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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07
Large Crowd On
Hand For X1nds
PdrtY At Erwin
Bob Kinkude Master Of
Ceremonies; Late Shop
pers Suffer

Erwin, Tenn.-One of the largest
crowds ever to greet Santa Claus was
on hand this year at Erwin, when the
employees of the Southern Pottery
held their annual Christmas party.
Bob Kinkade was master of cere-
monies and he spared no one from the
office force on down through the entire
plant. The only thing to mar this
years party was the rain instead of
snow, but according to our president
Henry Bruce, who was attending the
wage conference in East Liverpool,
they had all the snow up there.
President Bruce will make his report
at our next meeting and also name
his new committees which we will
publish later.
The employees of the Southern Pot
terry were shocked to hear of the death
of Brother William Campbell's mother,
and the sympathy of the entire shop
is extended to him in his hour of
trouble and grief.
Quite few Of our members are in
the dog house since Christmas, espe-
cially those who waited until the last
minute to do their Christmas shop
ping. The night before found the stores
in Johnson City completely sold out of
everything and a lot of the late
shoppers were disappOinted.-O.C. 1O2.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07
WLB Accepts Rise
In Brewster Paw
Approves Job Evdludtion
Plan With Wages Ac-
cording To It

WashingtOn.-The War Labor Board
wage increases recommended
for $4,000 employees of the Brewster
Aeronautical Corporations three e
plants where. according to the manage
ment, Il ''slow-dOwn' was in effect
Dec 1923 with a loss of 365.00O man
hours.
The plants. at Long Island City,
Newark and townsville, Pa, are work
ing on Navy contracts.
The WLB also approved job evalu-
alton plan suggested by the panel
which had considered the dispute be-
tween the company and Local 365 Of
the United Automobile Workers. CLIO.
The wage rates under this plan, ac-
cepted by both parties, will be put
into effect Immediately and apply as
from April -, 1942, in accordance
with job grades occupied since then.
1t is provided, effective as of Sept
-, that the hiring rate be increased
to 62 cents, that two months later the
wage rate shall be - cents and after
four months Il cents
The board further directed that a
recla SSiticatiOn of the employees be
made between Jan. and %. 1913. by
a committee composed of one member
designated by the union, one by the
company and one by the WLB. When
this task is completed the employees
will receive the proper rate or their
classification retroactive to Sept. -,
1942, or their date of hiring, which
ever is later.
Finally, it is provided that other
disputes under the existing contract
shall be submitted to an arbitrator
named by the board and that his de-
cisiOns shall be binding upon both
parties.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07
Committees Report
At tuesday
Of Local Union II
Kelly. Terrence, Podewels
And Hall Receive Vote
Of Thunks
Transportation Committee
From Local Union l24
Attends

Local Union No. II met in regular
session Tuesday evening with all Off
GERS In their respective chairs. Reports
of committees were, made with Bro
ther Harry POdewels, acting as spokaS-
man for the special meeting which was
held on last Sunday afternoon in the
Brotherhood hall and Brothers James
Kelly and Ernest Torrence on the re-.
cent wage conference
Brother P0dewels in his remarks.
thanks the members for the fine turn
out ut the Sunday meeting and said
that some progress was made toward
relieving the jiggermen of some of the
conditions that confront them today
While no definite action could be taken
without first reporting back to the
Local, many suggestions We're offered
(Turn 10 Pa0e Tqvoj
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07
NAZ PAPER CONFIRMS
WORKERS EXHAUSTION

New York City (ILNS).-The eX-
ploitation of manpower in Germany
and the strain placed upon the work
ers employed in armament industries
are revealed in report taken from
the Koelnische Zeitung of last Sept.
%, says the American office Of the
International Transport Workers Fed
GRAFTON.
The paper, reporting on an investi-
CATION of industrial production and
labor output, writes:
1T was noticed in large Rhineland
industrial plants that the output of
q number of workers suddenly de-
clined. They were sent to the doctor.
The latter prescribed rest of several
weeks in one of the rest homes of the
plant. The men returned refreshed and
reinvigorated, were set to do the same
work and yet broke down again after
Ia short while. The exertiOns had been
too heavy"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07
LOCAL UNION NO. l95
ELECTS NEW OFFICERS

At our last meeting of the old year,
Local Union 1915 elected the following
officers for the coming six months {:
President, Nellie Reed; vice president,
Frances Grimm; financial secretary,
Ada Bailey recording secretary, RoXie
Shehkel; treasurer, Mabel BOso:
trustees, Mildred Mckenzie, IS
months; Dorothy Pallis, twelve
months; Mabel Dales, six months !;
guard, LeOna Swigger; inspector, Eliz-
abeth Hall.
We would like to see a little better
attendance starting the first of the
new year.
The secretary read a list of names
of members who will be up for sus-
pension unless they pay up before our
next meeting. Check your dues book
and see if this applies to you. Remem-
Der, it is cheaper to pay your dues
than $500 for reinstatement. -O.C.
1876.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07
New Year Finds
MdnY Changes At
Universal Pottery
Cambridge Firm Buys Tin
Mill Property Adjoin-
ing Plant

Cambridge, OhiO-AS we enter into
1913, we find many changes in the pot
terry industry here in Cambridge-the
most noticeable being the demand for
tableware and cooking ware in prefer
ence to SpecialtieS, such as electric
mixers and refrigerator ware-the de-
parture for armed service of many of
pottery experience, being replaced in
the shop by men coming from other
occupations, such as coal miners, glass
house workers and furniture workers
Living conditions remain much the
same profit motive still the chief
concern, as evidenced by efforts to
raise prices of real estate and food
supplies. SO why all the efforts to
econOmize at the expense of labor, by
policies being introduced to abolish
overtime and freezing wages. The re-
ward for labor effort devoted to arma-
ments. or otherwise. most likely will
always remain the pay envelope. Raids
on the pay envelope will not stimulate
production.
The Universal Pottery Co. has pur-
chased the old tin mill property adj
joining the pottery which will allow
expansion should opportunity permit.
4 lunch room is contemplated in one
of the buildings while the other will
be used for a storage room.
Brother John Hamilton plans to call
d meeting of all jiggermen to outline
the action taken at the carrying-Out
conference in East Liverpool.
Cambridge fortunately escaped all
inconveniences relative to the recent
flood and gas ShOrtag age.-O.C. I'D.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07
Older Women Are
Giving Best Service
In War Industries
Are More Dependable On
Jobs Formerly Held
BY Men

New York City QLNS). = Older
women are providing steadying in
fluence that is an asset in war indus
tries forced to use more women work.
ers because of the shortage of men,
says a report by the research division
of the National Industrial Conference
Board, an employers organization.
A national survey disclosed that
many employers had found it desirable
to place the older women among
groups of younger women as stabil-
izing factors.
employers are finding that she is
proving the most able and dependable
of employees on jobs formerly held by
men," the report said of the higher-age
woman.
Although close to 3,5OO,OOO women
\ are in war industries, there is still no
seriOus pressure on women to take jobs
requiring manual labor, it was said.
The inquirers found some women
disinclined to accept jobs in war in
dustries, fostered by desire to keep
their husbands out of the armed serv-
ices. Women generally are more con-
cerned about management than they
are about "glamorizing" uniforms and
other working garb, it was discovered
"If she desires to appear glamOr-
Ous," the report said, lit is not during
working hours. She does not want to
appear ridiculous and conspicuous
either, and if no locker is provided she
resents having to wear uniforms or
working rarh TO and from work."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07
Sebring Writer Pledds For
Unity Among Lubor's
Forces
ALL OUT FOR VICTORY
New Congress Threatens To
Abolish The 40-Hour
Work Week

Sebring, Ohio - Another year has
come and gone. To all members of the
! brotherhood and their families,
would like to wish a happy and pros
porous New Year. wonder will it be
happy and prosperous New Year?
believe the answer to this, depends in
large measure upon ourselves.
Some will say, what do you mean it
depends on us? Who can tell what the
future holds? Circumstances vet un-
seen will determine that. Ny answer is
that You yourself, in a large measure,
will determine future events and SO
your future prosperity or lack of
same. Let us not delude ourselves about
either the present or the future.
Many of our members never attend
a meeting, yet are the most critical of
conditions Why criticize the other
fellow for doing what you will not
help to do. Do you think all is rosy
with the world and labor simply be-
cause there seems to he surplus IF
jobs? If this should be your idea then
l am afraid you are due for rude
awakening.
All that is necessary to show the
fallacy of this story is to read your
daily paper. You notice there is going
to be another attempt to change the
4O-hOur week, In the next Congress.
This is to be for the duration only, of
course, but once changed, when will
the duration end? ManpOwer control,
which may mean most anything be-
fore it is done.
Now l would not want anyone to
think labor should oppose any needed
\change necessary to the winning of
'the war. That at present is the thing
Turn tn PHGp Fiye)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07
Southern War Labor PdrleY To Draw
Union Leaders To Atlanta jan. 1917


of the
organizing safs
by outstanding labor leaders
already reservations
host the conference dele
in The
49, which President William Green Of the
Federation Labor will be the of honor
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07
Compulsory
Is Doomed, Sdvs
Williu1n Fl. Green
Job Freezing Or Repeal Of
Wdge-Hour Law Would
Be "FoolhardY"

WashingtOn.-The American FEEDER
alton of Labor announced its legisla-
tive goals for 1943 With a confident
expression that the new Congress
would reject demands for compulsory
or punitive" labor enactnients.
President William Green, in a state
ment said:
II anticipate that legislation of this
kind will be introduced during this ses-
sion of Congress. l need not warn the
members of Congress that such pro-
posals are dangerous and harmful and
unnecessary. Their good judgment will
repudiate the unwisdom of forcing
men and women TO do that which they
are willing to do of their own free
will"
Green classified as undesirable bills
which would prematurely permit ma
tional jOb-freezing or would repeal the
Wage and Hour Law and said anti
strike legislation would be "fOOlhardy."
The Federation. Green said. would
support further rationing and price
controls, taxes levied in accordance
with ability to pay, broadening of the
Social Security program continuance
of the War Labor Board as the con-
trolling agency In wage Stabilization,
repeal of the poll tax, wartime pay
adjustments for all civil employees and
postwar reconstruction program.
The program did not include any
reference to the National Labor Rela-
tiOns Act, the Administration of which
(Turn to, PaQe Tevo)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07
Robert Allison. Sr. Is
Numed Head Of L. u. SO

Clarksburg, w. Va. - Local Union
No. 80 chose Robert Allison Sr. as
president for the coming term with
James Ward as vice president; Arthur
Monroe, recording secretary; Josephine
Curotz, financial secretary; Rose
Payne, treasurer; Willis Martin, de-
fense collector; Audrie Davis, inside
guard; Harry Dyer, inspector; Blake
Davis, statistician for Xxi ilns 8 d:
Charles Herald, statistician for clay
shop and Sam Scott, trustee for
eighteen mOnthS.-O.C. 80.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07
Negro Heuds New
York Committee
On Discrimination
Field representative Re-
places Andrew c. Doyle
As Executive Director

New. York City ULNS).-As chair
man of the State War Councils Com
mittee on Discrimination in Employ
ment, Industrial Commissioner Frieda
s. Miller has announced the promo
tiOn of Charles c. Berkley, Negro field
representative of the committee to the
position of executive director, to re-
place Andrew c. Doyle who had served
as director during years leave of
absence from the State Mediation
Board. Doyle has returned to his job
as Supervising Labor Mediator in
Albany.
Tribute To Doyle
"The state owes a great debt to Mr..
Doyle whose mediation experience and
sound ju dgment enabled him to
pioneer in the development = for the
first time in the United States - of
methods of securing compliance with
our antidiscriminatiOn statutes by ap-
peal and persuasion, with force as 4
last resort" Commissioner Miller said.
Berkley, who has served as one of
the committees s field representatives
under Doyle, has worked on special
cases involving integration of minority
groups in many of the largest war
plants in New York City where labor
created difficult problems of
the Commissioner said.
Previous to his present position, Berk-
ley was industrial secretary of the
Brooklyn Nrban League in which ca
pacity he organized coOrdinated pro-
gram looking toward the training and
placement of Negroes in war indus
tries and worker with employers, labor
unions and public groups in success
full effort to open employment oppor-
tunities for his race.
"All loyal workers, be they aliens.
Jews or Negroes, must now be allowed
to work for victory, not only to win
the war because that's what we are
fighting for. Discrimination against
any minority jeopardiZes ALL" said
Berkley in statement accepting ap-
Turn to Pace TzpO)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07
DA. F. Of L. Blasts Ndzi Persecution Of
Jews In Germem-O Occupied Countries

Federation
pless and cobloode
evidence terrible fate that awaits all victims of Aoph Hitler
Of
religion and humanity should Join
in Satanic cruelty
Federation of Labor before denounce the Naz
toward he a
responsible nfamy shall
the crminalty by time this is
than determined that lies within
upon intolerance
comes"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07
Leslie Hdwk Elected
Head Of Local Union So

Sebring. OhiO.-Election of officers
featured Monday evenings meeting of
Local Union 30 at Mckinley American
Legion Post hall.
Leslie Hawk was named president
and Walter Mummert was chosen vice
president. Other officers elected are
Ernest Buehler financial secretary :;
Charles Newton, recording secretary :;
Ted Barrett, inspector; Helen Jewell,
guard and Guy Mushrush, statistician.
The following trustees We're also
named: Joe Harp, IS months, Eliza
beth BOray, II months and James
Lamp, six months
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07
L. U. 70 OFFICERS

Minerva, Ohio.-The following are
the newly elected officers of Local
Union No. 70: President, T. J. Des-
mond; vice president, r. c. Barr; re-
cording secretary, Abe Edwards; finan-
cial secretary-treasurer, f. J. Reed !;
one per cent collector Carl Wolf; in
spector, John Rourke; guard, Daisy
Unkefex; statistician, h. G. Barr !;
trustee, 18' months, Agnes Jackson.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-04

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4. (UP)-
Gen. H. H. Arnold, commander OF
the army air forces, announced to-
day that the army'S new super
bomber, the B-29-heavily armed
"battleship of the air" powered to
fly at very high altitudes-will be
ready for combat in the mot now
far distant" future.
The announcement was consider
ed warning to the japanese that
their period of freedom from air
raids is running out. A major task
of the new bomber will be lombard
ment of Tokyo and other major
Japanese cities.
when it (the B-2 enters COM
bat" Arnold said today in a formal
statement, 'today's long range will
become medium range and today'S
heavy bomberS (B-17 Flying Fort
reSses and B-24 Liberators) will
consequently become light heavieS.
This battleship of the air is arm
ored heavily with multiple-gun and
power turrets. 1t can fly at very
high attitudes.
Its performance will not be dis
cussed before it enters combat.
However, the B-29 will have a
range substantially greater than
the maximum effective range of
today's longest-range heavy bomb
ers and it will carry quite sizable
bomb loads for that distance"
1t was the first time the new
bomber has been mentioned by
name. Arnold emphasized that ad-
vent of the B-29 would not affect
production of Flying Fortresses or
Liberators, which is being increased
steadily.
Arnold praised the Bit and B-24,
describing them as 'super-bombers
on the basis of their superb combat
record" but he added:
I'VE now have third super
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-04
Reyerberation

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4. up
A Poinsett county, Ark. father
of seven children who "ain't done
nothing but raise hell and drink
lemon essence" for eight years
is tOting a gun in the army today.
If he wonders why, he should
get someone to read the letter his
wife wrote to his draft board and
which is printed in the current
issue of the Selective Service
Bulletin. 1t said:
Dear United States Army: My
husband asked me to write a
recommend that he supports his
family. He cannot read, so don't
tell him. Just take him. He amt
no good to me. He amt done
nothing but raise hell and drink
lemon essence since l married
him eight years ago, and l got
to feed seven kids of his. Maybe
you can get him to carry a gun.
He's good on squirrels and eating.
Take him and welcome. l need the
grub and his bed for the kids.
Don't tell him this, but just take
him and send him as far as you
can"
The army took him after he
tried to prove a bona fide family
relationship by presenting the
letter to his draft board.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-04
Phillips Angry
At 0PA Action

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4. CUP) -
An angry California congressman
was waiting today to see if office
of price administration officials
would reveal their plans to put price
ceilings on citrus fruits to the house
agriculture committee.
Rep. John Phillips, r., Calf, a
committee member, incensed be-
cause the OPA politely told the
house agriculture committee to go
jump in the lake" when asked for
the plans yesterday, was prepared
to seek authority to subpoena such
information if the OPA doesn't give
out today.
Phillips said he had been inform
ed by food price director Jean F..
Carroll that the OPA citrus pro-
gram had been incorporated in a
letter to economic stabilizer Fred
M Vinson and couldn't be reveal
ed without Wilson'S permission.
The stabilization director was out of
town.
He said there was evident dis
agreement between the OPA and
the war food administration on
the citrus program.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-04

MOSCOW, Nov. D. tUF)-
S a b err swinging Cossack
horsemen brought the Dniep-
er estuary within their grasp
and sent the greatest rout
of a German army since 1916 into
it's final stages today with the
slaughter of thousands of fleeing
survivors of the Reich's once crack
grenadierS in the western NogalSk
steppes.
(The German news agency DNB
said the Russians launched strong
offensive north of Kiev yesterday
after heavy artillery preparation
and bombing raids. The Soviet
struck south toward Kiev and west
toward the Polish border against
strong German resistance, the
agency said. DNB acknowledged
that the Russians had established
a new bridgehead north of Kerch
at the eastern end of the Crimed)
RUN TO ESCAPE
Hordes of Germans plunged into
the swift-running Dnieper in a
franctic effort to escape the hard
riding CosSackS, only to be cut
down b. Russian machine-gunnerS
and low-flying Soviet aircraft.
The whole western tip of the No
gaisk steppes, from the Black sea
to the great sand wastelands below
the Dnieper, had become veritable
graveyard of smashed and abandon
ed tanks, siX-barreled mortars and
armOred cars.
Not since Gen. Rusilov's destruc-
ton of an Austrian army in 1916
has there been rout to compare
with the smashing of German Mar
shall Erich Won ManStein's army Of
the Nogaisk steppes.
AS in the first World war, the cry,
Die Cossacken Kommen"-the
CosSackS are coming-spread like
Wildfire through the fleeing enemy,
sowing the seeds of a paralyzing
terror such as even the 100000 Ger
mans who were killed or captured
at Stalingrad never knew.
GIVE NO QUARTER
The Don and Kuban CoSsackS,
who ask and give no quarter and
dislike taking prisoners, gave rein
to their horses and literally slashed
the fleeing enemy columns to pieces.
Continued on page 2, col. 4
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-04
Casualties Favor
Allies, Six.to.0ne

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4. CUP) =
Casualties in the Mediterranean
theater since the Allied landings
in North Africa a year ago Nov. 7
have been approximately six to one
in favor of the Allies, Secretary of
War Henry L. Stimson said today.
American losses in the Mediter-
ranean up to Oct. 20 totaled 31,126,
he said. These included $3.50 kill
ed 1881 wounded and 1866 miss
ing. Most of the missing were
taken prisoners, he said
British losses have been some
what higher than ours. French
losses were considerably smaller.
Total American, British and French
casualties in the Mediterranean up
to the present are slightly under
100000, he said.
Axis losses in the same area were
approximately 10000 killed and
10000 wounded plus an official
count of 468,055 prisoners.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-04
owl
Fun q S
Agency Needed
In New Plans,
House Group Told

WASHINGTON, Nov. A.
(UPl-Appropriations Com
mittee Chairman Clarence
Cannon, D., Mo-, told the
house today that his commit
tee has been given positive assur-
ance" that a new war front will be
opened lin the near future"
Cannon made the assertion in
defending the committees recon-
mendation of deficiency appro-
priation of S5,0O0,0OO for the Office
of War Information.
I'VE have positive assurance that
a new front will be opened in the
near future" Cannon told the
house.
THE groundwork for that front
must be prepared, and the Owl will
play an important part in the prep
arations. 1t is an integral part of
our psychological warfare machin-
cry.
DROP IN BUCKET
The sum of $5,000,000 is a drop
in the bucket compared with other
war expenditures. To deny these
funds would be the equivalent Of
denying funds for actual gunpowd-
er. 1t might endanger the lives of
our soldiers and sailors. It's un-
thinkable."
Shortly before the committee
shouted loud, reverberating mo"
at 1914 deficiency appropriation
today and all but tossed it into
the waste basket by chopping near
l. billion dollars from the budget
estimates.
Only the Office of War Informa-
ton escaped unscathed, and only
one section of the bill was in
creased-an unbudgeted $4,000,
added without explanation for ben
eficiaries of deceased house men,
bers."
Committee members said however
that the $4,000 was for the usual
aid to widows of members who have
died since last year.
More than three-quarters of the
cut was at 1.-The request" and ex-
pense of the navy who found it
feasible to eliminate a S750.000, 900
request.
BIG PUSH BEGINS
Thus, the recently promised big
push" in congress to reduce gov
ernment expenditures got off to
big start. Paradoxically, it was the
committee which has approved tens
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