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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-02-11
JOBL LESS BENEFITS LOWEST
ON RECORD IN NEW YORK

Albany, \. Y. ULNS).-Unemploy-
ment insurance benefits of S2,9S4,6 $40
were distributed To more than 81 ,0OO
unemployed men and women in New
York State during December, the State
Department of Labor reports This
disbursement to insured workers repre-
SentS the lowest monthly outlay since
the beginning of unemployment insur-
ancc in New York state.
December payments, W h h de
creased % per cent from November
and 30 per cent from December l941
reelected three ma ior factors-fayor-
able employment in war industries,
seasonal employment expansion in the
trade industries, and receipt of the
final benefits to which they are en-
titled for the current benefit year by
more than $1,000 benefit recipients
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-02-11
FOR PLANT PROTECTION
FORMATION of labor-management &C

FORMATION of labor-management committees
on plant protection to safeguard and
essential civilian production against enemy air
raids, accidents and fires is effectively urged in a
new seven-page Fact Sheet distributed by the
Office of Civilian Defense.
The Fact Sheet says:
"Although the primary responsibility for
plant protection rests with management, Il labor
committee on plant protection COM
posed of representatives Of both management and
workers should be formed in each plant In those
plants or departments where the workers belong
to a labor organization, the union representatives
should constitute the labor half of the Joint COM
mitee."
Pointing out that plant protection covers more
than preparation against air raids the Fact Sheet
closes with these words:
"Not only do air raids threaten American in
dustry, but fire sabotage, and industrial accidents
do as well. Every week industrial accidents kill
an average Of 425 American workers, cripple or
blind 2,2OO others, incapacitate more than $4,000
and lose for industry and the Nation 100000
man-days of essential war and civilian production.
Comprehensive safety programs will reduce these
losses
Copies Of the Fact Sheet may be secured by
writing to the Labor Division, Office of Civilian
Defense, Washington, ID. G..
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-02-11
POSTWAR RETAINING IS
URGED BY NAVY OFFICIAL

Boston GLNS). - \ Governments
controlled retraining program designed
to fit men from the military services
into Il postwar economy was urged
here by DR.. Joseph w. Barker, special
assistant to Secretary of the Navy
Frank Knox.
Addressing Il Northwestern Univer-
Sity convOcation, DR.. Barker Sug-
gested reversing military training
after the war so as to instruct officers
and men i'm civilian tasks while await
ing formal discharge.
The retention of these men in re-
training program, coupled with Il con
trolled rate of mastering out, intc-
grated with the absorptive rate of our
reconverted industries will help make
the transition from war to peace u
smooth operation" he said.
DR.. Barker, dean of the engineering
faculty at Columbia University, dis
closed that the President had appoint
ed a committee to study the subject
when he signed the 1919 year Selec-
tive Service Amendment.
He warned that pow-war prosperity
might depend on how the problem of
demobiization was carried out.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-02-11
CHILD LABOR IN WARTIME

RECENT REPORTS from governmental and
~ social agencies indicate an alarming increase
in child labor throughout the country. Using the
war emergency as an excuse exploiting employers
all too eager to let down the bars of state and
federal laws. Child labor laws already have beer,
'elaXed in some states and on November IA, 1912,
the Secretary of Labor issued order permitting
girls of 16 and II years to work in war industries
under the Walsh-Healey Act in the entire country.
Formerly an 1S-year minimum protected girls in
government contract jobs with a 16-year mini
mum for boys. In 1941 $4,000 children of Ia and
Is years secured work permits, an increase Of
800 over the previous year. In 1912 there was
another increase of $50, even after this rapid
rise in 1941 This takes no account of children
ployed illegally.
Organized labor has played large part in en-
acting state and federal laws which have almost
eliminated child labor in industry. At it's 1912
Convention in Toronto, Canada, the American
Federation of Labor went on record as strenuous
y opposing any relaxation of child labor standards
and insisted that children should not be employed
in industry until thorough research has proved
that all other sources Of manpower and woman
power have been completely exhausted and that
chile labor is absolutely essential to victory. 1t
necessary, the working conditions and education
facilities of children should be suject to rigid con-
trolls established and supervised by persons ade-
quately trained in the welfare of children
Experience has proved that child labor in
creases child delinquency. The children of today
are the citizens of tomorrow. Young people must
be prepared TO take up the vital responsibilities
which will be theirs in the postwar world. They
need full education. TO warp their development
into mature and sound-thinking adults is to en-
danger our nations future democracy.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-02-11
TIME TO HELP

T'IIe RIGHT Of any business to advance by the
initiative Of It's owner or management, oper-
atng on a competitive basis has given this coun-
try merchandising system that is now Of meal
culable value t. consumers in money saved, and
in the greater variety and better quality of prod
ucts and merchandise offered.
Retail stores never before faced such prob
lens as today. Securing goods for distribution re-
quires expert knowledge, foresight and an under
standing Of laws and regulations heretofore un-
heard Of in this nation.
There is one request that merchants now make
Of all consumers: Between now and the time full
war ratoning takes effect late in February, don't
hoard. The merchants ask this because they are
cooperating with government to the utmost to
avoid disruption OF consumer supplies. Mcrchan-
disers no matter how efficient, cannot distribute
products that don't exist. Lend-lease and military
demands have made deep inroads on supplies of
all kinds. 1t is up TO the consumer to cooperate in
dividing what is left.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-02-11
THE BATTLE FOR DEMOCRACY ON
THE HOME FRONT

Unions ARE proving their constructive value
~ on the home front and widening the demo
cratic controls which alone can raise our war ef-
fort to It's greatest efficiency. Union officers and
representatives are serving on more than 70 joint
area labor-management committees under the
War ManpoWer Commission, 10 regional panels
under the War Labor Board, many regional bodies
under OPA and the War Production Board, some
1000 local ratoninG boards, nearly 1000 Joint
production drive committees, many Civilian De
fense agencies and other wartime civilian serv-
ices. They are doing excellent work Sumner
Schter Of Harvard University commends the
work done by unions in reducing strikes and
speeding production, notes "the failure Of man
ayers to realize how much ability there is among
the men who punch time clocks" and states
Unions on the whole have been more willing to
help management raise production and save mate
riaIs than employers have been to receive the
help Of unions"
AS yet, however, labor representation is
noticeable by its absence in the War Production
Board where it is soreIy needed, and in the Food
Administration which directly determines the
Food Program for all Of us and the jobs in food
industries. We have as yet no representation on
some 5000 city rationng boards under OPA.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-02-11
KALTENBORL VS.. PEGLER

'IHE LABOR movement mas come 10 REGARD
WeStbrook Pegler as its Enemy No. ],
chiefly because of his numerous unfattering news
paper articles about various labor personalities
and organizations. Unfortunately, many of those
whom he singled out for attack, themselves fur
nished him with the ammunition for attack; they
stood convicted on their own records and even had
Pegler not adopted his sef-appointed role of pub
lie prosecutor would have eventually been eX-
posed and cast out by labor itself.
The fact that over a period OF years. Pegler
has been able to expose SO few skeletons IN la
boris closet, the fact that he has been forced to
rehaSh his old stuff over and over again IN order
to keep his crusade against the labor movement
alive proves the futihty Of his efforts. He made
his reputation years ago and now is only marking
time.
If any man has earned the title as labor
enemy No. /, that man is II. V. kaltenbOm, COM
mentator on the nightly Pure Oil news broadcast.
Time after time he has voiced his deep hatred Of
organized labor in way much more damaging
than Pegers. In the first place, Kaltenborns S
audience is many times larger than that to which
Pegler has access; then too, the spoken Word-lf
delivered in the tone Of righteous Indignation and
sad suffering that kaltenbon uses - can be a
great deal more effective than even the most
poisonous Of printed words.
Kaltenborn delights in insinuations - that
wages are too high, for instance, OF that industry
has not profted one-half much from the war
as has organized labor - and lnaSmuch as the
majority of his listeners are in no position to
check on his statements for themselves, he is able
to get away with it, How much longer he will be
able to get away with it depends on labor itself
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-02-11
We MUST ALSO WIN THE PEACE

WE CANNOT ignore the failure of the peace
w that followed the last war Men in the armed
services wondering what kind of life they will
return to If they escape the dangers and terrors
that beset them now.
Workers in factories toiling at top speed on
munitions of war, farmers raising world food
crops, mothers and children in homes daily plan
nlng to meet war shortages, workers carrying
double responsibility for supplying military and
civilian needs cannot keep their minds from the
thought: Will the future bring real security
against the horrors of war, the fear of aggression
from nations seeking to dominate the lives Of
Others, assurance of opportunity to earn a living
with security in emergencies that no one can pre-
vent in a free economy with freedom of religion
and freedom Of speech?
Every voluntary group we'll as every indi-
|vidual has responsibility to help win the peace
Workers must have insurance to carry then,
through the changes incident to a return to nor
NAL production without the decentralization of
Irehef.
Management and labor, for mutual security
laced to plan together and to cooperate.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-02-11
RIDING
AT ANCHOR
MR.. MODESTUS

Bout Face!
Or at least, so we hope, we hope,
we hope, we hope
With aces in all the holes
And aces of spades, at that,
And, did you ever see Il game with
so many wandering faces?
There's quite a galaxy of faces in
the picture galleries.
Don't forget the values of mailing
lists, and of memories
X X X
What has become of all those aces?
And there used to be places where
you could always find aces
Nothing there now, of persons,
places, things
Under those circumstances, Sunny,
how big the Very World looks
But those persons, places, things, are
just as important as ever
Question is: what are your reactions
to what is going on?
These are what the world wants to
know about Hitler
Pretty soon, he will have to have
the answer to these things
For, what he don't know about these
answers, will be the answer to Hitler
Then he will be just another Schicl-
elgruber again
Where will l get my supper tonight
hn ,ft he, ,,,1I m
fed next feeding time?
Does Himmel, Goebbels, half-a- dozen
other men know?
Is there some one who knows? Can
he know?
OF course he can know
Otherwise, it would not be these
x X X
But, here is this would-be gau-leiter-
lie wants to know all about it, and
tell the world
SO that he could be the good little
god, for the rest of us
And count the grains of rice every
morning at Z o'clock
Then we'd all know.
x x x
Ones-Kunk-
Scout from Yakum, Tunsia, North
Africa
Reporting present location of present
military front
Headquarters enemy 800 feet NV.
last nights commissary (codel-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-02-11
JOINT COMMITTEES SET UP

committees, which meet regularly to
discuss ways and means of securing
Increased production, are spreading
throughout British war industry. The
Trades Union Congress has just an
nounccd that there are now over 1000
large engineering firms, employing a
total of nearly 100000 workers, in
which these committees have been set
up. Even among small firms employ
mitteeS are known to exist.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-02-11
RECONDITIONED SEA COFFINS'

London ULNS). - Norwegian sea-
going vessels long considered unfit for
service and laid up since 1910 in home
ports, are being reconditioned by the
Germans and pressed into service, ac-
Transport Workers Federation. This
drastic measure illustrates the alarm
ing decline of Axis tonnage in recent
months and creates new dangers for
German and Norwegian seafarers
forced to serve aboard these sea
gotiins.''
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-02-11
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

The people of Denmark, realizing
that Nazi war production must be dis
ruDted, approve British bombing of
Danish industrial plants, even though
it means destruction and death, the in
formation service of the National
America Denmark Association in New
York reports.
Recently the RAE bombed the
shipyards of Burmeister and Vain, in
the harbor of Copenhagen, very close
to the city. Diesel engines, which the
NaZis were using for submarines, were
made in the works. Word comes from
trustworthy source that the works,
as well as an important bridge, the
knippelsbrO. were almost entirely de-
stroyed, the fires being visible in Swe-
den: that only four people were killed
and that the Danes are OverjOyed at
the precision bombing of the Raj
Yet there were few achievements in
their industrial history of which the
Danes We're prouder than those Bur-
meister and Vain were the Diesel
motor was first fitted to ship and
where, since, then, hundred of fine
ships were built.
For a long while the shipyard work.
ers had sabotaged production as well
as they could, by strikes and other
means. There can be no doubt but that
they are pleased with the effective
assistance of the R.AF., no matter
what the consequences the National
America Denmark Association COM
ments.
ANY American who is tempted to
froth when he can't get all the coffee
or sugar or tires or gasoline he wants,
should consider the case of the people
Of occupied Holland The list of arti-
| cles the sale of which is forbidden
without special permit as reported in
the Dutch press includes:
Earthenware, briefcases, buttons,
antiques, materials made from animal
products, ashtrays, bathing caps, bath
tubs, bamboo canes, brooms, brushes,
bread-Slicing machines, small and large
axes, celluloid derivatives, hat molds,
cutlery, eau de cologne, Photographic
articles, all untensils of precious
metals.
Also hair nets, hair wash, stoves,
| Suitcases of real or imitation leather,
hammers, horn articles, iron or wooden
sports requisites, wooden domestic
utensils, imitation jewelry, wooden or
stone Japanese articles, lamps, coffee
percoIators, leather gloves.
Perfumes, furn, powders, proclaim
| luxury vases, travelling rugs, woven
| fabrics, roller-skates, garbage cans and
| barrels, toys, theatrical makeup, lamp
| standards, knives, toothpowedr, tooth
paste, bags, mincing machines, silver
| ornaments, pocket-knives and feathers
are equally forbidden" articles.
x x
While there are ration tickets which
theoretically permit the purchase of
candy or tobacco, there is no candy,
although the Nazi authorities give re-
| peated assurances that "some will be
| distributed as soon as possible"
Tobacco has become SO precious q
commodity, the old American custom of
hiiacking has developed counterpart.
Many Amsterdam tobacco shops re-
port they are receiving tobacco pack
ages either empty or filled with other
| material. One wholesaler in The
Hague stopped supplying customers in
Amsterdam after he lost 250,00O cigar
cites to hi-jackers in a month.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-02-11
FEMALE SLACK WEARING LEGAL

Chicago. Women wearing slackS in
public no longer break the law in Chi
cago, where the city council has
IN ordinance of long standing
that prohibited either sex from wear
Ing the others clothes. The ordinance
was changed to read :i"with intent TO
conceal his or her sex" after Il war
worker wearing SlackS to her jab as
machinist was brought into court on Il
charge of violating the law.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-02-11
w H A 7 N E x T?

Steering wheels for buses, trucks,
tractors and other mobile equip
mcnt are now being made from IL
new type of plasti. derived from
California redwood. Developed by
the Pacific Lumber Co. pulp is
manufactured from waste pieces
and shipped East, where plants
are turning on! many thousands of
The finished redwOOd-plastic wheels.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-02-11
Il & w MAKES DONATION

Louisville, ky.-With each order of
10 cases of union-made Raleigh cigar
etteS 600 cartons), sent by unions to
the Brown and Williamson Tobacco
Corporation for I. 5. troops overseas,
= x w will include an extra case with
out charge An organization" says
B 4 w, can thus send IL cases OF
Raleigh cigarettes for S2ol-Slightly
over 10 cents per cartOn.'
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-02-11
BATTLE FILMS FOR WORKERS

Washington ID. C.-Authentic battle
scenes filmed by the Navy are avail
able in documentary motion pictures,
such as The Battle of Midway
Plans are under way for the release OF
other stirring sound films showing the
Navy i'm action. Workers will be able
to see and hear moving pictures of the
actual performance of the war mate
rails they build.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-02-11
UNION GIVES BUS TO ARMY

Seattle, Wash. ULNS).-1'he AFL
Automotive Mechanics Unions local
No 2S9, has presented Il 20-passenger
bus to the Army for transporting en-
listed men from the business district
to the big Army recreatiOnal centers
in Jefferson Park.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-02-11

While American Federation of Labor
officials were holding conferences WITH
British labor leaders in Miami, Frank
lin ID. Roosevelt was circling half the
world to talk with British leaders,
with Brazilian leaders and others. 1t
was easily the most dashing gesture a
president ever had made.
In those conferences there were de-
ciSOnS that will change the course OF
history. The whole episode was breath
taking 1t had about it a gallantry OF
the type almost entirely Obliterated by
modern warfare.
1t is easily possible to criticize
Franklin Roosevelt, but it would be a
sad thing indeed if it were not he who
holds down the presidential chair in
these parous and fateful times.
Stacked alongside what the presi-
dent is doing and the way in which he
is doing it, the petty politics and snip
ing attached to the Flynn nomination
comes pretty near being Il bit revolt
ing.
If there were q little more evidence
of something honest and big about the
opposition that forced Flynn to ask
that his name be withdrawn it would
be different
Just about the cleaneSt criticism of
Flynn came from columnist Raymond
Clapper. Pretty much all the rest OF
it can be stuffed into the laundry bag
which holds little more than dirty
politics.
What we need more than anything
else in this hour is more men and
women who keep a selflessly seeing eye
on the ball and forget about whose
bread gets buttered thickest.
It is or should be automatic that in
this climatic struggle, with the stakes
so high that they pierce the clouds,
we should have no time and no place
for sefishness.
But there IS selfishness, some in
high places some in places not so high.
The New Leader, for example, pub
fishes facts about amazing and con
reports compiled by the OPA under
Leon Henderson, who did NOT make
public those facts.
The New Leader reports that there
are four volumes in the report on
profits, with names, dates and places.
Since Mr.. Henderson now is a pri-
vate citizen it may be presumed proper
4 Nv, al, nnf
made public and to ask further if any
thing was done about them.
The rubber situation becomes more
cloudy and confused because of bicll-
ering and struggling for power
X X X
In too many places we have cross
purposes, bungling and selfishness.
The president flies the ocean and
about that gallant move there is some
thing wildly inspiring. The very man
ner of travel suggest freedom and
clean objectives.
If the public knows fully where is
the SeltiShneSS and the stupidity ana
the bungling the public will force
changes. And, since this is peoples
war, it would seem that the public has
Il right to know.
Censorship should not keep every
| thing from the people.
The people will go grimly through to
victory, but they won't do it for the
sake of the "old gang" or the old
expressions. They demand that greed
and graft and me first be finished
along with the finishing of the un-
speakable Hitlers and Hirohitos. -
| CMW.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-02-11
w l S D O M

DespOtiSm can no more exist i'm
IA nation until the liberty of the
press be destroyed, than the night
can happen before the sun is set.
C. &. Cotton.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-02-11
THE
CHERRY TREE

Where With Our Little Hdfciie'
We Tell the Truth about Nam
Things, Sometimes PrOfoundi,
Sometimes FlipPdntty and
Sometimes Reckiessly.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-02-11

EASTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
E. L. WHEATLEY, WIN. YOUNG. EDWARD SEYFIER1
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President James NJ Duffy. O. Box g. East Liverpool Ohio
l.. National
ank Building. New Jersey.
Second Vice resdenFrank Hull Gill Pacific Blvd Huntington
ark Calf.
Saven, Mills. Liverpool
Ohio.
Ohio
Fifth PedentGeorge Nswbon Melross Trenton
Turner, Monroe Street. East Liver
Ohio
East Virginia Avenue
Sebring, Ohio
Chadwick Grant Newell.
McClvray, P. Liver
Ohio.
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WESTERN GENERAL WARE sTAN%DING DING COMMITTEE IIT ,,
JOHN McGILLVRAY LOUIS PIESLOCK F. HAYNES
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EASTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITTEE ~
Operatives, JOHN T. BADAUF, Jr WM OWEN
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WESTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Operatives, H. r. HAISLOP, JOHN McGILLVRAY
DECORATING STANDING COMMITTEE -
ROBERT DETZ, BERT
NJ b. of O. p JAMES sLAvEN, ROLAND HORTON
Evening star., 1943-09-01

logical Seminary and Western Mary
land College, said that the church
was now represented in 90 countries
and islands outside the United States
and Europe, with more than $4,000
congregations and $4,000 schools.
Science and trade might be used
either as unifying or divisiee forces,
he said, adding that political organ
izations, such as the League of Ma
tions, had failed dismally so far to
unity the nations of the world.
The Ecumenical Church remains
as the, most potent unifying force in
the world, not through any political
power but merely because of the
unifying power of its faith in one
God and its worldwide fellowship"
DR.. Calvert said he found promise
of the potential power of the church
as world-unifying force in that an
international staff, composed of