The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-07-16

on the part of individuals and groups
throughout the country.
You see, we have to face the fact
that there is a strong tendency tC
carry perpetual chip on the shoulder
Many sincerely anti-Nazi Germans and
anti-FaScist Italians have been so re-
buffed because of their names and ac
cents that they have been and are
being relentlessly driven back to ma
tionalistic feeling. There is distinc,
and definite discrimination against Jews
in certain fields and in certain local.
lties, and an equal discrimination
against Catholics in others. Organized
Labor already has evidence of the
class feeling 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. After a meeting in the middle
west business agent said to me, You
know, Miss Taylor, ! just can't like
an employer" ! hope that you don't
generaliZe that way.
The result of all this agitation has
been the separating into groups for
mutual protection - and these cliqueS
are increasingly reSentful of what they
consider tactics not in accord with
their self-cOnceived rules of fair play.
Such a tendency to cOngregate in
i. l.,,, hi
try can face. 1t is through this same
method that many of the countries
overseas were SO hOneycOmbed that
they fell Il ready victim to the merci-
less invader. divide and conquer" was
a practical slogan centuries before Hit
Ter put it to such effective use.
I'm unity there is strength" must not
only he a motto for this country hut Il
mode Of life. And Labor as the strong
est single force must tackle the job
of wiping out this dangerous loneliness
and group spirit. 1t you members of
Organized Labor put into practice your
pledge against discrimination, carrying
1t out in daily act and speech, you can
which will wipe out the causes of ten
sion and will unite all the people of all
the country us Americans ready to pro-
tect the principles of freedom.
At a recent meeting of State Fed
GRAFTON of Labor, one of the speakers
said, 1--WE each carry card in the
union of the United States" What does
that mean? You can answer it because
you know that being Il good union mem
Der is not an easy task. 1t isn't just
question of paying dues and giving lip
service to leaders. Such members are
Il drag on any union. The VOWS a union
member takes are serious ones. TO live
up to them requires conscientious effort
and constant application.
knowledge is the secret of success
full membership but it must be more
than superficial cOgniZance of problems
Immediately confronting a local union.
Too many men stop with Il knowledge
of the handicaps-thereby seeing only
one side of the picture. They must go
on from there and learn the history of
their organization, how it has overcome
the handicaps of the past, how it has
grown strong, and what its aims are
for the future Union members must be
articulate. They must be able to be IA
competent, accurate voice for their
fellow workers, presenting facts clear
iy, logically and dispassionately, not
only in their union but in the COM
munity.
They must look upon the world as ii
whole, realizing the inter-dependence
of group upon group, nation upon ma
ton. They must join in as citizens
shoulder to shoulder with the bosses,
not thinking or caring whether their
companion in service be Protestant,
Jew or Catholic; trained for service,
ready to fight wherever their services
may be of most use: ready, if need be,
to die for the good of this great union
of free men. In that way and that
alone lies victory for democracy, for
the union of states which is the United