slogan, "Drive and
drive hard" has worked fine.
He's driven his men into the
union for the protection they
really need.
We hear that JOHN, the
Inspector, has his heels painted
for Identification, just like
shock absorbers.
u
It's a pity that every time the
unions back is turned a few FORE
men try to put over some fast
ones. They should know the union
doesn't sleep.
We know a man who says
he's overpaid for his work ON
the line. A few more like
this, and it might prove prof.
liable to 60 into the business
of making strait jackets.
II
In Department So, Earl Smith
can count his friends on one finger.
He's got to get over the idea his
being friends with the Foreman
makes him the big shot on as
sembly. His being the Loyalty
Committee" doesn't carry weight
with the fellows. We have a
UNION at Delco!
4
Notice! ALI people in De-
partment 80 who want a hot
tip on the Broom Tails, also
known as the Doggies, see
CHARLES GAZELL.
, 1941-01-16
DELCO NEWS

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE-Orville Kuhnle, Elizabeth Nell
son, Charles Easton, Jack Fiske, Arthur Houser, George
Greene, Robert Blackburn, Charles Dill, Bob Kimble.
, 1941-01-16
FRIGIDAIRE NEWS

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE-Francis Frank, Ernest Hofaw-
ger, Ed Bach, Walter Ebright, Stanley Luckowski, Charles
Witzleb, Eugene Snow.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-07-03
A SIMPLE TRUTH

THIS FOURTH OF JULY, 1941, is the 135th an
niversary of the signing of a declaration OF
simple truth. That truth, that memorable "self-
evident truth" which rings out SO boldly in our
Declaration Of Independence, is that men and
women must be free, to be equal one to another.
1t is simple equation-that freedom equals and
is a guarantOr of equality.
We Americans are not fearful of what any
any despiser of the free and democratic
way of life, may seek to do to us. But some
times have small and private fear of my own,
and it is this: that we Americans think of free
dom, and think of this historic equation OF our
forefathers, something over-simple, as VIC
tory that once attained is necessarily won for
ever.
The elementary truth is that we Americans
have no permanent deed to freedom. We have no
that is valid for all time. A harsh
but certainly eternal truth uttered by Jefler-
son when he said that "the tree of liberty must be
from time to time with the blood OF pa
triots and tyrants."
AS one American to another, | want to urge
all of US in the United States, which had its gene
sis in the sequel to this eloquent and moving dec
laration of freedom, | want to urge all of us on
this July Fourth to reappraise for our individual
selves the responsibilities that underly our free
dom and our independence. Let us go back tc
our history books and determine each Tor one, s
self, whether this freedom of 1776 was merely a
utopian word inscribed on parchment or whether
it was fighting word, a word that summed up
those principles which the history of the worlds
oldest democracy already has proved we hold
dearer than life.-Henry w. Hobson.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-07-03
BY THE ROCKETS RED GLARE

INDEPENDENCE DAY is a serious affair this
year. Not in long time have we Americans
been brought to SO keen a realization OF the unique
quality of the life that this country is privileged to
enjoy SO Fourth of July celebrations and the
traditional 'shootn' off firecrackers' are likely
to yield first place to measured consideration OF
the real meaning of American independence.
It's interesting to notice IN this connection
that the actual material needs OF our defense pro-
gram are making it necessary for all of us to fall
in step with this new approach. For the United
States is keeping its powder dry'-not shooting
it off ndscriminately to advertise national holl-
day.
In New York City, for example, reporters dis
covered that all but tiny portion of the pyro-
technical output of companies in the field is now
being devoted to the nations defense program.
Fireworks companies are making signal lights,
smoke bombs, hand grenades, trench mortar
shells, and various other flare and explosive de-
vcies for our armed forces. Further than that,
we are reminded that most of the rest of the
world is on fire when we learn that imports of
frccrackers from China, main foreign source
have been virtually cut oil.
''No time and few materials for fireworks
we're working "a hours day for the Army and
Navy" says one big company. Like many other
and industries who have turned away
from peacetimc products to go "al OUT in the
national emergency, the fireworks folk are put
ting the welfare of the whole country first
And that's the best possible insurance that
there will be a real Fourth of July to celebrate
when the present emergency has passed!
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-07-03
British Social Security
Planned After The War

London, England.-With the an
nouncement Of the appointment of Sir
William Beveridge, well known econ
omist, as the head of an Interdepart-
mental Committee to carry on COM
prehensive survey of all existing
schemes of social insurance, the gov
ernment has taken the first practical
step towards establishing a postwar
charter of social security.
This committee will report recon-
struction problems to a ministerial
committee presided over by Arthur
Greenwood, Minister without port
folio. The committee will review all
private and public organizations of So
cal insurance covering health, unem-
ployment, old age, workmen's COM
pensation, etc, with view to weav-
ing them into a comprehensive unified
improved scheme and possibly the
constitution of a central social secur-
ity department.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-07-03

workers who previously had been working as
much as so or 60 hours week for as little as four
or five cents an hour
One of these women workers had seven cents
when she left her home to come to our office. She
was to collect a restitution check of more than
500. Her subway fare was nickel. With the
two cents she had remaining, she bought pretezs
for her lunch.
When she was handed her check, tears came
to her eyes. She had no words to express her
gratitude. She reached into her shabby purse,
brought out paper bag and laid it on our inspec-
tors desk "Mister,' she said-voice quaverlng
won't you have pretzel?"
| have an Illuminating report from one of our
inspectors on a small city once notorious as low
wage town. Mothers worked in the mills. Houses
were unpainted and dilapidated. Weeds grew in
dooryards. Children went from school to factory
lat the earliest possible moment. Adolescents
troubled police with petty crimes.
Shortly after the Wage and Hour Law went
into effect a transformation came over the town.
Children went back to school. Mothers gave up
factory jobs. Rugs appeared on bare floors, cur
tans at windows, flowers in dooryards. Police
reported they had little to do
Incidents like these could be multiplied by
thousands. The Wage and Hour Law is making
American democracy rich with meaning in the
minds of the people. This is more than ordinarily
important, because the people may some day be
called upon to defend it.
Uook, Copyright, 1941 by Look, Inc, 715 Locust
Street, Des Moines, Iowa)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-07-03
OVER HALF MILLION STILL
UNEMPLOYED IN NEW YORK,
DESPITE DEFENSE BOOM

Albany, n. Y, GNS).-Although
employment in non-agricultural pur-
suits has jumped past the 1929 peak
to the highest levels in United States
history, recent estimates showing
anywhere from 37,5O0,OOO to 5O,5OO,-
600 wage earners at work, there are
still 576,l65 persons registered at the
offices of the New York State En-
ployment Service, according to a COM
plete inventory, compiled as of April
25, 194l. Of those registered, more
than 10000 were skilled workers, of
whom nearly one-half are As years of
age or older.
This inventory, part of nation
wide survey to ascertain the number
of defense workers available, dis
closed higher proportion of young
registrants and wider variety of oc-
cupational classifications than at the
same time year ago. Although
monthly inventories of registrants in
selected occupations have been pre-
pared by the Employment Service
since September, 1910, the present
survey is the first complete, detailed
analysis undertaken since April,
1910.
Work registrations have been more
numerous than in the previous year,
due in large part to the fact that
special drive was held early this year
to get all potential defense workers,
whether employed or not, registered
with the service.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-07-03
KEEPING PRICES DOWN

Cost of living in the United States and Great
Britain is following much the same course it
did in the World War, the National Industrial
conference Board says.
Costs are up here 4 per cent since August,
/ 939 and the rise is continuing. In the first two
years of the World War, costs rose per cent.
They kept going up with increasing velocity un-
It'll June 1920, when they reached a ceiling 1Ol per
cent above the level for July, 1914.
The nation wants none of that kind of intla-
tion now. The Government is seeking to pre-
went it by fighting unjustiiied price hikes. Ad-
mttedly it faces tough job The American
Federation of Labor is cooperating by asking af-
fliatcd unions to report all unreasonable price
jumps. Local unions and individual members
everywhere can also aid by protesting against in
creases that seem unreasonable and by reporting
them to Government agencies charged with the
duty of watching and regulating prices.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-07-03
i. COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

tai warefare, IN which every form OF
national activity will be harnessed
to the war effort. How to get ali the
labor needed for the most tremend-
Gus and most important task in our
history, how to apply it to the best
advantage, must be the supreme pre-
occupation Of the Government of the
day."
Sir Walter Citrine, general secre-
tary of the British Trades Union
Congress, thus sums up the situation
in the introduction to the latest issue
Of his quarterly report, "The 7. u.
C. in Wartime"
He points out how gravely the
workers are concerned in the meas
ures taken by the Government to
meet it's responsibilities, and goes on
to say:
"In this review l am going to bear
in mind all those anxieties which are
revealed to trade union officials in
their dealings with their members,
and am going to try to answer as
fully as the circumstances allow the
thousand and one questions which
must occur to every man and woman
as the claims of the state on the time
and labor of the individual become
more pressing"
X X X
Sir Walter deals at length with the
steps taken by the Ministry of Labor
to mobilize the man power of the
country, and shows how the T. U. c.
operated, through the Consultative
Committee lin which it is represent
ed with the employers and officials of
the Ministry to safeguard the basic
rights of the workers.
His analysis of the various boards
and committees on which the trade
union movement is represented, ma
tionally and locally, bears witness to
the vigilance with which the T. U. C.
has kept it's eye on every develop
ment, and the foresight with which
it's policy has been shaped.
1t is clear, from what he reveals in
these pages, that every British trade
unonist, man, woman, or young work
er, can rely on the active assistance
of the great movement which he and
she belongs in dealing with those
problems which every democratic cit
izen has to face in these critical
| times.
| Questions affecting workers in
factory and workshop, in the civil de-
fense services, as well as those liable
to military service, are among the
problems discussed.
X x
The German Bureau for Accident
Prevention has published a new
pamphlet on the prevention of acci-
dents and injuries. In this pamph-
let, it is admitted that the annual
losses in human life through tran
sport and industrial accidents have
increased to such an alarming extent
that they already seriously endanger
the man-power of the nation.
During the past year, 5000 per-
sons were killed by industrial acci-
dents alone, $4,000 were rendered
partially or temporarily incapacitat-
ed for work, and $1,000 totally or
permanently incapacitated. In 1910
some 100000 industrial accidents
were notified and compensation paid
for damage done to property by these
accidents amounted to over one mil
lard of marks. These are the visi-
BILE consequences of the mad tempo
of the Nazi war industry. Fatigue
due to excessive working hours, and
the neglect of even the most ele-
mentary protective regulations are
exacting their bitter toll.-Bulletin OF
the International Federation of Trade
Unions.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-07-03
TO PLEASE BRIDGE PLAYERS

Louisville, Ky.-As companion
pieces to the bridge table offered for
coupons packed with Raleigh union
made cigarettes, the Brown and
Williamson Tobacco Corporation
premium department is offering a
fine quality Hitchcock style folding
bridge or occasional chair 1t has a
satin walnut finish and brown leath-
erette seat ,and combines pleasingly
with any good furniture. While very
sturdy, it folds compactly.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-07-03
AND THAT'S TOO MUCH

"Why is it impossible for woman
ever to be President of the United
States?"
Because, to be President, person
must be at least thirty-five years Of
age"