The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-03-19
LABOR ASKS INVESTIGATION


METROPOLITAN NEWSPAPERS particularly
WI the Hearst press, have developed new line Of
attack against labor. 1t must be remembered that
these are the very newspapers that fought, tooth
and nail the Government program to prepare Tor
the very emergency that we find ourselves in right
now. That is remembered by labor at least in the
present frightful situation in which this nation
finds itself. Remembering that and looking back
through the lens over the short time that has
elapsed between Pearl Harbor and the present mo-
Iment, we can see the pattern of those attacks by
these very same papers on the President, the pre-
|paredness program and on labor, as a pattern
woven out of pure Nazi texture with it's source IN
Berlin Rome and Toxic.
These newspapers do not dare, today, to con-
|tinue their attacks on the President or the Gov
lernment. They would be razed to the ground. But
they do continue their third point attack pre-
pared in Berlin Rome and Toxic to destroy the
democratic labor unions of the United States.
The Smith Bill to abolish the 40-hour week,
bolstered by false and misleading propaganda
STUFFED down the public throat by these very news
papers concerning Showdown in war industry, is
|cOncrete evidence that the attempted Nazl pro-
gram on labor still continues.
Labor admits that there is a Showdown" in the
vital war industries and knows just why there is
ia showdown in the airplane factories shipyards
and other huge proft-making war industries.
\ The workers are giving their all. They are not
lsloWing up industry. They are complaining
aDOuC the SlOWQOWn III VlJdl Wtlf INDUSTRIES. DE-
cause the workers are decent, patriotic Americans
|. they realize what would happen to them and
! their families should the cause of democracy fail
i And the organized workers of America realize that
1 there is a danger that the cause of democracy will
fail unless everybody within the democracy does
something about it right away.
Labor asks for an immediate exhaustive Of
,|fical investigation by the Government without red
1tape because labor is much concerned over it's own
democratic perogatves and over the safety of this
|country that makes those prerogatives possible.
The day is at hand, today :. . right now ..
t|When the safety of our nation and the safety OF
the entire democratic world is at stake drastic
most thorough housecleanng should be made
Today!
81 Cost plus profits, concern over stockholders
dividends, petty graft, chicanery, msmanagemen
i and manipulation in the war industries are bring
RI ing us closer and closer to the blazing guns ant
blasting bombs of the savage Axis murderers.
y The common people the little people o
\ the democraces fighting this war Of liberation
i They are fighting and dying on the far-ung, shat
tering, blood-soaked fronts of this world debace
lIThey are working at the forges and the foundrie
and at the lathes of the factories. They want t.
I tIgive more of their effort. They want to worl
harder and longer They want to give all they hav
and more. It's from these people in the factorie
and the arSenals who are not permitted the priv
: 1Ilege of giving their all, that the "soWup' com
lIplaint comes in sincerity.
y In justice to them and to their sincere patroti
el1ort something must be done about both tn
u Showdown" in war industries and the erstWhil
oI Nazi press in America that is attempting to be
:, fuddle the public mind.