The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-08-12

burning cookers as well as other de-
vices which reduce the daily labour.
A forty or flfty-fold return on re-
search expenditure can De secured, the
Committee estimates, If the value Of
new industries as important as rayon
and plastics can be brought into exist
ence by new and better methods Of
coal utilization.
Hands Across The Sea
Another Merchant Navy Club has
been brought into existence in Brit
ish port with funds contributed by
Trade Unions overseas The United
States Ambassador, Mr.. John &. Win
ant, opened the new club in Glasgow.
He explained that the club was Il
gift to Allied Seamen from the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor. Like the
Merchant Navy Club in The West End
Of London, founded with a munificen!
gift of $4,000 collected by the Inter
national Ladies Garment Workers
is Il tribute, the Ambassador said to
the seamen of. the United Nations from
the workers of the United States
The secretary of the National Union
of Seamen, Charles Jarnan, asks me
to express the gratitude of Britain :
seamen for these manifestations Of in
ternational good will. Let the people
overseas says Jarman, realize how
much we appreciate their interest in
the welfare of the seamen. The Sea
mems Union in particular is heartily
in agreement with Ambassador Win
ants declaration that not the least of
our wartime gains is to be found in
the provision now being made for the
seamen ashore.
I'VE agree with the Ambassador in
acclaiming the establishment of such
Clubs as the conception not of Gov
ernments, or shopownerS or voluntary
societies, but of the seamen's Ameri-
can fellow workers: this gift is in a
sense an appreciation of gallantry. bu,
| it is also recognition of Il useful
service by workpeople III an everyday
world.
Charles Jarman told me that az
official of his Union had recently made
a tour Of Merchant Navy Clubs il
American ports, including the New
Orleans Club in Louisiana, the Mo
bile Club in Alabama, the Huston Clul
and the Galveston Club in Texas. and
the Club in New York where the aver
age number of sailors who take ad
vantage of the facilities for rest ant
recreation exceeds $50 each day Thou
sands of the personnel of Britain''
Merchant Navy had made use of these
facilities overseas, and the CnioT
hoped that the Clubs III British ports
would provide reciprocal benefits tC
Allied seamen.
School Children Are Saving, Too
In the great drive for war saving:
now afoot in Britain. children in tho
schools are playing Il valiant part
The Trade Union movement is repre-
Sented on the National Savings Com
mittee by George Gibson, a member o
the T.U.C. General Council. He ha:
been addressing meetings in variou:
industrial centres, as many as eigh
meetings IL day in different war fac
tories: and occasionally he has turned
aside to make contact with school say
| ingS groups.
He told me that the schools have SO
themselves a target of &3,OOO,OOO, anC
already, with only T. per cent of the
school savings groups reporting, more
than half the total aimed at has beer
raised Some schools have doubled the
total they undertook to save. One
school in North Wales set a target o.
G25 and raised $3.50, which average.
over SIT per head.