The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-04-09
Will A Shutdown Of The Pottery
Industry Be Necessary 10
Protect Our Wages?

The pottery industry employees and employers with few
exceptions have period Of than forty bar
forefront of those which have settled the grievances
and working conditions of the workers at the conference
table, rather than through industrial strife
Last December after week intense debate between
representatives of the employers and the workers. Of
of ten per cent in together With other bene
fits effective February 1912. This increase in
of living offset nor was expected to- the loss of
family due to the number of our younger men
the forces OF Neither did
offset the increase in taxes which have all gladly paid
This increase in the job opportunities Of
are now M No ec S by the the hf
possible threatened official action the part of group of
was % few any, Of nave pae
agement and operation of production plant The employers
IN the pottery Industry to meet the increased costs OF opera
instituted increase in wholesale selling price of products
Of labor Lo and behold the Office of Price Administration
effective. ''' ''>'' ~''~ '''' ''' - ''''~
Your officers after careful consideration and realizing
that the rates paid pottery workers
of the wages which paid in industry generally abso
ute opposed to pottery worker accepting reduction in
the made affective through collective bargaining
February 1912. With direct representing
derstand they sixty cent of the wholesale selling
surely the workers are both as to their wages
and their opportunities for job.
Our principal interest in the prices which the employers
for the product of labor that they shall have suf
fcent funds continue provide jobs and pay wages
which workers honestly If the pottery workers
Amercaas deprived of Their jobs depnsed i earnings
which they honestly Deserve what opportunity is for
other American workers?
Why should Government continue spend hundreds
of millions of dollars, is essential, to maintain civilian
Morale and Civilian Defense Administration and at the
time permit authorize few bureaucrats
in Washington to eOpaze the morale" of than 2OO
600 American citizens dependent for their livelihood the
successful operation of the American pottery industry of
interest to note that while these Washington bureau
Gratis jeOpardzng, if destroying the morale of the
than dependent the pot
terry industry well known Washington c0lumnist pOrays
situation presumably in Washington, which deplves Amer
pottery workers of their job opportunities.
The Washington Times Herald of April g. 1912 it's ed-
tora in article written by Helen Essary, says
81 wonder if there isn't too much talk about morale. Silly
sort of w0rdmorale Possibly for doing anything
want tOa wartime abb prefer to change to prOduc
ton and discipline and revenge when country in
danger.
81 don't see how England, if pressed that she
needs we've got0r almost every and certain
y every other doarcan continue to good Atlantic
trade.
yesterday shopping for china We very little
American china said the clerk but we've got lots of fine Eng
sh china Just arrived See-here and here and here Our
English china in much faster than the American.
"Our china factories ordered by gov
enment to give part Of their effort to defense But the Eng
sh factories have handicap We get shipment from
England three months after order takes United States
factory ten MONTHS
every nice, alou aid for England. what happens
United States industry while British merchants enter the
United States markets."
OF course there ceiling price profit limit which
the mercandSer must observe his purchases sales of
pottery chnaware produced in foreign countries
1T is FAIR TO ASK WHY AMERICAN WORKERS
AND AMERICAN INDUSTRIES SHOULD BE PENALIZED
Workers Win Injunction Open Mind Is Urged In