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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-05-06
LABOR IS DOING A JOB

SECRETARY of the Navy frank Knox recently
~ praised ''the will Of American worllmen' for
their record-brealing production jobs in ship
yards and factories. Predicting great progress IN
the naval construction program for 1913, Secre-
tary Knox state:
During this year the Navy will reap its first
major harvest from the planning and work IN
Stituted nearly three years ago. We have passed
the days Of bueprnts and plans the day Of prepa-
ration and patient waiting are over. From now on,
each week will mark the addition Of new and
powerful combat ships to the fleet. Each day will
add guns and shells to our arSenals by hundreds
of thousands. The number of WarShipS will more
than double; combat planes will more than treble"
1t thus appears that in spite Of what they"
said about working men and women indulging
in abSenteeism; in spite Of attempts of anti-labor
columnIStS and congressman; even while daily
newspapers of the country filled with attacks
on labor union and nOnunon It the working
people have been quietly going about their Job
And their job right now, is to produce all the
guns, tanks planes and ships our fighting men
need to crush Hitler in Europe and Hrohito in
Asia. And with labor behind our SoldicrS-union
labor, if YOU plcase-the job will be done and
quickly, in spite of tactics of some Of fascist
minded industraliStS.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-05-06
UNIVERSITY WOMEN SUPPORT
PEACE PLAN RESOLUTION

Washington, ID. c. ULNS) - The
American Association Of University
Women has announced support of the
BAH Burton Hatch Hill resolution,
calling for an early organization of the
United Nations to keep the peace and
TO deal with problems of reconstruction
and relief growing out of the war.
In a letter to Senator Tom Connally,
chairman of the Foreign Relations
Committee, Dr. Kathryn McHale, gen
eral director of the AAUW, character
lied the method outlined in the reso-
luton as sensible and forward-looking.
The United Nations is today an in
spring concept" she wrote. 1T is
capable of being made into function
ing international agency. Nothing will
more quickly eliminate the miscon-
ception that America intends to be
either the worlds Lady Bountiful or
the worlds Big Policeman than to
recognize that both welfare and Sc
Curity are the joints responsibility of al!
nations"
The AAUW is urging that the
Senate take action now to make clear
to the world the intentions of the
United States after the war.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-05-06
VOLUNTARY TRANSFER PLAN
EASES SHORTAGE OF PORT
WORKERS IN AUSTRALIA

New York City ULNS).-Surplus of
manpoWer in some Australian ports
and labor shortages in others have led
the Australian authorities to adopt a
novel voluntary transfer plan, Il report
of the Australian maritime and harbor
workers unions to the American Office
of the International Transport Work
erS' Federation diScloSes.
AS the first step in this transfer
scheme which has the approval of the
unions, large numbers of harbor work
erS have been moved from Sydney to
North Queensland. Workers who apply
for transfer must state their willing
ness to go TO any port to which the
authorities direct them. They are re-
CURED to accept all waterfront work
i'll the port to which they are trans
ferred.
The agreement, which calls for Il
minimum period of six months, pro-
videS for free travel by air, rail or
steamer, payment of travel time, and
Il minimum weekly wage of a6.lO and
overtime rates.
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-05-06
THE MARCH OF HATE
THE MINNESOTA incident of soldiers

THE MINNESOTA incident Of soldiers attacking
pseudo strikers is merely the latest expose of
the attitude of army officials toward organized
labor. 1t has appeared in camps in other localities.
The army has a school in Fort LeavenWorth for
selected" business and professional men, wherein
the students" are given an Army Orientatlon
Course" and sent back to their own communities.
Perhaps you have no time to think about such
things, but army officials and business big shots
are thinking about it. Seems civilians, clergy and
teachers are all wrong, SO says the army.
'"The remedy of this condition is outside our
province as army officers, although some day, if
the conditions get bad enough, the army may be
forced to take over the direction Of many activ-
tiles considered to be beyond the province Of
the military"
The same idea was prevalent in the last World
War. Army officers and big business men con-
spired to control the American people. The atti-
tude of our soldiers was unsatisfactory The
American Legion was organized in France, with
corporation money for the express purpose OF
keeping returned veterans in the groove.
If some Of our tycoons and our military Off
cials would spend much time hating and plot
ting against Hitler, liirohto and Mussoini as
they do in schemng to conquer and oppress the
American people the United States could probably
win this war.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-05-06
PRICE AND RATION GROUPS
ADD SPOKESMEN FOR LABOR

Washington, ID. c. - Reporting on
greater labor participation in local
price, rationing and rent control ac-
tivitieS of the Office of Price Admin
iStration, Robert X. X. Brooks, Direc-
tor of the OPA Labor Office, said that
Labor Advisory Committees have been
formed within the past month in so of
the 100 OPA Districts, and shortly
will be completed in the remainder.
Formed to work with OPA District
Managers in coordinating local activi-
ties of organized labor and the OPA-
and to bring about larger participation
by labor in the work of local War
Price and Rationing boards-the Dis
trict Labor Advisory Committees in
clude a large proportion of high state
and local labor officers. The commit
tees will meet regularly with District
managers to effect continuous cooper
alton between labor and OPA in eS-
tabliShing procedures for the settle
ment of problems in which the point
of view of labor is especially impor-
tant. They have been formed in re-
SpOnSe to memorandum issued on
March 5 by Price Administrator Prem
tSs NJ. Brown and directed to all re-
managers.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-05-06
KILL THE BLACK MARKET"

WAYS AND MEANS by which union members,
W their families and other consumers can recog-
niZe and combat black markets in meat that may
exist in their communities are set forth briefly
in a new Fact Sheet called XIII the Black Market
in Meat" prepared for the Office of Civilian De-
Tense by the Department Of Agriculture.
The Fact Sheet points out that there are two
teltae characteristics Of black market: 1t sells
above ceiling prices and it does not ask the
shopper for ration stamps
These principles apply to all black markets in
general, but black markets in meat have third
characteristic: Meat sold Illegally will not bear
the slaughtcrer's permit number and the grade
stamp, both required by the Government
Every saughterer who sIaughtcrs meat for
sale is required to have permit number the
Fact Sheet states. "PermtS arc issued only to
legitimate operators who conform to sanitary
rules and regulations
Two "Don'ts" to aid every consumer in fight
ing the black market arc.listcd:
"Do not pay above ceiling prices"
"Do not buy from dealer who offers meat
without ration stamps in exchange
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-05-06
A TOUGH McNUTT TO CRACK

MANPOWER BOSS McNutt surely handed labor
4'A belt on the beak in his job freeze, wage
freeze order.
It's tough McNutt to crack-but maybe not
too tough
McNutt has been a gamorous figure in Wash
ington
1t hasn't sunk far into the public consciousness
yet that McNutts order is just about the biggest
autocratc order ever handed down.
TO freeze some 270OO,OOO Americans in the
spot they occupied as of given date is no easy
matter.
But that's what the McNutt order ordered!
Labor is raising holy hell over the order and
the order probably will not hold, for the simple
reason that expanding pressure operate too heav-
lily against it.
One pressure is the pressure of rising prices.
The other is the normal determination to quit a
job that doesn't any longer suit
Labors patriotism doesn't need re-telling.
And patriotism would even stomach the McNutt
order if an even deal were handed out all around.
But it isnt-and there's the hammer that
probably will crack the McNutt!
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-05-06
JOURNALISTIC SCUM

A NEW LOW has been reached in journalism in
the nations capital. Never very high, it has
Slipped down bit
In the Times-Herad of April II a lady col
umnst caStigated Mrs. Roosevelt for the way in
which she had in her "My Day. column described
Visits to soldiers in hospitals verbally sneered at
the thoughts of the Presidents wife because she
disagreed with her
And to add luster to the sorry spectacle, a
Congressman had the nasty column printed in the
Congressional Record. And then another Times
Herald columnst used lit again in the Times
Herald.
When coumnists have nothing else to write
about or when they can't take slap at organ
lied labor, they try to pull down the President S
wife. If all of them together were to attempt as
much good for humanity and the common people
las Mrs. Roosevelt they wouldn't know where to
start
Vulgarity is never permitted in these columns,
but to our mind these two TIL columniSts and
|the congressman are indulgng in snotty"
business.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-05-06
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

The question of what turks behind
the soviet front is one that grows and
will not down.
Today the Russian armies are fight
ing an amazing fight. That has been
going on for months. Stalingrad will
stand as monument to heroes for
many Il long year.
But it does not follow that the hero
ism of the Russian armies and of the
Russian people can be made into robes
of white for the communist interna-
tional.
1t does not follow that the COM
munists and the fellow travellers in the
United States are going to suddenly
become American patriots and that the
hand of the red international will
clasp the hand of democracy in com
mon cause when the peace is written.
We can admire the Russian fighters
without going loco over the communist
international.
And that brings up the mess with
Poland. The Polish-Russian mess may
be healed, but at the moment it is a
serious matter. More troubles for the
United Nations. We have the COM
munist international to deal with and
we have the muddlingS of diplomacy to
deal with. Labor needs all of its
strength: it needs complete unity and
it needs all its common sense to get to
real places in the face of such things.
X X X
Back of the Polish-Russian mess is
a degree of error by Britain and the
United States. Our States Department
doesn't always click, by any means.
Very often labor, directly or indirectly,
pays the price.
Sumner Welles, often called the ace
trouble shooter, has himself made
trouble which others have had to
shoot. 1t is a mistake to call WelleS a
liberal. He is a professional diplomat
with Il conservative bent. He wouldn't
be much of Il help in wisely meeting
the issues to be kicked up by the red
international and such things as the
Polish tantrum with Russia, in which
the Nazis surely scored one important
round. He just wouldn't understand
the days of meeting communism in the
world arena.
No more than Joseph Davies, whose
film is just now being launched to a
fanfare of trumpets Mr.. Davies film
tortures Il lot of history and doesn't
make for wise opinions about the
SOvietS.
X X
To turn page, there is one happy
development of the week. A delegation
of Mexican textile workers is in the
United States They come under ofii-
cial Mexican government auspices.
They are members of the GROIN in
Mexico.
This delegation has been given hand
some treatment in American textile
mills. They have seen much and will
see more.
Our government agencies are show
ing them every courtesy.
1t is good to see such friendliness,
such intelligent cooperation.
1t is good to find this one bright
spot in the international outlook.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-05-06
FACING THE FACTS
With PHILIP PEARL

m T ] % M the pnsd bs s % ns its DG right a a% %
the workers
pulling punches exposed
desire be critical but in eor, be practical must speak out M
my in its & duty control prices and md has never made the m Slightest effort to
@ r % m his Ss eSssuiva '"ee cper wit" 's instructions given " e
opA Administrator Mr. Brown however, not be entirely at fault Let's
a
oPA Leon Henderson had resigned under We d not consider
active enough his job to incur the dsesre of powerful business interests
Whatever the traffic Of life
THE APPEASEMFNT POLICY
who " e the Sefappni as for business n%ts @ This i Congressional
bloc made neT @ rife fife miserable with constant % "i@rTaunS tie wat ] ss"fs in % tine
the attacks helped him
the President chose duck Senator who had Loyalty
political But the political the arointm the fact that it
Naturally, 4
denuncaons wage vigor
proceeded to relax ceilings % prices wherever and whenever the business
w e Gsr % M4 @ Tn ks sE 1 t s9 e 1h rGr 6 wit" the pe In that
To carry his objective Brown appointed assistants who represented
private business interests and ignored the the labor members of
The result continuous accompanied
people
POLITICS WITH PRICES
As we we indicated before" before M howee tine blame % does % not fall % entirely upon
that function nIay poIis with but to hold
prices down ana Keep them down. @ M lssIes m of the aTks Of p%fsr @ m
farc; @ le"rm"nss an nc" ot of the 9rA anA - ,4, . ~
Government has placed rigid ceilings increases where the in
get along At the same has by devious and Hpocric,l
] @ @ % o% ny s I'D out % % ts Sc Of c G A%rn % ny % e5S S 0"
po tn IS "' M for % % 1r % % Vt ' 1r % ] % R rI"T4 % arrest % ola m
runaway cost Of ln ana I" % roll back KIP prices to where they belong
whether he accomplish complete aIuf,es face The people of
lo position is clear II wishes and imitation by
M" n", t" agG M S % % @ s' = l oIw ] s th "ss W r of +ni
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-05-06

The seeds of American discord are
in the soil.
We read headlines about feuds here
and feuds there.
Jeffers lambastes Ickes. JefferS lam
bastes OWL and Elmer Davis
Elmer Davis lambastes right back.
The Truman Committee has its say.
Plenty of men and agencies have
their say.
And Americans do not agree among
themselves.
1t may be healthy, but it is sad.
Our national boast has been, Live
every day so you can look any damn
man in the face and tell him to go
to hell"
But that's not so good-the "go to
help part-in war time.
We should all live every day so that
we can be united every day in the
drive to quickly lick Hitler and Tojo
and the despicable Muss.
X X X
We cannot surrender free speech and
we cannot surrender free press.
But isn't it possible for men serving
the government to so order their. con-
duct as to create no need for threat
ening free speech and free press?
1t ought to be.
To cause today's nauSeating con-
fusion it must be true that SOME
BODY in government is not doing his
job properly.
Can there be two sets of facts, one
the set brought forward by Jeffers,
the other the set brought forth by
Davis? 1t isn't likely. And the question
then is: What causes these men to dis
agree so violently that Americans think
all Washington must smell to heaven?
Why can we not unite in fighting the
outside enemy? That, we know, is job
enough.
However big men may seem to be,
there is somewhere a kernel of small
ness that gives rise to such wrangling
in the midst of war.
X X x
In the small cities and towns of the
country there is little of such name
calling and back-biting.
The people of the little cities and of
the open spaces unite to go over their
quotas in all the drives. They unite
to do everything they can find to do
for the service men in their midst.
They unite to send their sons away to
war.
They unite in the great mental pull
for victory.
What poison fumes are they that
rise along the Potomac to cause such
men as Jeffers and Davis to refer to
each other as liars? Does the dignity
of the city and the fruit of its eloquent
past have no effect upon them?
Are they becoming, like Leon Hen
derson, so drowned in the flood of
noise made by their own voices that
they cannot hear and heed the larger
cry for unity to bring victory?
X X X
In such a tremendous, all envelop-
ing effort as this war there are bound
10 be mistakes.
1t will not do to try for partisan
advantage every time a mistake is
found. Nor will it do for every man,
who makes a mistake to swear that
he made none.
There is needed an honesty about
mistakes. Yes, it WAS a mistake. 1t
was a bad job based upon a wrong
conclusion. We could stand admissions
like that. And Il corresponding tOler-
ance.
But what we have approaches to the
borders of cheap and ignoble fiShWife
brawling in high places.
Catering to special interests pro-
duceS some of the confusion, no doubt.
That, too, is tawdry and mean. Caught
in the act, the public servant is
jumped on with Il "ha, you're found
out"
The aliens in our midst must think
it's great business. The rest of us do
not. 1t is hateful. 1t is just about in
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ABsENTEEIsM MAJOR pRoB sM or REPRESENTATIVES,


becoming major problem in tine Ohio House Representatives
Members asked o
William on
in
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is that when they
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CHERRY Tree

Where With Our Little Hatchef
We Tell the Truth about Many
Things, Sometimes Profoundly,
Sometimes Fiippantly and
Sometimes Reckiessly.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-05-06

Occasionally you run across a man
who wishes he were young enough TO
fight but not often.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-05-06

To get what you want, know what
you want.
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EASTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Operatives E. L. WIiEATLEY VIM YOUNG, EDWARD SEYFIERT
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WESTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
j.. ARTHUR WELLS
lneaves join MeGILLNRAY louis PIESLOCK. +: HAYNES
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be overthrown. The doubts which re.
Gently have crept into the minds Of
many responsible Americans are the
result Of close observation OF the situa-
ton in the occupied area.
In their opinion the rank and file of
the Italians still are loyal to the House
of Savoy and would like to maintain
the monarchic form of government in
their country.
A hatred of the Mussolini regime de-
veloped and increased after the Nazis
took hold and established q reign of
terror throughout Italy, but. strange as
1t may seem, the Savoy dynasty does
not appear to be connected with this
regime in the minds Of the average
Italian. BY disposing Of Mussolini, King
Victor and Premier Badoglio are re-
garded by many of their fellow country
men as having belatedly done a good
job.
Some American observers feel that
Italy is not ready to become republic.
1t Is possible that in the Nazi-occupied
industrial areas in the north there Is
better preparation for this form Of
government, but outside of a relatively
small number of intellectuals, the rank
and file OF the population in the section
controlled by the Allies is more keenly
interested In food, clothing and return
to normal life than in politics.
-
This does not mean that there will
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Men Of the Revolution, and their
special aptitude for irregular fight
ing in open country made them for
midable antagonists for the British
regulars, unaccustomed to such tao
tics. The British Commands are
highly trained specialists in sudden
attacks, primarily upon coastal posi-
lions by landings from the sea. With
the exception of the Dieppe raid, a
year ago, the purpose of commando
landings. from Norway to the Allan
tic coast Of France, has been to
destroy some specific objective and
gather information, such as testing
out the strength of enemy defenses
and the degree of alertness dis
played, 1t is surmised that the
reported raid this week upon the
French Channel coast may have been
to find out more about suppositional
rocket gun" installations. Dieppe
was the only instance thus far in
which large numbers Of troops and
heavy equipment were involved. This
was pro bably designed to verify the
lessons gained at maneuver fully as
much as it was to discover German
ability to concentrate against a
large-scale enemy landing. The ex-
pertinent was certainly expensive
for the British and has not been
repeated. Such operations, when
repeated, should logically herald the
opening phase of the long-awaited
Allied invasion of Western Europe.
Commando units will probably not
only spearhead the actual mass
landings but will also serve as diver
sions to distract German attention
and confuse proper defensive con-
centrations.
The American equivalent of the
British Commands are our Ran
gers" a term revived from our wars
against the French and Indians In
Colonial times. These Rangers are
specially trained Army units. Besides
them, however, our Marine Corps
has traditionally been designed for
just such operations and is being
predoninantly used for raids and
landing spearheads against the Jap
anese. Between our Rangers and
Leathernecks," the American armed
services have large forces OF special
lied shock troops for this type Of
work. They and their British Com
mando comrades have already writ
ten brilliant pages in military his
tory. They will certainly write many
more before the present struggle Is
over.
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course, senior to Gen. Alexander, which
counts for something in most armies.
He was more than four years Gen.
AleXanders senior as a major general
and on the list of full generals now
stands four numbers higher. He u.s. in
fact, the senior officer of that rank on
active service in the British army. But
I doubt whether seniority had a great
deal Ito do with the decision.
X X X
The truth is more likely that the
focus of attention in the Mediterranean
theater is shifting from Italy to the
Balkans, and in the latter area Gen.
Wilson'S experience is much greater than
Gen. Alexander's. He commanded the
British "forlorn hope" expedition into
Greece in 1941, and since that time the
raids and air operations in the whole
Aegean area have been under his direc-
ton. He has been in command at Cairo,
where he has had the closest sort of
contact with the Greek and Yugoslav
governments in exile and no doubt with
such representatives of patriot move
ments in Bulgaria and Rumania as have
managed to filter through the fingers
of the Gestapo. He has been in close
touch with the situation in Turkey ever
command the British troops in Egypt.
Since any move into the Balkans
would depend very largely on aid from
Greeks and Yugoslavs and also on the
attitude of Turkey, these qualifications
alone would suggest Gen. Wilson's ap-
pointment to command any theater