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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-29
LABOR UNIONS IN WARTIME

AS WE ENTER the new phase OF war activity,
unions will find new emphasis on their duties
and new responsibilities placed upon them. AS
price controls become generally applicable and in
force, as the industries become stabilized and as
the variables in income, which collective bargain
ing seeks to turn into wage increases tend to be-
come less and less, problems of work relationships
and the Joint responsibilities of management and
labor become major concerns.
Since wages can longer be a dependable
control in industries, we must give workers
additional incentives for making their maximum
contributions to production. Only when there is
cooperation between management and workers is
it possible to get the most economical and highest
quality production.
Now is the strategic time to develop the spirit
and the machinery of cooperation between man
agement and labor, so that we may develop effec-
tive opportunity for higher and more Fundamental
incentives than find in wage rates.
We need the advantages of such coordinated
work not only for war production but for the re-
adjustment after the war. We are not going back
to prewar conditions when this shall have
ended There will be a new world, born of blood
shed, sacrifice and ideals. One Of the most urgent
and fundamental problems that will press for
solution in that new world will be the relations
between the state and industry.
While changes must be made in line with new
conditions and progressive thinking, the answers
must be practical and based upon experience. The
united strength of labor and management expert
ence in cooperative procedures will be materially
helpful in separating political functions from eco
nomic, and thus providing necessary economic
although insisting upon moral re-
sponsibility that iustifies independence
We need now more than ever to place cur faith
in our trade union organizations and to put our
utmost into keeping them up to the very highest
human ideals OF service
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-29
WOLL NAMED ADVISER TO
SMALLER WAR PLANT UNIT

Washington, ID. G. GLNS). - Mat
thew VOL of the American Federation
of Labor and Philip j. Cloves of the
CIO have been designated as advisors
to the Smaller War Plants Division
of War Production Board, Deputy
Chairman Lou f.. Holland announced
here.
Il felt | should like to have some
one in each of the two national organi-
zationS,' Holland said, with whom !
could consult on labor matters arising
i'm connection with our work, SO |
asked Mr. Murray and Mr.. Green each
to designate Il member of his organi-
Zation.
Both responded at once, and al.
though | feel quite certain that we
shall encounter no serious labor prob
lem, | am sure that the counsel of
these distinguished labor men will be
of the greatest value in our efforts tO
utilize fully the facilities of smaller
manufacturing plants and the skill
and ingenuity of their workers"
VOL is Il vice president of The
American Federation of Labor: Cloves
formerly of the United Steel Workers
of America, has been for the past two
months associate director (CIO) OF
WPB's Labor Production Division.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-29
KEEP ON THE JOB!

I!lE HOME. FRONT can never be as productive
of medals as the battle front However, the i'm
portance of the home front is coming more and
more to be recognized, as indicated recently when
one of the top at selectve service head
quarters warned workers against changing Jobs
with any idea Of getting draft deferment thereby
Thousands of workers throughout the country
have jumped their regular peacetime and perhaps
unglamorous Jobs to go to work for defense in
duStreS.
Not only is this unlikely to result in draft
delement, but it might actually hasten the day
of the draft call, according to Lieutenant Com
mander Patrick II. Winston, assistant executive
of SeectlVe service headquarters in Washington
Addressing the convention of the National AS
Soclaton of Food Chains in Chicago Lieutenant
Commander Winston said:
"A man moving voluntarily from a non-essen-
tlal industry to an essential industry in which he
has had no previous experience does not improve
his draft status. On the contrary, such actor
to prevent immediate induction might cause hin
to be called earlier
SO it appears that those Of us doing what may
seem to be prosaic jobs at home, had better sticl
to them. That advice is obviously based on the
fact that the machinery of civilian life must not
be diSorganizcd by unplanned shifts from one
place to another and one job to another
The Army wants us to stay put until we are
needed II we get too impatient for change, the
Army may say, OK, Bud. If you're in sucl
hurry, c'mon and get your rifle
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-29
SIX DECADES OF GROWTH

SIXTY-ONE YEARS ago a small group of men
~ met at Pittsburgh for the purpose of realizing
an ideal. That ideal was the amalgamatlon OF labor
Unions into national organization, thus creating
an institution to represent Wage-eaIners and TO
give them voice in the determination OF policies
affecting them. That organization specifically IN
vited the affation of unskilled workers well as
craftsmen.
After six years the Federation of Trades and
Labor Unions of the United States and Canada
was reorganized in order to afford more practical
service to the unions. Provisions were made for
fu-time president and the name was changed to
the American Federation of Labor Our affiliated
in 1887 was about $4,000.
In the intervening years we have developed
methods and principles of organization and have
evolved philosophy of the relationship between
unions and management and between unions, IN
dustres and government. We have organized new
unions, amalgamated existing unions to conform
to changing conditions within industries, and
tried to maintain hexibity that enables us to
continue to render service despite changes In oul
economy.
So We have gone on through business pros
perity and depression, steadily adding to oul
power and services.
Today we represent we'll over five million
workers, with an organization in every state and
industrial area in the land
These unions, as agencies establishing justice
for wage-earners, have increased rates of pay and
limited hours of work, and set up machinery fol
adjusting differences and misunderstanding
In addition, they have organized their political
power to secure legislation which writes into pub
lie policy basic rights and protection necessary tc
the welfare of Wage-earners.
The Federation has been able to achieve this
prograss as an essential agency in democratic
commonwealth and, by seeking to advance labors
interests currently with material progress, has
gained standing as public institution, with
right to participate in determining public policy.
In the wars that have occurred during the
Federation's lifetime we have done our full part
as loyal citizens of a democracy. This, we believe
is prerequisite to union membership
Our notable progress during the last year is
Ian earnest of vitality and usefulness that
promise another sixty years of service.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-29
SWEDISH LABOR LEADER
ASKS AID FOR NORWAY

Stockholm (ILNS). .- August Lind
berg, chairman of the Swedish Labor
Federation, in a letter to all Swedish
trade union locals, has appealed for
support of Swedish relief work in Nor
way. He said in part: The stricken
and ravaged Norwegian nation for
more than two years has conducted Il
heroic and never-ceaSing struggle for
existence as an independent people.
Court martial, death sentences or
long prison terms have not crushed the
courage of the NorWegianS, nor their
resolve to stand on their rights. The
SwedeS have followed their struggle
with respect and sympathy. Today
their burden is greater than ever. We
must help them to the limit of our
ability. scandinavian solidarity
must not die
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-29
FARM PAY IN RECORD RISE

Washington, ID. C.-Farm wage rates
on Oct | were the second highest on
record. The index, at 22O per cent Of
the l91O-l4 period was the highest
since 1920. The October figure repre-
sents an 1S-point rise since the last
quarterly report July |. Usually there
is no seasonal change from July to
October. The index is also 81 points
above Oct. |, 1911. This is the greatest
increase ever recorded within Il Years
time
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-29
w H A T MEX TT

Lighting bIack-Out rooms is one
of the most recent uses tOday's
war needs have found for phOs-
phOrescent paint. Research by
Westinghouse Electric & Manufac-
turing Co. has shown that walls
painted with this material give off
enough light to enable person to
move safely about at night in an
unlighted room.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-29
HOBO PAPER SUSPENDED

Buffalo, \. G.-Ietr Davis, King of
the lioboeS," announced here that the
Hobo News Review, official publication
discontinued for the duration to con
serve paper for the war effort. Davis
urged fratcrnal organizations to dis
continue their publications to cut the
tremendous waste" of paper.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-29
AUSTRALIAN SHIRTS SHORTER

Sydney. - Garment manufacturers
have been directed To cut from one 10
3 inches from the front and from to
; inches from the tail of every mans
shirt made in Australia for the dura-
ton OF the war.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-29
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

Calling upon the workers of Great
Britain and the free nations across the
seas ''to work and organize day in and
day out for one objective to bring our
SynchrOnized power to bear fully upon
the enemy and thus to end the conflict
VIGOROUSLY" Labor Minister Ernest
Bevin addressed the annual convention
of the British Transport and General
Workers Union opening recently in
London.
Bevins speech was enthusiastically
cheered by the delegates whose pres
ence in recOrd-making numbers teSti-
| fled to the growing strength and power
| of the union since its organization in
1922.
| Reports abroad of disagreementS be-
tween Bevin and the union which he
formerly headed, were scotfed at by
SpOkeSmen of the union who pointed
with pride to the enormous progress
of the organization under the leader
ship of Bevin and in recent years.
Total membership on the eve of the
convention was close to one million
members or nearly 100000 more than
the previous year. Similarly impressive
figures on the unions financial growth
and strength were also given.
Bevin was also OutSpOken in his
criticism of radicals and left wingers
who were opposed to the war prior to
the German attack on Russia and had
termed the struggle of the British
people against Nazism as merely an
imperialistic war. The convent i o n
echoed Bevins sentiments and went on
record urging an allied offensive in
Europe at the earliest possible moment
| x X x
| A special edition of "An Outline of
Political Geography" by J. f. Horra-
bin, has been published by Knopf for
the Educational Department of the
International Ladies' Garment Work
erS Union. This book, first written III
| 1923, was translated into nine Ian,
guages and used by worllerStudents in
many countries including the United
States. 1t has been completely revised
and brought up to date.
| 1t is Il progressive view of the fac
| tors usually referred to in geO-pOliticS
but viewed from a progressive angle
1t will serve as a naturalization primer
for world citizenship. The ILGWU
Educational Department hopes, by it,
edition of the book, to encourage the
study of world affairs by it's members
Such a study, it might be remarked
would equip members of any union fOl
better under standing of the wOrld
which is to come after the war.
x x x
On the occasion of Denmark having
been two and Il half years occupied by
| the Nazis, the London Times in an edi-
torial called a Nazi FiaSco" says
1"While Danish NaziS are wringino
their hands over the stubborn independ
ence of their compatriots, it may seen
eXtravagant understatement to say
that two and half years of German
occupation has not produced a DaniSl
revolt against democracy. Yet for Ger
mans and for the future of Europe
this Illustration is significant. Both il
the Danes have been wholly at the
mercy of Germany all this time .
But Shrewd perception that German
power is based on slippery foundations
and Il logged fidelity to their own ideas
and methods have kept Denmark free
of NaZi Infection The New Order ha>
wasted its glamor on IA people VIII,
have retained clear sight and mora
balance
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-29
ENLISTS IN TWO SERVICES

Washington. ID. {. Just to make
sure, n Midwest youth enlisted in both
the Army and the Navy, says the Office
of Civilian Defense. When the Army
called him, he was at naval training
station.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-29

All over the country Rumor Clinics
are being started. It's a good idea.
Too many people are ready to take
for truth the story told them by thelr
neighbor who got it from neighbor
who got it right off the boat, so he
said
There's the story about the Eleanor
Clubs, of blacks and whites in some
stories, of all blacks in others. for the
purpose of fomenting black demands
for race equality, meaning race mixing.
That story surely did get around.
And it didn't do any good either.
1t was pushed along especially hard
| by anti-New Dealers in the South.
| But the Rumor Clinics are taking
that one apart, finding out where it got
| its start.
X X X
Wouldn't it be good for Central
| Labor Councils to start Rumor Clinics
| to trace down and expose false stories
| about labor?
Just Il few days ago soldier, sin
|
the men at Guadalcanal didn't learn
about all the strikes in the United
| States.
Just where are 'all the strikes" that
worried this soldier?
1t isn't enough to quote statistics. 1t
is necessary to run down the rumorS
and the stories to find out who starts
| them-and why.
The stories that our planes were no
good went racing through the country
and they We're doing a brisk business,
undermining our confidence, until per-
| fOrmance in action proved that our
planes can dish it out and can also
take it,
Never in any other war was rumor
so deadly, never in any other was
truth so impor tant as a fighting
weapon
We must nail the rumors and run
down the rumor spreaders.
X X X
| In South Florida there is 4 good
deal of anti-Jewish sentiment. The
chances are that some underground
source is feeding it and helping along
Il ferment that can get dangerous.
| And we hear that we are having al
together too many airplane crashes.
But the fact is that our airpane
crashes are far below the peace-time
average. We're doing very nicely in
air safety, with all of the thousands of
men we have in training.
| Dame RumOr holds the all-time
record for both sprint and distance
running and it takes fast foot work to
Overtake her The RumOr Clinics can
do grand job and those that have
been started are doing a grand job.
The important thing is not just to
overtake the old dame, but to land Il
knockout wallop on her gabby jaw.
X X x
1t is the business Of enemy nations
to see to it that rumors get started and
| that we get into hot debates about
military and naval tactics and STRAIT
egy.
Enemy nations spend lots of money
to see that we wrangle over the second
whether our leaders are doing the right
thing.
We know that our leaders will make
some mistakes, but we know they have
MT made many very bad ones up to
this time.
We know, too, that we cant go
changing leaders every time the Chi
cago Tribune writes an editorial, or
every time the Ladies' Aid thinks war
is just too too horrible the way it's
run nowadays.
Fighting rumors is helping to fight
the war. Peoples wars are wars that
soak through the whole life of the
people and home and shop become
mighty important. They MUST NOT
be bef0uled with enemy-planted rumorS.
Start Yourself Il Itumor Clinic and
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-29
LABOR CAN'T SHUT EYES TO POLITICS

(fr"m the Illinois 1radoNman, Springfield, Il)
WE OFTEN hear it said that labor shouldn't
w participate in politics.
But as long as it is through political cam
paigns that we choose the executive and legiSla-
tive officers that enforce and enact our laws, it
is impossible for labor to shut its eyes and not
suffer the consequences.
The powerful interests opposed to organized
labor are never inactive in political campaigns
Mr. Money Bags always can be counted on to
stand by those who stand by him.
Unless labor is equally alert to keeping tab
on those who are elected to public office and what
they do while they are in office, labor can expect
little support for its objectiVes.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-29
RIDING
AT ANCHOR
MIR. MODESTUS

Hinges of History
Munich, Prague, Dunquerque-
Crete, Quattara Sands, TObruk, per
hapS Alexandria
Leningrad, Moscow, Sevastopol Stal
ingrad, Grozny oil wells
Rotterdam, Oslo, Murmansk, Arch
angel
Pearl Harbor, Java, Coral Sea, Mid
way, Guadalcanal-
Please God, they swing no closer
bearing history's doors
Even now, their shades and breezes
fall on us.
x X X
A thousand Years!
That was Hitler's dictum-
1t might have been, had not thi
world awakened
But now, with the fourth winter en-
croaching-
Time tables all upset; precious
months wasted
When NaZi officers divide in judg
ment with their Fuehrer-
Stalemates in the offing, exhaustion
suggesting compromise
Too many millions of warped Ger
man youth lying under Russian soil
Hungry peoples in an angry cont
nent, refusing to starve lying down
Fragments of that thousand year:
come Gathering down
About the ears of thwarted pirat,
hOrdes-
Whose boast now is, that they a
least shall have enough to eat.
X X X
Hitler, paranOiac-
Whose twisted mind was needed t,
reflect
Tangled patterns of Prussian wa
lords mad world-power ambitions
Now stands unveiled, no furthe
openings left in the wide world
For sharp deceptive thrusts, prom
ises, or threats
His purpose revealed, his sadisti
mentality protruding-
Like some gaunt, grimacing gargoyl
upon civilizations walls
He stands displayed, where no leas
mujhik, Chinese cOolie, Malay midget
Can miss diabolism in his every geS
ture.
Our sons will be more scared
Than now are we, who are too bus,
with the battle
When they shall see in plain per
spective that pail of horror
Which they shall have escaped, W.
hope, when this mad dance is done
But we have not yet shut tight tn,
gates ,.-..-.-..-
Against this resurgent tide of bloody
avaricious cruelty
Which makes cult of what wa
once barbaric impulse
Takes pride in things of which cleal
men long since
Became ashamed
X x X
How far the inner German soul i
sOiled.
With filth of this Deliberate indol
trinated poison
Is not yet clear to the honest mind
of Il tortured world
Or whether a purge to end all purge
can remove
This detilement of Il nations cor
science and ideals
Whether the freedoms, which tn
world demands, anticipates
Must hide within them some remain
ing license to repeat
This strange reversal of the life o
man
This stavism of Il race, which w
mad hoped was clean
Hangs as red warning sign upon on
futures way.
America stands today, united in tn
main
But still we have our cave men, pre-
datOry claws and teeth
| Still there are those who make oCcs
sion of this dire emergency
TO serve some personal grudge, som
! greed for power or gain
| Cash cotton, rubber futures, or tiS
from labor'S troubled stream
Still cloud narrow minds, eXcitin
hopes of unclcan souls
These still may grease the hinge
of hiStory'S gates
SO that they open to the thousan
years
or ultimate human bitterness.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-29
CHERRY cHI Tree

Where With Our Little Hafchet
We Tell the Truth about Many
Things, Sometimes Profoundly,
Sometimes Eippantly ana
Sometimes Recklessly.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-29
w S D o M

Our government rests i'm public
opinion. Whoever can change pub
lie opinion can change the govern
ment practically as much.-Abra-
ham Lincoln.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-29

Ask for Union Labeled merchandise.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-29

EASTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE @ EE,,rD
SUTTERl-N, JAMES
Operatives VIM E. YOUNG. EDWARD SEYFIEkI
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-01

priests who in turn taught their followers TO
spy for Japan.
The. japanese gave Doihara the job of
making the world think that ManChuria would
be allowed 20 govern itself. Prince Charles
Pu-yi was picked by Japan for the throne.
He was head Of the family that ruled Man
churia for centuries.
Pu-yi did not relish the nomination Had
he wanted il he would not dare accept HIS
palace was IN Tcntsin, a Chinese city in
furiated by the Japanese grab OF Manchuria.
Doihara had 10 get Pu-yi on its throne.
He drew mp his plan of action but gave
it to another 10 carry it out. 1t was his
right hand man in curious sense of the
word Yoshiko Kawashma was her Japan
csc name but actually she was the tenth
daughter of Prince Su of the Manchurian
dynasty OF which Pu-yi was the head. ScNually
she was what is known AN intermediate
type" an individual in whom glaudular UNI
balance produces features, bones and build,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-01

texture OF skin, hair and flesh character and
desires that are much feminine as masculine.
Yoshiko was twenty at the time Doihara
was operating in Manchuria. The virility in
her despised the mildncss and military help
lcssncss of her own people. More TO her
liking was the race that seemed SO sure TO
dominate the Chinese
At drinking party Doihara loves them
when ne is off duty he told how he met
Yoshiko. lie was working one day in his
private Office at the headquarters Of the
KEN Pei Tai in Mukden when he was startled
by "A feminine giggle saucy looking
Chinese girl stood before him, dressed in
Paris clothes.
How did YOU get in here?" he demanded
"By my charms and my wits she giggled
~ want TO work for you
She was thrown out Of the building by
the napc of her charming neck Three days
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