The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-06-25

the Treasury Department. The
Saturday night Labor for Victor
Douglas, noted screen star and olli-s
cial of the Office of Civilian Defense,
presented to James c. Filgate, secre
tary of the International Association
of SiderographerS, the first Treasury
Department certificate of award to 90
to an international union for achieving
100 per cent participation in regular
war savings bond purchases.
The SiderographerS Union, smallest
international in the American Fedora
tion of Labor, has only SO members.
More than $4,000 in war bonds has
already been subscribed by these
workers, or over 5000 apiece, Douglas
announced. Filgate and many of his
fellow wSiderographers help make the
bonds they buy. being employed to re-
produce original engravingS on steel
plates. from which the Governments
paper money, bonds and other securi-
ties are printed.
AFL Staff Pushes Bonds
In addition to Green and Douglas,
management and union representatives
of the giant Lockheed-Nega Aircraft
Corporation and Tommy DOrSey'S or
chestra appeared on the program
Green announced that five of the
AFL's chief regional directors have
been appointed special consultants to
the war savings staff, and are rousing
100000 AFL members behind the
War Savings Program.
The teamwork between union and
management at the Locllheed and Vega
plants on the West Coast were cited
by Dale Reed, president of the Ma
chinistS Union there and Carl Squier,
vice president of the firm.
Victory Now, Workers Aim
With every plane which rolls off the
lines at the aircraft plants, declared
Reed. goes "the grim determination of
our crew-to keep on building 'em for
our unbeatable air forces, to lick hell
out of the Japs and the rest of the
ANiS-nOw
THAT same spirit is turning Il good
big chunk of our weekly pay-checks
regularly into war bonds" he con
tinued Our war bond plan here runs
like our shop-smoothly and regularly,
through joint cooperation and team
work with our management 'y,nn ....,s q.
Talking for management, Carl Squier
said that teamwork makes things
hum" at the plants. "Thats been our
watchwork ever since there was Il
Lockheed or Il Vega company, and it
works in buying war bonds rs well as
building fighting aircraft.'
Green LaIIdS Actors
The screen actors. the stars of radio
and theatre, and the musicians were
commended by President Green for
their services to the nation in war time.
The actors, he said, were appearing
on hundreds of benefit programs
throughout the nation to foster bond
sales, to help Army and Navy relief,
and to participate in town meetings
for war.
The locals of the American Fedora
ton OF Musicians, he continued, have
not only invested more than million
dollars from their treasures in war
bonds. but also their orcheStraS have
volunteered their services at hundreds
of benefits and Army posts week after
week"
The entire American Federation of
Labor. he declared. with its 6 million
members. have pledged to invest one
billion dollars in war bonds this year.
And we are fulfilling that pledge!'
lTniOnists Aid Civilian Defense
I'm civilian defense, said Melvyn
Douglas, ''union members in hundreds
of cities and thousands of towns .
have volunteered their time and talent
to help prepare for air raids or any
other emergency.
He cited as Il case in point, "in the
nations capital, the Central Labor
Union has done Il magnificent job in
raising over $4,000 to buy necessary
defense equipment.
George Richardson, secretary-treaS-
urer Of the international Fire Fighters
Association" he continued, lis one OF
our chief experts mobilizing our cities
for fire and bombing emergencies.
"In New York the garment workers
have gone about for civilian defense
by running fifty Red Cross and tirst-aid
classes Il week.
Bond Sales Pushed
And that isn't ALL he said. "The
buying of war savings bonds and
stamps is another titantic war effort
i'm which all workers are participating
The garment workers were one of the
first unions to recognize that reSpon-
sibility by setting their own immediate
bond Quota-S25, 100000.
THE electricians have sponsored bill
boards boosting the sale Of bonds. TaNi
drivers in oklahoma now give wal
stamps in change TO their fares. Bltl
posters and window decorators in New
York spot out empty stores and put up
war bond displays.
These" he told the radio audience
"are just samples of what the AFL is
doing"