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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-05-14
Eastman transportation
Plan Given Approval

New York City GLNS).-T war
transportation program of the Office
Of Defense Transportation has been
recommended by the International
Transport Workers Federation as
worthy of the Wholehearted support
Of transport labor.
Endorsement of the plan was coupled
with the recommendation that the
transport workers unions should be
given participation and responsibility
in the carrying-out of the task of mo-
bilizing and coordinating the nations
transportation facilities.
The best ana most effective method
Of assuring the success of your pro-
gram is to place the workers and their
unions in a position of participation
and responsibility" says the fedora
tion in letter addressed to Joseph
T. Eastman, director of the Office of
Defense Transportation at Washington.
'TranSport labor should and must
nave voice and representation on all
public agencies. local, state and fed
eral. dealing with transportation mat
ters and carrying out the provisions of
your program. In that way and that
way alone. we are convinced. will these
agencies be able to discharge their
duties and to live up to the RESPONSE
biIities your office has placed upon
them"
The International Transport Work
ers' Federation is composed of many
transport workers unions Of the United
Nations and has a worldwide member
ship Of over 100000 workers engaged
in land. sea and air transportation.
international headquarters are in Lon
don. The American offices are at y
Pearl Street, New York City.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-05-14
Defense Stomp
Book Carries
Unions S Label
Members Are Given Special
Honor Stamps For Every
Bond Purchased

New York City GLNS).-Special de-
fenSe stamp book covers. and specially
printed war bond application forms,
are supplied by the United Hatlers Cap
and Millinery Workers International
Union to members who subscribe to
war bonds on Il voluntary payroll de-
duction basis, and as Il result the sale
of bonds has been definitely Stimu-
lated, Max Zaritsky, president of the
organization, reports.
The stamp book covers, which are
affixed to the regulation defense stamp
books supplied by the Government, bear
the unions name and label. They also
provide space for the member to write
in this name and address so as to
guard against loss.
Members receive the amount of the
deduction from their employers in
stamps, which they paste in the stamp
books. When Il book is filled up, ar-
plicatiOn for the bond is made on an
application form bearing the name of
the international union and the local
nU1lDtf. MelliDefS are gwen Speclal
honor stamps for every bond they buy,
and these stamps are pasted in their
dues books as evidence of the amount
Of their bond purchases.
Sale of bonds is stimulated because
in addition TO the patriotic impulse 20
buy bonds there is II feeling of pride
in the initiative of the workers union
The union has pledged the purchase
of $5,OOO00O in war bonds by its mem
bers during the course of the year
Stamp books are beginning to fill up
but meanwhile, members of the union
too impatient to wait for their pay,
roll deductions to accumulate have
also purchased S150,OO0 of war bonds
for cash.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-05-14
Arbitration association
Elects Woll As Director

New York, \. N.-Matthew WolI,
Second Vice President of the American
Federation Of Labor, has been elected
TO the Board of Directors of the Amer
lean Arbitration Association, il was
announced by IuCiuS II. Eastman,
chairman of the aSsociatio Comment
ing on Mr.. VOLS election to the board
Mr.. Eastman stated:
Il consider Mr.. VOLTS election to the
Board of Directors of the American
Arbitration Associate Il most impor-
tant step in the development of the
voluntary arbitration Of management
labor controversies during this war
period. As a member of the board. he
will be particularly helpful in guiding
the policies of our Industrial Arbi-
tration Tribunals throughout the ma
ton and in making the voluntary arbi-
tratiOn of disputcS-both commercial
and induStrial-a method of inSurin%
the continued flow of war material to
our own armed forces and to those of
1.-THE United Nations during this life
and death struggle
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-05-14
Rdps Government
Intervention In
Labor Disputes
Canadian Official Advises
industrial Leaders To Con-
suit Shop Stewards

Halifax, y. S. ULNSD. - Govern
ment Intervention in labor disputes
should be the last resort" said l.. -.
Currie, Of GIace Bay, y. s., provincial
Minister Of Mines and Labor, in the
provincial assembly. He said, 1T IS
the wrong conception to depend on the
government TO solve troubled labor re
lations." His aim has been, he stated,
to get the different parties around the
conference table.
Currie recommended as the best sys-
tenn the building up Of trade unions
which would recognize their response
biliticS and the problems of industry.
He advised industrial leaders To coz
suit more often with shop stewards.
When Il suggestion was made by a
member Of the opposition that there
is no use for the Minimum Wage
Board, because of wartime regulations
of the Dominion, Currie declared there
is more need of this board now than
ever before. This was attributed by
him to the large shifts of labor. Ha
said the board was dealing largely
with stores and restaurants although
some of the factories have TO be
watched"
The outlook for the Minimum Wage
Board is that it will be buster than
even in the past. for the balance Of
the war period and also in the years
following the war.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-05-14

Ask for Union Labeled merchandise.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-05-14
parents' Congress Head
Opposes Lowering OF
Child Labor Standards

san Antonio. Tex. GLNS).- ur-
@cncy Of the war effort must not b."
used as an excuse to lower existing
standards for child labor. Mrs. Will
liam KletZcr, president of the National
Congress of Parents and Teachers, told
the annual convention of the congress.
Mrs. KlctZer expressed alarm over
the large number of work permits
issued to minors and said that pres
sure was brought by agricultural in
tereStS for the use of child labor
pressure which was mot to be CON
fused with work on family farms"
in the name of patriotism it may
be necessary for all of us to help har-
vest crops" she added. I'VE must dis
tinguiSh between such emergencies and
exploitation of children because their
labor can be secured cheaply."
In Il message to the convention,
President Roosevelt said: Il am GER
tain that YOU will increase your eff
forts to help improve the schools, the
bedrock of democracy, and to help
surround the children Of America with
every possible safeguard"
which exists when men feel oppressed.
and are Sullcn, and work liStleSSly, and
are ready to listen to irresponsible agi
tatOrS and adVenturerS I'm these mat
ters, details aside, the President is
wiser, and more Sll'efooted than his
critics, at least as anxious as they to
win the war, and as we'll awar of what
it viii take the win the war
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-05-14
NO TURNING INSIDE OUT

Tailor (measuring Scotsman for a
suit of clothes): And how would you
like the pockets, Sir?'
McTaviSh: We'll, just a wee bit
deficult to get at"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-05-14

the board shows.
II was found that y per cent of the
contracts include a provision whereby
must either be union members to oD-
tain employment or must joint the
union upon completion Of Il proba-
tionary period in order to continue on
the company's payroll. This is Il higher
percentage than has been revealed in
similar analyses by the board in re
cent years.
Other contracts, recognizing the
union shop in principle, contain mem
bership-m clauses requiring
employees who join the union to main
tain their status for the duration Of
the agreement.
The number Of contracts carrying
union-security clauses is also in
creased by those which provide for
preferential treatment Of union mem
berS.
Another provision for union secur-
ity, the "check-off," or the deduction
from wages of union initiation fees,
dues and assessments, is included in
one out Of the eight Of the contracts
analysed
OF the 1G3 agreements studied, &;
of the unions We're associated with the
American Federation of Labor, -
We're CIO affiliateS and 80 We're Un-
affiliated unions.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-05-14
Wartime Habits

cook only one thing at time in the
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-05-14
National Conference Bourd
Recent Survey Indicates
Trend Towdrd Union Shop

New York City GLNS).-The trend toward the closed
union shop continues is reported by the National Industrial
Conference Board organization largely maintained by big
poyers
More than quarter Of between manage
ment and organized labor provide form of union shop
analysis 1853 by the Management Research Division of
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-05-14
Labor Chiefs Charge Ruling
In Minneapolis Honeywell
Case Upsets Labor Relations

WASHINGTON d. c. QLNS)-President William Green of the
American Federation of Labor charges letter the National
Labor Relations Board members that the board fomentng dis
and upsettng labor relations vital production plant
by it's decision ordering election among the employees of the
Minneapolis Honeywell Regulation Co. The plant makes parts
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-05-14

Demand the Union Label on all
your purchases.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-01-15

Probably there is no medium which
brings the editor, the advertiser and
the reader closer together than the
small town newspaper. The country
editor knows from personal contact OF
whom he writes, and they know him.
He deals not in distant doings in India
or Africa or the scandals of ofdcialdom
in Florida or California but deals in
the problems of his county and town
and the life of the family next door
and the folks around the corner. He
deals not in gossip and while some
would-be leaders express the opinion
that the paper is not read, just make
an error in some name or date in one
of the issues. The telephone buzzes and
he is called liar and Al more varieties
of damphool than Heinz has pickles
The hardest kick comes from some one
not on the subscriber list or from some
merchant prince" who persiStently
claims advertising does not pay and
that no one reads the paper. Should 9
country editor print everything he
knows about the people in town, hf
would be a corpse before morning Of
many of the citizens would be on the
road before, daylight to parts un.
known.
(Continued on Page Four)
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-01-15
CAR STIcKERS
ON SALE SOON
Elyites Must Give Uncle Sam
$2.09 Per Auto; Motor
Boats to be Taxed.

Automobile tax stickers will go on
sale at the Ely postofice Jan. 26, and
every private car and truck will have
to carry one after Feb. 1.
A second announcement by press
services said the stamps would go on
sale this week, but no information on
this or stamps have been received by
the post Office here.
A sticker will cost $500 and will be
good until July /, whereupon a new
sticker will be sold at the rate of SIS
annually. Other stickers at varying
cost will be sold for all other types
of motor vehicles and motor boats, the
Associated Press reports, with the large
number of motor boat owners here
being affected.
A record will be kept of those who
pay and compared with registration
lists to check on those who will have to
be reminded of tie new car tax. Any
federal officer, however, may make
arrests for non-display of stickers.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-01-15
FIRST TIRES ARE
RATIONED IN ELY

An Ely physician became the first
under the ratieriing plan when his
application, made Monday, was ap-
proved Tuesday by two members of
the commodity ALLEGATION board. A
certificate was issued for two new
tires and tubes.
Following the procedure adopted in
other areas, the board, consisting of
an Ely man and woman from Tower
and Biwabik, will ration tires, and the
civilian defense council will not appoint
rationing board for this territory.
Members are Judge Edwin w. Toms,
chairman; Mrs. Anton Gornik, Tower,
and Louise NiSen, Biwabik
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-01-15

At the request of Paul Buccowich,
Jr., superintendent of the water and
light department, the council is in
speeding the power situation in regard
to the pumping plant. Buccowich
pointed out that all pumps depended
upon electricity for power, and he
recommended that an auxiliary power
unit for use if the electricity failed be
installed.
Mayor John Kapsch warned that city
QUITO drivers would have to use care
in handling equipment to conserve
rubber and the machines themselves.
The warning was prompted by a
reQuisition for a new tire and tube
for the Autocar sprinkler.
First move toward giving labor more
time as discussed at the initial
meeting was taken when upon motion
of Alderman Toimi Ahola men employ
ed in the street commissioner depart
ment working six days per month were
advanced to eight days. Those work
ing five days were given six, and those
employed three days were given four.
Alderman Joseph Koschak opposed
the motion, stating that eight days
were not enough and that the city
should be able to increase the time TO
ten days, but the majority put the
plan in operation on a trial basis with
additional time to be given if possible
The matter of city employees becom-
ing members of the Public Employees
Retirement association was referred to
the city attorney for a report. Nom
teaching school employees adopted the
plan early last winter.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-01-15
MISS W0LSFELD
BAND SOLOlST
Violin and Cello Artist of
Duluth Symphony Fame
Here With Band.

Music lovers are looking forward to
the first of the new years concert by
the Ely Municipal Band with Miss
Myrtle Wolsfeld as soloist on Sunday
Jan. 25.
The young lady is a recent acquiSi-
ton to the Duluth Symphony orchestra
with which she holds the position as
principal viohnist.
She is Minnesota girl, native of
Long Lake and has studied in Mime
apolis with the late Heinrich Hoevel
and then held scholarship of five
years at the Juillard school. She
studied with Mr.. Let's, a member OF
the famous Kneisel string quartet and
with Mr. Salmond, the noted English
cellist who conducted class in
chamber music.
In New York she appeared with Mr.
Salmond and also with the Juillard
Symphony orchestra and also was
violinist with Antonio Brico's women's
orchestra Last summer she was with
Michael Pencha's string quartet in
Los Angeles, and has appeared at
various times before audiences in the
Twin Cities.
Besides the noted soloist, the band
is preparing a program that is bound
to please the discriminating and music
loving Ely audience.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-01-15
Defense Council Adds
Members, Talks MvA
Volunteers Sign for Air Raid
Duty; Joseph Mantel, Jr.,
Arthur Nyman First.

Response to the appeal for volun-
teer air raid wardens has been very
good, but many more are needed to
adequately patrol the city, L. c. Stem
Der, chief air raid warden and mem
Der of the civilian defense council,
states
Joseph Mantel, Jr., and Arthur
Nyman, volunteering within seconds
of each other, were the first to offer
their services.
Both phoned SLENDER about 4:30 p.
m. last Thursday. within a short time
after the story in The Miner asking
for volunteers reached the public Since
then volunteers have continued to
contact both SLENDER and Ray Hoef1er,
assistant chief warden.
Approximately 100 wardens will be
needed, with 26 now signed up.
Fire Chief I. G. Cox, Chief Douglas
Nankervis of the police department,
and Stember will meet probably this
week to zone the city for administer
ing their responsibilities.
One air raid warden will be re-
cruited for each built-up block within
the city, including the mining loca-
tions, and in addition chief and assist
ant wardens will probably be named
for the various zones into which the
city will be divided.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-01-15
PETE TO SERVE ON
FIVE COMMITTEES,

Commissioner Jacob L. Pete of the
Fourth district has been named chair
man of the supplies and purchasing
committee of the st. Louis county
board, and is also a member of the
claims and accounts, taxes and assess
ments, agriculture and fairs, and legis-
lation committees.
Pete, with Commissioner Arthur G..
Schadewald, Duluth, Second district,
was appointed member of the county
health board.
Willis NJ Beatty, Cook, was named
temporarily as assistant mechanic at
the Ely county garage at salary of
$155 per month, replacing Carl john
son, who has gone to Panama to work
with the U. S. government engineers.
Victor j. Hulstrand, Hibbing, Sew
enth district, was named chairman.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-01-15
DON'T ASK.

Registrars seeking general infor-
nation are requested by the state di-
rotor of the selective service not to
contact local boards. Work of these
boards has been multiplide many times
since this nation got into war;
Information on calls and quotas has
been censored
There is no choice of branch of
service or place, it is pointed out, in
supplying information to one of the
most common questions. The only
exception is enlistment in the air
corps. Other enlistments are un-
assigned, but preference can be ex-
pressed for type of service, and every
attempt insofar as is possible will be
made to see that such requests are
met.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-01-15
WIFE NO DEPENDENT.

The local draft board has received
instructions from the state director of
selective service to reexamine the cases
of registrants who were deferred be-
cause of dependency where dependent
was wife acquired after Sept. 16,
1910.
The board is to determine those who
were married when their induction was
imminent or impending.
New regulations provide that no
registrant shall be deferred by plac-
ing him in class ga if he acquired
such status on or after Sept. 16, 1910
and before Dec. 8, 1941, unless evil
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-01-15
Plan Presidents Ball
to Raise Polio Funds
Organization Meeting Held
Last Night; Treasury
Reported Empty.

Plans for Ely's observance of the
Presidents birthday Jan. 80 were dis
cussed at a meeting called last night
by John Smrekar, chairman of the
Ely chapter and vice chairman of the
northern st. Louis county organiza-
ton.
A ball ito raise funds for the fight
against infantile paralysis will be held,
with special emphasis being placed on
the funds campaign because the disease
that struck this area last fall COM
pletely wiped out the treasury of the
northern chapter.
Six Ely families were given aid total
ing $409.30, Smrekar reports Last
years net proceeds from the local
ball, believed to have set an all-time
record, were $354.21.
One hundred and twenty-five persons
representing all organizations in the
Ely territory were invited to attend
last nights meeting.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-01-15
Stamp, Bond Sales in School
to Net $925 in Opening
Week of Drive.

Two new members were added tx
the civilian defense council, and the
formation of local unit of the Min
nesota Victory Aids was discussed al
the regular weekly meeting conducted
Monday night.
Mrs. M. j. Fleming and Alderman
Gust R. Anderson have been asked
to serve on the council, and it is
probable that Mrs. Fleming will be
requested to supervise the organization
of the MVA unit. Waino Somero, ap-
pointed last week, attended his first
meeting.
Meanwhile the sale of defense
stamps was inaugurated in the schools
Monday by the committee headed by
A. j. McMahan, with the first response
setting an example for the entire city
to follow.
Stamp sales are expected to total
$500 for the week, while on the
first day students purchased $500
bond, $50 bond, and three SIS
bonds at the post office, crediting
the schools with 1925 in stamps and
bonds.
Under the plan adopted once each
month students viii exchange funds
for stamps.
The MVA was established to utilize
the women of Minnesota for local de-
tense, and the state organization sug-
gests that one for each square block
of built up area be recruited. Mem
bers will be asked to inform them
selves of the defense program and
contact each woman in her block,
assist in the collection of scarce
articles, express the appreciation of
the community to families with men in
the armed forces, and TO care for well
fare problems not under any other
department.
The drum corps, in communica-
ton, offered its services to the cause
of local defense, which now makes the
of the corps, the American
Legion post, and Veterans of Foreign
Wars available.
Ernest Dargis, assistant city assessor,
has been named clerk of the defense
council.
B. o. Strachan, in charge of paper
collection, emphasized that all pro-
ceeds from the sale of paper will go
to local Boy Scout troops, and that
collections are being made by truck
A highlight of the meeting was the
presentation by Anton zbasnik, chair
man Of the local Jugoslav Relief Com
mittee, of check for $146.41 to Mr.
Strachan, chairman of the local Red
Gross branch, with the promise that
more will follow" The money was
raised by New Years dances spon-
sored by the Jugoslav committee.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-01-15
FL an Reserve
Work PRO- ects
Program to Smooth Transition
From War to Peace Being
Drawn by City.

A program of works reserve projects
is being drawn up here to take care of
employment during the transition from
activity.
City Engineer Waino Somero was
authorized by the city council a. its
adjourned meeting last Thursday to
make survey of worthy projects and
report at future meeting.
In suggesting to the council that such
a survey be made, Somero said that
the federal government was emphasiz-
ing that the projects be placed in
readiness to start Immediately when
the demand for them comes. He said,
however, that there was no assurance
that federal funds will be available.
Projects suggested to the council
were
l. Complete modernization of the
city'S water system.
2. Permanent surfacing for streets
and alleys.
8. Sewage disposal plant. "a survey
for such plant was made several
years ago.
Others will undoubtedly be included
in the report for the councils consid-
Grafton.
The inauguration of the program, of
course, awaits the day when the war
is ended, and the demand for it 10
smooth the transition from war to
peace.